Franco Prosperi

This article is about the director of fictional films. For the documentary filmmaker, see Franco E. Prosperi.

Franco Prosperi
Born	Francesco Prosperi (1926-09-02)2 September 1926 Rome, Kingdom of Italy
Died	17 October 2004(2004-10-17) (aged 78) Rome, Italy
Other names	Frank Shannon
Occupation(s)	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.

Career

Born in Rome, Prosperi began his career as an assistant director with Mario Bava and with whom he also wrote several 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

• Tecnica di un omicidio [it] (1966)
• Hired Killer (1966)
• Every Man Is My Enemy (1967)
• Ripped Off (1971)
• The Funny Face of the Godfather (1973) (parody of The Godfather)
• Unbelievable Adventures of Italians in Russia (1974)
• Meet Him and Die (1976)
• The Last House on the Beach (1978)
• Deadly Chase (1978)
• Gunan, King of the Barbarians (1982) (parody of Conan the Barbarian)
• The Throne of Fire (1983)

References

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

External links

• Franco Prosperi at IMDb