Franco Pesce

Acting

Franco Pesce

Born — Died

1890-08-11 — 1975-12-06

Place of birth

Naples, Campania, Italy

Known for

Acting

Credits

60 titles

Known for

What? poster
5.4

A young American woman traveling through Italy finds herself in a strange Mediterranean villa where nothing seems quite right.

What?

1972

The Little World of Don Camillo poster
7.6

In a village of the Po valley where the earth is hard and life miserly, the priest and the communist mayor are always fighting to be the head of the community. If in secret, they admired and liked each other, politics still divided them as it is dividing the country. And when the mayor wants his "People's House"; the priest wants his "Garden City" for the poor. Division exist between the richest and the poorest, the pious and the atheists and even between lovers. But if the people are hard as the country, they are good in the bottom of there heart.

The Little World of Don Camillo

1952

Light the Fuse… Sartana Is Coming poster
6.3

Wily roving gunslinger Sartana arrives in a small town and tries to find a hidden fortune of half a million dollars in gold and two million dollars in counterfeit money. Naturally, a bunch of other treacherous folks who include conniving widow Senora Manassas, shrewd fellow gunslinger Grand Full, and the vicious and unhinged General Monk are also looking to get their greedy hands on said fortune.

Light the Fuse… Sartana Is Coming

1970

Have a Good Funeral, My Friend… Sartana Will Pay poster
6.5

After witnessing a brutal massacre, the legendary hero Sartana is ready to do some investigating. Almost everyone in the tiny town of Indian Creek seems eager to buy up the property left behind by the murder victims, and one of them could well be behind the killings. The sheriff himself is not above suspicion, so Sartana must uncover the culprit all on his own.

Have a Good Funeral, My Friend… Sartana Will Pay

1970

Forgotten Pistolero poster
6.1

Mann is a gunman informed by a childhood friend that his father was murdered years earlier by his mother and her lover. To make matters worse, Mann's sister, who is in love with his friend, is held under the thumb of his murderous mom. The two gunmen ride off to have a reckoning with her.

Forgotten Pistolero

1969

Don Camillo: Monsignor poster
6.9

Don Camillo (now bishop) and Peppone (now senator) return to the town of Brescello and rekindle their friendly rivalry.

Don Camillo: Monsignor

1961

Film credits

1970s · 19 titles

What? poster
5.4

A young American woman traveling through Italy finds herself in a strange Mediterranean villa where nothing seems quite right.

What?

1972

Light the Fuse… Sartana Is Coming poster
6.3

Wily roving gunslinger Sartana arrives in a small town and tries to find a hidden fortune of half a million dollars in gold and two million dollars in counterfeit money. Naturally, a bunch of other treacherous folks who include conniving widow Senora Manassas, shrewd fellow gunslinger Grand Full, and the vicious and unhinged General Monk are also looking to get their greedy hands on said fortune.

Light the Fuse… Sartana Is Coming

1970

Have a Good Funeral, My Friend… Sartana Will Pay poster
6.5

After witnessing a brutal massacre, the legendary hero Sartana is ready to do some investigating. Almost everyone in the tiny town of Indian Creek seems eager to buy up the property left behind by the murder victims, and one of them could well be behind the killings. The sheriff himself is not above suspicion, so Sartana must uncover the culprit all on his own.

Have a Good Funeral, My Friend… Sartana Will Pay

1970

They Call Me Hallelujah poster
5.8

A Yankee gunman, Hallelujah, is hired by Mexican Juarista, General Ramirez to confiscate a case of jewels to fund the revolution. For this, Hallelujah will receive a percentage. But other parties are interested in the case and when they turn out to be fakes, it all deteriorates into a cat and mouse style game with Hallelujah, gunrunners, the French, and a Russian outlaw(!) all searching for the real jewels. - SWDB

They Call Me Hallelujah

1971

God's Gun poster
5.0

Priest turned vigilante Father John hunts down a gang of criminals, led by Sam Clayton, who killed a man in a local bar. On the gang's return to the town, they kill the priest, leaving a young parishioner Johnny behind. He now seeks revenge for the death of the holy man.

