---
name: "Franco Ceraolo"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/franco-ceraolo"
fi1m_id: "franco-ceraolo"
imdb_id: "nm0148442"
tmdb_id: 1013566
wikidata_id: "Q3751215"
roles: ["Production designer"]
born: "3 May 1955"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 80
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-26T18:13:34.527084+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."
---

# Franco Ceraolo

## Identity

Franco Ceraolo

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/franco-ceraolo
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** franco-ceraolo
- **IMDb ID:** nm0148442
- **TMDB ID:** 1013566
- **Wikidata ID:** Q3751215
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3751215, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0148442/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1013566

Production designer. Born 3 May 1955 in Cerveteri.

## Details

- **Work:** Production designer
- **Born:** 3 May 1955, Cerveteri
- **Active:** 1997–2003
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 73 (1), 2000s 86 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3751215, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0148442/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1013566

## Biography

Franco Ceraolo is an Italian production designer and art director. Born in Cerveteri on 3 May 1955, he trained at the I Liceo Artistico in Rome and began working in film on experimental projects before taking on set decoration and assistant roles.

From 1984 he collaborated extensively with Dante Ferretti on films including *Ginger and Fred* (1986), *The Name of the Rose* (1986), *Hamlet* (1990) and *Kundun* (1997). He later worked as production designer on *One Hundred Steps* (2000) and *The Best of Youth* (2003), both directed by Marco Tullio Giordana, as well as other Italian features and television productions.

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

## On Fi1m (2)

- *The Best of Youth* (2003), Fi1m 86, Production Design, Production design — [page](https://film.one/film/the-best-of-youth.md)
- *Kundun* (1997), Fi1m 73, Art Direction — [page](https://film.one/film/kundun.md)

## Complete filmography (15)

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

- *Io e mamma* (2007), series, Production Design
- *The Best of Youth* (2003), Production Design — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/film/the-best-of-youth.md)
- *One Hundred Steps* (2000), Production Design
- *Kundun* (1997), as Art Direction — Fi1m 73, [page](https://film.one/film/kundun.md)
- *Capitan Cosmo* (1993), as Art Direction
- *Hamlet* (1990), as Art Direction
- *The Voice of the Moon* (1990), Assistant Production Design
- *Leviathan* (1989), as Art Direction
- *Via Paradiso* (1988), Production Design
- *Montecarlo Gran Casinò* (1987), Production Design
- *Department Store* (1986), as Set Decoration
- *Ginger and Fred* (1986), Assistant Production Design
- *He's Worse than Me* (1985), Assistant Production Design
- *The Country Boy* (1984), as Set Decoration
- *A Boy Like Many Others* (1983), Production Design

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