Franco Franchi

Born: 1928-09-18

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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The Adventures of Pinocchio

as Gatto
Released: 1972-12-21

Mastro Geppetto is a poor carpenter with no wife and no children. The man is very lonely, and...

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Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs

as Franco
Released: 1966-07-29

The scheming mad scientist Dr. Goldfoot (Vincent Price) plots another mad scheme to take over...

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The Shortest Day

as Franco Lo Grugno
Released: 1963-02-14

Two jerks are enlisted in the Italian army during W.W.1 and by pure luck manage to help win an...

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The Handsome, The Ugly, And The Stupid

as Il brutto - Franco
Released: 1967-08-13

Two POWs learn of a treasure of gold hidden in a cemetery, and escape from their POW camp to...

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Those Two in the Legion

as Franco Cocuzza
Released: 1962-08-16

Ciccio and Franco flee Naples because they are wrongly accused of having murdered a local...

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Kaos

as Zi' Dima (segment "La giara")
Released: 1984-11-23

Five stories center on a werewolf, a feudal landlord, peasants, a ghost, and a mother and her sons.

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I due mafiosi

as Franco Fisichella
Released: 1964-01-15

Two clumsy mobsters on a mission in Paris.

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The Last Judgment

as disoccupato
Released: 1961-10-26

The Last Judgement (Italian: Il giudizio universale) is a 1961 commedia all'italiana film by...

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War Italian Style

as Frank Scordia
Released: 1965-11-26

It's May 1943, and two Italian American soldiers, Joe and Frank, are searching the North African...

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Ma chi t'ha dato la patente?

as Franco
Released: 1970-08-28

Franco and Ciccio are the directors of a driving school. They suffer the theft of the only car...

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Oh! Those Most Secret Agents

as Franco Passalacqua
Released: 1964-10-09

Franco and Ciccio are two simple-minded Italian guys whom are mistaken by KGB spies by...

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I due toreri

as Franco Scontentezza
Released: 1964-12-03

In Sicily Franco and Ciccio are empowered by a local mafia man to guard for a wide range of...

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Queste pazze, pazze donne

as Turiddu Macrì ('Siciliani a Milano')
Released: 1964-05-22

Four episodes preceded with a narrator in the role of psychiatrist who tells some cases of...

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The Masseuses

as Franco - Nightwatchman #1
Released: 1962-09-20

Two industry managers from Milan are in Rome to get the contract to build a YMCA hostel. They...

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The Two Parachutists

as Pasquale - Franco Impallomeni
Released: 1965-12-24

Two penniless Italian buskers want to go to the USA but get on the wrong ship and end up in...

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The Amazing Doctor G

as Franco Pecora
Released: 1965-10-15

Nefarious villain Goldginger is thwarted by bumbling secret agents Franco and Ciccio in his...

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The Nephews of Zorro

as Franco La Vacca
Released: 1968-12-12

Two fellows from Sicily go to America thinking that they will find gold . For their bad luck in...

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Caprice Italian Style

as Cassio
Released: 1968-04-13

The film consists of six short stories created by different directors, but all the stories share...

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Satiricosissimo

as Franco
Released: 1970-01-21

Ciccio loves very much the novel Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter, although his friend Franco does...

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Two Public Enemies

as Franco
Released: 1964-12-31

Two two-bit crooks get in the way of a criminal ring and cause a hold up to fail. The two flee...

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2 mattacchioni al Moulin Rouge

as Nicolino Celletti
Released: 1964-01-17

A dancer has been murdered in a striptease joint but the body seems to have disappeared.

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Mazzabubù... quante corna stanno quaggiù?

as Franco Bello
Released: 1971-02-25

During a monologue on the theme of adultery, a man reviews a series of famous and anonymous...

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Latin Lovers

as Franco
Released: 1965-08-11

The film is composed of five episodes which depict Italians' love lives in the 1960s.

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Primitive Love

as Franco
Released: 1964-09-01

"Doctor" Jayne Mansfield is in Italy to show a peer her documentary about mating customs from...

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Don Franco and Don Ciccio in a Year of Protest

as Don Franco
Released: 1970-04-16

Italy's best loved comedy duo play rival priests in the neighboring towns of Roccapizzone and...

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Un mostro e mezzo

as Franco \ Cesarone
Released: 1964-12-18

A thief steals a suitcase but it contains a corpse and the thief is sentenced, but is released...

