Franco Giacobini (5 March 1926 – 27 December 2015) was an Italian
actor
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Born in Rome as Francesco Giacobini, he graduated at
Accademia Nazionale di Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico in 1948, then started a prolific stage career, working in comedy plays, dramas and revues.
Giacobini also appeared in numerous films and TV-works, usually in comedic roles.
[ He was married to actress Angela Goodwin.][
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Selected filmography
* '' Papà diventa mamma'' (1952) - Il passeggero sul Tram
* ''Le marchand de Venise'' (1953)
* ''Ci troviamo in galleria'' (1953) - Funzionario RAI
* '' Via Padova 46'' (1953) - The Journalist (uncredited)
* ''Caporale di giornata'' (1958) - The Sailor on the Telephone (uncredited)
* ''La cento chilometri'' (1959) - The Race Walker without His Underpants
* '' Uncle Was a Vampire'' (1959) - Il secondo play boy
* '' The Employee'' (1960) - Rotondi
* '' Run with the Devil'' (1960) - The TV Interviewer (uncredited)
* '' The Fascist'' (1961) - Militare a Rocca Sabina
* '' The Orderly'' (1961)
* '' Hercules in the Haunted World'' (1961) - Telemachus (Telemaco)
* ''Cronache del '22'' (1961)
* '' Erik the Conqueror'' (1961) - Rustichello
* '' A cavallo della tigre'' (1961) - Medico del carcere
* '' The Two Marshals'' (1961) - Basilio Meneghetti
* '' His Women'' (1961) - The Police Commissioner
* '' Il mio amico Benito'' (1962) - Liberati
* '' Crazy Desire'' (1962) - Alberghetti
* '' Totò Diabolicus'' (1962) - Dottor Santoro
* '' La bellezza di Ippolita'' (1962) - Aurelio
* '' Eighteen in the Sun'' (1962) - Commissar
* '' Lo smemorato di Collegno'' (1962) - Giornalista
* ''Le Scorpion'' (1962)
* ''I motorizzati
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Cast
*Ugo Tognazzi as Achille Pestani
* Nino Manfredi as Nino Borsetti
* Franco Franchi ...
'' (1962) - Alberto
* ''Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace
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'' (1962) - Texas Collector
* '' The Shortest Day'' (1963) - (uncredited)
* ''Uno strano tipo'' (1963) - Journalist
* '' Sexy Toto'' (1963) - Un galeotti
* '' The Swindlers'' (1963) - The Lawyer Ovidio (segment "Società calcistica, La")
* '' Gli onorevoli'' (1963) - De Angelis
* ''La ballata dei mariti'' (1963) - Vicebrigadiere Licata
* ''Senza sole né luna'' (1964)
* '' I Kill, You Kill'' (1965) - Dottore (segment "Una boccata di fumo")
* '' Soldati e caporali'' (1965) - Serg. Pancani
* '' Assassination in Rome'' (1965)
* '' Two Sergeants of General Custer'' (1965) - Cochise
* ''Le sedicenni'' (1965)
* ''El Greco
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'' (1966) - Francisco
* '' Zärtliche Haie'' (1967) - Fähnrich
* '' O.K. Connery'' (1967) - Juan
* ''I 2 vigili'' (1967) - Romoletto
* '' Soldati e capelloni'' (1967) - Franco - il barbiere
* ''Quarta parete'' (1968)
* ''Donne... botte e bersaglieri'' (1968) - Marshal
* '' Don Chisciotte and Sancio Panza'' (1968) - Don Nicola - barber
* '' Dismissed on His Wedding Night'' (1968) - Facchetti
* '' The Mercenary'' (1968) - Pepote
* '' Chimera'' (1968) - Sergeant
* '' Alibi'' (1969) - Luca
* '' Why Did I Ever Say Yes Twice?'' (1969) - Roberto
* ''Terzo Canale - Avventura a Montecarlo'' (1970) - Mechanic
* ''Mazzabubù... Quante corna stanno quaggiù?'' (1971) - Boemondo
* '' It Can Be Done Amigo'' (1972) - L'uomo chi mangia la terra
* '' Sonny and Jed'' (1972) - Aparicito
* ''Abbasso tutti, viva noi'' (1974) - Teacher
* ''The Student Connection'' (1974) - Chief Inspector Delon
* '' Il gatto mammone'' (1975) - Priest
* '' As of Tomorrow'' (1976) - Maresciallo delle Carabinieri (uncredited)
* '' Three Tigers Against Three Tigers'' (1977) - Servant of Di Lazzaro
* '' Pane, burro e marmellata'' (1977) - Simona's Husband
* '' I'm Getting a Yacht'' (1980) - Fugitive #1
* ''Sing Sing
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'' (1983) - Baron Orfeo della Torre (first story)
* ''Scrivilo sui muri'' (2007) - Anziano
* ''Il volto di un'altra'' (2012) - Proprietario del negozio di animali impagliati
References
Notice of death
External links
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Italian male film actors
1926 births
Male actors from Rome
Italian male television actors
Italian male stage actors
2015 deaths
Accademia Nazionale di Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico alumni