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 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Franca Bettoia, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For: Acting

Born: Roma, Lazio, Italy, 1936-05-14

Died: null

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1957	Desert Warrior	Suleika	50
2	1958	Man of Straw	Rita	71
3	1958	So Much Love Lost	Annie	0
4	1959	Nights of the Teddy Boys	Orietta Fantoni	70
5	1960	Cavalcata selvaggia	Paola	0
6	1960	The Itchy Palm	Christiane	60
7	1960	The Dam on the Yellow River	Schwester Celeste	0
8	1960	The Dialogue of the Carmelites	Carmelite nun (uncredited)	67
9	1961	Duel of Champions	Marcia	53
10	1961	Day by Day, Desperately	Marcella	80
11	1962	Ultimatum alla vita	Mara Berri	0
12	1962	Attack of the Normans	Queen Patricia	60
13	1963	The Lion of St. Mark	Isabella Fieschi	36
14	1964	The Last Man on Earth	Ruth Collins	66
15	1964	Sandokan Fights Back	Samoa	53
16	1964	Return of Sandokan	Samoa	60
17	1967	The Seventh Floor	Giovanna	59
18	1968	Will Our Heroes Be Able to Find Their Friend Who Has Mysteriously Disappeared in Africa?	Rita Di Salvio	69
19	1974	Don't Touch the White Woman!	Rayon de Lune (as Franca Bettoja)	55
20	1977	Kolossal - The Magnificent Macisti	Samoa (archive footage)	0
21	1993	Skinheads	Roberta	46
22	1997	The Man with the Cigar in His Mouth	Self	0

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