Franco Zeffirelli AKA Gianfranco Corsi Born: 12-Feb-1923 Birthplace: Florence, Italy Died: 15-Jun-2019 Location of death: Rome, Italy Cause of death: unspecified
Gender: Male Religion: Roman Catholic Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Gay [1] Occupation: Film Director Nationality: Italy Executive summary: Romeo and Juliet Military service: Communist Partisan (WWII) [1] Richard Burt, "No Holes Bard: Homonormativity and the Gay and Lesbian Romance with Romeo and Juliet", essay in Shakespeare Without Class: Misappropriations of Cultural Capital (2000), page 153.
Father: Ottorino Corsi (silk merchant) Mother: Alaide Garosi (fashion designer, d. tuberculosis) Boyfriend: Luchino Visconti (film director. cohabited three years) Slept with: Alain Delon (actor, rumored relationship)
Conservatory: Accademia di Belle Arti, Florence University: University of Florence
Knight of the British Empire Nov-2004 Hip Replacement Surgery Wedding: Larry Fortensky and Elizabeth Taylor (1991) Risk Factors: Smoking
FILMOGRAPHY AS DIRECTOR Callas Forever (16-Sep-2002) Tea with Mussolini (26-Mar-1999) Jane Eyre (9-Feb-1996) Sparrow (Oct-1993) Hamlet (19-Dec-1990) Young Toscanini (5-Sep-1988) Otello (28-Aug-1986) La Traviata (18-Feb-1983) Endless Love (17-Jul-1981) The Champ (4-Apr-1979) Jesus of Nazareth (3-Apr-1977) Brother Sun, Sister Moon (3-Mar-1972) Romeo and Juliet (25-Sep-1968) The Taming of the Shrew (27-Feb-1967)
Author of books:
Zeffirelli: An Autobiography (1986, memoir)
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