Franco Pesce
Franco Pesce (born August 11, 1890 in Naples , † December 6, 1975 in Rome ) was an Italian actor and cameraman .
Life
Pesce, whose father Ettore organized the first film screenings in Naples in 1897, attended the Institut Tecnico Superiore after leaving school to study singing as a lyrical baritone . Soon, however, he became interested in the then new art of film and began in 1910 as an assistant at two Neapolitan production companies. He then went to Rome and from 1920 became the technical director of various silent films. With the advent of talkies, he became a cameraman and in the mid-1940s he increasingly turned to acting, to which he remained loyal until the end of his life. In his small and larger supporting roles, almost 90 in number, he played numerous characters who gave adventure films, often spaghetti westerns , a comical note as a sidekick ; his inimitable facial expressions set him on these "funny" roles; serious appearances were rare.
His pseudonym was Frank Fisher .
Filmography (selection)
- 1940: Melodie eterne
- 1952: Men without tears ( La voce del silenzio )
- 1966: Kill, Ringo, kill (Uno sceriffo tutto d'oro)
- 1967: Django - Your executioner is waiting (Non aspettare Django, spara)
- 1967: 100,000 damn dollars (Voltati ... ti uccido)
- 1968: A colt for a hundred coffins (Una pistola per cento bare)
- 1968: Django - the gun by the throat (Chiedi perdono a Dio… non a me)
- 1968: Sartana - Pray for your death (… Se incontri Sartana prega per la tua morte)
- 1968: His Winchester whistles the song of death (I lunghi giorni dell'odio)
- 1969: Sartana - killing was his daily bread (Sono Sartana, il vostro becchino)
- 1969: His bullets whistle the death song (Il pistolero dell 'Ave Maria)
- 1970: Three Scoundrels and a Hallelujah (Roy Colt & Winchester Jack)
- 1970: Sartana is coming ... (Una nuvola di polvere ... un grido di morte ... arriva Sartana)
- 1970: Sartana - still warm and already sand on it (Buon funerale, amigos ... paga Sartana)
- 1970: Shango's last fight (Shango la pistola infallibile)
- 1971: A Hallelujah for Spirito Santo (Uomo avvisato mezzo ammazzato… Parola di Spirito Santo)
- 1971: I am called Hallelujah (Testa t'ammazzo, croce ... sei morto! Mi chiamano Alleluja)
- 1971: Il tredicesimo è semper Giudà
- 1972: Una bala marcada
- 1972: Five lumps of gold (Tutti fratelli nel West ... per parte di padre)
- 1975: We are the strongest (Noi non siamo angeli)
- 1976: The Colt of God (Diamante lobo)
Web links
- Franco Pesce in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ biography at mymovies (Italian)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Pesce, Franco |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Fisher, Frank |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian actor and filmmaker |
DATE OF BIRTH | August 11, 1890 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Naples , Italy |
DATE OF DEATH | 6th December 1975 |
Place of death | Rome , Italy |