The Last Man on Earth
The Last Man on Earth
1964-05-06
6.572 / 10 ( 470)
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.
Born: 1936-05-14 in Roma, Lazio, Italy
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Don't Touch the White Woman!
Touche pas à la femme blanche
1974-01-23
5.5 / 10 ( 43)
Duel of Champions
Orazi e Curiazi
1961-10-19
5.3 / 10 ( 6)
Kolossal - The Magnificent Macisti
Kolossal - I magnifici Macisti
1977-01-01
0 / 10 ( 0)
The Dialogue of the Carmelites
Le Dialogue des Carmélites
1960-06-01
7.143 / 10 ( 7)
Will Our Heroes Be Able to Find Their Friend Who Has Mysteriously Disappeared in Africa?
Riusciranno i nostri eroi a ritrovare l'amico misteriosamente scomparso in Africa?
1968-12-19
6.779 / 10 ( 95)
The Lion of St. Mark
Il leone di San Marco
1963-11-21
3.6 / 10 ( 4)
Return of Sandokan
Sandokan contro il leopardo di Sarawak
1964-10-18
6.7 / 10 ( 3)
Man of Straw
L'uomo di paglia
1958-03-11
7.147 / 10 ( 17)
Nights of the Teddy Boys
Le notti dei Teddy Boys
1959-10-03
7 / 10 ( 1)
Cavalcata selvaggia
Cavalcata selvaggia
1960-01-01
0 / 10 ( 0)
The Seventh Floor
Il fischio al naso
1967-08-06
5.85 / 10 ( 10)
Sandokan Fights Back
Sandokan alla riscossa
1964-08-13
5.333 / 10 ( 6)
Attack of the Normans
I normanni
1962-08-23
6 / 10 ( 1)
The Itchy Palm
La main chaude
1960-02-03
6 / 10 ( 1)
Skinheads
Teste rasate
1993-07-01
4.7 / 10 ( 22)
Last Chance for Life
Ultimatum alla vita
1962-01-11
0 / 10 ( 0)
So Much Love Lost
Tant d'amour perdu
1958-11-12
0 / 10 ( 0)
Desert Warrior
Los amantes del desierto
1957-10-31
5 / 10 ( 1)
The Man with the Cigar in His Mouth
L'uomo dal sigaro in bocca
1997-08-06
0 / 10 ( 0)
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