Franco Franchi

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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.

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Known For

The Adventures of Pinocchio

Gatto

Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs

Franco

Kaos

Zi' Dima (segment "La giara")

Caprice Italian Style

Cassio

The Last Judgment

disoccupato

The Handsome, The Ugly, And The Stupid

Il brutto - Franco

The Amazing Doctor G

Franco Pecora

Ku Fu? Dalla Sicilia con furore

Franco

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Year	Title	Role
2022	An Oral History of: The Name of the Rose MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2004	How We Got the Italian Movie Business Into Trouble: The True Story of Franco and Ciccio MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
1989	You Jane, Me Tarzan TV	Mercenary
1987	Blue Tango MOVIE	Gaetano Buttitta
1985	Buona Domenica TV	Partecipazione
1984	Kaos MOVIE	Zi' Dima (segment "La giara")
1984	Kaos TV	Self
1983	Uno storico pasticcio MOVIE	Franco
1981	Cream, Chocolate and... Paprika MOVIE	Matteo
1976	Due ragazzi incorreggibili TV	Self
1976	Domenica In TV	Self
1976	Friends More Than Before MOVIE	Self
1975	Dream of Zorro MOVIE	Paco / Zorro
1975	The Sergeant Rompiglioni Becomes... Corporal MOVIE	Francesco Garibaldi Rompiglioni
1975	The Noon Vigilante MOVIE	Franco Gabbiani
1974	The Inheritance of Uncle Goodsoul MOVIE	Franco Favazza
1974	Littlefoot the Policeman MOVIE	Franco Petralia
1974	Farfallon MOVIE	Farfallon
1974	Paolo the Cool MOVIE	Paolino Pastorino detto Tino
1974	Franco e Ciccio superstars MOVIE	Self
1973	Il sergente Rompiglioni MOVIE	Francesco Garibaldi Rompiglioni
1973	Il cortile degli Aragonesi MOVIE	Nofriu
1973	Ku Fu? Dalla Sicilia con furore MOVIE	Franco
1973	Dirty Weekend MOVIE	Person on Film #1 (Theater) (archive footage) (uncredited)
1973	The Godfather's Godson MOVIE	Oronzo Musumeci
1973	The Cat from Brooklyn Wants to Be a Detective MOVIE	Frankie Lonego
1973	The Last Italian Tango MOVIE	Franco
1972	The Adventures of Pinocchio MOVIE	Gatto
1972	The Two Big Cats O'Nine Tails... and a Half in Amsterdam MOVIE	Franco, il fotografo
1972	Story of Fear and a Knife MOVIE	Franco
1972	Two Sons of Trinity MOVIE	Franco Trinità
1972	Teatro 11 MOVIE	Self
1972	The Adventures of Pinocchio TV	Gatto
1972	They Were Still Called... The Most and the Least MOVIE	Franco Pietrasicca
1972	Continuavano a chiamarli i due piloti più matti del mondo MOVIE	Franco Franchini
1971	I due assi del guantone MOVIE	Franco Marsala
1971	The Two Big Shots MOVIE	Franco
1971	Let's Arm Ourselves and Go! MOVIE	Franco
1971	Will the Lawyer Franco Benenato Be Able to Defeat his Arch Enemy the Magistrate Ciccio De Ingras? MOVIE	Franco Benenato
1971	The Two of the F. 1 at the Craziest, Craziest Race in the World MOVIE	Franco / Pepito Gonzales
1971	It's a Woman's War MOVIE	Serg. Franco Samperi
1971	Ma che musica maestro MOVIE	Franco, il capobanda
1971	...Excuse Me, Do You Pay Taxes? MOVIE	Franco
1971	Mazzabubù... quante corna stanno quaggiù? MOVIE	Franco Bello
1971	The Clan of the Two Borsalini MOVIE	Franco Franchetti, il 'Professore'
1970	The Two Wizards of the Ball MOVIE	Mago K. K
1970	Two Whites in Dark Africa MOVIE	Franco
1970	Those Sweet Creatures MOVIE	Franco Samperi
1970	Principe coronato cercasi per ricca ereditiera MOVIE	Principe Don Mimì
1970	I due maggiolini più matti del mondo MOVIE	Franco
1970	Who Gave You the License? MOVIE	Franco
1970	Don Franco and Don Ciccio in a Year of Protest MOVIE	Don Franco
1970	Paths of War MOVIE	Franco
1970	On the Day of the Lord MOVIE	Carceriere
1970	Satiricosissimo MOVIE	Franco
1969	Lisa with the Blue Eyes MOVIE	funzionario Centro Spaziale #1
1969	Franco and Ciccio... Robber and Cop MOVIE	Franco Chiappalone
1969	Franco, Ciccio and the Pirate Blackbeard MOVIE	Franco
1969	Guess Who's Coming for a Snack? MOVIE	Franco La Rapa
1969	I 2 deputati MOVIE	Franco Franchini
1968	The Two Magnificent Fresconi MOVIE	Franco
1968	The Nephews of Zorro MOVIE	Franco La Vacca
1968	Two Firefighters MOVIE	Francesco Perricone
