Acting

Franco Coop

Born — Died

1891-09-27 — 1962-03-27

Place of birth

Napoli, Italy

Known for

Acting

Credits

51 titles

Known for

Quel fantasma di mio marito poster
7.2

Gianni Alberti is a journalist who is sent to Palestine. He decides to fake a fatal accident so he can then return home as a hero. But things don't turn out as planned, Gianni end up coming back to Italy, but only as a ghost.

Quel fantasma di mio marito

1950

Totò, Vittorio and the Doctor poster
5.4

The fake private detective Mike Spillone is hired by two old ladies to find out if Brigitte, the wife of their nephew Otello Bellomo, has a lover. Brigitte is a physician but the two aunts are unaware of the fact. While investigating, Mike and his assistant Johnny discover Brigitte with a prospective patient, the marquis De Vitti who was shot by the husband of the woman he tried to seduce. Afterwards Spillone finds her with her husband who he believes to be her lover.

Totò, Vittorio and the Doctor

1957

Le vacanze del Sor Clemente poster
7.0

Sor Clemente tries to avoid an underwater fishing trip together with his authoritarian wife's friends and pretends to be ill. Left alone in the villa he's left in the company of a friend and a butler.

Le vacanze del Sor Clemente

1955

Hands Off Me! poster
6.2

In his first feature, great Italian clown Totò plays a carefree tramp moving from job to job, in order to provide for himself and his young Shirley Temple-like protégée.

Hands Off Me!

1937

Ninì Falpalà poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Ninì Falpalà

1933

Jealousy poster
8.5

A film based on the book Il marchese di Roccaverdina by Luigi Capuana about a marquis who is in love with his servant Agrippina but is unable to marry her because of her status. The marquis commands his trusted subject to marry her in his stead as long as he vows not to have sex with her.

Jealousy

1942

Film credits

1950s · 16 titles

Quel fantasma di mio marito poster
7.2

Gianni Alberti is a journalist who is sent to Palestine. He decides to fake a fatal accident so he can then return home as a hero. But things don't turn out as planned, Gianni end up coming back to Italy, but only as a ghost.

Quel fantasma di mio marito

1950

Totò, Vittorio and the Doctor poster
5.4

The fake private detective Mike Spillone is hired by two old ladies to find out if Brigitte, the wife of their nephew Otello Bellomo, has a lover. Brigitte is a physician but the two aunts are unaware of the fact. While investigating, Mike and his assistant Johnny discover Brigitte with a prospective patient, the marquis De Vitti who was shot by the husband of the woman he tried to seduce. Afterwards Spillone finds her with her husband who he believes to be her lover.

Totò, Vittorio and the Doctor

1957

Le vacanze del Sor Clemente poster
7.0

Sor Clemente tries to avoid an underwater fishing trip together with his authoritarian wife's friends and pretends to be ill. Left alone in the villa he's left in the company of a friend and a butler.

Le vacanze del Sor Clemente

1955

Non perdiamo la testa poster
6.2

A mad scientist pursues a man hoping to study his brain.

Non perdiamo la testa

1959

Sette canzoni per sette sorelle poster
6.5

The six daughters of the mayor are not concerned with their six boyfriends because they are all infatuated with Claudio Villa. When this really comes to the village, everything happens, but as in Cinderella's fable, Claudio Villa falls in love with the seventh daughter, who is actually a child, and everything settles.

Sette canzoni per sette sorelle

1957

Tragic Spell poster
5.5

Some peasants are excited to marry their first-born with a beautiful young woman, but they are unaware of her ambitious personality. When the father-in-law finds a treasure, everything gets complicated.

Tragic Spell

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

The Art of Getting Along poster
6.8

In this comedy Alberto Sordi plays Rosario Scimoni, known as Sasà, an opportunistic and unscrupulous guy, nephew of the mayor of Catania, and he's always ready to take sides with anyone who can help him. He switches from socialism to fascism; he changes his political faith the same way he changes women. He even tries to found his own party.

