Franco Sportelli
Known For & Full Filmography19 Titles
Drama Series - 1969, 16 episodes • as Mc Millan
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Drama Series - 1965, 16 episodes • as Salvatore Biancolella
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Movie - 1963, 2h 15m • as Avvocato dell'accusa (uncredited)
Two jerks are enlisted in the Italian army during W.W.1 and by pure luck manage to help win an important battle.
Drama Series - 1969, 16 episodes • as Ludovico
After many years in prison, Luca Sabatini returns to his home village in Abruzzo in 1946. At the same time, party official Andrea Cipriani, who had to leave Italy during the war but is now welcomed back as a hero, also arrives. Andrea is the son of Luca's best friend. Luca's conviction was the first traumatic experience of his life. He is therefore determined to solve the mystery of why Luca did not defend himself at all during his trial, despite his innocence.
Movie - 1966, 2h 15m • as Judge
A criminal mastermind sets up a phony film production as part of a plan to smuggle stolen gold.
Movie - 1962, 2h 15m • as Prof. Rosati
September 1943. After Italy surrenders to the Allies, people in Naples believe the war is finally over, but soon they realize Germans are still in control — and as ruthless as ever. Armed with makeshift weapons, civilians rise up en masse against the invaders — and overwhelming odds.
Movie - 1967, 2h 15m • as Bertuccio
A chastity belt provides an endless amount of grief for a woman whose jealous husband has gone off to the Crusades.
Movie - 1963, 2h 15m • as Enobarbo
Mark Antony has a brother-lookalike, Totonno, a sinister slave trader. Totonno secretly replaces Mark Antony in the most delicate moments.
Movie - 1962, 2h 15m • as Amilcare Franceschelli
A middle-aged plumber quits his job and questions his life after seeing somebody his own age suddenly die from a heart attack on his way to work.
Movie - 1954, 2h 15m • as Vincenzo
Eugene, a young nobleman, asks two penniless idlers to impersonate his noble relatives to help him marry Gemma, the daughter of an enriched cook.
Movie - 1960, 2h 15m • as Osvaldo
A low level official and a prostitute both try to commit suicide and fail, afterwards he becomes a pimp and the prostitutes take over the country.
Movie - 1968, 2h 15m • as Firs
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Movie - 1962, 2h 15m • as Zio Francesco
The love affair between Andrea, laborer from the italian northern area called Bassa Lombarda and apulian single mother, Rosaria, is grafted on the background of the inconveniences of poor commuters who must go to work in Milan by train.
Drama Series - 1967, 16 episodes • as Giuseppe
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Movie - 1951, 2h 15m • as Franco
A ruthless businessman wants to bring a penniless nobleman financially on his knees because he wants to marry the man's daughter. It is the family chauffeur who puts things right.
Movie - 1960, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Two men, business partners, fall in love with the same girl. Their wives react accordingly, but one seems to take it more calmly. This makes her husband suspicious, and he begins to believe that she is also having an affair, with his business partner. An inevitable series of misunderstandings ensues.
Movie - 1958, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
In 1950s Naples, a couple struggles to be together against the will of the mother-in-law. In the end, not only will they be together, but the mother-in-law-to-be, a widow, finds love as well.
Movie - 1954, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
The director of a detective agency discovers a jewellery thief likes to attends the theatre. So he hires two clumsy and bumbling detectives to guard all the theatres in the area. The two investigators now go from one venue to another attending various Italian magazine shows.
Movie - 1956, 2h 15m • as Raffaele Somma
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.