Franca Bettoia

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.​

  • Title: Franca Bettoia
  • Popularity: 1.333
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1936-05-14
  • Place of Birth: Rome, Latium, Italy
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  • Also Known As: Franca Bettoja
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Franca Bettoia Movies

  • 1962
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    Attack of the Normans

    Attack of the Normans

    6 1962 HD

    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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  • 1960
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    The Itchy Palm

    The Itchy Palm

    6 1960 HD

    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...

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  • 1968
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    Will Our Heroes Be Able to Find Their Friend Who Has Mysteriously Disappeared in Africa?

    Will Our Heroes Be Able to Find Their Friend Who Has Mysteriously Disappeared in Africa?

    6.9 1968 HD

    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...

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  • 1974
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    Don't Touch the White Woman!

    Don't Touch the White Woman!

    5.6 1974 HD

    A highly stylized surreal farce about the events leading up to Custer's Last Stand anachronistically reenacted in an urban renewal area in modern...

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  • 1958
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    Man of Straw

    Man of Straw

    7 1958 HD

    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...

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  • 1993
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    Skinheads

    Skinheads

    4.6 1993 HD

    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....

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  • 1964
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    Return of Sandokan

    Return of Sandokan

    6 1964 HD

    Samoa is kidnapped and held captive hypnotized in caves by her cousin Charles Druk, whose father has been murdered by her future husband Sandokan,...

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  • 1961
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    Duel of Champions

    Duel of Champions

    5 1961 HD

    A Roman nobleman, Horatius leads an imperial legion during the long and bloody war between the Romans and the Albans. A desperate arrangement is...

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  • 1961
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    Day by Day, Desperately

    Day by Day, Desperately

    8 1961 HD

    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...

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  • 1957
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    Desert Warrior

    Desert Warrior

    5 1957 HD

    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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  • 1964
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    Sandokan Fights Back

    Sandokan Fights Back

    5.3 1964 HD

    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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  • 1959
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    Nights of the Teddy Boys

    Nights of the Teddy Boys

    7 1959 HD

    An Italian drama directed by Leopoldo Savona.

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  • 1958
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    So Much Love Lost

    So Much Love Lost

    1 1958 HD

    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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  • 1960
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    The Dialogue of the Carmelites

    The Dialogue of the Carmelites

    6.4 1960 HD

    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...

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  • 1963
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    The Lion of St. Mark

    The Lion of St. Mark

    3.6 1963 HD

    In 1620 pirates are terrorizing the Adriatic coast. Our hero sets out to defeat them.

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  • 1960
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    The Dam on the Yellow River

    The Dam on the Yellow River

    1 1960 HD

    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...

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  • 1962
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    Ultimatum alla vita

    Ultimatum alla vita

    1 1962 HD

    Women held in prison by the Nazi's in Italy during WW2.

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  • 1964
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    The Last Man on Earth

    The Last Man on Earth

    6.5 1964 HD

    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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  • 1977
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    Kolossal - The Magnificent Macisti

    Kolossal - The Magnificent Macisti

    1 1977 HD

    A documentary on the history of Italy's peplum genre.

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  • 1997
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    The Man with the Cigar in His Mouth

    The Man with the Cigar in His Mouth

    1 1997 HD

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  • 1960
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    Cavalcata selvaggia

    Cavalcata selvaggia

    1 1960 HD

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  • 1967
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    Il fischio al naso

    Il fischio al naso

    5.4 1967 HD

    In this unusual offbeat black comedy directed by Ugo Tognazzi, Giuseppe (Tognazzi) is a middle-aged industrialist obsessed with gadgets. When his...

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