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Scandal Nudes

as polizziotto Franco
Released: 1963-12-22

A theater manager wants to stage a striptease act but his jealous wife puts a lot of obstacles...

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The Loves of Salammbo

as uncredited
Released: 1960-03-24

During the 3rd century B.C. a horde of barbarians are hired by the Phoenian city of Carthage to...

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Avventura al motel

as Franco
Released: 1963-02-09

A series of sketches about people who have illicit affairs in a motel: among them a starlet and...

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I 2 deputati

as Franco Franchini
Released: 1969-01-01

Francesco and Franco are brothers in law but, since their respective wives can't stand each...

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All the Gold in the World

as Franco
Released: 1968-02-27

The son of a rich industrialist forces a woman to become his fiancée by threatening to bankrupt...

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Two Idiots at Fort Alamo

as Franco La Pera
Released: 1965-08-13

During the War of Succession, Franco and Ciccio are arrested for being accused of desertion from...

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On the Day of the Lord

as Carceriere
Released: 1970-03-18

Margherita nicknamed Fornarina is Raphael's mistress. Beatrice, a noblewoman who is also in love...

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I due assi del guantone

as Franco Marsala
Released: 1971-12-02

Two waiters who work in a restaurant, whose owner is a big boxing fan, pretend one of them is a...

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I due maghi del pallone

as Mago K. K
Released: 1970-12-02

The manager of a football team wants to hire a coach. Luckily the team begin to win but on the...

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Two Escape from Sing Sing

as Franco
Released: 1964-08-22

Two attendants in a public toilet in New York save the life of the Mafia boss Attanasia....

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Il Figlioccio del padrino

as Oronzo Musumeci
Released: 1973-02-01

A mafioso falls in love with his boss's daughter. Since the girl has already been widowed four...

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The World's Gold

as Franco Sparapaoli
Released: 1967-12-21

Aided by a chauffeur and a butler, a student of humble means pretends to be wealthy in order to...

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Il sergente Rompiglioni

as Francesco Garibaldi Rompiglioni
Released: 1973-12-19

A satire of army life in which a tough army sergeant who loves opera clashes with his soldiers...

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Two Sons of Ringo

as Franco Merendino / Django
Released: 1966-12-07

Another spoof from the Franco and Ciccio team in which the boys, who are running a scam...

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5 marines per 100 ragazze

as factotum
Released: 1961-08-10

Five GIs end up in a female college during their military manouvers. They are very welcome by...

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Story of Fear and a Knife

as Franco
Released: 1972-08-14

A funk is believed to be a tough guy because of a magic bowler hat which gives him courage and...

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What Are the Clouds?

as Cassio
Released: 1968-04-12

Some puppets come to life in a theater with no windows. This time the puppets interpret William...

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Corpse for the Lady

as Gianni
Released: 1964-08-19

Laura is the victim of a blackmail, asks for help to her childhood friends Renata, Marina and...

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I due Crociati

as Franco di Carrapipi
Released: 1968-08-07

Two inept crusaders almost sabotage the christians' plan to conquer Jerusalem.

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Dirty Weekend

as Person on Film #1 (Theater) (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: 1973-03-08

A man and his mistress have just taken off for a weekend romp when they're kidnapped by a trio...

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Letti sbagliati

as Franco (Segment "La seconda moglie")
Released: 1965-04-08

Four episodes: a traveler is enticed by train per bet; a professional wants to be alone with a...

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The Cat from Brooklyn Wants to Be a Detective

as Frankie Lonego
Released: 1973-01-04

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2 samurai per 100 geishe

as Franco Santuzzo
Released: 1962-09-07

Two Sicilian cousins ​​are forced to go to Japan to collect an inheritance. Once they arrive...

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as Franco
Released: 1968-01-01

Franco, an Italian fisherman, witnesses a U.S. Air Force plane crash in the Mediterranean off...

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Franco, Ciccio e il pirata Barbanera

as Franco
Released: 1969-09-19

Franco and Ciccio embark on a journey to find Pirate Flint's lost treasure, hunted by the...

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The Sons of the Leopard

as Franco / Maria Rosa
Released: 1965-04-29

Penniless Baron Tulicò, nicknamed Leopard, abandons his mistress, with whom he's had two sons,...

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Paolo il freddo

as Paolino Pastorino detto Tino
Released: 1974-04-11

A baron, nicknamed Paolo il caldo (Paul the Hot One) because of his womanizing, asks his son, on...