God's Gun

1976

Il furto è l'anima del commercio!?... poster
5.2

Libero Sbardelloni, newly married, cannot find work in Rome, so he moves to Naples, where Baron Gaetano Gargiulo, his wife Marcella's uncle, lives. The baron, however, is a penniless nobleman who lives by swindling and petty theft, constantly going in and out of prison.

Il furto è l'anima del commercio!?...

1971

His Name Was Holy Ghost poster
6.2

The Holy Ghost is a supernatural gunfighter dressed in white and with a dove sitting on his shoulder. With his sidekick, the Holy Ghost rescues some farmers from the fortified prison of the evil General Ubarte, then raids the castle again for gold treasure aided by some local prostitutes.

His Name Was Holy Ghost

1972

Shango poster
6.2

Shango is a Texas Ranger who finds himself up against a former Confederate officer and his gang of thugs who have been terrorizing a local border town in search of gold.

Shango

1970

Roy Colt and Winchester Jack poster
4.7

Two outlaws compete with each other over a treasure map that will lead them to buried gold while one of them is in league with a sadistic priest-turned-crime lord, while a young Native American girl helps both outlaws and plays both sides against each other.

Roy Colt and Winchester Jack

1970

A Full Day's Work poster
6.8

A father plans to kill in the same day the nine members of the jury who condemned his son to death.

A Full Day's Work

1973

Le Mans, Shortcut to Hell poster
4.7

Former racing champion John Lee Scott coaches young driver Dustin Rich. The learn of a new Italian model that can reach 300 kilometers an hour developed by an 80 year old racing expert.

Le Mans, Shortcut to Hell

1970

Where the Bullets Fly poster
4.5

Young adventurer Gipo owns one fifth of a rock illustrating the location of a rich gold mine. Risking his life more than once and with the help of the beautiful hooker, Lulu Belle, our hero sets out to recover the missing pieces.

Where the Bullets Fly

1972

Grazie zio, ci provo anch'io poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Grazie zio, ci provo anch'io

1971

We Are No Angels poster
7.5

Two wannabes rig a fight with a large prize fighter to buy a car.

We Are No Angels

1975

God in Heaven... Arizona on Earth poster
7.3

A bounty hunter named Arizona helps a group of beleaguered farmers in their fight against a large landowner named Austin Styles and his gang of outlaws.

God in Heaven... Arizona on Earth

1972

A Virgin Named Mary poster
6.0

A second coming? This time our savior chose a shantytown outside Turin, in the north of Italy, overcrowded by poor families coming from the south in search of a job in a factory, or less legal ways to survive. Young Maria (Cinzia De Carolis) can predict the future during her epileptic seizures, or at least that's what everyone believes, and her mother (Clelia Matania) sells her predictions and responses to the superstitious neighbors, after inducing her "trance" with electricity. One night the shock is too strong, and Maria seems to die: when she wakes up, she is found pregnant. And being a honest unmarried girl from the south, she is obviously still virgin... Notwithstanding the opposition of the local priest (Turi Ferro), everyone, including her, believes in the miracle, and prepares for a second coming, in a crescendo of fanaticism that is soon noticed by the press, and by the official church..

A Virgin Named Mary

1975

Società a responsabilità molto limitata poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Società a responsabilità molto limitata

1973

Jus primae noctis poster
3.9

Ariberto de Ficulle is a nobleman who came into possession of a small feud by marrying the ugly Matilde Montefiascone.

Jus primae noctis

1972

In Love, Every Pleasure Has Its Pain poster
6.0

A poor laborer, Zilio, wants to marry Betìa, the daughter of a rich peasant woman. After a number of refusals Zilio is desperate, but his friend Nale plots a sham marriage between the two, convinced he can take advantage of it.

In Love, Every Pleasure Has Its Pain

1971

1960s · 16 titles

Forgotten Pistolero poster
6.1

Mann is a gunman informed by a childhood friend that his father was murdered years earlier by his mother and her lover. To make matters worse, Mann's sister, who is in love with his friend, is held under the thumb of his murderous mom. The two gunmen ride off to have a reckoning with her.

Forgotten Pistolero

1969

Don Camillo: Monsignor poster
6.9

Don Camillo (now bishop) and Peppone (now senator) return to the town of Brescello and rekindle their friendly rivalry.

Don Camillo: Monsignor

1961

I Am Sartana Your Angel of Death poster
6.4

Sartana is falsely accused of robbing a bank, and must find the real robbers and clear his name.