The Art of Getting Along

1954

Taxi di notte poster
7.0

A taxi driver, with singing ambitions, finds an abandoned baby in his cab and begins to look for his mother. He doesn't find her but succeeds in finding two people who want to adopt the child.

Taxi di notte

1950

Singing Café poster
5.4

Sor Clemente escapes the surveillance of his wife and goes to attend a variety show.

Singing Café

1953

Neapolitan Carousel poster
6.5

Music, ballet, folk dances and mime eliciting the spirit of Naples across the ages are loosely tied together by the comedic wanderings and exploits of the Esposito family.

Neapolitan Carousel

1954

The Fate of Two Queens poster
8.0

Anthology film in which Hedy Lamarr plays 2 queens during 2 different time periods. Ulmer directed the Genoveffa di Brabante part whereas Allégret was responsible for the empress Josephine section after he left due to artistic differences with Lamarr.

The Fate of Two Queens

1954

La bisarca poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

La bisarca

1950

Cavalcade of Song poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Cavalcade of Song

1953

Ore 10: lezione di canto poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Ore 10: lezione di canto

1955

Laugh! Laugh! Laugh! poster
NR

A series of comical sketches featuring a doctor, a travelling salesman and some posh gents.

Laugh! Laugh! Laugh!

1954

1940s · 13 titles

Jealousy poster
8.5

A film based on the book Il marchese di Roccaverdina by Luigi Capuana about a marquis who is in love with his servant Agrippina but is unable to marry her because of her status. The marquis commands his trusted subject to marry her in his stead as long as he vows not to have sex with her.

Jealousy

1942

Il barone Carlo Mazza poster
6.0

Rosa Pezza, a beautiful young girl, is forced into a thousand maneuvers and subterfuges to gain possession of a rich inheritance. She is ultimately forced to marry the penniless and bizarre baron Carlo Mazza but the baron, tired of his wife's escapades, decides to divorce her...

Il barone Carlo Mazza

1948

San Giovanni decollato poster
6.7

Mastr'Antonio Miciaccio caretaker and shoemaker is devoted to Saint John Beheaded and is trying to find out who has been stealing the oil that keeps the candle to the saint burning. He also does not approve of his daughter's boy friend and he does not want him to marry her.

San Giovanni decollato

1940

Luck Comes from Heaven poster
3.0

The merchant Giovanni Illes is tracked down by the debtors, but cannot pay his debts. To save her father from bankruptcy, Anna talks to the lawyer, trying to earn an extension. The lawyer grants it to him, but he gets too close, even physically. She wants to defend herself, but his power dominates the impotence of the woman.

Luck Comes from Heaven

1942

The King's Jester poster
7.0

Based on a Victor Hugo play, and scored with music from the later opera by Giuseppe Verdi, the film tells about a hunchbacked clown whose beautiful daughter falls in love with the lecherous king.

The King's Jester

1941

La bocca sulla strada poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

La bocca sulla strada

1941

Il re del circo poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Il re del circo

1941

L'allegro fantasma poster
5.3

The noble Pantaleo Di Santa Paola has just died, and the preamble to his will is a confession in which he claims that in his youth he had a relationship with a circus rider that produced twin sons.

L'allegro fantasma

1941

Don Pasquale poster
8.0

In the eighteenth-century Rome, Don Pasquale Corneto, wants his young nephew Ernesto, dedicated to a wasteful social life, to marry a rich spinster, both to save on the expenses of his maintenance and to increase the family heritage.

Don Pasquale

1940

Capitan Fracassa poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Capitan Fracassa

1940

Sette giorni all'altro mondo poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Sette giorni all'altro mondo

1940

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Un mese d'onestà

1948

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Il matrimonio segreto

1943

1930s · 21 titles

Hands Off Me! poster
6.2

In his first feature, great Italian clown Totò plays a carefree tramp moving from job to job, in order to provide for himself and his young Shirley Temple-like protégée.

Hands Off Me!

