Franco Franchi
Born: 1928-09-18 in Palermo, Sicily, Italy
Died: 1992-12-09
Known For: Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Franco Franchi (born Francesco Benenato , 18 September 1928 - 9 December 1992) was an Italian comedian. He was born in Palermo, Sicily and began his career in the 1950s, although his career only really took off in the 1960s. He starred in many comedies, mainly as a duo with Ciccio Ingrassia but also in more dramatic material such as Comencini's 'Adventures of Pinocchio (1972), in which they paired memorably as the Fox and the Cat. Description above from the Wikipedia article Franco Franchi,licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
2022
- An Oral History of: The Name of the Rose as Self (archive footage)
2004
- How We Got the Italian Movie Business Into Trouble: The True Story of Franco and Ciccio as Self (archive footage)
1989
- You Jane, Me Tarzan as Mercenary
1987
- Indietro tutta! as Se stesso
- Blue Tango as Gaetano Buttitta
1985
- Buona Domenica as Partecipazione
1983
- Uno storico pasticcio as Franco
1981
- Cream, Chocolate and... Paprika as Matteo
1975
- Dream of Zorro as Paco / Zorro
- The Noon Vigilante as Franco Gabbiani
- The Sergeant Rompiglioni Becomes... Corporal as Francesco Garibaldi Rompiglioni
1974
- Franco e Ciccio superstars
- The Inheritance of Uncle Goodsoul as Franco Favazza
- Littlefoot the Policeman as Franco Petralia
- Farfallon as Farfallon
- Paolo the Cool as Paolino Pastorino detto Tino
1973
- Dirty Weekend as Person on Film #1 (Theater) (archive footage) (uncredited)
- The Last Italian Tango as Franco
- Ku Fu? Dalla Sicilia con furore as Franco
- The Godfather's Godson as Oronzo Musumeci
- The Cat from Brooklyn Wants to Be a Detective as Frankie Lonego
- Il cortile degli Aragonesi as Nofriu
- Il sergente Rompiglioni as Francesco Garibaldi Rompiglioni
1972
- The Adventures of Pinocchio as Gatto
- The Adventures of Pinocchio as Gatto
- Two Sons of Trinity as Franco Trinità
- Continuavano a chiamarli i due piloti più matti del mondo as Franco Franchini
- Teatro 11 as Self
- The Two Big Cats O'Nine Tails... and a Half in Amsterdam as Franco, il fotografo
- They Were Still Called... The Most and the Least as Franco Pietrasicca
- Story of Fear and a Knife as Franco
1971
- Mazzabubù... quante corna stanno quaggiù? as Franco Bello
- It's a Woman's War as Serg. Franco Samperi
- I due assi del guantone as Franco Marsala
- The Clan of the Two Borsalini as Franco Franchetti, il 'Professore'
- ...Excuse Me, Do You Pay Taxes? as Franco
- Ma che musica maestro as Franco, il capobanda
- Will the Lawyer Franco Benenato Be Able to Defeat his Arch Enemy the Magistrate Ciccio De Ingras? as Franco Benenato
- Let's Arm Ourselves and Go! as Franco
- The Two of the F. 1 at the Craziest, Craziest Race in the World as Franco / Pepito Gonzales
- The Two Big Shots as Franco
1970
- I due maggiolini più matti del mondo as Franco
- The Two Wizards of the Ball as Mago K. K
- Don Franco and Don Ciccio in a Year of Protest as Don Franco
- Paths of War as Franco
- Two Whites in Dark Africa as Franco
- Who Gave You the License? as Franco
- On the Day of the Lord as Carceriere
- Principe coronato cercasi per ricca ereditiera as Principe Don Mimì
- Satiricosissimo as Franco
- Those Sweet Creatures as Franco Samperi
1969
- Gulliver
- Lisa with the Blue Eyes as funzionario Centro Spaziale #1
- Guess Who's Coming for a Snack? as Franco La Rapa
- Franco, Ciccio and the Pirate Blackbeard as Franco
- Franco and Ciccio... Robber and Cop as Franco Chiappalone
1968
