Franco Giraldi (11 July 1931 – 2 December 2020) was an Italian film director and screenwriter.
Born in Komen, Giraldi spent his childhood and adolescence between the Carso, Trieste and Gorizia.
During the Second World War, still in minor age, he helped the Italian partisans.
[1][2] His first professional contact with the world of cinema was as a film critic from the pages of the newspaper L'Unità.
Shortly after his work with Leone in A Fistful of Dollars Giraldi directed his first Spaghetti Western, Seven Guns for the MacGregors, released in 1966.