Franca Bettoia
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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.
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Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 4.177 |
Birthday | 1936-05-14 |
Place of Birth | Rome, Latium, Italy |
Also Known As | Franca Bettoja, |
1962
Attack of the Normans
6/1
An evil duke kidnaps the good king and tries to make the virtuous queen his bride and the peasants take arms.
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Attack of the Normans
1968
Will Our Heroes Be Able to Find Their Friend Who Has Mysteriously Disappeared in Africa?
6.8/82
A rich businessman is fed up with work, family, society, and goes with his accountant to Africa, in search of his brother-in-law who had vanished ther...
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Will Our Heroes Be Able to Find Their Friend Who Has Mysteriously Disappeared in Africa?
1974
Don't Touch the White Woman!
5.6/39
A highly stylized surreal farce about the events leading up to Custer's Last Stand anachronistically reenacted in an urban renewal area in modern Pari...
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Don't Touch the White Woman!
1958
Man of Straw
7/13
Andrea Zaccardi has returned home from hunting. He and his wife Luisa are very close. Their young son Giulio develops a cough. The doctor recommends t...
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Man of Straw
1993
Skinheads
4.6/20
22-year-old Marco leads an aimless life in Rome's suburbs. One day he meets skinhead Saverio, aka 'Führer', head of a local neo-nazi chapter. Marco be...
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Skinheads
1964
Return of Sandokan
6/1
Samoa is kidnapped and held captive hypnotized in caves by her cousin Charles Druk, whose father has been murdered by her future husband Sandokan, lor...
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Return of Sandokan
1961
Duel of Champions
5/5
A Roman nobleman, Horatius leads an imperial legion during the long and bloody war between the Romans and the Albans. A desperate arrangement is agre...
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Duel of Champions
1964
Sandokan Fights Back
5.3/3
When Sandokan learns he is the rightful heir to the throne of Malaysia, he immediately sets off to claim his land back.
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Sandokan Fights Back
1959
Nights of the Teddy Boys
7/1
An Italian drama directed by Leopoldo Savona.
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Nights of the Teddy Boys
1962
Ultimatum alla vita
0/0
Women held in prison by the Nazi's in Italy during WW2.
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Ultimatum alla vita
1960
The Dam on the Yellow River
0/0
Anti-Communist propaganda film, in which the victory of Mao Tse-Tung's People's Liberation Army is seen through the eyes of an American journalist rep...
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The Dam on the Yellow River
1961
Day by Day, Desperately
8/3
The mental illness affecting young Dario, one of the two sons of the Dominici family living in a council building in Rome, disrupts the lives of all i...
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Day by Day, Desperately
1964
The Last Man on Earth
6.553/416
When a disease turns all of humanity into the living dead, the last man on earth becomes a reluctant vampire hunter.
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The Last Man on Earth
1977
Kolossal - The Magnificent Macisti
0/0
A documentary on the history of Italy's peplum genre.
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Kolossal - The Magnificent Macisti
1997
The Man with the Cigar in His Mouth
0/0
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The Man with the Cigar in His Mouth
1960
Cavalcata selvaggia
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Cavalcata selvaggia
1967
Il fischio al naso
5.417/6
In this unusual offbeat black comedy directed by Ugo Tognazzi, Giuseppe (Tognazzi) is a middle-aged industrialist obsessed with gadgets. When his nose...
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Il fischio al naso
1960
The Itchy Palm
6/1
A widow in her fifties,Madame Lacoste ,meets Jean when they both come to put their pussy in a cattery.The man borrows a hefty sum from her ,to send hi...
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The Itchy Palm
1957
Desert Warrior
5/1
Omar Sultan's army has been defeated. However, Prince Said, son of the Sultan died, encourages people to form an army and fight again to Ibrahim. The...
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Desert Warrior
1963
The Lion of St. Mark
3.6/4
In 1620 pirates are terrorizing the Adriatic coast. Our hero sets out to defeat them.
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The Lion of St. Mark
1958
So Much Love Lost
0/0
Here's a railway station. Next to it, there's generally a town; and in a town,there is love! The train arrives. Mr. Andrieu is expecting his sardines...
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So Much Love Lost
1960
The Dialogue of the Carmelites
6.2/4
This drama about the Carmelite order of nuns is set during the French Revolution. A young woman seeks refuge with the Carmelites because she is terrif...
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