Franco Citti

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1935-04-23 (81 years old)

Deathday

2016-01-14

Place of Birth

Roma, Lazio, Italia

Franco Citti

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.

Acting

1973

Bawdy Tales

as Mammone

1971

The Decameron

as Ciappelletto

1961

Accattone

as Vittorio 'Accattone' Cataldi

1977

Watch Me When I Kill

as Pasquale Ferrante

1967

Oedipus Rex

as Edipo

1974

Arabian Nights

as The Demon

1962

Mamma Roma

as Carmine

1976

One Way or Another

as Autista di M.

1969

Pigsty

as Secondo Cannibale

1972

The Godfather

as Calo - Sicilian Sequence

1968

Black Jesus

as Oreste

1967

1970

Ostia

as Rabbino

1981

The Soup

as Francesco

1962

Violent Life

as Tommaso

1996

We Free Kings

as Attore

1971

Una ragazza di Praga

as Alberto Marini

1990

Scandal in Black

as Projectionist

1979

Luna

as Man in Bar

1969

Gangster's Law

as Bruno Esposito

1976

2008

La Rabbia di Pasolini

as Self (archive footage)

1977

1986

1990

The Secret

as Franco

1980

Ciao marziano

as Er Cinese

1973

1994

1980

Fatal Fix

as Alfredo

1997

1972

Roma

as Man at Restaurant (uncredited)

1978

Yerma

as Juan

1977

Destruction Force

as Antonio Lanza

1989

Rosso di sera

as Capace

1983

The Black Stallion Returns

as Foreign Legion Officer

1997

The Mayor

as Arturo Santaniello

1974

1977

Beach House

as Nando

1963

The Shortest Day

as Fante Romano

2017

Production

1997

Cartoni animati

as Director

1997

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