1937

Ninì Falpalà poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Ninì Falpalà

1933

La mia canzone al vento poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

La mia canzone al vento

1939

Il conte di Bréchard poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Il conte di Bréchard

1938

La mia vita sei tu poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

La mia vita sei tu

1934

Everybody's Woman poster
6.6

Gaby is expelled from school after a married teacher commits suicide after telling her he can't live without her. Though she has done nothing, she is punished for his act.

Everybody's Woman

1934

Before the Jury poster
10.0

During a reception in a villa, wealthy banker Calandri is killed in the park with a gunshot. The gamekeeper Barra is immediately arrested, but he declares himself innocent. During the trial it turns out that the defendant had threatened the victim, guilty of courting his sister-in-law. But the deposition of a journalist present at the party soon leads to discover the existence of a dense network of equivocal relations between the victim, the guests and the servants. This judicial setting drama is allegedly the second Italian sound film after "The Song of Love", made using the RCA Photophone recording technique, and is also considered to be the first Italian detective film, a precursor to the later genre of Giallo films.

Before the Jury

1931

Quei due poster
6.4

Adventures of two provincial actors looking for anyway done with something to eat. They are joined by a girl, Lili. They represent a magic number, but all I get are miscues and boos.

Quei due

1935

Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal poster
5.6

A story of the Second Punic Wars, beginning with Scipio's futile pleas to the Roman Senate to build an army to battle Hannibal, that climaxes with the battle of Zama.

Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal

1937

I'll Give a Million poster
6.8

A comedy about a hobo and a millionaire who swap roles after the millionaire rescues the hobo from a suicide attempt.

I'll Give a Million

1935

The Serpent's Fang poster
8.0

Early, proto giallo set in a boarding house for girls.

The Serpent's Fang

1935

La signorina dell'autobus poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

La signorina dell'autobus

1933

The Hotel of the Absent poster
6.7

The young lady-in-waiting of a millionairess is kidnapped, in her stead, by people who had an interest in the disappearance of the rich heiress. The girl is entrusted to a shady figure who has, for years, organized a special "hotel" where - in rigorous segregation - he holds prisoners the people entrusted to him by those who, for reasons of interest, have decreed their disappearance.

The Hotel of the Absent

1939

The Secretary for Everyone poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Secretary for Everyone

1932

Cinque a zero poster
9.0

Sports comedy film inspired by a 5–0 victory by A.S. Roma against their rivals Juventus in 1931.

Cinque a zero

1932

The Last Days of Pompeo poster
7.0

The title refers to a character named Pompeo Quarantini; an attorney tries to prevent marriage between an heiress and a musician, but without success.

The Last Days of Pompeo

1937

Piccola mia poster
7.2

A woman leaves her husband and her young daughter after she falls for a rally driver.

Piccola mia

1933

No artwork available
9.0

Clotilde, wife of lawyer Giulio has just returned from an extramarital affair that ended badly: the only bond she still has with her husband is the hope of finding their daughter. The house is bursting with gossip and rumors. One day comes news about their daughter.

La scala

1931

Lohengrin poster
10.0

The monotonous life of a bourgeois family is disturbed by the announcement of the imminent return from America of Mr. Lohengrin, who had left Italy years earlier, leaving behind the reputation of being an irresistible womanizer. Lohengrin's cousin, worried about the stability of his marriage, convinces some relatives who live in the countryside to welcome the dreaded guest into their home and then, to avoid meeting him, leaves. Meanwhile, in the country house everyone eagerly awaits Lohengrin, and envy and spite are unleashed during the wait. In particular, while the young landlady prepares the house, the woman's husband begins to be tormented by jealousy. But the arrival of the long-awaited guest will be a huge disappointment for everyone: the once seductive man is now just an aged, with glasses and a prominent belly.

Lohengrin

1936

The Amnesiac poster
NR

An amusing comedy taken from the repertoire of the great Sicilian comedian Angelo Musco and vaguely inspired by the case of the scatter – brain of Collegno: a man who has run away from his henpecking wife is welcomed by a rich woman who has mistaken him for her missing husband.

The Amnesiac

1936

Bionda sottochiave poster
7.0

A famous American director is looking for a special type of girl he needs to play in his next film.

Bionda sottochiave

1939