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Franca Bettoia
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Franca Bettoia
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1936-05-14,Rome, Latium, Italy
Gender
Female
Biography
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.

Filmography

Attack of the Normans

6

Attack of the Normans
1962-08-23

6

The Itchy Palm
1960-02-03

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

6.9

Will Our Heroes Be Able to Find Their Friend Who Has Mysteriously Disappeared in Africa?
1968-12-19

Don't Touch the White Woman!

5.6

Don't Touch the White Woman!
1974-01-23

7

Man of Straw
1958-03-11

4.6

Skinheads
1993-07-01

Return of Sandokan

6

Return of Sandokan
1964-10-18

Duel of Champions

5

Duel of Champions
1961-10-19

Day by Day, Desperately

8

Day by Day, Desperately
1961-11-23

5

Desert Warrior
1957-10-31

Sandokan Fights Back

5.3

Sandokan Fights Back
1964-08-13

Nights of the Teddy Boys

7

Nights of the Teddy Boys
1959-10-03

So Much Love Lost

0

So Much Love Lost
1958-11-12

The Dialogue of the Carmelites

6.2

The Dialogue of the Carmelites
1960-06-01

The Lion of St. Mark

3.6

The Lion of St. Mark
1963-11-21

The Dam on the Yellow River

0

The Dam on the Yellow River
1960-03-25

Ultimatum alla vita

0

Ultimatum alla vita
1962-01-11

The Last Man on Earth

6.5

The Last Man on Earth
1964-05-06

Kolossal - The Magnificent Macisti

0

Kolossal - The Magnificent Macisti
1977-01-01

The Man with the Cigar in His Mouth

0

The Man with the Cigar in His Mouth
1997-08-06

Cavalcata selvaggia

0

Cavalcata selvaggia
1960-01-01

Il fischio al naso

5.4

Il fischio al naso
1967-08-06