Gianfranco Parolini
Gianfranco Parolini (born February 20, 1925 in Rome ; † April 26, 2018 there ) was an Italian film director and screenwriter .
Life
Parolini, who comes from a Bolognese family, began working in the film business in 1950 as an assistant editor for Roberto Rossellini's Francis, the juggler of God . He appeared as a director, screenwriter and film producer and was best known as a director of spaghetti westerns. Among other things, he shot the successful Sabata series. In addition to westerns, Parolini mainly worked on sandals and crime films . In the late 1960s, for example, he also directed four of the Kommissar X films. His films have often been described as outstanding entertainment because of their ironic style and interesting characters. In 1992 he started working on a television series that had little success.
He worked frequently with a number of actors, some of whom were former stuntmen or circus acrobats ; among them Brad Harris , Tony Kendall and Nick Jordan .
Like many Italian film artists of the time, Parolini often used English names as pseudonyms. As a director he also became Frank Kramer , as an actor - he appeared in almost all of his films in smaller or larger supporting roles - Frank (or John Francis ) Littleword (s) or John Francis Scott , as screenwriter Robert F. Atkinson and John Eastwood mentioned in the credits .
In 2010 the film Frank il legionario was made about Parolini's work.
Filmography (director)
- 1953: François il contrabbandiere
- 1961: Hercules in Cleopatra's Net (Sansone)
- 1961: Under the flag of the privateers (Los bucaneros del Caribe / Il conquistatore di Maracaibo)
- 1962: The Battle of the Maccabees (Il vecchio testamento)
- 1962: Samson, Liberator of the Enslaved (La furia di Ercole)
- 1962: The last hours of Pompeii (Anno 79: La distruzione di Ercolano)
- 1963: The revolt of the gladiators (I dieci gladiatori)
- 1964: The Invincible Three (Gli invincibile tre)
- 1964: The diamond hell on the Mekong
- 1965: Johnny West and the daring 3 (Johnny West il mancino)
- 1966: Inspector X - Hunt for Unknown
- 1966: Inspector X - In the clutches of the golden dragon
- 1967: Commissioner X - Three blue panthers
- 1967: The three supermen clean up (I fantastici tre supermen)
- 1968: Sartana - Pray for your death (… Se incontri Sartana prega per la tua morte)
- 1969: Sabata (Ehi amico… c'è Sabata, hai chiuso!)
- 1969: Panther jump death squad (5 per l'inferno)
- 1970: Adios Sabata (Indio Black, sai che ti dico: Sei un gran figlio di ...)
- 1971: Sabata returns (È tornato Sabata… hai chiuso un'altra volta)
- 1972: Four happy bullies (Sotto a chi tocca!)
- 1974: Two rascals in the yellow hell (Questa volta ti faccio ricco!)
- 1975: We are the strongest (Noi non siamo angeli)
- 1976: The Colt of God (Ekdach Haelohim)
- 1977: Yeti, the snowman (Yeti - il gigante del 20. secolo)
- 1987: The secret of the Inca treasure (Alla ricerca dell'impero sepolto)
Web links
- Gianfranco Parolini in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Life data , accessed on April 27, 2018
- ^ Roberto Poppi: Dizionario del cinema italiano, I registi. Rome, Gremese 2002, pp. 322/323
- ↑ Gianfranco Parolini, Frank il legionario ... dagli spaghetti-western alla Cina , IT Cinematographie June 13, 2013, accessed October 1, 2015
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Parolini, Gianfranco |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kramer, Frank (pseudonym); Littleword, Frank (pseudonym); Littlewords, John Francis (pen name); Scott, John Francis (pen name); Atkinson, Robert F. (pseudonym); Eastwood, John (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian film director and screenwriter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 20, 1925 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rome |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 26, 2018 |
| Place of death | Rome |