---
name: "Adolfo Franci"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/adolfo-franci"
fi1m_id: "adolfo-franci"
imdb_id: "nm0290000"
tmdb_id: 1009150
wikidata_id: "Q3828654"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "27 November 1895"
died: "31 January 1954"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-25T04:08:26.870564+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Adolfo Franci

## Identity

Adolfo Franci

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/adolfo-franci
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** adolfo-franci
- **IMDb ID:** nm0290000
- **TMDB ID:** 1009150
- **Wikidata ID:** Q3828654
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolfo_Franci, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3828654, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0290000/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1009150

Writer. Born 27 November 1895 in Florence, Italy. Died 31 January 1954.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 27 November 1895, Florence, Italy
- **Died:** 31 January 1954
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolfo_Franci, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3828654, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0290000/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1009150

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Bicycle Thieves*](https://film.one/film/bicycle-thieves.md) (93)

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## Biography

Adolfo Franci (1895–1954) was an Italian screenwriter. Born in Florence, he worked as a film critic for the weekly L'Illustrazione Italiana before beginning screenwriting in 1942.

He collaborated frequently with director Vittorio De Sica on neorealist films. His credits include *The Children Are Watching Us* (1943), *Shoeshine* (1946), for which he shared an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay, *Bicycle Thieves* (1948) and *Miracle in Milan* (1951). He shared a Nastro d'Argento for Best Screenplay for *Bicycle Thieves*.

Franci died in Rome on 31 January 1954.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, it.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Bicycle Thieves* (1948), Fi1m 93, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/bicycle-thieves.md)

## Complete filmography (9)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *La Milano di Bagutta* (2015), Actor
- *Miracle in Milan* (1951), Co-Writer
- *Bicycle Thieves* (1948), Screenplay — Fi1m 93, [page](https://film.one/film/bicycle-thieves.md)
- *Heart* (1948), Screenplay
- *Shoeshine* (1946), Story, Screenplay
- *The Gates of Heaven* (1945), Screenplay
- *The Children Are Watching Us* (1943), Screenplay
- *Our Dreams* (1943), Screenplay
- *A Garibaldian in the Convent* (1942), Screenplay

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 1948: Best Writing, Original Screenplay (nominated), for *Shoeshine*

### Other awards — 1 won

- Nastro d'Argento for Best Screenplay 1949: Nastro d'Argento for Best Screenplay (won), for *Bicycle Thieves*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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