Franco Franchi
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.
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- Born:
- Sep 18, 1928 In Palermo, Sicily, Italy
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 108
- First Appeared:
- In the movie The Loves of Salammbo 1960-03-24
- Latest Project:
- Movie How We Got the Italian Movie Business Into Trouble: The True Story of Franco and Ciccio 2004-09-24
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | How We Got the Italian Movie Business Into Trouble: The True Story of Franco and Ciccio | Self (archive footage) | 2004-09-24 |
| Movie | Blue Tango | Gaetano Buttitta | 1987-02-02 |
| Movie | Kaos | Zi' Dima (segment "La giara") | 1984-11-23 |
| Movie | Cream, Chocolate and... Paprika | Matteo | 1981-08-15 |
| Movie | The Noon Vigilante | Franco Gabbiani | 1975-03-20 |
| Movie | Dream of Zorro | Paco / Zorro | 1975-08-16 |
| Movie | The Sergeant Rompiglioni Becomes... Corporal | Francesco Garibaldi Rompiglioni | 1975-03-27 |
| Movie | Paolo il freddo | Paolino Pastorino detto Tino | 1974-04-11 |
| Movie | Farfallon | Farfallon | 1974-08-12 |
| Movie | Franco e Ciccio superstars | 1974-01-01 | |
| Movie | Littlefoot the Policeman | Franco Petralia | 1974-08-13 |
| Movie | The Inheritance of Uncle Goodsoul | Franco Favazza | 1974-12-21 |
| Movie | The Cat from Brooklyn Wants to Be a Detective | Frankie Lonego | 1973-01-04 |
| Movie | Dirty Weekend | Person on Film #1 (Theater) (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1973-03-08 |
| Movie | The Last Italian Tango | Franco | 1973-01-01 |
| Movie | Ku Fu? Dalla Sicilia con furore | Franco | 1973-08-30 |
| Movie | Il sergente Rompiglioni | Francesco Garibaldi Rompiglioni | 1973-12-19 |
| Movie | Continuavano a chiamarli i due piloti più matti del mondo | Franco Franchini | 1972-03-08 |
| Movie | They Were Still Called... The Most and the Least | Franco Pietrasicca | 1972-03-24 |
| Movie | The Two Big Cats O'Nine Tails... and a Half in Amsterdam | Franco, il fotografo | 1972-10-27 |
| Movie | The Adventures of Pinocchio | Gatto | 1972-12-21 |
| Movie | Mazzabubù... quante corna stanno quaggiù? | Franco Bello | 1971-02-25 |
| Movie | It's a Woman's War | Serg. Franco Samperi | 1971-08-12 |
| Movie | The Clan of the Two Borsalini | Franco Franchetti, il 'Professore' | 1971-02-18 |
| Movie | Ma che musica maestro | Franco, il capobanda | 1971-04-06 |
| Movie | I due assi del guantone | Franco Marsala | 1971-12-02 |
| Movie | Let's Arm Ourselves and Go! | Franco | 1971-09-21 |
| Movie | Will the Lawyer Franco Benenato Be Able to Defeat his Arch Enemy the Magistrate Ciccio De Ingras? | Franco Benenato | 1971-08-19 |
| Movie | On the Day of the Lord | Carceriere | 1970-03-18 |
| Movie | Satiricosissimo | Franco | 1970-01-21 |
| Movie | Don Franco and Don Ciccio in a Year of Protest | Don Franco | 1970-04-16 |
| Movie | Those Sweet Creatures | Franco Samperi | 1970-09-04 |
| Movie | The Two Wizards of the Ball | Mago K. K | 1970-12-02 |
| Movie | Who Gave You the License? | Franco | 1970-08-28 |
| Movie | Two Whites in Dark Africa | Franco | 1970-10-28 |
| Movie | I 2 deputati | Franco Franchini | 1969-01-01 |
| Movie | Franco, Ciccio and the Pirate Blackbeard | Franco | 1969-09-19 |
| Movie | Guess Who's Coming for a Snack? | Franco La Rapa | 1969-04-02 |
| Movie | Lisa with the Blue Eyes | funzionario Centro Spaziale #1 | 1969-12-23 |
| Movie | Franco and Ciccio... Robber and Cop | Franco Chiappalone | 1969-11-20 |
| Movie | Franco, Ciccio and the Cheerful Widows | Franco Marelli / Salvatore Pollara | 1968-04-13 |
| Movie | Caprice Italian Style | Cassio | 1968-04-13 |
| Movie | How We Stole the Atomic Bomb | Franco | 1968-01-01 |
| Movie | I due Crociati | Franco di Carrapipi | 1968-08-07 |
| Movie | All the Gold in the World | Franco | 1968-02-27 |
| Movie | Don Chisciotte e Sancio Panza | Sancio Panza | 1968-08-24 |
| Movie | The Two Magnificent Fresconi | Franco | 1968-12-23 |
| Movie | The Nephews of Zorro | Franco La Vacca | 1968-12-12 |
