Franca Bettoia
Known for Acting · 22 credits
- Born
- 1936-05-14 (age 90)
- Place of birth
- Roma, Lazio, Italy
- 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.
Known For
The Last Man on Earth
1964
as Ruth Collins
The Dialogue of the Carmelites
1960
as Carmelite nun (uncredited)
Will Our Heroes Be Able to Find Their Friend Who Has Mysteriously Disappeared in Africa?
1968
as Rita Di Salvio
Attack of the Normans
1962
as Queen Patricia
The Lion of St. Mark
1963
as Isabella Fieschi
Desert Warrior
1957
as Suleika
Movies (22)
The Last Man on Earth
1964
as Ruth Collins
The Dialogue of the Carmelites
1960
as Carmelite nun (uncredited)
Will Our Heroes Be Able to Find Their Friend Who Has Mysteriously Disappeared in Africa?
1968
as Rita Di Salvio
Attack of the Normans
1962
as Queen Patricia
The Lion of St. Mark
1963
as Isabella Fieschi
Desert Warrior
1957
as Suleika
The Seventh Floor
1967
as Giovanna
Duel of Champions
1961
as Marcia
Don't Touch the White Woman!
1974
as Rayon de Lune (as Franca Bettoja)
Kolossal - The Magnificent Macisti
1977
as Samoa (archive footage)
Sandokan Fights Back
1964
as Samoa
Day by Day, Desperately
1961
as Marcella
The Man with the Cigar in His Mouth
1997
as Self
Return of Sandokan
1964
as Samoa
Skinheads
1993
as Roberta
The Dam on the Yellow River
1960
as Schwester Celeste
Cavalcata selvaggia
1960
as Paola
Man of Straw
1958
as Rita
The Itchy Palm
1960
as Christiane
Nights of the Teddy Boys
1959
as Orietta Fantoni
So Much Love Lost
1958
as Annie
Last Chance for Life
1962
as Mara Berri
About 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 Our… With 22 credits spanning from 1957 to 1997, Franca Bettoia has appeared in 22 films and 0 TV shows.
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- The Last Man on Earth (1964) — as Ruth Collins
- The Dialogue of the Carmelites (1960) — as Carmelite nun (uncredited)
- Will Our Heroes Be Able to Find Their Friend Who Has Mysteriously Disappeared in Africa? (1968) — as Rita Di Salvio
- Attack of the Normans (1962) — as Queen Patricia
- The Lion of St. Mark (1963) — as Isabella Fieschi
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