Franco Franchi
Date of birth: 1928-09-18
Place of birth: Palermo, Sicily, Italy
Known for: Acting
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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 Two Wizards of the Ball
1970-12-02
The manager of a football team wants to hire a coach. Luckily the team begin to win but on the eve o
Two Gangsters in the Wild West
1964-06-30
In the late 1800's, Sicilians Franco and Ciccio are serving 20 years of prison for stealing two mule
Teatro 11
1972-05-18
How We Got the Italian Movie Business Into Trouble: The True Story of Franco and Ciccio
2004-09-24
Kaos
1984-11-23
Five stories center on a werewolf, a feudal landlord, peasants, a ghost, and a mother and her sons.
Fists, Girls and Sailors
1961-11-17
Three sailors are sent to an island by their commander to steal a boat, but they are sunk by an enem
Tonight I'll Throw Me
1967-11-03
Summer Late sixties, Want to sing, Of Sun. Of golden skin from tanning. Of endless beaches. And rela
Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs
1966-07-29
The scheming mad scientist Dr. Goldfoot (Vincent Price) plots another mad scheme to take over the wo
Two Sons of Trinity
1972-07-27
Franco and Ciccio are two cousins ​​who, in the old West, have opened a service station, where they
Il mio amico Benito
1962-03-03
A clerk has had a picture taken during W.W.I with the future Italian dictator Mussolini and tries to
Principe coronato cercasi per ricca ereditiera
1970-08-29
A prince who has become poor accepts a marriage to the daughter of an American tycoon. The girl is o
I due maggiolini più matti del mondo
1970-08-29
Two Sicilian shopowners who live in Rome pick up some beatnik hitchhikers and the group gate-crashes
Don Chisciotte e Sancio Panza
1968-08-24
Comic version of the famous man of la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes in which Don Quixote having read
2 mattacchioni al Moulin Rouge
1964-01-17
A dancer has been murdered in a striptease joint but the body seems to have disappeared.
Uno storico pasticcio
1983-01-01
Franco and Ciccio in "Uno storico pasticcio" is a 2000 montage film conceived and directed by Bruno
They Were Still Called... The Most and the Least
1972-03-24
A penniless Prince and a petty thief become associates in a con game and when they end up in prison,
Farfallon
1974-08-12
A man who has tried to kill his unfaithful wife goes to prison, escapes, ends up in a convent, teach
Two Sons of Ringo
1966-12-07
Another spoof from the Franco and Ciccio team in which the boys, who are running a scam pretending t
The Two Sans-culottes
1966-08-13
The brothers Franco and Ciccio La Capra moves to France in the days of the French Revolution, puttin
Don Franco and Don Ciccio in a Year of Protest
1970-04-16
Italy's best loved comedy duo play rival priests in the neighboring towns of Roccapizzone and San An
2 Mobsters Against Al Capone
1966-03-04
For a misunderstanding Franco and Ciccio, two Sicilian immigrants of very limited intellectual facul
Let's Arm Ourselves and Go!
1971-09-21
Franco and Ciccio work as waiters in an inn in France. The day Ciccio officially takes French citize
Dying as Hierarchs
1961-12-22
Now in bankruptcy, the industrialist Merletti seeks the help of Mr. Frioppi, a rich ex-fascist with
I 2 deputati
1969-01-01
Francesco and Franco are brothers in law but, since their respective wives can't stand each other, a
The Sergeant Rompiglioni Becomes... Corporal
1975-03-27
An inept sergeant is mistaken for a secret agent and charged with finding a spy, but he is so stupid
5 marines per 100 ragazze
1961-08-10
Five GIs end up in a female college during their military manouvers. They are very welcome by the gi
The Nephews of Zorro
1968-12-12
Two fellows from Sicily go to America thinking that they will find gold . For their bad luck in Cali
Guess Who's Coming for a Snack?