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I motorizzati

as Un ladro di gomme
Released: 1962-11-30

A guy is about to become the millionth citizen to buy a car in Rome. Frightened, he decides to...

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Le sette vipere (Il marito latino)

as Avvocato Franchi
Released: 1964-08-11

Lorenzo is an industrialist married in Argentina to a cruel woman who manages to have all her...

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Gli altri, gli altri e noi

as 'Occhi Svelti'
Released: 1966-10-31

An unemployed youth tries different jobs such as waiter, hairdresser, porter, salesman and when...

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I due vigili

as Franco Lo Cascio
Released: 1967-12-13

Two traffic policemen help capture a dangerous robber after unwittingly contributing to his...

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Two R-R-Ringos from Texas

as Franco Caterina
Released: 1967-08-25

A western comedy starring the Sicilian comedians Franco and Ciccio who produced dozens of such...

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Armiamoci e partite!

as Franco
Released: 1971-09-03

Franco and Ciccio work as waiters in an inn in France. The day Ciccio officially takes French...

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The Tall, The Short, The Cat

as Franco
Released: 1967-05-03

Two dim-witted servants to an elderly, wealthy woman learn that they are to inherent the late...

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The Last Italian Tango

as Franco
Released: 1973-01-01

A woman feeds her husband with scraps and gives the best food to her lover, whom she hides in...

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How We Got Into Trouble with the Army

as soldato Piscitello
Released: 1965-08-21

A sergeant finds out that a GI hides a child in the military barracks. The boy is the son of...

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Indovina chi viene a merenda?

as Franco La Rapa
Released: 1969-04-02

Sicily 1943 to avoid war, Franco and Ciccio are hiding in the mountains. Two American...

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002 Operation Moon

as Franco / Colonel Paradowsky
Released: 1965-11-25

KGB authorities abduct two criminals (Franco and Ciccio) who look exactly like missing spacemen...

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I barbieri di Sicilia

as Franco Lo Persico
Released: 1967-12-21

In a little Sicilian village two hairdressers who are in love with the same girl manage to...

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Ciccio Forgives, I Don't

as Franco
Released: 1968-09-26

Franco and Ciccio are small time horse thieves who get involved with the bandit, El Diablo, and...

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The Twelve-Handed Men of Mars

as Socio dello scrittore
Released: 1964-06-21

Four extraterrestrials, X-1, X-2, X-3 and X-4, arrive on Earth in the early sixties. Here they...

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I 2 pompieri

as Francesco Perricone
Released: 1968-10-29

The firefighter student Francesco Perricone and his cousin the brigadier Barrese fall in love...

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I due maggiolini più matti del mondo

as Franco
Released: 1970-08-29

Two Sicilian shopowners who live in Rome pick up some beatnik hitchhikers and the group...

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I tre nemici

as Fantuzzo
Released: 1962-06-23

A meek clerk is hunted by the counterespionage because he has a secret formula tattooed on his...

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Brutti di notte

as Franco / Bruto Di Notte
Released: 1968-03-14

Franco consults a psychoanalyst due to a series of nightmares that constantly haunt him. The...

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Farfallon

as Farfallon
Released: 1974-08-12

A man who has tried to kill his unfaithful wife goes to prison, escapes, ends up in a convent,...

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Stasera mi butto

as Bath attendant
Released: 1967-11-03

Summer Late sixties, Want to sing, Of Sun. Of golden skin from tanning. Of endless beaches. And...

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Sedotti e bidonati

as Franco
Released: 1964-10-14

Two rich Sicilian cousins sell their farm because they want to help two fake Siamese twins...

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Veneri in collegio

as Calogero Junior
Released: 1965-06-26

Two competing teams of paparazzi try to enter a college to get a picture of an Arab Prince's...

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I Kill, You Kill

as Turiddu (segment "Cavalleria Rusticana, oggi")
Released: 1965-03-25

Six sketches with as many ways of murdering someone, and getting away with it.

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...Scusi, ma lei le paga le tasse?

as Franco
Released: 1971-03-11

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Ma che musica maestro

as Franco, il capobanda
Released: 1971-04-06

The love story between two youths born in rival villages is hindered by the other inhabitants.

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Continuavano a chiamarli i due piloti più matti del mondo

as Franco Franchini
Released: 1972-03-08

The sons of a billionaire hijack an airplane because their father is against their love affair...

