Francesco Vistarini (18 February 1920 – 10 November 1995), known professionally as Franco Silva, was an Italian actor.
Born in
Genoa
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, Silva moved in Rome to attend the
Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, from which he graduated in 1938;
the following year he made his film debut in ''Ho visto brillare le stelle''. Silva was mainly active between the 1950s and the mid-1960s; he was also active on stage and on television.
[ Silva was the father of scriptwriter and novelist Carla Vistarini and actress Mita Medici.]
Partial filmography
* ''Ho visto brillare le stelle'' (1939) - Mario
* ''Vietato ai minorenni'' (1944) - Lo studento in medicina
* '' The Lion of Amalfi'' (1950)
* '' Malavita'' (1951) - Serg. Mario
* '' The Wonderful Adventures of Guerrin Meschino'' (1952) - Bayazil
* ''Femmina senza cuore'' (1952) - Carlo
* '' The Queen of Sheba'' (1952) - Kabaal, commander of the Sheban army
* '' The Man from Cairo'' (1953) - Armeno
* '' Frine, Courtesan of Orient'' (1953) - Claus
* '' Mizar'' (''Frogwoman'') (1954) - comandante Luigi Ferri
* '' The Last Race'' (1954)
* '' The Count of Bragelonne'' (1954) - Boissière
* ''Processo all'amore'' (1955) - Enrico Mariani
* ''Canzone proibita'' (1956) - Paolo
* '' Allow Me, Daddy!'' (1956) - Gigi Biagi - Cognato di Rodolfo
* ''Occhi senza luce'' (1956) - Sandro
* ''Il canto dell'emigrante'' (1956) - Franco Lari
* ''Donne, amore e matrimoni'' (1956) - Corrado
* ''Il ricatto di un padre'' (1957) - Serpieri
* ''Song of Naples
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'' (1957) - Max Rambarzi
* '' Adorabili e bugiarde'' (1958) - Police Commissioner
* ''Hannibal
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'' (1959) - Maharbal
* '' Guardatele ma non toccatele'' (1959) - Morris Blond
* '' The Mongols'' (1961) - Stepen of Crakow
* ''The Count of Monte Cristo
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'' (1961) - Mario
* ''L'urlo dei bolidi'' (1961)
* '' Charge of the Black Lancers'' (1962) - Gamul
* '' The Tough and the Mighty'' (1969) - Arecu
* ''Questa libertà di avere... le ali bagnate'' (1971) - Robin
* '' The Assassination of Matteotti'' (1973)
* '' Spasmo'' (1974) - Luca
* '' Patrick Still Lives'' (1980) - Lyndon Kraft (final film role)
References
External links
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1920 births
1995 deaths
Italian male film actors
Male actors from Genoa
Italian male television actors
Italian male stage actors
Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia alumni
20th-century Italian male actors
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