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Franco Rossi (19 April 1919, Florence – 5 June 2000, Rome) was an Italian film screenwriter and director, mainly known for having directed the six-hour Italian-German-British-Swiss TV mini-series Quo Vadis? in 1985.
Franco Rossi may refer to: Franco Rossi (director) (1919–2000), Italian director. Franco Rossi (athlete), Italian Paralympic athlete. Franco Rossi (ice hockey) (1916–2006), Italian ice hockey player. Franco Rossi, Jr., American actor. Franco Rossi (musician), Italian cellist.
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Rossi was born on 29 May 1949 in Forest Hill, London. His father's side of the family were Italian ice cream merchants and had an ice cream business in South London, and his mother was a Northern Irish Roman Catholic from Liverpool.[failed verification] He grew up in a household with his parents, grandmother, and "lots of aunts and uncles" and was ...
Early career
In 1962, while attending Sedgehill Comprehensive School, Rossi became close friends with future Status Quo bassist Alan Lancaster while playing trumpet in the school orchestra. The two, along with other classmates Alan Key (drums) and Jess Jaworski (keyboards), formed a band called the Scorpions, who played their first gig at the Samuel Jones Sports Club in Dulwich. Key was later replaced by Air Cadets drummer and future Quo member John Coghlan, and the band was renamed the Spectres. The Spec...
Status Quo
In 1967, Traffic Jam changed its name to The Status Quo, but eventually dropped the definite article. Shortly afterward Parfitt joined the band, completing the original line-up, and beginning an almost 50-year partnership with Rossi until Parfitt's death in 2016. Rossi had written a song called "Pictures of Matchstick Men", which hit the charts in both the UK and the US in 1968, launching their hit-making career. After some years of minor success, the band reached #5 in the album charts in 19...
Other projects
In 1984, the year before Quo opened Live Aid, Rossi and Parfitt appeared on the Band Aid charity single, "Do They Know It's Christmas?" Rossi has also pursued solo projects outside Status Quo. In 1985 when the band was on hold, he recorded two singles with his longtime writing partner Bernie Frost. The single releases were "Modern Romance (I Want to Fall in Love Again)" (UK No. 54), and "Jealousy". In 1996 he issued a solo album, King of the Doghouse, which was not a commercial success, altho...
Rossi's guitar of choice is the Fender Telecaster, and he has used several over the years including his trademark green 1957 model with a maple fretboard, which he purchased in 1968. It was originally sunburst, but was painted green in 1970. Through the years several parts had been replaced with G&L parts, and a third pickup had been installed in a...
Rossi, along with the rest of Status Quo, has often been described as "uncool", including by Rossi himself; in March 2013, he called the Status Quo of c. 1974 "the most uncool band in the world". On stage, Rossi normally sported a black waistcoat, blue jeans and a pair of white trainers. In a December 2000 review of a Status Quo concert at Wembley ...
Early Status Quo albums, up to 1971's Dog of Two Head, credited him as Mike Rossi. Interviewed in 1996, he explained that his own name was deemed "too poncey" by the band's original manager, "so I had to change it to Mike, a real man's name, apparently".Within the band, he is known as "Frame" or "The Gomor" (The Grand Old Man of Rock). After years ...
One Step at a Time(2010)We Talk Too Much(2019)Franco Rossi ( Firenze, 28 aprile 1919 – Roma, 5 giugno 2000) è stato un regista, sceneggiatore e direttore del doppiaggio italiano .
Jun 5, 2000 · Franco Rossi is known as an Director, Screenplay, Writer, Story, Creator, Production Supervisor, Teleplay, First Assistant Director, Production Secretary, and Supervising Technical Director.
Jul 14, 2012 · L’ODYSSEE/THE ODYSSEY - 1/4 - (Franco Rossi, 1968), V.F, English subtitles. Série télévisée européenne d'après le poème d'Homère. European TV series based on Homer’s epic poem. avec ...
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Director Franco Rossi offers an atmospheric meditation on the pervasive alienation and class systems inherent to American life in the sprawling City of Angels, as seen through the outsider perspectives of a visiting Italian attorney (Enrico Maria Salerno) and a small circle of Italian expats.
