Franco Fraticelli (30 August 1928 in Rome, Kingdom of Italy – 26 April 2012 in Rome, Italy) was an Italian film editor with more than 150 film credits.
[1] Fraticelli was director Dario Argento's editor of choice from his earliest films (The Bird with the Crystal Plumage-1969) through Opera (1987).
[2][3] He also had an important collaboration with director Lina Wertmüller, commencing with her third film Rita the Mosquito (1966).
This film, which has been called her masterpiece,[4] was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director.
Fraticelli was nominated for the David di Donatello award for editing Boys on the Outside (directed by Marco Risi - 1990); Fraticelli subsequently edited two more films with Risi, Nel Continente Nero (1993) and Kaputt Mundi.