I Am Sartana Your Angel of Death

1969

If You Meet Sartana Pray for Your Death poster
6.0

After a stagecoach is robbed and the passengers murdered, a long and tangled series of surprise attacks and murderous double-crosses, leaves the coach's strongbox in the hands of the killer Lasky. It is up to the legendary hero Sartana to track down the missing money and determine just who is ultimately behind the grisly robberies and killings.

If You Meet Sartana Pray for Your Death

1968

Paranoia poster
5.9

Following the death of her wealthy husband, American widow Kathryn West migrates to Italy and takes up a reclusive existence in a luxurious villa. After quickly succumbing to the charms of a local man, she lets him move into the villa and the two are later joined by his sister, which soon leads to complications.

Paranoia

1969

Revolt of the Mercenaries poster
7.7

Duchess Patrizia is determined to marry, although against her will, effeminate but powerful Prince Stefano. This is the only way she has found to thwart the plans of Count Keller, her aggressive neighbor, who wants to grab her land.

Revolt of the Mercenaries

1961

A Gun for One Hundred Graves poster
5.8

At the end of the Civil War, Jim Slade, a young confederate soldier and conscientious objector, returns to his ranch to find his parents murdered and the ranch practically destroyed. He finds and kills three of the murderers and learns the name of the fourth, a certain Corbett. Finally he discovers Corbett as the leader of a gang that has plans to rob a local bank and is invited to help defend the town from the bandits. Teaming with a preacher, who has an agenda of his own, the two take a stand against Corbett.

A Gun for One Hundred Graves

1968

Night of Violence poster
6.7

Carla Pratesi, a prostitute, is killed. Her death is followed by a number of attempted murders. Carla's sister undertakes her own investigation. Police enquiries uncover a drugs trade connected to a call-girls organization but the murderer remains at large. Finally, a witness identifies the killer as a well-known actor. However, he has a strong alibi (he was shooting a film). The following night, a girl who manages to escape from the maniac's clutches swears he is a different famous actor but he turns out to have a strong alibi too! Eventually the police set a trap in the park and, with the help of Carla, kill the madman. It emerges he had been disfigured by the atomic blast at Hiroshima and went crazy because his disformed features revolted women and but them off having sex with him. He created masks reproducing the features of handsome actors just to approach prostitutes!

Night of Violence

1965

Don't Wait, Django... Shoot! poster
4.9

Django returns home to find out that his father has been killed, by local bandits, in a business deal gone wrong . He swears revenge and a mixture of lone gun men, gang members and bandits get involved with the search for a pouch of money, missing from the ill-fated deal.

Don't Wait, Django... Shoot!

1967

A... For Assassin poster
6.3

After a rich mine worker dies in mine accident, his heirs gather in his house to hear the reading of the will.

A... For Assassin

1966

Sheriff With the Gold poster
7.5

A gunman teams up with a small time sheriff to rob a shipment of gold.

Sheriff With the Gold

1966

The Sicily Barbers poster
5.9

In a little Sicilian village two hairdressers who are in love with the same girl manage to sabotage the bacteriological weapons the Nazis are preparing to use against the allied armies invasion.

The Sicily Barbers

1967

The Angel poster
9.5

A Spanish singer, known as "El Ángel", owner of a nightclub, lives a double life as an expert in alarms for gangs of thieves. In his last robbery, he betrays his partners, and his lover is kidnapped and he is blackmailed. Thinking that she has betrayed him, he abandons her to her fate. Finally, she committed suicide. El Ángel reconsiders his life and decides to become a monk. But his former life will meet him within the walls of the monastery.

The Angel

1969

Why Go On Killing? poster
5.3

A young deserter from the army returns to the place where his father has been killed by a family of Mexican landowners. The task is not easy as he is alone in his efforts to avenge his father's death.

Why Go On Killing?

1965

Scandali al mare poster
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

Scandali al mare

1961

Special Code: Assignment Lost Formula poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Special Code: Assignment Lost Formula

1966

1950s · 19 titles

The Little World of Don Camillo poster
7.6

In a village of the Po valley where the earth is hard and life miserly, the priest and the communist mayor are always fighting to be the head of the community. If in secret, they admired and liked each other, politics still divided them as it is dividing the country. And when the mayor wants his "People's House"; the priest wants his "Garden City" for the poor. Division exist between the richest and the poorest, the pious and the atheists and even between lovers. But if the people are hard as the country, they are good in the bottom of there heart.

