Franco Fantasia
Franco Fantasia (actually Francisco Fantasia ; born March 5, 1924 in Rhodes , † November 10, 2002 in Rome ) was an Italian stuntman , armorer, assistant director and actor .
Life
Fantasia, born on the island of Rhodes, then part of Italy, began as a minor actor in Italian films and appeared in a few films from 1951 until the middle of the decade. He specialized in adventurous materials, often coat-and-epee films , whereby he not only acted as a tall, slender, elegant actor, mostly with a gray beard, but also as a stuntman and stunt coordinator, later as one of the most respected weapons masters of the bubbly Italian genre reproduction of the time made its appearance. He managed to bring his skills in every genre hip up to the early 1990s in countless movies and so in adventure films , sandals films , war films , spaghetti westerns , crime films and Gialli to act alike. Again and again he took on acting tasks - also under pseudonyms - in the second and third member of the cast list and, as an assistant director, ensured outstanding action sequences in the films. His filmography lists nearly 150 films with Fantasia's involvement in various functions.
He is the brother of Andrea Fantasia , who also worked as an actor.
Filmography (selection)
- 1951: Tizio, Caio e Sempronio
- 1958: Cross and Sword (La spada e la croce)
- 1960: The revenge of the red knight (Il cavaliere dai cento volti)
- 1961: Constantine the Great (Costantino il grande)
- 1961: Hercules, the hero of Carthage (La vendetta di Ursus)
- 1962: Zorro's homecoming and revenge (Zorro alla corte di Spagna)
- 1963: Zorro with the three swords (Le tre spade di Zorro)
- 1962: Zorro's homecoming and revenge (Zorro alla corte di Spagna)
- 1963: The Last Days of Sinful Rome (L'incendio di Roma)
- 1964: That was Buffalo Bill (Buffalo Bill, l'eroe del Far West)
- 1965: The secret of the three junks
- 1965: A Hole in the Dollar (Un dollaro bucato)
- 1965: The irreconcilable (Rebeldes en Canadá)
- 1966: Django - The vultures stand in line (7 Dollari sul rosso)
- 1966: Sartana (Mille dollari sul nero)
- 1966: Waiting list for hell (Anónima de asesinos)
- 1967: Five against Casablanca (Attentato ai tre grandi)
- 1967: a handful of heroes
- 1967: I come from the end of the world (L'avventuriero)
- 1967: Commissioner X - Three blue panthers
- 1968: The Lonely One (L'ira di Dio)
- 1968: The law of the merciless (Il lungo giorno del massacro)
- 1968: Hate Your Neighbor (Odia il prossimo tuo)
- 1968: I nipoti di Zorro
- 1968: Sangue chiama sangue
- 1969: Zorro alla corte d'Inghilterra
- 1970: Adios, Sabata (Indio Black, sai che ti dico: Sei un gran figlio di ...)
- 1971: Ben and Charlie (Amico, Stammi lontano almeno un palmo)
- 1971: Sabata returns (È tornato Sabata… hai chiuso un'altra volta)
- 1972: The riddle of the silver crescent moon (Sette orchidee macchiate di rosso)
- 1973: Five riddles to death (Una vita lunga un giorno)
- 1973: Four fists strike again (Carambola)
- 1973: Zorro junior (Il figlio di Zorro)
- 1977: The man from Virginia (California)
- 1978: The white goddess of cannibals (La montagna del dio cannibale)
- 1979: Omar Mukhtar - Lion of the Desert (Omar Mukhtar - Lion of the Desert)
- 1980: Eaten alive (Mangiati vivi!)
- 1985: Christopher Columbus (Christopher Columbus)
- 1991: Buck's greatest adventure (Buck ai confini del cielo)
- 2002: John XXIII. - For a world in peace (Il papa buono)
Web links
- Franco Fantasia in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Michele Giordano: Giganti buoni: Da Ercolea a Piedone. Rome 1998, p. 113f.
- ^ Roberto Poppi, article Franco Fantasia , in: Dizionario del cinema italiano. Gli attori. Rome 1998, p. 192/193
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fantasia, Franco |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Fantasia, Francisco (real name); Farell, Frank; Farrell, Frank |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian stuntman, armorer, assistant director and actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 5, 1924 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rhodes |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 10, 2002 |
| Place of death | Rome |