Franca Tamantini

Acting

Franca Tamantini

Born 1931-08-24 · Roma, Lazio, Italy

Franca Tamantini (24 August 1931 – 11 August 2014) was an Italian film, television and stage actress. Born in Rome, since young age Tamantini studied piano, singing and classical dance at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma. In 1948 she was chosen by Luchino Visconti to play Olimpia in the stage drama Rosalinda o come vi piace, and one year later she made her film debut in Fernando Cerchio's Cenerentola, a musical adaptation of the Charles Perrault's fairy tale Cinderella. During her career Tamantini was often cast in operettas and musical comedies, both in the theater and in television. In films, she was often cast in character roles, and she enjoyed a late success only at mature age, with the role of Miss Necchi in the Amici Miei film series. Source: Article "Franca Tamantini" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.

Acting credits

My Friends poster
8.1

Four inseparable friends try to face their midlife crisis with daytrips and pranks at the expense of their families and the people around them.

My Friends

1975

Deadly Circuit poster
6.1

A P.I. is obsessed with a cute woman, who seduces and kills rich men around W. Europe.

Deadly Circuit

1983

My Friends Act III poster
6.4

This time the "amici" (friends) are just four: Necchi, Meandri, Mascetti and Sassaroli. Nevertheless they are older they still love to spend their time mainly organizing irresistible jokes to everyone in every kind of situation. Mascetti is hospitalized in a geriatric clinic. Of course the place become immediately the main stage for all their jokes. After some jokes they decided to place an ultimate incredible and farcical joke to the clinic guests.

My Friends Act III

1985

The Second Wife poster
5.6

In the early 1960's, a Sicilian single mother marries an older, crass widowed truck driver. When he is arrested trying to smuggle an antique, she ends up falling in love with her handsome stepson.

The Second Wife

1998

My Friends Act II poster
7.6

The four old friends meet on the grave of the fifth of them, Perozzi, who died at the end of the first episode. Time has passed but they are still up for adventures and cruel jokes, and while they recall the one they created together with the late friend, new ones are on their way, starting right there at the cemetery.

My Friends Act II

1982

Lovers and Liars poster
4.3

An American actress on vacation in Italy falls for her friend's married Italian lover.

Lovers and Liars

1979

Biraghin poster
9.0

Birdaghin is a dancer at La Scala in Milan whose rapid success also quickly goes to her head. Fortunately, everything will be fine.

Biraghin

1946

Tomorrow Is Another Day poster
4.5

A doctor rescues a young woman who is about to throw herself into the river and takes her to the hospital. The woman learns of three very sad stories revolving around suicide.

Tomorrow Is Another Day

1951

Greetings and sons! poster
6.5

Three friends, a mechanic, a clockmaker, and a night warden are engaged to three sisters but are broke and cannot get married and pay the rent. They convince their future father-in-law to buy three little flats for them but the man buys them from a swindler and the friends run the risk of going to prison.

Greetings and sons!

1951

Femmina incatenata poster
8.0

An art professor falls for one of his pupils who is helping him with a sculpture.

Femmina incatenata

1949

I motorizzati poster
5.9

A guy is about to become the millionth citizen to buy a car in Rome. Frightened, he decides to remain pedestrian, and recalls several stories, with new car owners as protagonists. Episodic comedy.

I motorizzati

1962

Totò Looking for Wife poster
6.3

Aunt Agatha writes to Toto, informing him that she won't send him another penny until he is married.

Totò Looking for Wife

1950

Due soldi di felicità poster
7.0

A country boy moves to the city to attempt a singing career and gets seduced by a soubrette.

Due soldi di felicità

1955

Help Me Dream poster
7.1

In 1943, during the war, Francesca, widowed, moves with her three daughters to her country house, to get away from the bombing of Bologna. In the villa she finds her childhood friends and her old love Guido, who has not forgotten her. Francesca has a passion for everything that comes from America, like music and cinema. She even tells her daughters that her husband who died in the war would actually leave for the USA, where he would live.

Help Me Dream

1981

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Ma tu mi vuoi bene?

1992

The Queen of Sheba poster
5.5

The Queen of Sheba falls in love with the King of Israel. The King of Israel, however, is in love with someone else.

The Queen of Sheba

1952

The Young Caruso poster
7.5

This music filled biopic follows the life of the legendary tenor Enrico Caruso from childhood poverty in Naples to the beginning of his rise to fame.

The Young Caruso

1951

The Man Who Wagged His Tail poster
6.8

The owner of a building tyrannizes his immigrant tenants. Transformed into a dog by an old woman's curse, he experiences all the hardships of his situation; when a child's affection turns him back into a man, his soul is radically changed.

The Man Who Wagged His Tail

1957

The City Stands Trial poster
6.4

Turn-of-the-century Naples. Salvatore Ruotolo and his wife are murdered and their bodies are found in different locations. Since the evidence points to a crime by the Neapolitan crime organization, the Camorra, fear and corruption cause serious hindrances to the investigation by police authorities. In charge is a young and courageous judge who, using evidence discovered by chance, tries to reconstruct the story of the double murder. The plot that the judge must unravel is very complicated.

The City Stands Trial

1952

The Police Commissioner poster
7.4

Popular Italian comic Alberto Sordi does an excellent job of creating a bumbling yet effective police inspector by the unlikely name of Dante Lombardozzi, in this entertaining comedy-murder mystery by director Luigi Comencini.

The Police Commissioner

1962

Sunday Heroes poster
6.4

Gino Bardi is a centre-forward in a football team which is about to be relegated to the second division. Just before a very important match a girl he has a relationship with proposes him to rig it. He refuses the offer but he actually begins playing like an amateur and the crowd begin to smell something fishy going on.

Sunday Heroes

1952

Rigoletto poster
6.0

A musical drama based on Giuseppe Verdi's opera Rigoletto.

Rigoletto

1955

No artwork available
7.5

A pirate tries to lead his followers in vengeance against a corrupt governor.

Revenge of the Pirates

1951

La Favorita poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

La Favorita

1952