FILM DIRECTOR

Franco Rossi

1919 - 2000

Photo of Franco Rossi

Icon of person Franco Rossi

Franco Rossi (19 April 1919, Florence – 5 June 2000, Rome) was an Italian film screenwriter and director, mainly known for having directed the six-hour Italian-German-British-Swiss TV mini-series Quo Vadis? in 1985. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Franco Rossi has received more than 8,216 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Franco Rossi is the 569th most popular film director (up from 660th in 2019), the 2,650th most popular biography from Italy (up from 2,752nd in 2019) and the 44th most popular Italian Film Director.

Memorability Metrics

  • 8.2k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 53.26

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.99

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.08

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Franco Rossi ranks 569 out of 2,041. Before him are Sergei Yutkevich, Chris Menges, Tonino Delli Colli, Georges Lautner, Anthony Asquith, and Oliver Hirschbiegel. After him are Peter Stein, Jean-Paul Rappeneau, Elmar Klos, André Delvaux, Lewis Gilbert, and Roger Donaldson.

Most Popular Film Directors in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, Franco Rossi ranks 134. Before him are Henri Vidal, G. E. M. Anscombe, Félix Gaillard, Pierre Gamarra, Salomon Morel, and James H. Wilkinson. After him are Paul Vanden Boeynants, Franjo Kuharić, Albert Batteux, Mad Mike Hoare, José de Jesús Pimiento Rodríguez, and Isaac Boleslavsky. Among people deceased in 2000, Franco Rossi ranks 117. Before him are Yevgeny Khrunov, Teruki Miyamoto, Elek Schwartz, Mary Anne MacLeod Trump, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, and Son Sann. After him are Aristidis Konstantinidis, Ian Dury, Claire Trevor, Abdul Haris Nasution, Leonidas Pyrgos, and Alfred Schwarzmann.

Others Born in 1919

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Others Deceased in 2000

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Franco Rossi ranks 2,650 out of 5,161. Before him are Angelo Branduardi (1950), Monimus (-400), Enrico Toselli (1883), Letizia Battaglia (1935), Giovanni Antonio Magini (1555), and Giovanni Animuccia (1520). After him are Jean-Antoine de Baïf (1532), Francesco Manfredini (1684), Cesare Siepi (1923), Giancarlo Baghetti (1934), Cristoforo Moro (1390), and Lazare Ponticelli (1897).

Others born in Italy

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Among FILM DIRECTORS In Italy

Among film directors born in Italy, Franco Rossi ranks 44. Before him are Mauro Bolognini (1922), George P. Cosmatos (1941), Elio Petri (1929), Alessandro Blasetti (1900), Luigi Zampa (1905), and Tonino Delli Colli (1923). After him are Carlo Lizzani (1922), Giovanni Pastrone (1883), Gianfranco Parolini (1930), Renato Castellani (1913), Sergio Sollima (1921), and Mario Salieri (1957).

Italian born Film Directors

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Filmography

The Skin Under the Claws
Director
A series of brutal murders, the police on their toes, but they can not find a way to catch the sadistic murderer. A mad doctor experiments with ways to cheat death and confuse his pursuers with the help of a corpse identical DNA to his own. His young female victims are raped and brutally murdered with a knife. In the victims' fingernails will find the police traces of rotted human flesh.
May 10th 19753.9 / 10
The Unfaithfuls
Director
A group of "respectable" people are all partly responsible for the suicide of a servant girl. They are pounced upon by a wily blackmailer, who knows that these people will pay dearly rather than inform on themselves or others.
Feb 4th 19535.7 / 10