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
- The Noon Vigilante as Franco Gabbiani
- The Sergeant Rompiglioni Becomes... Corporal as Francesco Garibaldi Rompiglioni
- Dream of Zorro as Paco / Zorro
1974
- Farfallon as Farfallon
- Paolo the Cool as Paolino Pastorino detto Tino
- The Inheritance of Uncle Goodsoul as Franco Favazza
- Franco e Ciccio superstars
- Littlefoot the Policeman as Franco Petralia
1973
- Dirty Weekend as Person on Film #1 (Theater) (archive footage) (uncredited)
- The Last Italian Tango as Franco
- The Godfather's Godson as Oronzo Musumeci
- Il sergente Rompiglioni as Francesco Garibaldi Rompiglioni
- Ku Fu? Dalla Sicilia con furore as Franco
- Il cortile degli Aragonesi as Nofriu
- The Cat from Brooklyn Wants to Be a Detective as Frankie Lonego
1972
- The Adventures of Pinocchio as Gatto
- Teatro 11 as Self
- The Adventures of Pinocchio as Gatto
- Two Sons of Trinity as Franco Trinità
- Story of Fear and a Knife as Franco
- The Two Big Cats O'Nine Tails... and a Half in Amsterdam as Franco, il fotografo
- Continuavano a chiamarli i due piloti più matti del mondo as Franco Franchini
- They Were Still Called... The Most and the Least as Franco Pietrasicca
1971
- Mazzabubù... quante corna stanno quaggiù? as Franco Bello
- Let's Arm Ourselves and Go! as Franco
- Ma che musica maestro as Franco, il capobanda
- It's a Woman's War as Serg. Franco Samperi
- Will the Lawyer Franco Benenato Be Able to Defeat his Arch Enemy the Magistrate Ciccio De Ingras? as Franco Benenato
- The Clan of the Two Borsalini as Franco Franchetti, il 'Professore'
- I due assi del guantone as Franco Marsala
- The Two of the F. 1 at the Craziest, Craziest Race in the World as Franco / Pepito Gonzales
- ...Excuse Me, Do You Pay Taxes? as Franco
- The Two Big Shots as Franco
1970
- The Two Wizards of the Ball as Mago K. K
- Don Franco and Don Ciccio in a Year of Protest as Don Franco
- Who Gave You the License? as Franco
- Satiricosissimo as Franco
- I due maggiolini più matti del mondo as Franco
- On the Day of the Lord as Carceriere
- Principe coronato cercasi per ricca ereditiera as Principe Don Mimì
- Two Whites in Dark Africa as Franco
- Those Sweet Creatures as Franco Samperi
- Paths of War as Franco
1969
- Gulliver
- Franco, Ciccio and the Pirate Blackbeard as Franco
- Lisa with the Blue Eyes as funzionario Centro Spaziale #1
- Guess Who's Coming for a Snack? as Franco La Rapa
- Franco and Ciccio... Robber and Cop as Franco Chiappalone
- I 2 deputati as Franco Franchini
1968
- Caprice Italian Style as Cassio
- The Two Magnificent Fresconi as Franco
- All the Gold in the World as Franco
- The Nephews of Zorro as Franco La Vacca
- What Are the Clouds? as Cassio
- Two Firefighters as Francesco Perricone
- Ciccio Forgives, I Don't as Franco
- Ugly at Night as Franco / Bruto Di Notte
- Don Chisciotte e Sancio Panza as Sancio Panza
- Franco, Ciccio and the Cheerful Widows as Franco Marelli / Salvatore Pollara
- How We Stole the Atomic Bomb as Franco
- I due Crociati as Franco di Carrapipi
- American Secret Service
1967
- Tonight I'll Throw Me as Bath attendant
- The Sicily Barbers as Franco Lo Persico
- I due vigili as Franco Lo Cascio
- The Tall, The Short, The Cat as Franco
- The Handsome, The Ugly, And The Stupid as Il brutto - Franco
- The World's Gold as Franco Sparapaoli
- Two R-R-Ringos from Texas as Franco Caterina
- I Zanzaroni
1966
- Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs as Franco
- 2 Mobsters Against Al Capone as Franco
- Two Sons of Ringo as Franco Merendino / Django
- How We Robbed the Bank of Italy as Franco
- The Two Sans-culottes as Franco La Capra
- Gli altri, gli altri e noi as 'Occhi Svelti'
1965
- War Italian Style as Frank Scordia
- I Kill, You Kill as Turiddu (segment "Cavalleria Rusticana, oggi")
- 002 Operation Moon as Franco / Colonel Paradowsky
- Two Idiots at Fort Alamo as Franco La Pera
- Latin Lovers as Franco
- The Amazing Doctor G as Franco Pecora
- Wrong Beds as Franco (Segment "La seconda moglie")
- The Two Parachutists as Pasquale - Franco Impallomeni
- The Sons of the Leopard as Franco / Maria Rosa
- Fistful of Knuckles as Franco
- How We Got Into Trouble with the Army as soldato Piscitello
- Veneri in collegio as Calogero Junior
1964
- The Twelve-Handed Men of Mars as Socio dello scrittore
- The Maniacs as Thief #1 (segment 'Il week-end)
- Soldiers and corporals as Franco
- The Two Mafiosi as Franco Fisichella
- Easy Love as Franco (segment "Un uomo corretto")
- Two Public Enemies as Franco
- Two Gangsters in the Wild West as Franco Capone / Il nonno di Franco / Francuzza l'abbandonata
- I due toreri as Franco Scontentezza
- 2 mattacchioni al Moulin Rouge as Nicolino Celletti
- Oh! Those Most Secret Agents as Franco Passalacqua
- Le tardone as The killer (episode "Un delitto quasi perfetto")
- The Seven Vipers (The Latin Husband) as Avvocato Franchi
- Venus in the Sun as Francesco Macrì (segment "Una domenica a Fregene")
- These Mad, Mad Women as Turiddu Macrì ('Siciliani a Milano')
- Two Escape from Sing Sing as Franco
- Corpse for the Lady as Gianni
- Seduced and Duped as Franco
- Songs, Bullies and Chicks as Gaspare
- A Monster and a Half as Franco \ Cesarone
- Primitive Love as Franco
1963
- The Shortest Day as Franco Lo Grugno
- The Swindlers as Salvatore (segment "Siciliani")
- Everything is Music as Friend of Anemia
- Scandal Nudes as polizziotto Franco
- La donna degli altri è sempre più bella as Turiddu Macrì (segment "I Promessi Sposi")
- Adventure at the Motel as Franco
- Target: Girls as Cassarà
1962
- Il mio amico Benito as Terrorista
- I motorizzati as Un ladro di gomme
- Those Two in the Legion as Franco Cocuzza
- The Masseuses as Franco - Nightwatchman #1
- The Three Enemies as Fantuzzo
- Vino, whisky e acqua salata as cuoco
- 2 samurai per 100 geishe as Franco Santuzzo
1961
- The Last Judgment as disoccupato
- 5 marines per 100 ragazze as factotum
- 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