RIP Franco Giraldi

 

Italian director, assistant director, screenwriter, film editor and actor Franco Giraldi died in a Trieste hospital of COVID-19 on December 2, 2020. He was 89. Born on July 11, 1931 in Comeno, Franco Giraldi began his first steps in the world of cinema, approaching the trend of the Italian western and comedy of costume. He was assistant director for Sergio Leone on “A Fistful of Dollars”. Once Leone left the Jolly Film production company, it was Giraldi who settled behind the camera, making his successful debut in the Italian western with the fiilm “7 Guns for the McGregors” (1965) starring Robert Woods. He also directed Hunt Powers in “Sugar Colt” (1966), wrote and directed “Up the MacGregors:” starring David Bailey and directed Alex Cord in “A Minute to Pray, a Second to Die.” (1967).