| Movie | I 2 pompieri | Francesco Perricone | 1968-10-29 |
| Movie | Ciccio Forgives, I Don't | Franco | 1968-09-26 |
| Movie | The Handsome, The Ugly, And The Stupid | Il brutto - Franco | 1967-08-13 |
| Movie | I due vigili | Franco Lo Cascio | 1967-12-13 |
| Movie | Two R-R-Ringos from Texas | Franco Caterina | 1967-08-25 |
| Movie | The World's Gold | Franco Sparapaoli | 1967-12-21 |
| Movie | The Sicily Barbers | Franco Lo Persico | 1967-12-21 |
| Movie | 2 Mobsters Against Al Capone | Franco | 1966-03-04 |
| Movie | Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs | Franco | 1966-07-29 |
| Movie | How We Robbed the Bank of Italy | Franco | 1966-03-18 |
| Movie | The Two Sans-culottes | Franco La Capra | 1966-08-13 |
| Movie | Gli altri, gli altri e noi | 'Occhi Svelti' | 1966-10-31 |
| Movie | Two Sons of Ringo | Franco Merendino / Django | 1966-12-07 |
| Movie | Latin Lovers | Franco | 1965-08-11 |
| Movie | Veneri in collegio | Calogero Junior | 1965-06-26 |
| Movie | Wrong Beds | Franco (Segment "La seconda moglie") | 1965-04-08 |
| Movie | Two Idiots at Fort Alamo | Franco La Pera | 1965-08-13 |
| Movie | The Sons of the Leopard | Franco / Maria Rosa | 1965-04-29 |
| Movie | How We Got Into Trouble with the Army | soldato Piscitello | 1965-08-21 |
| Movie | The Amazing Doctor G | Franco Pecora | 1965-10-15 |
| Movie | War Italian Style | Frank Scordia | 1965-11-26 |
| Movie | The Two Parachutists | Pasquale - Franco Impallomeni | 1965-12-24 |
| Movie | 002 Operation Moon | Franco / Colonel Paradowsky | 1965-11-25 |
| Movie | The Twelve-Handed Men of Mars | Socio dello scrittore | 1964-06-21 |
| Movie | Two Gangsters in the Wild West | Franco Capone / Il nonno di Franco / Francuzza l'abbandonata | 1964-06-30 |
| Movie | Queste pazze, pazze donne | Turiddu Macrì ('Siciliani a Milano') | 1964-05-22 |
| Movie | The Seven Vipers (The Latin Husband) | Avvocato Franchi | 1964-08-11 |
| Movie | 2 mattacchioni al Moulin Rouge | Nicolino Celletti | 1964-01-17 |
| Movie | The Two Mafiosi | Franco Fisichella | 1964-01-15 |
| Movie | Le tardone | The killer (episode "Un delitto quasi perfetto") | 1964-01-29 |
| Movie | The Maniacs | Thief #1 (segment 'Il week-end) | 1964-03-28 |
| Movie | Corpse for the Lady | Gianni | 1964-08-19 |
| Movie | Soldati e caporali | Franco | 1964-12-31 |
| Movie | Two Public Enemies | Franco | 1964-12-31 |
| Movie | Two Escape from Sing Sing | Franco | 1964-08-22 |
| Movie | Venus in the Sun | Francesco Macrì (segment "Una domenica a Fregene") | 1964-12-24 |
| Movie | A Monster and a Half | Franco \ Cesarone | 1964-12-18 |
| Movie | Primitive Love | Franco | 1964-09-01 |
| Movie | Easy Love | Franco (segment "Un uomo corretto") | 1964-10-03 |
| Movie | Oh! Those Most Secret Agents | Franco Passalacqua | 1964-10-09 |
| Movie | Seduced and Duped | Franco | 1964-10-14 |
| Movie | Adventure at the Motel | Franco | 1963-02-09 |
| Movie | La donna degli altri è sempre più bella | Turiddu Macrì (segment "I Promessi Sposi") | 1963-02-21 |
| Movie | The Shortest Day | Franco Lo Grugno | 1963-02-14 |
| Movie | Target: Girls | Cassarà | 1963-08-05 |
| Movie | Scandal Nudes | polizziotto Franco | 1963-12-22 |
| Movie | The Swindlers | Salvatore (segment "Siciliani") | 1963-09-25 |
| Movie | Il mio amico Benito | Terrorista | 1962-03-03 |
| Movie | Those Two in the Legion | Franco Cocuzza | 1962-08-16 |
| Movie | The Three Enemies | Fantuzzo | 1962-06-23 |
| Movie | 2 samurai per 100 geishe | Franco Santuzzo | 1962-09-07 |
| Movie | I motorizzati | Un ladro di gomme | 1962-11-30 |
| Movie | The Masseuses | Franco - Nightwatchman #1 | 1962-09-20 |
| Movie | The Honored Society | Saruzzo | 1961-03-30 |
| Movie | 5 marines per 100 ragazze | factotum | 1961-08-10 |
| Movie | The Last Judgment | disoccupato | 1961-10-26 |
| Movie | Hercules in the Valley of Woe | Francheo | 1961-10-19 |
| Movie | Dying as Hierarchs | Scilla | 1961-12-22 |
| Movie | The Loves of Salammbo | 1960-03-24 | |
| Movie | Appointment in Ischia | Contrabbandiere Basso | 1960-09-26 |