Franco Citti
Acting
Biography
Franco Citti (born 23 April 1935 in Rome) was an Italian actor. He came to fame at the age of 26, playing the title role in Pier Paolo Pasolini's film Accattone. In 1967 he appeared in the title role in Pasolini's version of Oedipus Rex. He is perhaps best-known to non-Italian audiences as Calo in The Godfather I and III and uttering the line 'In Sicily, women are more dangerous than shotguns'. Description above from the Wikipedia article "Franco Citti," licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Born: April 23, 1935
Place of Birth: Roma, Lazio, Italia
Known For
The Godfather: The Complete Epic 1901–1959
The Godfather 1901–1959: The Complete Epic is a reduced, 386-minute version of the 1977 television miniseries, "Mario Puzo's The Godfather: The Complete Novel for Television," released to video in 1981. Unlike the miniseries, which was presented in four segments (each with opening and closing credits), the Epic is presented as a single segment. In January 2016, HBO aired the Epic in its uncut and uncensored format, later making it available on its streaming platforms. The HBO showing contained most of the known deleted scenes, thereby lengthening the runtime of the Epic from its video release to 423 minutes.
The Godfather
Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attempt on his life, his youngest son, Michael steps in to take care of the would-be killers, launching a campaign of bloody revenge.
Mario Puzo's The Godfather: The Complete Novel for Television
A seven-hour chronological edit of The Godfather and The Godfather Part II, expanded with over an hour of restored scenes to trace the Corleone family’s rise from Vito’s youth in Sicily to Michael’s reign in 1950s America, re-edited for its 1977 network television broadcast.
Il Magnaccio
Italian 60's drama about a pimp called Il Principino and his violent and troubled relationship with a prostitute called Laura.
Mamma Roma
After years spent working as a prostitute in her Italian village, middle-aged Mamma Roma has saved enough money to buy herself a fruit stand so that she can have a respectable middle-class life and reestablish contact with the 16-year-old son she abandoned when he was an infant. But her former pimp threatens to expose her sordid past, and her troubled son seems destined to fall into a life of crime and violence.
Accattone
A pimp with no other means to provide for himself finds his life spiralling out of control when his prostitute is sent to prison.
One Way or Another
Set during a retreat of Christian Democrat politicians who practice spiritual exercises together, it is an allegory of corrupted power. Disturbing, claustrophobic settings are the background to a series of mysterious crimes.
The Godfather Part III
In the midst of trying to legitimize his business dealings in 1979 New York and Italy, aging mafia don, Michael Corleone seeks forgiveness for his sins while taking a young protege under his wing.
Roma
A virtually plotless, gaudy, impressionistic portrait of Rome through the eyes of one of its most famous citizens.
Violent Life
Tommaso Puzzilli is a boy who grew up in the suburb of Pietralata outside Rome. Not having a job, Tommaso and his friends are committing crimes to make money.
Filmography
as Self
as Himself
as Zio Franco
as Arturo Santaniello
as Peppe
as Attore
as Michele
as Calo
as Projectionist
as Franco
as Grignapoco
as Capace
as Cigal
as Sam
as Le préfet
as Foreign Legion Officer
as Francesco
as Alfredo
as Er Cinese
as Man in Bar
as Juan
as Nando
as Pasquale Ferrante
as Antonio Lanza
as Ciro
as Berté
as Autista di M.
as Ruggero Rujinski
as Luiso Malerba
as Benito
as The Demon
as Mammone
as Artemio
as Renato
as Devil
as Man at Restaurant (uncredited)
as Calo - Sicilian Sequence
as Ciappelletto
as Alberto Marini
as Rabbino
as Secondo Cannibale
as Bruno Esposito
as Franco
as Oreste
as Oedipus
as Burt
as Renato
as Fante Romano
as Carmine
as Tommaso
as Vittorio 'Accattone' Cataldi