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Gianni Franco
Born: 11th Apr 1951 Buenos Aires, Argentina (cresciuto a Torino)
Dept: Acting
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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 80
Film: 66 (83%)
Television: 14 (18%)
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Filmography
Original title: Nel tepore del ballo
2026
A famous TV host, who grew up without parents and with a painful past, sees his brilliant career and power called into question during a train journey ... view
Character:
Avvocato Canetti
2024
Following up on a murder investigation, failed journalist Giuseppe falls into the trap of the devil. ... view
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2024
The film retraces the early years of Paolo Villaggio's career, from when he was an employee to the success of the Fantozzi film series. ... view
Character:
Medico Jannacci
Original title: Pare parecchio Parigi
2024
Three estranged siblings arrange a fake trip to Paris to fulfill the wish of their terminally-ill elderly father. ... view
Character:
Vannuccini
Original title: Le mie ragazze di carta
2023
End of the 70s in the Treviso area. Two decisive moments in the lives of three teenagers of the Bottacin family: Primo, Anna and Tiberio. The passage ... view
Character:
President of the Commission
2023
Two YouTubers find themselves trapped inside a fantasy videogame. They have to restore peace in the kingdom to return home. ... view
Character:
Platone
2022
Sofia and her two sons, Ricky and Alice, lead a disenchanted life amid the many difficulties of everyday life, but for the Rovati family this will be ... view
Character:
Nicola
May 2022 (first aired)
After years as an MI6 operative, Sylvia winds up in a village in Umbria visiting her sister Isabel and becomes involved in a murder investigation. ... view
Character:
Gino Zampa (1 ep.)
Original title: Io sono Babbo Natale
2021
Ettore has spent the last five years in jail for a robbery. Once out of prison, he has nowhere to go, his wife broke up with him and doesn’t want hi ... view
Character:
Padre di Luciano
2021
Umberto, Lucia and Corrado discover that their co-worker and friend Umberto is terminally ill, but they can't bring themselves to tell him. They decid ... view
Character:
Architetto Lenzi
Mar 2020 (first aired)
When Doctor Andrea Fanti loses 12 years of memories from a brain injury, he finds himself adjusting to a world full of strangers. ... view
Character:
Ernesto Galbiati (1 ep.)
Original title: Rabbia furiosa - Er Canaro
2018
Inspired by one of the most savage and violent crimes committed in Rome in the 1980s, "Rabbia Furiosa" is the story of Fabio, a small-time neighborhoo ... view
Character:
Commissario Ferri
2017
Future. An analyst and his young patient Stefano, who is unable to relate serenely with love, talk during a psychoanalytic session. His tales of senti ... view
Character:
psychoanalyst
2014
Five searches for love unfold in interconnected stories in which fathers, daughters and male suitors try to perfect love matches based on astrology. ... view
Character:
Dottor Pellegrino
2014
An acclaimed novelist struggles to write an analysis of love in one of three stories, each set in a different city, that detail the beginning, middle ... view
Character:
Taxi Driver (Rome)
Dec 2013 (first aired)
The story, based on the lives of the director's parents, is set in Bologna and begins on the banks of the Reno River. The protagonists are Francesca O ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (6 ep.)
2012
A common day in the actual Italy, narrated by the different stories of seven different people, it's the starting point for an overview to the 21st cen ... view
Character:
Senatore
2011
The story of a 18-year-old, grown up without the love of a family, and his relationships with adult women, trying to get back to normal. ... view
Character:
Padre di Luca
Sep 2008 (first aired)
Anna e i cinque is an Italian comedy television series starring Sabrina Ferilli about a woman who is a nanny for a wealthy family by day and stripper ... view
Character:
Alfonzi (6 ep.)
2008
Five young girls share an apartment in Rome, different precarious conditions and a common desire for actresses. ... view
Character:
Santucci
Oct 2007 (first aired)
The story of Salvatore Riina, a mafioso boss from Corleone, Sicily. ... view
Character:
Francesco Delfino (6 ep.)
