
Franco Franchi
1928 - 1992Franco 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.
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Le avventure di Pinocchio
Luigi Comencini
Andrea Balestri, Nino Manfredi
Mastro Geppetto is a poor carpenter with no wife and no children. The man is very lonely, and after trading a piece of wood with his colleague Mastro Ciliegia, decides to build himself a puppet to keep him company.
The Adventures of Pinocchio
Il giustiziere di mezzogiorno
Mario Amendola
Franco Franchi, Ombretta De Carlo
Franco is abandoned by his wife and daughter who wrongly accuse him of being a wimp. Besides he's bossed around and sexually harassed at work. He decides to take justice into his own hands and get rough with the world. He soon gets his family's respect back.
Il giustiziere di mezzogiorno
Paolo il freddo
Ciccio Ingrassia
Franco Franchi, Annie Carol Edel
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.
Paolo il freddo
Il mio amico Benito
Giorgio Bianchi
Peppino De Filippo, Franco Franchi
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.
Il mio amico Benito
Don Chisciotte e Sancio Panza
Giovanni Grimaldi
Ciccio Ingrassia, Franco Franchi
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.
Don Chisciotte e Sancio Panza
Sedotti e bidonati
Giorgio Bianchi
Franco Franchi, Ciccio Ingrassia
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?
Sedotti e bidonati
Farfallon
Riccardo Pazzaglia
Franco Franchi, Ciccio Ingrassia
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?
Farfallon
Armiamoci e partite!
Nando Cicero
Franco Franchi, Ciccio Ingrassia
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.
Armiamoci e partite!