Franco Giornelli
Franco Giornelli (born February 7, 1931 in Perugia ) is an Italian actor , production manager and director .
Life
Giornelli acquired the university entrance qualification, but decided against studying and to attend the "Libera Accademia di Teatro" by Pietro Scharoff . For a few years he performed mainly on stages devoted to experimental theater before he attracted attention in 1957 alongside Vittorio Gassman and Salvo Randone at the “Teatro Greco di Siracusa” in Sophocles ' Philoctetes . Parallel to these activities, he worked in the 1950s as an editing secretary, then as a production assistant and finally as a production manager for film; Giornelli was engaged primarily in productions by Carlo Caiano and then Ottavio Poggi .
From 1966 on, Giornelli was seen as a character actor in about a dozen films before his only theatrical work as a director in 1979. Il matto was a serious discussion of the relationship between man and nature based on his own script; an early example of ecology and unique of its kind in Italian cinema. In the following decade, Giornelli shot two long films with games for television in addition to numerous short commissioned works. In 1995 he finally appeared with three documentary works depicting the beauties of his home region.
Filmography (selection)
actor
- 1967: Escondido (El Desperado)
- 1968: Django - The Bible is not a card game (Execution)
- 1968: Command company "Radarfalle" (Probabilità zero)
- 1970: The Lonely One from the West (Sledge)
Director
- 1979: Il matto
Web links
- Franco Giornelli in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Giornelli at mymovies
Individual evidence
- ^ Roberto Poppi: Dizionario del cinema italiano, I Registi, Gremese 2002, pp. 210/211
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Giornelli, Franco |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian actor, production manager and director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 7, 1931 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Perugia |