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Il mio amico Benito

as Terrorista
Released: 1962-03-03

A clerk has had a picture taken during W.W.I with the future Italian dictator Mussolini and...

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Canzoni, bulli e pupe

as Gaspare
Released: 1964-05-29

In order to promote a plumcake an adman associates with a mad scientist who has found a way to...

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Amici più di prima

as uncredited
Released: 1976-01-01

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Appuntamento a Ischia

as Contrabbandiere Basso
Released: 1960-09-26

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Crema, cioccolata e... Paprika

as Matteo
Released: 1981-08-15

Professor Bonifazi runs a luxury clinic owned by his wife.

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Ku Fu? Dalla Sicilia con furore

as Franco
Released: 1973-08-30

The Sicilian Franco is a sort of imitation of Bruce Lee that Don Vito, a Chinese expelled from...

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Two Gangsters in the Wild West

as Franco Capone / Il nonno di Franco / Francuzza l'abbandonata
Released: 1964-06-30

In the late 1800's, Sicilians Franco and Ciccio are serving 20 years of prison for stealing two...

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Franco, Ciccio and the Cheerful Widows

as Franco Marelli / Salvatore Pollara
Released: 1968-04-13

A 3-episode film starring popular comedians Franchi and Ingrassia. In the first episode, Carlo...

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L'onorata società

as Saruzzo
Released: 1961-03-30

Salvatore and Rosalino are sentenced to death by the Mafia because they are accused of having...

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Paths of War

as Franco
Released: 1970-03-26

Two Sicilian royalist soldiers flee the island in a trunk at the arrival of Garibaldi's...

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I due della F. 1 alla corsa più pazza, pazza del mondo

as Franco / Pepito Gonzales
Released: 1971-08-12

Two chaps who earn a living repairing household appliances are hired by a formula one manager...

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2 Mobsters Against Al Capone

as Franco
Released: 1966-03-04

For a misunderstanding Franco and Ciccio, two Sicilian immigrants of very limited intellectual...

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Il clan dei due Borsalini

as Franco Franchetti, il 'Professore'
Released: 1971-02-18

Italian comedy

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Two Cat O'Nine Tails… and a Half, in Amsterdam

as Franco, il fotografo
Released: 1972-10-27

Franco and Ciccio, two journalists, are sent to Amsterdam to investigate a mysterious murder....

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Blue Tango

as Gaetano Buttitta
Released: 1987-02-02

Tango blu is a night club in Milan where various bizarre characters meet. Among them a...

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How We Robbed the Bank of Italy

as Franco
Released: 1966-03-18

Dim-wits Franco and Cicco try to come up with a plan to rob the safes of the Bank of Italy, but...

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Hercules in the Valley of Woe

as Francheo
Released: 1961-10-19

Two boxing promoters travel via time machine back to the days of Hercules, who must save them...

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Pugni, pupe e marinai

as Salvatore
Released: 1961-11-17

Three sailors are sent to an island by their commander to steal a boat, but they are sunk by an...

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Soldati e caporali

as Franco
Released: 1964-12-31

The army challenges the navy in a singing contest.

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Franco e Ciccio superstars

as uncredited
Released: 1974-01-01

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The Maniacs

as Thief #1 (segment 'Il week-end)
Released: 1964-03-28

An anthology of brief comic sketches based on manias, mainly sexual, featuring several figures...

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La donna degli altri è sempre più bella

as Turiddu Macrì (segment "I Promessi Sposi")
Released: 1963-02-21

Five episodes which show Italian peoples pathological unfaithfulness in marriage.

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American Secret Service

as uncredited
Released: 1968-05-04

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I due pezzi da 90

as Franco
Released: 1971-10-28

Franco and Ciccio are forced to abandon their sausage factory to reach the godfather of Franco:...

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Vino, whisky e acqua salata

as cuoco
Released: 1962-12-07

An Italian submarine commander manages to sink an English warship and take its very British...

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Fistful of Knuckles

as Franco
Released: 1965-04-14

Franco and Ciccio mosey into the Mexican border town of Santa Genoviefa. Both are dressed in...

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Lisa with the Blue Eyes

as funzionario Centro Spaziale #1
Released: 1969-12-23

A university student, Mario Buongiovanni, tries to do various jobs to pay for his studies:...

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Gerarchi si muore

as Scilla
Released: 1961-12-22

Now in bankruptcy, the industrialist Merletti seeks the help of Mr. Frioppi, a rich ex-fascist...

