Franco Franchi

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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. Full list of TV and Movie credits for Franco Franchi,licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia. Born : 18th-Sep-1928

Movie Credits

I due maghi del pallone

The manager of a football team wants to hire a coach. Luckily the team begin to win but on the eve of an important match the opposing team has their best scorer kidnapped. Will they win the match all the same?
Released : 2nd-Dec-1970

Two Gangsters in the Wild West

In the late 1800's, Sicilians Franco and Ciccio are serving 20 years of prison for stealing two mules, when they are helped to escape by an American who says he is a friend of their grandfathers, who were killed in Texas by a gang of bandits who wanted to take over their gold mine. The two friends travel to America to take posses of the gold mine, but they soon discover that they are not the only ones who want it.
Released : 30th-Jun-1964

Teatro 11

Released : 18th-May-1972

How We Got the Italian Movie Business Into Trouble: The True Story of Franco and Ciccio

Released : 24th-Sep-2004

Kaos

Five stories center on a werewolf, a feudal landlord, peasants, a ghost, and a mother and her sons.
Released : 23rd-Nov-1984

Pugni, pupe e marinai

Three sailors are sent to an island by their commander to steal a boat, but they are sunk by an enemy ship. Saved from the shipwreck by a fishing boat, they have to get back to the island before their commander knows about their adventure.
Released : 17th-Nov-1961

Stasera mi butto

Summer Late sixties, Want to sing, Of Sun. Of golden skin from tanning. Of endless beaches. And relaxing baths. For everyone: young and old. Singles and couples. In the endless consumption of flirtation and new knowledge, the musical background goes crazy with the famous screamer. Famous personalities like Lola Falana emerge from famous people. They get confused. They are inserted between these alleged stars. But above all, they have fun like crazy ...
Released : 3rd-Nov-1967

Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs

The scheming mad scientist Dr. Goldfoot (Vincent Price) plots another mad scheme to take over the world by killing off the major military leaders of every country; to that end, he creates in his secret lab a bevy of bodacious girl bombs; full-length, life-size robots that explode when embraced.
Released : 29th-Jul-1966

Two Sons of Trinity

Franco and Ciccio are two cousins who, in the old West, have opened a service station, where they carry out the washing and drying of the horses and a bar service for the passing riders. One day a stranger saves them from an attempted robbery against them: the girl introduces herself as Calamity Jane, as well as Franco and Ciccio's aunt.
Released : 27th-Jul-1972

Il mio amico Benito

A clerk has had a picture taken during W.W.I with the future Italian dictator Mussolini and tries to exploit the situation pretending he is a dear friend of his. When he finds out who Mussolini really is he changes his mind and goes back to his bleak life.
Released : 3rd-Mar-1962

Principe coronato cercasi per ricca ereditiera

A prince who has become poor accepts a marriage to the daughter of an American tycoon. The girl is only interested in his title and plans a divorce, but after a while she also grows fond of him.
Released : 29th-Aug-1970

I due maggiolini più matti del mondo

Two Sicilian shopowners who live in Rome pick up some beatnik hitchhikers and the group gate-crashes their seaside villa. In the meantime the two men's wives smell something fishy going on and go to the villa themselves. To make things worse the place is also invaded by three prison fugitives who terrorize the lot.
Released : 29th-Aug-1970

Don Chisciotte e Sancio Panza

Comic version of the famous man of la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes in which Don Quixote having read an adventure book too many sets out on his own adventures with his servant Sancho Panza.
Released : 24th-Aug-1968

Don Franco and Don Ciccio in a Year of Protest

Italy's best loved comedy duo play rival priests in the neighboring towns of Roccapizzone and San Antonio. Did Franco crash his bike through Ciccio's new stained glass window on purpose or was he just in town for their mutual confession? Their main beef with each other concerns their opposing football teams and this feud takes up a great deal of the picture.
Released : 16th-Apr-1970

2 Mobsters Against Al Capone

For a misunderstanding Franco and Ciccio, two Sicilian immigrants of very limited intellectual faculties, are enrolled in the police force in New York.
Released : 4th-Mar-1966

2 mattacchioni al Moulin Rouge

A dancer has been murdered in a striptease joint but the body seems to have disappeared.
Released : 17th-Jan-1964

Armiamoci e partite!

