Franco Rossetti


Franco Rossetti was an Italian film director and screenwriter.

Life and career

Born in Siena, Rossetti started his career as a film critic, then in the early 1950s he entered the film industry as an assistant director. With the rise of the Spaghetti Western genre, Rossetti developed a solid reputation as a screenwriter, especially thanks to the screenplays of Django, Texas, Adios and Johnny Oro. He made his directorial debut in 1967 with the western The [Dirty Outlaws], and then he directed seven more films, spanning different genres. Rossetti died in Rome on 11 June 2018, at the age of 87.

Filmography