Franco Pesce

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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)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ biography at mymovies (Italian)
personal data
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