Franco and Ciccio work as waiters in an inn in France. The day Ciccio officially takes French citizenship, the First World War breaks out between Germany and France and all citizens are forced to enlist.
Released : 3rd-Sep-1971

Uno storico pasticcio

Released : 1st-Jan-1983

Continuavano a chiamarli... er più e er meno

A penniless Prince and a petty thief become associates in a con game and when they end up in prison, the Prince, who is a compulsive gambler, loses all his money to the other and becomes his servant.
Released : 24th-Mar-1972

Farfallon

A man who has tried to kill his unfaithful wife goes to prison, escapes, ends up in a convent, teaches the nuns to make cookies, captured again and before going back to prison tries to take his long awaited revenge again. Does he eventually succeed in killing his wife?
Released : 12th-Aug-1974

Gerarchi si muore

Now in bankruptcy, the industrialist Merletti seeks the help of Mr. Frioppi, a rich ex-fascist with a real mania for ancient castles.
Released : 22nd-Dec-1961

I due sanculotti

The brothers Franco and Ciccio La Capra moves to France in the days of the French Revolution, putting themselves in a lot of trouble.
Released : 13th-Aug-1966

Two Sons of Ringo

Another spoof from the Franco and Ciccio team in which the boys, who are running a scam pretending to be bounty hunters, are 'persuaded' to help a real bounty hunter discover a treasure by claiming to be the heirs of a deceased lawman.
Released : 7th-Dec-1966

I 2 deputati

Francesco and Franco are brothers in law but, since their respective wives can't stand each other, are always arguing. When Francesco decides to run for Parliament, Franco is kidnapped by his opposing party and forced to run as well. The clashes between the two in-laws will continue in Parliament.
Released : 1st-Jan-1969

5 marines per 100 ragazze

Five GIs end up in a female college during their military manouvers. They are very welcome by the girls and since one of them has also a beautiful voice they take part in a show organized by the college.
Released : 10th-Aug-1961

The Nephews of Zorro

Two fellows from Sicily go to America thinking that they will find gold . For their bad luck in California they meet the brave Zorro who is protecting the helpless people. They have to help him which is followed by a lot of adventures and funny moments.
Released : 12th-Dec-1968

Il sergente Rompiglioni diventa... caporale

An inept sergeant is mistaken for a secret agent and charged with finding a spy, but he is so stupid he is demoted and becomes a corporal.
Released : 27th-Mar-1975

Indovina chi viene a merenda?

Sicily 1943 to avoid war, Franco and Ciccio are hiding in the mountains. Two American paratroopers steal their clothes leaving him in exchange uniforms, so our "heroes" are captured by the Germans and deported to Germany. Evade, take refuge on a farm and will be involved in mishaps chain. After the war, they thought dead, are safe and sound, up there in Germany.
Released : 2nd-Apr-1969

Franco, Ciccio and the Cheerful Widows

A 3-episode film starring popular comedians Franchi and Ingrassia. In the first episode, Carlo and Oreste are married to the same woman; when she delivers twins, they fight for paternity. In the second episode, Celestina needs a heir to receive her dead husband's fortune. In the third episode, young widow Daisy arrives in Italy to meet her deceased much-older husband's family and ends up marrying his great-grandson.
Released : 13th-Apr-1968

Those Two in the Legion

Ciccio and Franco flee Naples because they are wrongly accused of having murdered a local camorra boss and enlist in the Foreign Legion. They are inept but are mistaken for brave people by their commander and sent to break a weapon smuggling ring.
Released : 16th-Aug-1962

The Swindlers

A day in a tribunal where the defendants are: the manager of a soccer team, charged with bribery, two Sicilians who have sold fake archaeological findings, two nuns who have offended a public servant and an industry manager.
Released : 25th-Sep-1963

Two Escape from Sing Sing

Two attendants in a public toilet in New York save the life of the Mafia boss Attanasia. Attanasia turns one of them into a successful boxer by setting up his matches and makes the other into his right hand. When a gang war starts the two are accused of the murders and are sentenced to death. When the execution day comes they refuse to leave their cell, even when they are proved innocent.
Released : 22nd-Aug-1964

Two Public Enemies

Two two-bit crooks get in the way of a criminal ring and cause a hold up to fail. The two flee to Paradise avoiding a reprisal and try and steal Saint Peter's halo.
Released : 31st-Dec-1964

How We Robbed the Bank of Italy

Dim-wits Franco and Cicco try to come up with a plan to rob the safes of the Bank of Italy, but with one muddle after another, they find themselves empty-handed after each attempt to do so.
Released : 18th-Mar-1966

The Masseuses

Two industry managers from Milan are in Rome to get the contract to build a YMCA hostel. They get in touch with a masseuses ring and one of the masseuses is introduced to the president of the catholic association as the wife of one of the managers. During a vice squad roundup, the president is about to be discovered with one of the girls when he dies of a stroke. How will the others try to hide his death?
Released : 20th-Sep-1962

The Tall, The Short, The Cat

Two dim-witted servants to an elderly, wealthy woman learn that they are to inherent the late woman's money, on the condition that they have to care for her rambuncous pet cat, which is not an easy thing to do so.
Released : 3rd-May-1967

Ma chi t'ha dato la patente?

