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Franco Cristaldi
Highest Rated: 90% Cinema Paradiso (1988)
Lowest Rated: 17% Lady Caroline Lamb (1972)
Birthday: Oct 3, 1924
Birthplace: Turin, Piedmont, Italy
Respected European producer who has backed films by most of the neo-realists and other major post-war Italian directors, including Luchino Visconti ("White Nights" 1957), Mario Monicelli ("Big Deal on Madonna Street" 1958), Marco Bellocchio ("China is Near" 1967), Francesco Rosi ("Salvatore Giuiliano" 1962), Gillo Pontecorvo ("Ogro" 1979), Pietro Germi ("Divorce, Italian Style 1962 and "Seduced and Abandoned" 1964) and Federico Fellini ("Amarcord" 1974 and "And The Ship Sails On" 1983). Formerly married to actress Claudia Cardinale.
Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | 71% | Flight of the Innocent | Producer | $138.2K | 1992 |
| 90% | 96% | Cinema Paradiso | Producer | $9.1M | 1988 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Ho Fatto Splash | Producer | - | 1981 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Ho fatto splash! | Producer | - | 1980 |
| 90% | 77% | Eboli | Producer | $77.9K | 1979 |
| No Score Yet | 50% | Rataplan | Producer | - | 1979 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Operación Ogro | Producer | - | 1979 |
| 87% | 90% | Amarcord | Producer | - | 1973 |
| No Score Yet | 53% | The Audience | Producer | - | 1972 |
| 17% | 13% | Lady Caroline Lamb | Executive Producer | - | 1972 |
| 89% | 66% | The Red Tent | Producer | - | 1971 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | In the Name of the Father | Producer | - | 1971 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Open Letter to the Evening News | Producer | - | 1970 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | L'alibi | Producer | - | 1969 |
| 60% | 75% | China Is Near | Producer | - | 1967 |
| No Score Yet | 89% | Seduced and Abandoned | Producer | - | 1964 |
| 89% | 88% | The Organizer | Producer | - | 1963 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Omicron | Producer | - | 1963 |
| No Score Yet | 87% | The Assassin | Producer | - | 1961 |
| No Score Yet | 100% | Ghosts of Rome | Producer | - | 1961 |
| 50% | 86% | Kapò | Producer | - | 1959 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Fiasco in Milan | Producer | - | 1959 |
| 89% | 90% | Big Deal on Madonna Street | Producer | - | 1958 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Man of Straw | Producer | - | 1958 |
| 88% | 89% | White Nights | Producer | - | 1957 |