1969-04-02
Sicily 1943 to avoid war, Franco and Ciccio are hiding in the mountains. Two American paratroopers s
Franco, Ciccio and the Cheerful Widows
1968-04-13
A 3-episode film starring popular comedians Franchi and Ingrassia. In the first episode, Carlo and O
Those Two in the Legion
1962-08-16
Ciccio and Franco flee Naples because they are wrongly accused of having murdered a local camorra bo
The Swindlers
1963-09-25
A day in a tribunal where the defendants are: the manager of a soccer team, charged with bribery, tw
The Masseuses
1962-09-20
Two industry managers from Milan are in Rome to get the contract to build a YMCA hostel. They get in
Two Escape from Sing Sing
1964-08-22
Two attendants in a public toilet in New York save the life of the Mafia boss Attanasia. Attanasia t
How We Robbed the Bank of Italy
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 with
Two Public Enemies
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 to Pa
The Tall, The Short, The Cat
1967-05-03
Two dim-witted servants to an elderly, wealthy woman learn that they are to inherent the late woman'
Who Gave You the License?
1970-08-28
Franco and Ciccio are the directors of a driving school. They suffer the theft of the only car they
002 Operation Moon
1965-11-25
KGB authorities abduct two criminals (Franco and Ciccio) who look exactly like missing spacemen and
Two Idiots at Fort Alamo
1965-08-13
During the War of Succession, Franco and Ciccio are arrested for being accused of desertion from the
Blue Tango
1987-02-02
Tango blu is a night club in Milan where various bizarre characters meet. Among them a womanizing ph
The Shortest Day
1963-02-14
Two jerks are enlisted in the Italian army during W.W.1 and by pure luck manage to help win an impor
Those Sweet Creatures
1970-09-04
An Italo-American singer and as he arrives at the airport he is accused of being a draft dodger and
Seduced and Duped
1964-10-14
Two rich Sicilian cousins sell their farm because they want to help two fake Siamese twins separate
I due vigili
1967-12-13
Two traffic policemen help capture a dangerous robber after unwittingly contributing to his making o
Ciccio Forgives, I Don't
1968-09-26
Franco and Ciccio are small time horse thieves who get involved with the bandit, El Diablo, and two
Two R-R-Ringos from Texas
1967-08-25
A western comedy starring the Sicilian comedians Franco and Ciccio who produced dozens of such spoof
Scandal Nudes
1963-12-22
A theater manager wants to stage a striptease act but his jealous wife puts a lot of obstacles on hi
The Handsome, The Ugly, And The Stupid
1967-08-13
Two POWs learn of a treasure of gold hidden in a cemetery, and escape from their POW camp to look fo
La donna degli altri è sempre più bella
1963-02-21
Five episodes which show Italian peoples pathological unfaithfulness in marriage.
Primitive Love
1964-09-01
"Doctor" Jayne Mansfield is in Italy to show a peer her documentary about mating customs from around
Paolo the Cool
1974-04-11
A baron, nicknamed Paolo il caldo (Paul the Hot One) because of his womanizing, asks his son, on his
2 samurai per 100 geishe
1962-09-07
Two Sicilian cousins ​​are forced to go to Japan to collect an inheritance. Once they arrive they re
...Excuse Me, Do You Pay Taxes?
1971-03-11
The Twelve-Handed Men of Mars
1964-06-21
Four extraterrestrials, X-1, X-2, X-3 and X-4, arrive on Earth in the early sixties. Here they decid
Le tardone
1964-01-29
A collection of five episodes dealing with aging women.
A Monster and a Half
1964-12-18
A thief steals a suitcase but it contains a corpse and the thief is sentenced, but is released by th
The Honored Society
1961-03-30
Salvatore and Rosalino are sentenced to death by the Mafia because they are accused of having seduce
American Secret Service
1968-05-04
Wrong Beds
1965-04-08
Four episodes: a traveler is enticed by train per bet; a professional wants to be alone with a woman
Paths of War
1970-03-26
Two Sicilian royalist soldiers flee the island in a trunk at the arrival of Garibaldi's republican t
These Mad, Mad Women
1964-05-22
Four episodes preceded with a narrator in the role of psychiatrist who tells some cases of female ma
Veneri in collegio
1965-06-26
Two competing teams of paparazzi try to enter a college to get a picture of an Arab Prince's fiancée
Fistful of Knuckles
1965-04-14
Franco and Ciccio mosey into the Mexican border town of Santa Genoviefa. Both are dressed in ponchos
I due toreri
1964-12-03
In Sicily Franco and Ciccio are empowered by a local mafia man to guard for a wide range of salad. I
The Two Mafiosi
1964-01-15
Two clumsy mobsters on a mission in Paris.
