Remembering Franco Delli Colli

Franco Delli Colli was born on March 2, 1929 in Rome, Italy. He began working in the late 1940s with his cousin Tonino Delli Colli [1923-2005] as a camera operator and assistant cinematographer, and worked with him to dozens of films, including Dino Risi's “Poveri ma belli” (1957), Pier Paolo Pasolini's “Accattone” (1961) and “Mamma Roma” (1962) and Luchino Visconti's “The Leopard” (1963). In the early 1960s Delli Colli started his career as director of photography, working mainly in genre films; his credits include Pupi Avati's “Balsamus l'uomo di Satana” (1970) and “Zeder” (1983), one of his two Euro-westerns, Giulio Questi's “Django Kill” (1966), Lamberto Bava's “Macabre” (1980) and Sidney Salkow's “The Last Man on Earth” (1964). In the early nineties he retired from cinema to dedicate himself to design a right kind of lighting to improve the appearance of the most famous and frequented places in Italian art cities.

 
Delli Colli died on April 22, 2004 in Rome, Italy.
 
Today we remember Franco Delli Colli on what would have been his 85^th birthday.