Sep 2006 (first aired)
Giulio is a widower, struggling to raise three sons, Marco, Rudi, and Mimmo, as best he can. He lives in Rome's working-class Garbatella neighborhood ... view
Character:
Primo Calori (1 ep.)
Character:
Adamo Casalgrande (segment "La donna del Mister")
2006
Dunkin and Jay, two aimless friends in Los Angeles, decide to escape their problems and take a spontaneous trip to Colombia in search of change. ... view
Character:
Alejandro
Character:
Calò (1 ep.)
2005
Louise, an up and coming model, will do anything it takes to become a top model. Along the way she finds herself involved in the nastier side of the b ... view
Character:
Magid
Original title: Un mondo d'amore
2003
The film deals with the true events which happened in 1949 in Italy, when then-schoolteacher Pier Paolo Pasolini was accused of soliciting three under ... view
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2003
The life of Franca Malorni, exponent of the good bourgeoisie of the capital, suddenly changes when her husband dies suddenly. The woman begins to pour ... view
Character:
Proprietario Ristorante
Original title: Febbre da cavallo - La mandrakata
2002
Mandrake and his new friends still continue to bet (and lose a lot of money) on horse races. What will they invent for cheating money? ... view
Character:
Bertolazzi, investigatore privato
Original title: Padre Speranza
2002
Don Vasari is an anti-conformist priest. For this reason he is transferred to a juvenile prison in a small town in the southern of Italy. Nino, a sixt ... view
Character:
Ettore Peluso
2000
The Prosecutor Andrea Martinez is transferred to a town in the province of Turin for the love of Marina Ardenzi. ... view
Character:
Marco Roversi
Original title: Alex L'Ariete
2000
Alessandro Corso is a special forces carabiniere. During an operation he saves a child but cause the death of one of his comrades. He's then transferr ... view
Character:
Brigadiere Santucci
Jan 2000 (first aired)
Don Matteo is a thoroughly ordinary Catholic priest with an extraordinary ability to read people and solve crimes. He’s a parish priest who never me ... view
Character:
Direttore del carcere (1 ep.)
Vincenzo Lo Monaco (1 ep.)
Original title: Volare!
1999
1950s. Gege (Giuseppe Cristofaro) is a delicate child who lives in a hard world that does not accept it. He thus takes refuge in the dream to escape t ... view
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Original title: Un bugiardo in paradiso
1998
Two poor friends are trying to run a con on a wealthy family. ... view
Character:
Chirurgo
Original title: Il fantasma dell'Opera
1998
A series of terrifying accidents and brutal murders leave a bloody trail into the subterranean caverns of an Opera house. Below the theatre stalks a m ... view
Character:
Montluc
Dec 1997 (first aired)
I misteri di Cascina Vianello is an Italian television series. ... view
Character:
Giovanni Forleo (1 ep.)
Original title: Ljuba - Corpo e anima
1997
Ljuba, a woman who has recently become a model, gets involved with a uranium thief. ... view
Character:
Magid
Original title: M.D.C. - Maschera di cera
1997
Paris, 1900: a couple are horribly murdered by a masked man with a metal claw who rips their hearts out. The sole survivor and witness to the massacre ... view
Character:
Inspector Palazzi
Original title: Fantozzi - Il ritorno
1996
Ugo Fantozzi has been ejected from Heaven and is sent back to Earth for a short period of time until the staff in Heaven can get Fantozzi a place ther ... view
Character:
Commissaro di Polizia
1996
Maria, a provincial Polish girl, travels to Milan to pay her older sister Eva a surprise visit. The sisters haven't seen each other in seven years an ... view
Character:
Original title: Io no spik inglish
1995
If Sergio Colombo, a middle age man, doesn't want to lose his job, has to attend a full immersion English course in UK. So Sergio leave his wife and s ... view
Character:
Original title: La figlia di Lady Chatterley
1995
A finishing-school graduate learns about her late mother's affair with the handyman. ... view
Character:
Original title: Bugie rosse
1994
Marco, a television journalist, reads "red lies" on his teletext system in order to gather material on the homosexual world for a story he's working o ... view
Character:
Commissioner
1994
Comic tale of a cynical TV star's slow-combustion romance with a young paraplegic. ... view
Character:
Man with VHS
1993