Franco and Ciccio are the directors of a driving school. They suffer the theft of the only car they have, and their new car is prone to going completely out of his control.
Released : 28th-Aug-1970

002 Operation Moon

KGB authorities abduct two criminals (Franco and Ciccio) who look exactly like missing spacemen and pretend they are the returning cosmonauts. They launch them in a rocket, so that they can land in public view, leading the populace to believe it was the original space craft that has returned. The two criminals look so much like the astronauts, they even fool the wives of the astronauts. Later however, the original spacecraft returns to Earth undamaged, and the plan goes all to pieces. In the end, Franco and Ciccio stay in Russia and the real astronauts relocate to Italy.
Released : 25th-Nov-1965

Two Idiots at Fort Alamo

During the War of Succession, Franco and Ciccio are arrested for being accused of desertion from the Northern army. Rather than condemn them to death for his carelessness, they will be chosen for a special mission: to infiltrate as expert officers on a delicate espionage action.
Released : 13th-Aug-1965

Blue Tango

Tango blu is a night club in Milan where various bizarre characters meet. Among them a womanizing photographer and a porter who works in a slaughterhouse.
Released : 2nd-Feb-1987

The Shortest Day

Two jerks are enlisted in the Italian army during W.W.1 and by pure luck manage to help win an important battle.
Released : 14th-Feb-1963

Those Sweet Creatures

An Italo-American singer and as he arrives at the airport he is accused of being a draft dodger and is drafted. He soon begins a love story with his commander's daughter.
Released : 4th-Sep-1970

Sedotti e bidonati

Two rich Sicilian cousins sell their farm because they want to help two fake Siamese twins separate and then marry them. After the operation the girls are thought to be dead but then they reappear to con more money out of the two gullible men. Will they manage to do so?
Released : 14th-Oct-1964

I due vigili

Two traffic policemen help capture a dangerous robber after unwittingly contributing to his making off with the loot.
Released : 13th-Dec-1967

Ciccio Forgives, I Don't

Franco and Ciccio are small time horse thieves who get involved with the bandit, El Diablo, and two former members of his gang who are after his gold. Fortunately two pretty, sharp shooting saloon girls come to the bumbling duo's rescue.
Released : 26th-Sep-1968

Two R-R-Ringos from Texas

A western comedy starring the Sicilian comedians Franco and Ciccio who produced dozens of such spoofs in the 1960s. This time, they quote mainly "The Good, the Bad And the Ugly". Ciccio is sergeant in the army and Franco volunteers to join (after too many drinks). Franco has a talking horse telling him where a treasure is buried. They have to get behind enemy lines in the civil war to get hold of it, though.
Released : 25th-Aug-1967

Scandal Nudes

A theater manager wants to stage a striptease act but his jealous wife puts a lot of obstacles on his way.
Released : 22nd-Dec-1963

La donna degli altri è sempre più bella

Five episodes which show Italian peoples pathological unfaithfulness in marriage.
Released : 21st-Feb-1963

The Handsome, The Ugly, And The Stupid

Two POWs learn of a treasure of gold hidden in a cemetery, and escape from their POW camp to look for it.
Released : 13th-Aug-1967

Primitive Love

"Doctor" Jayne Mansfield is in Italy to show a peer her documentary about mating customs from around the world while at the same time having to deal with two bellhops who have an idea or two about mating with Jayne.
Released : 1st-Sep-1964

Paolo il freddo

A baron, nicknamed Paolo il caldo (Paul the Hot One) because of his womanizing, asks his son, on his deathbed, to leave women alone and only think about work. The son tries hard but only gets into trouble.
Released : 11th-Apr-1974

TV Credits

Domenica In

Self -
Released : 3rd-Oct-1976

Due ragazzi incorreggibili

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Released : 11th-Dec-1976

Buona Domenica

Partecipazione -
Released : 6th-Jan-1985

Le avventure di Pinocchio

Gatto - Mastro Geppetto is a poor carpenter with no wife and no children. The man is very lonely, and when trading a piece of wood with his colleague Mastero Cherry, he decides to build himself a puppet to make him company.
Released : 8th-Apr-1972

Io Jane, tu Tarzan

Mercenary - The drama four-episode musical marked the return to Rai militancy after years of Fininvest for Carmen Russo and the comic duo Franco and Ciccio . The program also included pure variety segments, animated inserts and ballets.
Released : 1st-Jan-1989

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