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Continuavano a chiamarli... er più e er meno

as Franco Pietrasicca
Released: 1972-03-24

A penniless Prince and a petty thief become associates in a con game and when they end up in...

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I due sanculotti

as Franco La Capra
Released: 1966-08-13

The brothers Franco and Ciccio La Capra moves to France in the days of the French Revolution,...

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The Two Magnificent Fresconi

as Franco
Released: 1968-12-23

Two fearful and incapable individuals, Ciccio and Franco, are tasked by the leader of the...

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Franco e Ciccio... Ladro e Guardia

as Franco Chiappalone
Released: 1969-11-20

A cop has a cousin who is a thief, and one day while he is chasing him he ends up in a room with...

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Those Sweet Creatures

as Franco Samperi
Released: 1970-09-04

An Italo-American singer and as he arrives at the airport he is accused of being a draft dodger...

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Principe coronato cercasi per ricca ereditiera

as Principe Don Mimì
Released: 1970-08-29

A prince who has become poor accepts a marriage to the daughter of an American tycoon. The girl...

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Il giustiziere di mezzogiorno

as Franco Gabbiani
Released: 1975-03-20

Franco is abandoned by his wife and daughter who wrongly accuse him of being a wimp. Besides...

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It's a Woman's War

as Serg. Franco Samperi
Released: 1971-08-12

A girl is drafted due to a misunderstanding and this gives her the occasion to check on her...

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Dream of Zorro

as Paco / Zorro
Released: 1975-08-16

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Teatro 11

as Self
Released: 1972-05-18

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The Swindlers

as Salvatore (segment "Siciliani")
Released: 1963-09-25

A day in a tribunal where the defendants are: the manager of a soccer team, charged with...

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Due bianchi nell'Africa nera

as Franco
Released: 1970-10-28

To follow the beautiful Frida, Franco and Ciccio leave for Africa, where the adventurer...

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Veneri al sole

as Francesco Macrì (segment "Una domenica a Fregene")
Released: 1964-12-24

Three episodes: In the first one a girl gets a journalist to help her recover a case with some...

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Don Chisciotte e Sancio Panza

as Sancio Panza
Released: 1968-08-24

Comic version of the famous man of la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes in which Don Quixote having...

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Il sergente Rompiglioni diventa... caporale

as Francesco Garibaldi Rompiglioni
Released: 1975-03-27

An inept sergeant is mistaken for a secret agent and charged with finding a spy, but he is so...

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Obiettivo ragazze

as Cassarà
Released: 1963-08-05

Four former soldiers meet and reminisce about the time they were in active service: a...

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Riuscirà l'avvocato Franco Benenato a sconfiggere il suo acerrimo nemico il pretore Ciccio De Ingras?

as Franco Benenato
Released: 1971-08-19

A defense counsellor and a judge are at loggerheads and the latter thinks his liver condition...

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Le tardone

as The killer (episode "Un delitto quasi perfetto")
Released: 1964-01-29

A collection of five episodes dealing with aging women.

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Two Sons of Trinity

as Franco Trinità
Released: 1972-07-27

Franco and Ciccio are two cousins ​​who, in the old West, have opened a service station, where...

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Littlefoot the Policeman

as Franco Petralia
Released: 1974-08-13

Petralia, a Neapolitan policeman casually makes friends with Maria, a girl engaged in the...

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Il voto

as uncredited
Released: 1950-10-17

During the absence of her husband, who left for a fishing cruise in the seas of China, Carmela...

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Everything is Music

as Friend of Anemia
Released: 1963-08-18

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L'eredità dello zio buonanima

as Franco Favazza
Released: 1974-12-21

When a rich uncle dies, giving him a great inheritance, Franco will clash with other...

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I Zanzaroni

as uncredited
Released: 1967-09-08

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Easy Love

as Franco (segment "Un uomo corretto")
Released: 1964-10-03

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Domenica In

as Self
First aired: 1976-10-03

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The Adventures of Pinocchio

as Gatto
First aired: 1972-04-08

Mastro Geppetto is a poor carpenter with no wife and no children. The man is very lonely, and...

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You Jane, Me Tarzan

as Mercenary
First aired: 1989-01-01

The drama four-episode musical marked the return to Rai militancy after years of Fininvest for...

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Due ragazzi incorreggibili

as uncredited
First aired: 1976-12-11

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