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
- Dream of Zorro as Paco / Zorro
- The Sergeant Rompiglioni Becomes... Corporal as Francesco Garibaldi Rompiglioni
1974
- Franco e Ciccio superstars
- Paolo the Cool as Paolino Pastorino detto Tino
- Farfallon as Farfallon
- Littlefoot the Policeman as Franco Petralia
- The Inheritance of Uncle Goodsoul as Franco Favazza
1973
- Dirty Weekend as Person on Film #1 (Theater) (archive footage) (uncredited)
- The Last Italian Tango as Franco
- Il sergente Rompiglioni as Francesco Garibaldi Rompiglioni
- The Godfather's Godson as Oronzo Musumeci
- Ku Fu? Dalla Sicilia con furore as Franco
- The Cat from Brooklyn Wants to Be a Detective as Frankie Lonego
- Il cortile degli Aragonesi as Nofriu
1972
- The Adventures of Pinocchio as Gatto
- The Adventures of Pinocchio as Gatto
- Two Sons of Trinity as Franco Trinità
- The Two Big Cats O'Nine Tails... and a Half in Amsterdam as Franco, il fotografo
- Story of Fear and a Knife as Franco
- 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
- Teatro 11 as Self
1971
- Mazzabubù... quante corna stanno quaggiù? as Franco Bello
- Let's Arm Ourselves and Go! as Franco
- It's a Woman's War as Serg. Franco Samperi
- The Two Big Shots as Franco
- Will the Lawyer Franco Benenato Be Able to Defeat his Arch Enemy the Magistrate Ciccio De Ingras? as Franco Benenato
- Ma che musica maestro as Franco, il capobanda
- ...Excuse Me, Do You Pay Taxes? as Franco
- The Clan of the Two Borsalini as Franco Franchetti, il 'Professore'
- The Two of the F. 1 at the Craziest, Craziest Race in the World as Franco / Pepito Gonzales
- I due assi del guantone as Franco Marsala
1970
- I due maggiolini più matti del mondo as Franco
- Those Sweet Creatures as Franco Samperi
- Satiricosissimo as Franco
- On the Day of the Lord as Carceriere
- The Two Wizards of the Ball as Mago K. K
- Principe coronato cercasi per ricca ereditiera as Principe Don Mimì
- Who Gave You the License? as Franco
- Two Whites in Dark Africa as Franco
- Don Franco and Don Ciccio in a Year of Protest as Don Franco
- Paths of War as Franco
1969
- Gulliver
- Lisa with the Blue Eyes as funzionario Centro Spaziale #1
- Franco, Ciccio and the Pirate Blackbeard as Franco
- I 2 deputati as Franco Franchini
- Guess Who's Coming for a Snack? as Franco La Rapa
- Franco and Ciccio... Robber and Cop as Franco Chiappalone
1968
- The Two Magnificent Fresconi as Franco
- Caprice Italian Style as Cassio
- Ugly at Night as Franco / Bruto Di Notte
- All the Gold in the World as Franco
- American Secret Service
- The Nephews of Zorro as Franco La Vacca
- Ciccio Forgives, I Don't as Franco
- What Are the Clouds? as Cassio
- I due Crociati as Franco di Carrapipi
- Franco, Ciccio and the Cheerful Widows as Franco Marelli / Salvatore Pollara
- Two Firefighters as Francesco Perricone
- Don Chisciotte e Sancio Panza as Sancio Panza
- How We Stole the Atomic Bomb as Franco
1967
- I due vigili as Franco Lo Cascio
- The Sicily Barbers as Franco Lo Persico
- The World's Gold as Franco Sparapaoli
- The Handsome, the Ugly, and the Stupid as Il brutto - Franco
- Tonight I'll Throw Me as Bath attendant
- The Tall, The Short, The Cat as Franco
- Two R-R-Ringos from Texas as Franco Caterina
- I Zanzaroni
1966
- Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs as Franco
- I due sanculotti as Franco La Capra
- 2 Mobsters Against Al Capone as Franco
- How We Robbed the Bank of Italy as Franco
- Gli altri, gli altri e noi as 'Occhi Svelti'
1965
- 002 Operation Moon as Franco / Colonel Paradowsky
- Two Idiots at Fort Alamo as Franco La Pera
- How We Got Into Trouble with the Army as soldato Piscitello
- Latin Lovers as Franco
- Wrong Beds as Franco (Segment "La seconda moglie")
- The Sons of the Leopard as Franco / Maria Rosa
- The Amazing Doctor G as Franco Pecora
- Veneri in collegio as Calogero Junior
- I Kill, You Kill as Turiddu (segment "Cavalleria Rusticana, oggi")
- War Italian Style as Frank Scordia
- The Two Parachutists as Pasquale - Franco Impallomeni
- Fistful of Knuckles as Franco
1964
- The Twelve-Handed Men of Mars as Socio dello scrittore
- I due toreri as Franco Scontentezza
- The Maniacs as Thief #1 (segment 'Il week-end)
- Le tardone as The killer (episode "Un delitto quasi perfetto")
- Oh! Those Most Secret Agents as Franco Passalacqua
- Two Public Enemies as Franco
- Soldiers and corporals as Franco
- Corpse for the Lady as Gianni
- The Two Mafiosi as Franco Fisichella
- The Seven Vipers (The Latin Husband) as Avvocato Franchi
- Two Gangsters in the Wild West as Franco Capone / Il nonno di Franco / Francuzza l'abbandonata
- Songs, Bullies and Chicks as Gaspare
- Easy Love as Franco (segment "Un uomo corretto")
- Two Escape from Sing Sing as Franco
- Venus in the Sun as Francesco Macrì (segment "Una domenica a Fregene")
- Primitive Love as Franco
- Seduced and Duped as Franco
- 2 mattacchioni al Moulin Rouge as Nicolino Celletti
- These Mad, Mad Women as Turiddu Macrì ('Siciliani a Milano')
- A Monster and a Half as Franco \ Cesarone
1963
- Everything is Music as Friend of Anemia
- Scandal Nudes as polizziotto Franco
- 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")
- Target: Girls as Cassarà
1962
- The Masseuses as Franco - Nightwatchman #1
- Il mio amico Benito as Terrorista
- I motorizzati as Un ladro di gomme
- Those Two in the Legion as Franco Cocuzza
- 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 for 100 Girls as factotum
- Hercules in the Valley of Woe as Francheo
- The Honored Society as Saruzzo
- Dying as Hierarchs as Scilla
- Fists, Girls and Sailors as Salvatore
1960
- The Loves of Salammbo
- Appointment in Ischia as The Short Smuggler