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 | Crema, cioccolata e... Paprika | Matteo | 1981-08-15 |
| Movie | Il giustiziere di mezzogiorno | Franco Gabbiani | 1975-03-20 |
| Movie | Dream of Zorro | Paco / Zorro | 1975-08-16 |
| Movie | Il sergente Rompiglioni diventa... caporale | 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 | L'eredità dello zio buonanima | 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 | Continuavano a chiamarli... er più e er meno | Franco Pietrasicca | 1972-03-24 |
| Movie | Two Cat 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 | Il clan dei due 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 | Armiamoci e partite! | Franco | 1971-09-03 |
| Movie | Riuscirà l'avvocato Franco Benenato a sconfiggere il suo acerrimo nemico il pretore 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 | I due maghi del pallone | Mago K. K | 1970-12-02 |
| Movie | Ma chi t'ha dato la patente? | Franco | 1970-08-28 |
| Movie | Due bianchi nell'Africa nera | Franco | 1970-10-28 |
| Movie | I 2 deputati | Franco Franchini | 1969-01-01 |
| Movie | Indovina chi viene a merenda? | Franco La Rapa | 1969-04-02 |
| Movie | Franco, Ciccio e il pirata Barbanera | Franco | 1969-09-19 |
| Movie | Franco e Ciccio... Ladro e Guardia | Franco Chiappalone | 1969-11-20 |
| Movie | Lisa with the Blue Eyes | funzionario Centro Spaziale #1 | 1969-12-23 |
| Movie | Franco, Ciccio and the Cheerful Widows | Franco Marelli / Salvatore Pollara | 1968-04-13 |
| Movie | Caprice Italian Style | Cassio | 1968-04-13 |
| Movie | All the Gold in the World | Franco | 1968-02-27 |
| Movie | I due Crociati | Franco di Carrapipi | 1968-08-07 |
| 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 | How We Stole the Atomic Bomb | Franco | 1967-02-03 |
| Movie | Two R-R-Ringos from Texas | Franco Caterina | 1967-08-25 |
| 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 | I barbieri di Sicilia | Franco Lo Persico | 1967-12-21 |
| Movie | The World's Gold | Franco Sparapaoli | 1967-12-21 |
| Movie | 2 Mobsters Against Al Capone | Franco | 1966-03-04 |
| Movie | How We Robbed the Bank of Italy | Franco | 1966-03-18 |
| Movie | Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs | Franco | 1966-07-29 |
| Movie | Gli altri, gli altri e noi | 'Occhi Svelti' | 1966-10-31 |
| Movie | Two Sons of Ringo | Franco Merendino / Django | 1966-12-07 |
| Movie | I due sanculotti | Franco La Capra | 1966-08-13 |
| Movie | Latin Lovers | Franco | 1965-08-11 |
| Movie | Veneri in collegio | Calogero Junior | 1965-06-26 |
| Movie | Letti sbagliati | 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 Two Parachutists | Franco Impallomeni | 1965-12-24 |
| Movie | 002 Operation Moon | Franco / Colonel Paradowsky | 1965-11-25 |
| Movie | War Italian Style | Frank Scordia | 1965-11-26 |
| Movie | The Amazing Doctor G | Franco Pecora | 1965-10-15 |
| 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 | Le sette vipere (Il marito latino) | Avvocato Franchi | 1964-08-11 |
| Movie | Queste pazze, pazze donne | Turiddu Macrì ('Siciliani a Milano') | 1964-05-22 |
| Movie | Le tardone | The killer (episode "Un delitto quasi perfetto") | 1964-01-29 |
| Movie | I due mafiosi | Franco Fisichella | 1964-01-15 |
| Movie | 2 mattacchioni al Moulin Rouge | Nicolino Celletti | 1964-01-17 |
| Movie | Corpse for the Lady | Gianni | 1964-08-19 |
| Movie | The Maniacs | Thief #1 (segment 'Il week-end) | 1964-03-28 |
| Movie | Two Escape from Sing Sing | Franco | 1964-08-22 |
| Movie | Soldati e caporali | Franco | 1964-12-31 |
| Movie | Two Public Enemies | Franco | 1964-12-31 |
| Movie | Primitive Love | Franco | 1964-09-01 |
| Movie | Veneri al sole | Francesco Macrì (segment "Una domenica a Fregene") | 1964-12-24 |
| Movie | Un mostro e mezzo | Franco \ Cesarone | 1964-12-18 |
| Movie | Easy Love | Franco (segment "Un uomo corretto") | 1964-10-03 |
| Movie | Oh! Those Most Secret Agents | Franco Passalacqua | 1964-10-09 |
| Movie | Sedotti e bidonati | Franco | 1964-10-14 |
| Movie | The Shortest Day | Franco Lo Grugno | 1963-02-14 |
| Movie | La donna degli altri è sempre più bella | Turiddu Macrì (segment "I Promessi Sposi") | 1963-02-21 |
| Movie | Avventura al motel | Franco | 1963-02-09 |
| Movie | Obiettivo ragazze | 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 | I tre nemici | 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 | L'onorata società | 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 | Gerarchi si muore | Scilla | 1961-12-22 |
| Movie | The Loves of Salammbo | 1960-03-24 | |
| Movie | Appuntamento a Ischia | Contrabbandiere Basso | 1960-09-26 |