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Actor
Franca Bettoia
Acting
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Movies: 22Series: 0
TMDB ID: 50781
IMDb ID: nm0079399
Known for: Acting
Born: May 14, 1936
Age: 89
Place of birth: Roma, Lazio, Italy
Gender: Female
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1957 - 1997
Years active: 41
Average TMDB rating: 5.89
Wikidata: Q516106
Also known as
Franca Bettoja
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.
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Movie credits linked with Franca Bettoia.
The Man with the Cigar in His Mouth
as Self
1997 Movie
4.7
Skinheads
as Roberta
1993 Movie
Kolossal - The Magnificent Macisti
as Samoa (archive footage)
1977 Movie
5.5
Don't Touch the White Woman!
as Rayon de Lune (as Franca Bettoja)
1974 Movie
6.8
Will Our Heroes Be Able to Find Their Friend Who Has Mysteriously Disappeared in Africa?
as Rita Di Salvio
1968 Movie
5.8
The Seventh Floor
as Giovanna
1967 Movie
6.7
Return of Sandokan
as Samoa
1964 Movie
5.3
Sandokan Fights Back
as Samoa
1964 Movie
6.6
The Last Man on Earth
as Ruth Collins
1964 Movie
3.6
The Lion of St. Mark
as Isabella Fieschi
1963 Movie
6.0
Attack of the Normans
as Queen Patricia
1962 Movie
Last Chance for Life
as Mara Berri
1962 Movie
8.0
Day by Day, Desperately
as Marcella
1961 Movie
5.3
Duel of Champions
as Marcia
1961 Movie
7.1
The Dialogue of the Carmelites
as Carmelite nun (uncredited)
1960 Movie
The Dam on the Yellow River
as Schwester Celeste
1960 Movie
6.0
The Itchy Palm
as Christiane
1960 Movie
Cavalcata selvaggia
as Paola
1960 Movie
7.0
Nights of the Teddy Boys
as Orietta Fantoni
1959 Movie
So Much Love Lost
as Annie
1958 Movie
7.1
Man of Straw
as Rita
1958 Movie
5.0
Desert Warrior
as Suleika
1957 Movie