---
name: "Franco E. Prosperi"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/franco-prosperi"
fi1m_id: "franco-prosperi"
imdb_id: "nm10304264"
tmdb_id: 2403345
wikidata_id: "Q3751533"
roles: ["Director"]
born: "1 January 1928"
died: "17 October 2004"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-26T14:35:35.885674+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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# Franco E. Prosperi

## Identity

Franco E. Prosperi

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/franco-prosperi
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** franco-prosperi
- **IMDb ID:** nm10304264
- **TMDB ID:** 2403345
- **Wikidata ID:** Q3751533
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franco_E._Prosperi, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3751533, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm10304264/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2403345

Director. Born 1 January 1928 in Roma, Italy. Died 17 October 2004.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 1 January 1928, Roma, Italy
- **Died:** 17 October 2004
- **Also known as:** Franco Prosperi
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franco_E._Prosperi, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3751533, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm10304264/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2403345

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Mondo Cane*](https://film.one/film/mondo-cane.md) (58)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Franco E. Prosperi is an Italian documentary filmmaker and director. He trained in biological and natural sciences, specialising in ichthyology, and began his career making nature documentaries before entering feature filmmaking.

He co-directed *Mondo Cane* (1962) with Gualtiero Jacopetti and Paolo Cavara, the film that established the mondo genre. He collaborated further with Jacopetti on *Mondo Cane 2* (1963), *La donna nel mondo* (1963), *Africa addio* (1966), *Goodbye Uncle Tom* (1971) and *Mondo candido* (1975). His other directorial credits include *Wild Beasts* (1984).

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Mondo Cane* (1962), Fi1m 58, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/mondo-cane.md)

## Complete filmography (9)

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

- *Computron 22* (1988), Writer
- *Wild Beasts* (1984), Story, Director, Screenplay
- *Sweet and Savage* (1983), as Narrator (voice)
- *Mondo candido* (1975), Screenplay, Story, Director
- *Goodbye Uncle Tom* (1971), Writer, Editor, Producer, Director
- *Africa Blood and Guts* (1966), Director, Writer, Editor
- *Mondo Cane 2* (1963), Director, Story, Writer, Production Design
- *Women of the World* (1963), Writer, Director, Story
- *Mondo Cane* (1962), Director — Fi1m 58, [page](https://film.one/film/mondo-cane.md)

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