Franca Bettoia
Date of birth: 1936-05-14
Place of birth: Roma, Lazio, Italy
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Franca Bettoja
Biography
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.
Movie Credits
Attack of the Normans
1962-08-23
An evil duke kidnaps the good king and tries to make the virtuous queen his bride and the peasants t
The Itchy Palm
1960-02-03
A widow in her fifties,Madame Lacoste ,meets Jean when they both come to put their pussy in a catter
Will Our Heroes Be Able to Find Their Friend Who Has Mysteriously Disappeared in Africa?
1968-12-19
A rich businessman is fed up with work, family, society, and goes with his accountant to Africa, in
Don't Touch the White Woman!
1974-01-23
A highly stylized surreal farce about the events leading up to Custer's Last Stand anachronistically
Man of Straw
1958-03-11
Andrea Zaccardi has returned home from hunting. He and his wife Luisa are very close. Their young so
Skinheads
1993-07-01
22-year-old Marco leads an aimless life in Rome's suburbs. One day he meets skinhead Saverio, aka 'F
Return of Sandokan
1964-10-18
Samoa is kidnapped and held captive hypnotized in caves by her cousin Charles Druk, whose father has
Duel of Champions
1961-10-19
A Roman nobleman, Horatius leads an imperial legion during the long and bloody war between the Roman
Day by Day, Desperately
1961-11-23
The mental illness affecting young Dario, one of the two sons of the Dominici family living in a cou
Desert Warrior
1957-10-31
Omar Sultan's army has been defeated. However, Prince Said, son of the Sultan died, encourages peopl
Sandokan Fights Back
1964-08-13
When Sandokan learns he is the rightful heir to the throne of Malaysia, he immediately sets off to c
Nights of the Teddy Boys
1959-10-03
An Italian drama directed by Leopoldo Savona.
So Much Love Lost
1958-11-12
Here's a railway station. Next to it, there's generally a town; and in a town,there is love! The tra
The Dialogue of the Carmelites
1960-06-01
This drama about the Carmelite order of nuns is set during the French Revolution. A young woman seek
The Lion of St. Mark
1963-11-21
In 1620 pirates are terrorizing the Adriatic coast. Our hero sets out to defeat them.
The Dam on the Yellow River
1960-03-25
Anti-Communist propaganda film, in which the victory of Mao Tse-Tung's People's Liberation Army is s
Last Chance for Life
1962-01-11
Women held in prison by the Nazi's in Italy during WW2.
The Last Man on Earth
1964-05-06
When a disease turns all of humanity into the living dead, the last man on earth becomes a reluctant
Kolossal - The Magnificent Macisti
1977-01-01
A documentary on the history of Italy's peplum genre.
The Man with the Cigar in His Mouth
1997-08-06
Cavalcata selvaggia
1960-01-01
The Seventh Floor
1967-08-06
In this unusual offbeat black comedy directed by Ugo Tognazzi, Giuseppe (Tognazzi) is a middle-aged