Franco Prosperi

Franco Prosperi
Born	Francesco Prosperi 2 September 1926 Rome, Italy
Died	17 October 2004 (aged 78) Rome, Italy
Occupation	Film director, screenwriter

Franco Prosperi (2 September 1926 – 17 October 2004) was an Italian film director and screenwriter, active between the mid-1960s and the early 1980s.

Born Francesco Prosperi in Rome, Prosperi began his career as an assistant director of Mario Bava, with whom he also wrote several of his screenplays.^[1] In 1966 he made his directorial debut, credited as Frank Shannon, with the thriller film Tecnica di un omicidio and over the years he built a solid reputation as a director of crime-action films.^[1] He also occasionally directed comedies (with Lando Buzzanca or Alighiero Noschese) and, in the final stage of his career, at the beginning of the 1980s, several low-budget sword and sorcery films.^[1]

Selected filmography

• Hired Killer (1966)
• Every Man Is My Enemy (1967)
• Ripped Off (1971)
• The Funny Face of the Godfather (1973)
• Unbelievable Adventures of Italians in Russia (1974)
• Meet Him and Die (1976)
• The Last House on the Beach (1978)
• Deadly Chase (1978)
• White Cannibal Queen (1980)
• Gunan, King of the Barbarians (1982)
• The Throne of Fire (1983)

References

1. Roberto Poppi. I registi: dal 1930 ai giorni nostri. Gremese Editore, 2002. ISBN 8884401712.

External links

• Franco Prosperi at the Internet Movie Database