Friends More Than Before
1976-01-01
Ku Fu? Dalla Sicilia con furore
1973-08-30
The Sicilian Franco is a sort of imitation of Bruce Lee that Don Vito, a Chinese expelled from his c
Story of Fear and a Knife
1972-08-14
A funk is believed to be a tough guy because of a magic bowler hat which gives him courage and stren
The Sons of the Leopard
1965-04-29
Penniless Baron Tulicò, nicknamed Leopard, abandons his mistress, with whom he's had two sons, and m
The World's Gold
1967-12-21
Aided by a chauffeur and a butler, a student of humble means pretends to be wealthy in order to attr
I due Crociati
1968-08-07
Two inept crusaders almost sabotage the christians' plan to conquer Jerusalem.
Two Firefighters
1968-10-29
The firefighter student Francesco Perricone and his cousin the brigadier Barrese fall in love both o
The Noon Vigilante
1975-03-20
Franco is abandoned by his wife and daughter who wrongly accuse him of being a wimp. Besides he's bo
Target: Girls
1963-08-05
Four former soldiers meet and reminisce about the time they were in active service: a parachutist mi
All the Gold in the World
1968-02-27
The son of a rich industrialist forces a woman to become his fiancée by threatening to bankrupt her
Littlefoot the Policeman
1974-08-13
Petralia, a Neapolitan policeman casually makes friends with Maria, a girl engaged in the smuggling
Two Whites in Dark Africa
1970-10-28
To follow the beautiful Frida, Franco and Ciccio leave for Africa, where the adventurer Berrendero e
Franco, Ciccio and the Pirate Blackbeard
1969-09-19
Franco and Ciccio embark on a journey to find Pirate Flint's lost treasure, hunted by the fearsome P
The Two of the F. 1 at the Craziest, Craziest Race in the World
1971-08-12
Two chaps who earn a living repairing household appliances are hired by a formula one manager who ha
Caprice Italian Style
1968-04-13
The film consists of six short stories created by different directors, but all the stories share one
I due assi del guantone
1971-12-02
Two waiters who work in a restaurant, whose owner is a big boxing fan, pretend one of them is a boxe
The Godfather's Godson
1973-02-01
A mafioso falls in love with his boss's daughter. Since the girl has already been widowed four times
It's a Woman's War
1971-08-12
A girl is drafted due to a misunderstanding and this gives her the occasion to check on her boy-frie
The Two Big Cats O'Nine Tails... and a Half in Amsterdam
1972-10-27
Franco and Ciccio, two journalists, are sent to Amsterdam to investigate a mysterious murder. After
Mazzabubù... quante corna stanno quaggiù?
1971-02-25
During a monologue on the theme of adultery, a man reviews a series of famous and anonymous cases of
On the Day of the Lord
1970-03-18
Margherita nicknamed Fornarina is Raphael's mistress. Beatrice, a noblewoman who is also in love wit
The Last Judgment
1961-10-26
In Naples, a voice from the skies announces one morning that the final judgment will be at 6 p.m. on
The Clan of the Two Borsalini
1971-02-18
Italian comedy
The Three Enemies
1962-06-23
A meek clerk is hunted by the counterespionage because he has a secret formula tattooed on his botto
Ugly at Night
1968-03-14
Franco consults a psychoanalyst due to a series of nightmares that constantly haunt him. The doctor
Continuavano a chiamarli i due piloti più matti del mondo
1972-03-08
The sons of a billionaire hijack an airplane because their father is against their love affair with
Franco e Ciccio superstars
1974-01-01
Franco and Ciccio... Robber and Cop
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 a m
The Sicily Barbers
1967-12-21
In a little Sicilian village two hairdressers who are in love with the same girl manage to sabotage
The Two Big Shots
1971-10-28
Franco and Ciccio are forced to abandon their sausage factory to reach the godfather of Franco: Nico
The Cat from Brooklyn Wants to Be a Detective
1973-01-04
Ma che musica maestro
1971-04-06
The love story between two youths born in rival villages is hindered by the other inhabitants.
The Inheritance of Uncle Goodsoul
1974-12-21
When a rich uncle dies, giving him a great inheritance, Franco will clash with other grandchildren a
Satiricosissimo
1970-01-21
Ciccio loves very much the novel Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter, although his friend Franco does not
Will the Lawyer Franco Benenato Be Able to Defeat his Arch Enemy the Magistrate Ciccio De Ingras?
