Franca Bettoia
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Franca Bettoia (or Bettoja; born 14 May 1936) is an Italian actress. Born in Rome, she made her first film appearance in Un palco all'opera (1955, by Siro Marcellini). The following year she appeared in Los amantes del desierto ("Desert Warrior", a Spanish-Italian desert epic starring Ricardo Montalban, Carmen Sevilla and Gino Cervi. She next appeared opposite Pietro Germi in L'uomo di paglia (1958), and opposite Macha Méril and Jacques Charrier in the French production La main chaude (1960, by Gérard Oury). She appeared as a nun in Apocalisse sul Fiume Giallo (The Dam on the Yellow River, 1960), an anti-Communist propaganda film which portrays the victory of Mao Zedong's People's Liberation Army as seen through the eyes of an American journalist (Georges Marchal) reporting from the side of the nationalists. In 1961, she starred opposite Alan Ladd in Orazi e Curiazi (Duel of the Champions), a sword and sandals adventure set in ancient Rome. In 1964, Bettoia co-starred with Vincent Price in the horror/science fiction film The Last Man on Earth (1964, by Ubaldo Ragone and Sidney Salkow), the first screen adaptation of Richard Matheson's novel I Am Legend. She then played a princess in the adventure films Sandokan alla riscossa (1964) and Sandokan contro il leopardo di Sarawak (1964). In 1967 she appeared as Ugo Tognazzi’s lover in the comedy Il fischio al naso (The Seventh Floor, 1967). Bettoia and Tognazzi married in 1972. They had a had a daughter, film director Maria Sole Tognazzi. Bettoia acted in only three more films after Il fischio al naso. In the comedy Riusciranno i nostri eroi a ritrovare l'amico misteriosamente scomparso in Africa? (1968, by Ettore Scola) she starred alongside Alberto Sordi and Bernard Blier. In Touche pas à la femme blanche (Don’t Touch the White Woman, directed by Marco Ferreri in 1974) she starred alongside Catherine Deneuve, Marcello Mastroianni and Michel Piccoli. Her last film, Teste rasate (1993) is a drama about skinheads, in which her son, Gianmarco Tognazzi, plays the lead role. Description above from the Wikipedia article Franca Bettoia, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
The Last Man on Earth
as Ruth CollinsWhen a disease turns all of humanity into the living dead, the last man on earth becomes a...
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Will Our Heroes Be Able to Find Their Friend Who Has Mysteriously Disappeared in Africa?
as Rita Di SalvioA rich businessman is fed up with work, family, society, and goes with his accountant to Africa,...
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Don't Touch the White Woman!
as Rayon de Lune (as Franca Bettoja)A highly stylized surreal farce about the events leading up to Custer's Last Stand...
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Return of Sandokan
as SamoaSamoa is kidnapped and held captive hypnotized in caves by her cousin Charles Druk, whose father...
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Attack of the Normans
as Queen PatriciaAn evil duke kidnaps the good king and tries to make the virtuous queen his bride and the...
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The Dialogue of the Carmelites
as uncreditedThis drama about the Carmelite order of nuns is set during the French Revolution. A young woman...
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Sandokan Fights Back
as SamoaWhen Sandokan learns he is the rightful heir to the throne of Malaysia, he immediately sets off...
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The Lion of St. Mark
as Isabella FieschiIn 1620 pirates are terrorizing the Adriatic coast. Our hero sets out to defeat them.
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Desert Warrior
as SuleikaOmar Sultan's army has been defeated. However, Prince Said, son of the Sultan died, encourages...
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Skinheads
as Roberta22-year-old Marco leads an aimless life in Rome's suburbs. One day he meets skinhead Saverio,...
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Duel of Champions
as MarciaA Roman nobleman, Horatius leads an imperial legion during the long and bloody war between the...
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Ultimatum alla vita
as Mara BerriWomen held in prison by the Nazi's in Italy during WW2.
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Nights of the Teddy Boys
as Orietta FantoniAn Italian drama directed by Leopoldo Savona.
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The Dam on the Yellow River
as Schwester CelesteAnti-Communist propaganda film, in which the victory of Mao Tse-Tung's People's Liberation Army...
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So Much Love Lost
as AnnieHere's a railway station. Next to it, there's generally a town; and in a town,there is love! The...
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Kolossal - The Magnificent Macisti
as Samoa (archive footage)A documentary on the history of Italy's peplum genre.
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Day by Day, Desperately
as MarcellaThe mental illness affecting young Dario, one of the two sons of the Dominici family living in a...
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The Itchy Palm
as ChristianeA widow in her fifties,Madame Lacoste ,meets Jean when they both come to put their pussy in a...
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Il fischio al naso
as GiovannaIn this unusual offbeat black comedy directed by Ugo Tognazzi, Giuseppe (Tognazzi) is a...
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Man of Straw
as RitaAndrea Zaccardi has returned home from hunting. He and his wife Luisa are very close. Their...
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