1968	Ciccio Forgives, I Don't MOVIE	Franco
1968	Don Chisciotte e Sancio Panza MOVIE	Sancio Panza
1968	I due Crociati MOVIE	Franco di Carrapipi
1968	American Secret Service MOVIE	Self
1968	Franco, Ciccio and the Cheerful Widows MOVIE	Franco Marelli / Salvatore Pollara
1968	Caprice Italian Style MOVIE	Cassio
1968	What Are the Clouds? MOVIE	Cassio
1968	Ugly at Night MOVIE	Franco / Bruto Di Notte
1968	All the Gold in the World MOVIE	Franco
1968	How We Stole the Atomic Bomb MOVIE	Franco
1967	The World's Gold MOVIE	Franco Sparapaoli
1967	The Sicily Barbers MOVIE	Franco Lo Persico
1967	I due vigili MOVIE	Franco Lo Cascio
1967	Tonight I'll Throw Me MOVIE	Bath attendant
1967	I Zanzaroni MOVIE	Self
1967	Two R-R-Ringos from Texas MOVIE	Franco Caterina
1967	The Handsome, The Ugly, And The Stupid MOVIE	Il brutto - Franco
1967	The Tall, The Short, The Cat MOVIE	Franco
1966	Two Sons of Ringo MOVIE	Franco Merendino / Django
1966	Gli altri, gli altri e noi MOVIE	'Occhi Svelti'
1966	The Two Sans-culottes MOVIE	Franco La Capra
1966	Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs MOVIE	Franco
1966	How We Robbed the Bank of Italy MOVIE	Franco
1966	2 Mobsters Against Al Capone MOVIE	Franco
1965	The Two Parachutists MOVIE	Pasquale - Franco Impallomeni
1965	War Italian Style MOVIE	Frank Scordia
1965	002 Operation Moon MOVIE	Franco / Colonel Paradowsky
1965	The Amazing Doctor G MOVIE	Franco Pecora
1965	How We Got Into Trouble with the Army MOVIE	soldato Piscitello
1965	Two Idiots at Fort Alamo MOVIE	Franco La Pera
1965	Latin Lovers MOVIE	Franco
1965	Veneri in collegio MOVIE	Calogero Junior
1965	The Sons of the Leopard MOVIE	Franco / Maria Rosa
1965	Fistful of Knuckles MOVIE	Franco
1965	Wrong Beds MOVIE	Franco (Segment "La seconda moglie")
1965	I Kill, You Kill MOVIE	Turiddu (segment "Cavalleria Rusticana, oggi")
1964	Two Public Enemies MOVIE	Franco
1964	Soldiers and corporals MOVIE	Franco
1964	Venus in the Sun MOVIE	Francesco Macrì (segment "Una domenica a Fregene")
1964	A Monster and a Half MOVIE	Franco \ Cesarone
1964	I due toreri MOVIE	Franco Scontentezza
1964	Seduced and Duped MOVIE	Franco
1964	Oh! Those Most Secret Agents MOVIE	Franco Passalacqua
1964	Easy Love MOVIE	Franco (segment "Un uomo corretto")
1964	Primitive Love MOVIE	Franco
1964	Two Escape from Sing Sing MOVIE	Franco
1964	Corpse for the Lady MOVIE	Gianni
1964	The Seven Vipers (The Latin Husband) MOVIE	Avvocato Franchi
1964	Two Gangsters in the Wild West MOVIE	Franco Capone / Il nonno di Franco / Francuzza l'abbandonata
1964	The Twelve-Handed Men of Mars MOVIE	Socio dello scrittore
1964	Songs, Bullies and Chicks MOVIE	Gaspare
1964	These Mad, Mad Women MOVIE	Turiddu Macrì ('Siciliani a Milano')
1964	The Maniacs MOVIE	Thief #1 (segment 'Il week-end)
1964	Le tardone MOVIE	The killer (episode "Un delitto quasi perfetto")
1964	2 mattacchioni al Moulin Rouge MOVIE	Nicolino Celletti
1964	The Two Mafiosi MOVIE	Franco Fisichella
1963	Scandal Nudes MOVIE	polizziotto Franco
1963	The Swindlers MOVIE	Salvatore (segment "Siciliani")
1963	Everything is Music MOVIE	Friend of Anemia
1963	Target: Girls MOVIE	Cassarà
1963	La donna degli altri è sempre più bella MOVIE	Turiddu Macrì (segment "I Promessi Sposi")
1963	The Shortest Day MOVIE	Franco Lo Grugno
1963	Adventure at the Motel MOVIE	Franco
1962	Vino, whisky e acqua salata MOVIE	cuoco
1962	I motorizzati MOVIE	Un ladro di gomme
1962	The Masseuses MOVIE	Franco - Nightwatchman #1
1962	2 samurai per 100 geishe MOVIE	Franco Santuzzo
1962	Those Two in the Legion MOVIE	Franco Cocuzza
1962	The Three Enemies MOVIE	Fantuzzo
1962	Il mio amico Benito MOVIE	Terrorista
1961	Dying as Hierarchs MOVIE	Scilla
1961	Fists, Girls and Sailors MOVIE	Salvatore
1961	The Last Judgment MOVIE	disoccupato
1961	Hercules in the Valley of Woe MOVIE	Francheo
1961	5 marines per 100 ragazze MOVIE	factotum
1961	The Honored Society MOVIE	Saruzzo
1960	Appointment in Ischia MOVIE	Contrabbandiere Basso
1960	The Loves of Salammbo MOVIE	Self
1950	The Promise MOVIE	Self

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