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
- 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
- Littlefoot the Policeman as Franco Petralia
- Paolo the Cool as Paolino Pastorino detto Tino
- The Inheritance of Uncle Goodsoul as Franco Favazza
- Farfallon as Farfallon
- Franco e Ciccio superstars
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 Cat from Brooklyn Wants to Be a Detective as Frankie Lonego
- Il sergente Rompiglioni as Francesco Garibaldi Rompiglioni
- The Godfather's Godson as Oronzo Musumeci
- 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
- 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
- Story of Fear and a Knife as Franco
- The Two Big Cats O'Nine Tails... and a Half in Amsterdam as Franco, il fotografo
- Teatro 11 as Self
1971
- I due assi del guantone as Franco Marsala
- Mazzabubù... quante corna stanno quaggiù? as Franco Bello
- 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 Clan of the Two Borsalini as Franco Franchetti, il 'Professore'
- It's a Woman's War as Serg. Franco Samperi
- The Two Big Shots as Franco
- ...Excuse Me, Do You Pay Taxes? as Franco
- The Two of the F. 1 at the Craziest, Craziest Race in the World as Franco / Pepito Gonzales
1970
- The Two Wizards of the Ball as Mago K. K
- Don Franco and Don Ciccio in a Year of Protest as Don Franco
- Satiricosissimo as Franco
- Who Gave You the License? as Franco
- On the Day of the Lord as Carceriere
- Those Sweet Creatures as Franco Samperi
- Principe coronato cercasi per ricca ereditiera as Principe Don Mimì
- Paths of War as Franco
- Two Whites in Dark Africa as Franco
- I due maggiolini più matti del mondo as Franco
1969
- I 2 deputati as Franco Franchini
- Lisa with the Blue Eyes as funzionario Centro Spaziale #1
- Franco, Ciccio and the Pirate Blackbeard as Franco
- Guess Who's Coming for a Snack? as Franco La Rapa
- Franco and Ciccio... Robber and Cop as Franco Chiappalone
1968
- Caprice Italian Style as Cassio
- Ugly at Night as Franco / Bruto Di Notte
- How We Stole the Atomic Bomb as Franco
- Two Firefighters as Francesco Perricone
- What Are the Clouds? as Cassio
- Don Chisciotte e Sancio Panza as Sancio Panza
- 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
- I due Crociati as Franco di Carrapipi
- The Two Magnificent Fresconi as Franco
- American Secret Service
1967
- The Sicily Barbers as Franco Lo Persico
- The Tall, The Short, The Cat as Franco
- The World's Gold as Franco Sparapaoli
- The Handsome, The Ugly, And The Stupid as Il brutto - Franco
- Two R-R-Ringos from Texas as Franco Caterina
- I due vigili as Franco Lo Cascio
- Tonight I'll Throw Me as Bath attendant
- I Zanzaroni
1966
- Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs as Franco
- Two Sons of Ringo as Franco Merendino / Django
- How We Robbed the Bank of Italy as Franco
- 2 Mobsters Against Al Capone as Franco
- Gli altri, gli altri e noi as 'Occhi Svelti'
- The Two Sans-culottes as Franco La Capra
1965
- War Italian Style as Frank Scordia
- Wrong Beds as Franco (Segment "La seconda moglie")
- I Kill, You Kill as Turiddu (segment "Cavalleria Rusticana, oggi")
- The Amazing Doctor G as Franco Pecora
- The Two Parachutists as Pasquale - Franco Impallomeni
- The Sons of the Leopard as Franco / Maria Rosa
- How We Got Into Trouble with the Army as soldato Piscitello
- Latin Lovers as Franco
- Two Idiots at Fort Alamo as Franco La Pera
- 002 Operation Moon as Franco / Colonel Paradowsky
- Fistful of Knuckles as Franco
- Veneri in collegio as Calogero Junior
1964
- Two Public Enemies as Franco
- The Twelve-Handed Men of Mars as Socio dello scrittore
- Two Gangsters in the Wild West as Franco Capone / Il nonno di Franco / Francuzza l'abbandonata
- Corpse for the Lady as Gianni
- Oh! Those Most Secret Agents as Franco Passalacqua
- Songs, Bullies and Chicks as Gaspare
- Easy Love as Franco (segment "Un uomo corretto")
- Two Escape from Sing Sing as Franco
- Le tardone as The killer (episode "Un delitto quasi perfetto")
- The Maniacs as Thief #1 (segment 'Il week-end)
- The Seven Vipers (The Latin Husband) as Avvocato Franchi
- These Mad, Mad Women as Turiddu Macrì ('Siciliani a Milano')
- Seduced and Duped as Franco
- Primitive Love as Franco
- The Two Mafiosi as Franco Fisichella
- Soldiers and corporals as Franco
- 2 mattacchioni al Moulin Rouge as Nicolino Celletti
- A Monster and a Half as Franco \ Cesarone
- Venus in the Sun as Francesco Macrì (segment "Una domenica a Fregene")
- I due toreri as Franco Scontentezza
1963
- The Shortest Day as Franco Lo Grugno
- Adventure at the Motel as Franco
- La donna degli altri è sempre più bella as Turiddu Macrì (segment "I Promessi Sposi")
- The Swindlers as Salvatore (segment "Siciliani")
- Target: Girls as Cassarà
- Everything is Music as Friend of Anemia
- Scandal Nudes as polizziotto Franco
1962
- The Masseuses as Franco - Nightwatchman #1
- Vino, whisky e acqua salata as cuoco
- Those Two in the Legion as Franco Cocuzza
- I motorizzati as Un ladro di gomme
- Il mio amico Benito as Terrorista
- 2 samurai per 100 geishe as Franco Santuzzo
- The Three Enemies as Fantuzzo
1961
- The Last Judgment as disoccupato
- 5 marines per 100 ragazze as factotum
- Fists, Girls and Sailors as Salvatore
- Dying as Hierarchs as Scilla
- The Honored Society as Saruzzo
- Hercules in the Valley of Woe as Francheo
1960
- The Loves of Salammbo
- Appointment in Ischia as Contrabbandiere Basso