The Little World of Don Camillo

1952

The Law poster
5.9

A gorgeous housekeeper turns the tables on the men in a small Mediterranean coastal town by using their own vicious drinking game.

The Law

1959

The Hussars poster
6.0

Brigadier Le Gouce and Private Flicot lose their horses during a campaign in Italy. To avoid looking ridiculous, the two hussars cross the country in search of their mounts. But when they are mistaken for deserters, their regiment gives chase.

The Hussars

1955

Voice of Silence poster
7.0

The film follows men from all walks of life, seeking to give meaning to their lives and rediscover their inner peace during a retreat in the “House of Silence”. For three days, they meditate on their lives.

Voice of Silence

1953

O.K. Nero poster
6.0

Two American sailors, Fiorello and Jimmy are slugged while sight-seeing in Rome and, together, they dream they are back in Rome in the days of Nero.

O.K. Nero

1951

Mademoiselle Gobete poster
5.5

A singer and operetta dancer works in a small french town where the authorities want to expel her because of her scandalous conduct and performance. When a puritan judge closes the show, the woman will take revenge involving the judge in an affair before the selfsame Justice minister. From that moment on, a series of diversions and misunderstandings will play out leading the main characters to the city of Paris.

Mademoiselle Gobete

1952

Lui, lei e il nonno poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Lui, lei e il nonno

1959

La prigioniera della torre di fuoco poster
10.0

Italy, 15th century: Marco and Cesco, two youths from rival families are friends but become enemies when they both fall in love with the same girl, Germana, who is kept prisoner by Cesco's family in a tower. Germana is however in love with Marco and Cesco, feeling betrayed, has Marco imprisoned. During a battle Marco proves however his loyalty to his friend, who falls unfortunately deadly wounded.

La prigioniera della torre di fuoco

1953

Prigionieri delle tenebre poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Prigionieri delle tenebre

1952

La bisarca poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

La bisarca

1950

No artwork available
NR

Emma and Lucia grow up together in an orphanage and remain friends throughout adulthood. When Emma has to work away from home, she entrusts her daughter to Lucia. When she receives word that her daughter has died, she is desolate - but whose child did, actually, pass away?

Ho pianto per te!

1954

Nobody Has Betrayed poster
8.0

A retiring teacher tells a young teacher the story of two old pupils, who once the war begins they will become enemies ...

Nobody Has Betrayed

1952

La portatrice di pane poster
8.0

France, 1860. A young widow is wrongly accused of murder and, after serving many years in prison, she escapes to find the real culprit.

La portatrice di pane

1950

Rapture poster
8.0

Artist Pietro Leoni is preoccupied with feminine beauty. While walking near an old castle in Italy, he sees a young woman dive in the water from a rock and becomes determined to sculpt her from memory. He rents a house near the spot and falls in love with the mentally disturbed daughter, Francesca, of the castle's owner, W. C. Hutton, while becoming involved with her sister, Marisa unaware of her identity.

Rapture

1952

Una bruna indiavolata! poster
7.0

Carlo wins some money and decides to go to Rome to celebrate, but he gets his money stolen on the train. He tries to find a friend of his for a loan. Unfortunately, he is at his wedding at the church. When Carlo goes there he met his runaway bride...

Una bruna indiavolata!

1951

Spring song poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Spring song

1951

The Lovers of Manon Lescaut poster
4.5

In the reign of king Louis XV,a handsome student,Des Grieux, meets his charming cousin,Manon,just when she goes to the convent of Amiens,to take the veil.

The Lovers of Manon Lescaut

1954

No artwork available
NR

Two young men are training for a rowing race on the Tiber. One of them, "Marco" is distracted by a new found love.

The Last Race

1954

No artwork available
8.0

The adventures of Count Angelo de Marchis as he tries to reach his besieged allies in Rome with much needed funds from England. Can he evade the pursuing "Contessa Sara Mondini" and her Milanese henchmen?

La grande avventura

1954

1940s · 6 titles