Franco Gasparri (31 October 1948 – 28 March 1999) was an Italian actor.
Born Gianfranco Gasparri in
Senigallia
Senigallia (or Sinigaglia in Old Italian; ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) and port town on Italy's Adriatic Sea, Adriatic coast. It is situated in the province of Ancona, in the Italian region of Marche, and lies approximately 30 kilometres nor ...
, the son of the painter and film poster artist Rodolfo, Gasparri started his career as a child actor, appearing in several
peplum film
Sword-and-sandal, also known as peplum (: pepla), is a subgenre of largely Italian-made historical, mythological, or biblical epics mostly set in the Greco-Roman antiquity or the Middle Ages. These films attempted to emulate the big-budget Holl ...
s.
After military service as a paratrooper, in 1970 he became one of the most successful actors in
fotoromanzi.
poliziottesco
''Poliziotteschi'' (; : ''poliziottesco'') constitute a subgenre of crime and action films that emerged in Italy in the late 1960s and reached the height of their popularity in the 1970s. They are also known as ''polizieschi all'italiana'', ''I ...
which generated two sequels, '' Mark Shoots First'' and '' Mark Strikes Again'', still with Gasparri in the title role.[ A skilled and experienced rider, due to a near-fatal motorcycle accident he was forced in a wheelchair, giving up his promising career.][ He died at 50 years old from respiratory failure.]
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1948 births
1999 deaths
Italian male film actors
People from Senigallia
Male actors from le Marche
20th-century Italian male actors
Italian male child actors
Deaths from respiratory failure