Franco Pesce

Franco Pesce (11 August 1890 – 6 December 1975) was an Italian actor and cinematographer.

Franco Pesce
Born	(1890-08-11)11 August 1890 Naples, Kingdom of Italy
Died	6 December 1975(1975-12-06) (aged 85) Rome, Italy
Occupation	Actor

Life and career

Franco Pesce was born in Naples. He was the son of the actor Ettore. At a young age Pesce studied lyric singing with the intention of becoming an opera singer.^[1] At 20 years old he abandoned his studies to enter the cinema industry as a film operator.^[1] Pesce moved to Rome with the advent of sound film where he became a cinematographer. Later in his life, beginning in 1940, he started a very productive career as a character actor.^[1] In his later years Pesce was mainly active in spaghetti western films. He was often credited under English pseudonyms, usually interpreting roles of petulant, pedantic and intriguing old men.^[1]

Selected filmography

• Eternal Melodies (1940)
• Apparition (1943)
• Farewell, My Beautiful Naples (1946)
• Mad About Opera (1948)
• Baron Carlo Mazza (1948)
• Crossroads of Passion (1948)
• Flying Squadron (1949)
• The Beggar's Daughter (1950)
• The Transporter (1950)
• The Bread Peddler (1950)
• Song of Spring (1951)
• Operation Mitra (1951)
• They Were Three Hundred (1952)
• Prisoners of Darkness (1952)
• Prisoner in the Tower of Fire (1952)
• If You Won a Hundred Million (1953)
• The Lovers of Manon Lescaut (1954)
• The Last Race (1954)
• Revolt of the Mercenaries (1961)
• Long Days of Hate (1968)
• Pistol for a Hundred Coffins (1968)
• Orgasmo (1969)
• Le Mans, Shortcut to Hell (1970)
• Cloud of Dust... Cry of Death... Sartana Is Coming (1970)
• Have a Good Funeral, My Friend... Sartana Will Pay (1970)
• In Love, Every Pleasure Has Its Pain (1971)
• The Last Traitor (1971)
• They Call Me Hallelujah (1971)
• His Name Was Holy Ghost (1972)
• We Are No Angels (1975)
• The Diamond Peddlers (1976)