1971-08-19
A defense counsellor and a judge are at loggerheads and the latter thinks his liver condition depend
The Last Italian Tango
1973-01-01
A woman feeds her husband with scraps and gives the best food to her lover, whom she hides in the at
Il sergente Rompiglioni
1973-12-19
A satire of army life in which a tough army sergeant who loves opera clashes with his soldiers who l
How We Stole the Atomic Bomb
1968-01-01
Franco, an Italian fisherman, witnesses a U.S. Air Force plane crash in the Mediterranean off Egypt
How We Got Into Trouble with the Army
1965-08-21
A sergeant finds out that a GI hides a child in the military barracks. The boy is the son of another
Latin Lovers
1965-08-11
The film is composed of five episodes which depict Italians' love lives in the 1960s.
Adventure at the Motel
1963-02-09
A series of sketches about people who have illicit affairs in a motel: among them a starlet and a pi
Everything is Music
1963-08-18
Easy Love
1964-10-03
Five episodes: A professor decides to murder her husband to win a woman. A hotelier seduces a boarde
Gli altri, gli altri e noi
1966-10-31
An unemployed youth tries different jobs such as waiter, hairdresser, porter, salesman and when desp
The Two Magnificent Fresconi
1968-12-23
Two fearful and incapable individuals, Ciccio and Franco, are tasked by the leader of the Sicilian M
Dream of Zorro
1975-08-16
The Two Parachutists
1965-12-24
Two penniless Italian buskers want to go to the USA but get on the wrong ship and end up in South Am
Cream, Chocolate and... Paprika
1981-08-15
Professor Bonifazi runs a luxury clinic owned by his wife.
Hercules in the Valley of Woe
1961-10-19
Two boxing promoters travel via time machine back to the days of Hercules, who must save them from G
The Promise
1950-10-17
During the absence of her husband, who left for a fishing cruise in the seas of China, Carmela falls
Appointment in Ischia
1960-09-26
What Are the Clouds?
1968-04-12
Some puppets come to life in a theater with no windows. This time the puppets interpret William Shak
Soldiers and corporals
1964-12-31
The army challenges the navy in a singing contest.
The Seven Vipers (The Latin Husband)
1964-08-11
Lorenzo is an industrialist married in Argentina to a cruel woman who manages to have all her husban
Corpse for the Lady
1964-08-19
Laura is the victim of a blackmail, asks for help to her childhood friends Renata, Marina and Giovan
Songs, Bullies and Chicks
1964-05-29
In order to promote a plumcake an adman associates with a mad scientist who has found a way to inter
The Adventures of Pinocchio
1972-12-21
Mastro Geppetto is a poor carpenter with no wife and no children. The man is very lonely, and after
The Loves of Salammbo
1960-03-24
During the 3rd century B.C. a horde of barbarians are hired by the Phoenian city of Carthage to figh
Dirty Weekend
1973-03-08
A man and his mistress have just taken off for a weekend romp when they're kidnapped by a trio of ba
Lisa with the Blue Eyes
1969-12-23
A university student, Mario Buongiovanni, tries to do various jobs to pay for his studies: selling e
I Zanzaroni
1967-09-08
Vino, whisky e acqua salata
1962-12-07
An Italian submarine commander manages to sink an English warship and take its very British commande
I Kill, You Kill
1965-03-25
Six sketches with as many ways of murdering someone, and getting away with it.
Oh! Those Most Secret Agents
1964-10-09
Franco and Ciccio are two simple-minded Italian guys whom are mistaken by KGB spies by government ag
The Amazing Doctor G
1965-10-15
Nefarious villain Goldginger is thwarted by bumbling secret agents Franco and Ciccio in his scheme t
War Italian Style
1965-11-26
It's May 1943, and two Italian American soldiers, Joe and Frank, are searching the North African des
Venus in the Sun
1964-12-24
Three episodes: In the first one a girl gets a journalist to help her recover a case with some preci
The Maniacs
1964-03-28
An anthology of brief comic sketches based on manias, mainly sexual, featuring several figures of It
I motorizzati
1962-11-30
A guy is about to become the millionth citizen to buy a car in Rome. Frightened, he decides to remai
Il cortile degli Aragonesi
1973-09-19
An Oral History of: The Name of the Rose
2022-07-25
An oral history of the 1986 film adaptation of "The Name of the Rose", gathering together the memori