Kids from a huge apartment complex in Rome form a secret society to unite their forces and get back at the nasty adults who 'oppress' them, playing pr ... view
Character:
Sig. Cecconi
Original title: Le comiche 2
1991
Paolo Villaggio and Renato Pozzetto are the protagonists of various misadventures, first as nurses of a crazy ambulance, then as night guards of a sho ... view
Character:
il padre del bambino che vuole fare la foto con la renna
Original title: Tolgo il disturbo
1991
After eighteen years of psychiatric care, the former bank manager Augusto Scrivani returns home from his daughter-in-law Carla. Dino Risi directs a me ... view
Character:
Original title: Fantozzi alla riscossa
1990
Fantozzi is now retired but continues to go to the office where it is held up as a fine example of employees intending to do career. ... view
Character:
Ispettore che arresta Fantozzi
1989
Three episodes held together by a common element: a car rented by three different characters. ... view
Character:
Portiere dell'hotel
Original title: Ho vinto la lotteria di Capodanno
1989
Ciottoli is a journalist with absolutely no prospective for his career, with a lot of debts and a mobster that want him died. Unexpectedly he win the ... view
Character:
il garagista
1989
One of the key factors in Italian unification was the overthrow in 1860 of Francesco, the King of Naples and the two Sicilies, who went into elegant b ... view
Character:
Italian General
Original title: Delitti e profumi
1988
Eddy is the detective of a general store. His girl is Barbara who works in the same store. Barbara receives a gift, a bottle of scent, and later she d ... view
Character:
Original title: Un delitto poco comune
1988
Police Comissioner Datti is investigating the murder of a female doctor whose murderer seems to be a thirty-fivish year old man. Soon another murder f ... view
Character:
Inspector
1988
Gianni (Boldi) is an ad agent from Milan vacationing in the mountains. Inside a cave he stumbles upon a cavewoman (Grimaldi) frozen intact. Of course ... view
Character:
Piero, collega di Gianni
Original title: Le foto di Gioia
1987
Gioia is a buxom centerfold working for Pussycat magazine. In such a profession, having an admirer or two is expected, but Gioia's admirer is a viciou ... view
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1987
Via Montenapoleone in Milan is the ritziest street in the city and here the destinies of several characters, playboys, models and gays cross and diver ... view
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Jan 1987 (first aired)
Rome, late 1980s, Leopardi Classical High School. This is where the various protagonists of the series meet and experience the epic, hilarious exploit ... view
Character:
Il suicida (1 ep.)
1986
Police commissioner Lo Gatto is in charge of the local Italian police station within Vatican State. During an investigation, following the murder of a ... view
Character:
Dr. 'Bazooka' Pedretti
Original title: Grandi magazzini
1986
A series of skits involving customers and store personnel from several departments of the big department store. ... view
Character:
intervistatore per il detersivo
Original title: Scemo di guerra
1985
A young psychiatrist struggles to remove an erratic captain from command at an Italian base in the Lybian desert during World War II. ... view
Character:
Cerioni
1984
Two deadbeat friends barely pass the entrance exam for the Carabinieri, the national gendarmerie of Italy, but love for the same woman gets in the way ... view
Character:
Carabinieri Officer
Original title: Rats - Notte di terrore
1984
One hundred years after a nuclear war has devastated the planet, society has been reborn into two factions; the underground society and the scavangers ... view
Character:
Video
Original title: Il petomane
1983
The real story of a French man who was able to control his own farts. ... view
Character:
Sam
1983
Around the year 1500, the Italian priest Don Filippo Neri helps street kids and orphans in his poor little chapel. ... view
Character:
Original title: Il bisbetico domato
1980
A rich farmer is well known for being very unkind. He's misanthropic, misogynous and cantankerous. Until he meets by chance a gorgeous girl... ... view
Character:
un conoscente di Elia al bar
Original title: Fango bollente
1975
By day, Ovidio (Joe Dallesandro) and his two friends work at a data center. After work, they blow off steam by committing random acts of savage violen ... view
Character:
Research Center Worker (uncredited)