- The Two Magnificent Fresconi as Franco
- Don Chisciotte e Sancio Panza as Sancio Panza
- Caprice Italian Style as Cassio
- Ciccio Forgives, I Don't as Franco
- The Nephews of Zorro as Franco La Vacca
- All the Gold in the World as Franco
- Franco, Ciccio and the Cheerful Widows as Franco Marelli / Salvatore Pollara
- Ugly at Night as Franco / Bruto Di Notte
- What Are the Clouds? as Cassio
- I 2 deputati as Franco Franchini
- Two Firefighters as Francesco Perricone
- American Secret Service
- I due Crociati as Franco di Carrapipi
1967
- The Sicily Barbers as Franco Lo Persico
- The Tall, The Short, The Cat as Franco
- The Handsome, the Ugly, and the Stupid as Il brutto - Franco
- Tonight I'll Throw Me as Bath attendant
- Two R-R-Ringos from Texas as Franco Caterina
- How We Stole the Atomic Bomb as Franco
- The World's Gold as Franco Sparapaoli
- I due vigili as Franco Lo Cascio
- I Zanzaroni
1966
- Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs as Franco
- 2 Mobsters Against Al Capone as Franco
- Gli altri, gli altri e noi as 'Occhi Svelti'
- How We Robbed the Bank of Italy as Franco
- I due sanculotti as Franco La Capra
1965
- The Amazing Doctor G as Franco Pecora
- Latin Lovers as Franco
- War Italian Style as Frank Scordia
- I Kill, You Kill as Turiddu (segment "Cavalleria Rusticana, oggi")
- Two Idiots at Fort Alamo as Franco La Pera
- The Sons of the Leopard as Franco / Maria Rosa
- How We Got Into Trouble with the Army as soldato Piscitello
- Fistful of Knuckles as Franco
- 002 Operation Moon as Franco / Colonel Paradowsky
- Wrong Beds as Franco (Segment "La seconda moglie")
- The Two Parachutists as Pasquale - Franco Impallomeni
- Veneri in collegio as Calogero Junior
1964
- Two Gangsters in the Wild West as Franco Capone / Il nonno di Franco / Francuzza l'abbandonata
- The Twelve-Handed Men of Mars as Socio dello scrittore
- Oh! Those Most Secret Agents as Franco Passalacqua
- Two Escape from Sing Sing as Franco
- Songs, Bullies and Chicks as Gaspare
- Two Public Enemies as Franco
- These Mad, Mad Women as Turiddu Macrì ('Siciliani a Milano')
- The Seven Vipers (The Latin Husband) as Avvocato Franchi
- The Maniacs as Thief #1 (segment 'Il week-end)
- Soldiers and corporals as Franco
- A Monster and a Half as Franco \ Cesarone
- 2 mattacchioni al Moulin Rouge as Nicolino Celletti
- Corpse for the Lady as Gianni
- I due toreri as Franco Scontentezza
- Venus in the Sun as Francesco Macrì (segment "Una domenica a Fregene")
- The Two Mafiosi as Franco Fisichella
- Le tardone as The killer (episode "Un delitto quasi perfetto")
- Primitive Love as Franco
- Seduced and Duped as Franco
- Easy Love as Franco (segment "Un uomo corretto")
1963
- The Shortest Day as Franco Lo Grugno
- La donna degli altri è sempre più bella as Turiddu Macrì (segment "I Promessi Sposi")
- Adventure at the Motel as Franco
- The Swindlers as Salvatore (segment "Siciliani")
- Scandal Nudes as polizziotto Franco
- Everything is Music as Friend of Anemia
- Target: Girls as Cassarà
1962
- 2 samurai per 100 geishe as Franco Santuzzo
- Il mio amico Benito as Terrorista
- Those Two in the Legion as Franco Cocuzza
- I motorizzati as Un ladro di gomme
- The Masseuses as Franco - Nightwatchman #1
- Vino, whisky e acqua salata as cuoco
- The Three Enemies as Fantuzzo
1961
- 5 Marines for 100 Girls as factotum
- The Last Judgment as disoccupato
- Hercules in the Valley of Woe as Francheo
- Fists, Girls and Sailors as Salvatore
- The Honored Society as Saruzzo
- Dying as Hierarchs as Scilla
1960
- The Loves of Salammbo
- Appointment in Ischia as The Short Smuggler