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Franco Zeffirelli

Franco Zeffirelli

Highest Rated:
97% Romeo and Juliet (1968)
Lowest Rated:
23% Endless Love (1981)
Birthday:
Feb 12, 1923
Birthplace:
Not Available
Bio:
Italian director Franco Zeffirelli started out as an actor in the stage productions of Luchino Visconti, then worked as an assistant on several Visconti-directed films. After World War II, Zeffirelli launched a career designing, costuming, and directing operas, a field of entertainment to which he'd…

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Filmography

Range of Movie T-meters: 23% - 97%
Number of Movies: 48
Box Office Since 2001: $0.3M
Year Rating Title Credit Box Office
2012 Il giovane Toscanini (Young Toscanini)
  • Screenwriter
  • Director
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2011 Aida
  • Director
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2010 Met Summer Encore: La Boheme
  • Director
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2009 The Metropolitan Opera: Turandot
  • Producer
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2008 Sunshine Superman: The Journey of Donovan
  • Actor
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2007 Dame Joan Sutherland: The Reluctant Prima Donna
  • Actor
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2007 Verdi's Aida at La Scala
  • Director
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2007 Maria Callas: The Eternal
  • Director
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2005 Mozart - Don Giovanni
  • Director
  • Producer
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2004 Georges Bizet's Carmen
  • Director
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2004 Madama Butterfly
  • Director
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2004 Carmen: Georges Bizet
  • Director
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2003 Puccini - La Boheme
  • Director
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2002 42% Callas Forever
  • Producer
  • Screenwriter
  • Director
$0.3M
2002 Giuseppe Verdi - La Traviata
  • Director
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2002 Maria Callas - Living and Dying for Art and Love
  • Actor
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2001 Aida
  • Director
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1999 65% Tea With Mussolini
  • Screenwriter
  • Director
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1996 74% Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre
  • Director
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1993 Storia di una capinera (Sparrow)
  • Director
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1992 Verdi - Don Carlo
  • Director
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1990 76% Hamlet
  • Screenwriter
  • Director
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1990 Power of the Past with Bill Moyers: Florence
  • Actor
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1987 Bellissimo - A History of the Italian Cinema
  • Actor
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1987 Maria Callas - Life and Art
  • Actor
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1987 Maria Callas: La Divina: A Portrait
  • Actor
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1986 Otello (Othello)
  • Director
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1985 Metropolitan Opera: Puccini: Tosca
  • Director
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1982 La Traviata at La Scala
  • Director
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1982 La Traviata
  • Director
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1982 La Boheme
  • Director
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1982 Verdi - La Traviata
  • Director
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1981 Puccini - La Boheme
  • Producer
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1981 23% Endless Love
  • Director
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1979 La Boheme
  • Director
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1979 40% The Champ
  • Director
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1978 Bizet - Carmen
  • Director
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1977 Jesus of Nazareth
  • Director
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1976 Otello
  • Director
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1973 67% Brother Sun, Sister Moon
  • Screenwriter
  • Director
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1968 97% Romeo and Juliet
  • Director
  • Screenwriter
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1967 85% The Taming of the Shrew
  • Director
  • Screenwriter
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1967 La Boheme
  • Director
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1965 La Bohème
  • Producer
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1964 Verdi - Falstaff
  • Director
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1947 Angelina: Member of Parliament (L'onorevole Angelina)
  • Filippo Carrone
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Rome Franco Zeffirelli (Omaggio a Roma)
  • Director
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Pagliacci, (Bajazzo, Der)
  • Director
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