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person_profile-Franca Bettoia

Franca Bettoia Age: 88

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Franca Bettoia

Date of Birth:

May 14, 1936

Country of birth:

Italy

Biography of

Franca Bettoia

    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.​

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Filmography of

Franca Bettoia

Found 18 Movies in total

Skinheads

Roberta, madre di Marco ( Actor )

... 1993

Kolossal - The Magnificent Macisti

Samoa (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1977

Don't Touch the White Woman!

Rayon de Lune (as Franca Bettoja) ( Actor )

... 1974

Il fischio al naso

Giovanna ( Actor )

... 1967

Return of Sandokan

Samoa ( Actor )

... 1964

Sandokan Fights Back

Samoa ( Actor )

... 1964

The Last Man on Earth

Ruth Collins ( Actor )

... 1964

The Lion of St. Mark

Isabella Fieschi ( Actor )

... 1963

Attack of the Normans

Queen Patricia ( Actor )

... 1962

Day by Day, Desperately

Marcella ( Actor )

... 1961

Duel of Champions

Marcia ( Actor )

... 1961

... 1960

The Dam on the Yellow River

Schwester Celeste ( Actor )

... 1960

The Itchy Palm

Christiane ( Actor )

... 1960

Nights of the Teddy Boys

Orietta Fantoni ( Actor )

... 1959

... 1958

Man of Straw

Rita ( Actor )

... 1958

Desert Warrior

Suleika ( Actor )

... 1957