Gianfranco Parolini

Gianfranco Parolini (20 February 1925 in Rome, Italy – 26 April 2018 in Rome, Italy)^[1] was an Italian film director. He is often credited as Frank Kramer. Among his films are The Sabata Trilogy , several sword and sandal films, most of the Kommissar X films and a number of Spaghetti Westerns.

He claimed to have written over 100 thriller novels before becoming an assistant to Giuseppe Amato.^[2]

• Francis the Smuggler (1953)
• Samson (1961)
• The Fury of Hercules (1962)
• 79 A.D. (1962)
• The Old Testament (1962)
• The Ten Gladiators (I dieci gladiatori) (1963)
• Mission to Hell (1964)
• 3 Avengers (1964)
• Left Handed Johnny West (1965)
• Kiss Kiss, Kill Kill (1966)
• Kommissar X – In den Klauen des goldenen Drachen (1966)
• The Three Fantastic Supermen (1967)
• If You Meet Sartana Pray for Your Death (Se incontri Sartana prega per la tua morte) (1968)
• Five for Hell (Cinque per l'inferno), aka Five Into Hell (1969)
• Sabata (Ehi amico ... c'è Sabata, hai chiuso!) (1969)
• Adiós, Sabata (Indio Black, sai che ti dico: Sei un gran figlio di...) (1970)
• Return of Sabata (È tornato Sabata... hai chiuso un'altra volta) (1971)
• God's Gun (Diamante Lobo) (1975)
• We Are No Angels (Noi non siamo angeli) (1975)
• Yeti: Giant of the 20th Century (1977)

• Fountain of Trevi (1960, directed by Carlo Campogalliani)

• Little Red Monkey (1955) - Police Inspector May - sanitorium
• The Ten Gladiators (1963) - Livius Verus
• Mission to Hell (1964) - Thug at Information Booth (uncredited)
• Kommissar X – In den Klauen des goldenen Drachen (1966) - Rex
• Kommissar X - Drei blaue Panther (1968) - Smoky
• If You Meet Sartana Pray for Your Death (1968) - Gambler
• Roma. L'antica chiave dei sensi (1984) - Senator Lucius
• Alla ricerca dell'impero sepolto (1987) - Prof. Alexis Xristopoulos (final film role)

• Gianfranco Parolini at IMDb

• 1925 births
• 2018 deaths
• Film directors from Rome
• Spaghetti Western directors
• Italian film director stubs

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