Franco Prosperi

This article is about the director of fictional films. For the documentary filmmaker, seeFranco 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 inRome,Prosperi began his career as an assistant director withMario Bavaand with whom he also wrote several screenplays.In 1966, he made his directorial debut, credited as Frank Shannon, with the thriller film,Tecnica di un omicidioand over the years, he built a solid reputation as a director of crime-action films.He also occasionally directed comedies (withLando BuzzancaorAlighiero Noschese) and, in the final stage of his career, at the beginning of the 1980s, several low-budgetsword and sorceryfilms.

Selected filmography

• Tecnica di un omicidio(1966)
• Hired Killer(1966)
• Every Man Is My Enemy(1967)
• Ripped Off(1971)
• The Funny Face of the Godfather(1973) (parody ofThe 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 ofConan the Barbarian)
• The Throne of Fire(1983)

External links

• Franco ProsperiatIMDb