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
- The Sergeant Rompiglioni Becomes... Corporal as Francesco Garibaldi Rompiglioni
- Dream of Zorro as Paco / Zorro
1974
- Paolo the Cool as Paolino Pastorino detto Tino
- Farfallon as Farfallon
- The Inheritance of Uncle Goodsoul as Franco Favazza
- Littlefoot the Policeman as Franco Petralia
- Franco e Ciccio superstars
1973
- Dirty Weekend as Person on Film #1 (Theater) (archive footage) (uncredited)
- The Cat from Brooklyn Wants to Be a Detective as Frankie Lonego
- The Last Italian Tango as Franco
- Ku Fu? Dalla Sicilia con furore as Franco
- The Godfather's Godson as Oronzo Musumeci
- Il sergente Rompiglioni as Francesco Garibaldi Rompiglioni
- 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
- Story of Fear and a Knife as Franco
- They Were Still Called... The Most and the Least as Franco Pietrasicca
- Teatro 11 as Self
- The Two Big Cats O'Nine Tails... and a Half in Amsterdam as Franco, il fotografo
1971
- Mazzabubù... quante corna stanno quaggiù? as Franco Bello
- I due assi del guantone as Franco Marsala
- Ma che musica maestro as Franco, il capobanda
- Let's Arm Ourselves and Go! as Franco
- 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'
- 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
- Satiricosissimo as Franco
- Who Gave You the License? as Franco
- Those Sweet Creatures as Franco Samperi
- On the Day of the Lord as Carceriere
- Don Franco and Don Ciccio in a Year of Protest as Don Franco
- Paths of War as Franco
- Principe coronato cercasi per ricca ereditiera as Principe Don Mimì
- Two Whites in Dark Africa as Franco
- I due maggiolini più matti del mondo as Franco
1969
- Lisa with the Blue Eyes as funzionario Centro Spaziale #1
- I 2 deputati as Franco Franchini
- 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
- Caprice Italian Style as Cassio
- Don Chisciotte e Sancio Panza as Sancio Panza
- Ugly at Night as Franco / Bruto Di Notte
- How We Stole the Atomic Bomb as Franco
- What Are the Clouds? as Cassio
- Ciccio Forgives, I Don't as Franco
- Two Firefighters as Francesco Perricone
- Franco, Ciccio and the Cheerful Widows as Franco Marelli / Salvatore Pollara
- The Two Magnificent Fresconi as Franco
- The Nephews of Zorro as Franco La Vacca
- All the Gold in the World as Franco
- I due Crociati as Franco di Carrapipi
- American Secret Service
1967
- The World's Gold as Franco Sparapaoli
- The Handsome, The Ugly, And The Stupid as Il brutto - Franco
- The Tall, The Short, The Cat as 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
- The Sicily Barbers as Franco Lo Persico
- I Zanzaroni
1966
- Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs as Franco
- Two Sons of Ringo as Franco Merendino / Django
- 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'
- The Two Sans-culottes as Franco La Capra
1965
- War Italian Style as Frank Scordia
- The Amazing Doctor G as Franco Pecora
- Latin Lovers as Franco
- Wrong Beds as Franco (Segment "La seconda moglie")
- Fistful of Knuckles as Franco
- The Two Parachutists as Pasquale - Franco Impallomeni
- I Kill, You Kill as Turiddu (segment "Cavalleria Rusticana, oggi")
- 002 Operation Moon as Franco / Colonel Paradowsky
- The Sons of the Leopard as Franco / Maria Rosa
- How We Got Into Trouble with the Army as soldato Piscitello
- Two Idiots at Fort Alamo as Franco La Pera
- Veneri in collegio as Calogero Junior
1964
- The Twelve-Handed Men of Mars as Socio dello scrittore
- Easy Love as Franco (segment "Un uomo corretto")
- Oh! Those Most Secret Agents as Franco Passalacqua
- Songs, Bullies and Chicks as Gaspare
- Two Gangsters in the Wild West as Franco Capone / Il nonno di Franco / Francuzza l'abbandonata
- Two Public Enemies as Franco
- The Two Mafiosi as Franco Fisichella
- Two Escape from Sing Sing as Franco
- Corpse for the Lady as Gianni
- 2 mattacchioni al Moulin Rouge as Nicolino Celletti
- The Maniacs as Thief #1 (segment 'Il week-end)
- Soldiers and corporals as Franco
- The Seven Vipers (The Latin Husband) as Avvocato Franchi
- Seduced and Duped as Franco
- These Mad, Mad Women as Turiddu Macrì ('Siciliani a Milano')
- Primitive Love as Franco
- Le tardone as The killer (episode "Un delitto quasi perfetto")
- Venus in the Sun as Francesco Macrì (segment "Una domenica a Fregene")
- A Monster and a Half as Franco \ Cesarone
- I due toreri as Franco Scontentezza
1963
- The Shortest Day as Franco Lo Grugno
- La donna degli altri è sempre più bella as Turiddu Macrì (segment "I Promessi Sposi")
- The Swindlers as Salvatore (segment "Siciliani")
- Adventure at the Motel as Franco
- Target: Girls as Cassarà
- Everything is Music as Friend of Anemia
- Scandal Nudes as polizziotto Franco
1962
- The Masseuses as Franco - Nightwatchman #1
- I motorizzati as Un ladro di gomme
- Vino, whisky e acqua salata as cuoco
- Those Two in the Legion as Franco Cocuzza
- 2 samurai per 100 geishe as Franco Santuzzo
- The Three Enemies as Fantuzzo
- Il mio amico Benito as Terrorista
1961
- The Last Judgment as disoccupato
- 5 marines per 100 ragazze as factotum
- The Honored Society as Saruzzo
- Hercules in the Valley of Woe as Francheo
- Fists, Girls and Sailors as Salvatore
- Dying as Hierarchs as Scilla
1960
- The Loves of Salammbo
- Appointment in Ischia as Contrabbandiere Basso