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Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1931-08-24

Place of Birth

Roma, Lazio, Italy

Franca Tamantini

Biography

Franca Tamantini (24 August 1931 – 11 August 2014) was an Italian film, television and stage actress. Born in Rome, since young age Tamantini studied piano, singing and classical dance at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma. In 1948 she was chosen by Luchino Visconti to play Olimpia in the stage drama Rosalinda o come vi piace, and one year later she made her film debut in Fernando Cerchio's Cenerentola, a musical adaptation of the Charles Perrault's fairy tale Cinderella. During her career Tamantini was often cast in operettas and musical comedies, both in the theater and in television. In films, she was often cast in character roles, and she enjoyed a late success only at mature age, with the role of Miss Necchi in the Amici Miei film series. Source: Article "Franca Tamantini" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.

Known for

Deadly Circuit

Deadly Circuit

A P.I. is obsessed with a cute woman, who seduces and kills rich men around W. Europe.

My Friends

My Friends

Four inseparable friends try to face their midlife crisis with daytrips and pranks at the expense of their families and the people around them.

La coscienza di Zeno

La coscienza di Zeno

A RAI miniseries, based on the novel by Italo Svevo.

Biraghin

Biraghin

Birdaghin is a dancer at La Scala in Milan whose rapid success also quickly goes to her head. Fortunately, everything will be fine.

L'avvocato delle donne

L'avvocato delle donne

L'avvocato delle donne is an Italian television series.

Femmina incatenata

Femmina incatenata

An art professor falls for one of his pupils who is helping him with a sculpture.

Greetings and sons!

Greetings and sons!

Three friends, a mechanic, a clockmaker, and a night warden are engaged to three sisters but are broke and cannot get married and pay the rent. They convince their future father-in-law to buy three little flats for them but the man buys them from a swindler and the friends run the risk of going to prison.

Due soldi di felicità

Due soldi di felicità

A country boy moves to the city to attempt a singing career and gets seduced by a soubrette.

The Second Wife

The Second Wife

In the early 1960's, a Sicilian single mother marries an older, crass widowed truck driver. When he is arrested trying to smuggle an antique, she ends up falling in love with her handsome stepson.

Lovers and Liars

Lovers and Liars

An American actress on vacation in Italy falls for her friend's married Italian lover.

Totò Looking for Wife

Totò Looking for Wife

Aunt Agatha writes to Toto, informing him that she won't send him another penny until he is married.

My Friends Act III

My Friends Act III

This time the "amici" (friends) are just four: Necchi, Meandri, Mascetti and Sassaroli. Nevertheless they are older they still love to spend their time mainly organizing irresistible jokes to everyone in every kind of situation. Mascetti is hospitalized in a geriatric clinic. Of course the place become immediately the main stage for all their jokes. After some jokes they decided to place an ultimate incredible and farcical joke to the clinic guests.

The City Stands Trial

The City Stands Trial

Turn-of-the-century Naples. Salvatore Ruotolo and his wife are murdered and their bodies are found in different locations. Since the evidence points to a crime by the Neapolitan crime organization, the Camorra, fear and corruption cause serious hindrances to the investigation by police authorities. In charge is a young and courageous judge who, using evidence discovered by chance, tries to reconstruct the story of the double murder. The plot that the judge must unravel is very complicated.

My Friends Act II

My Friends Act II

The four old friends meet on the grave of the fifth of them, Perozzi, who died at the end of the first episode. Time has passed but they are still up for adventures and cruel jokes, and while they recall the one they created together with the late friend, new ones are on their way, starting right there at the cemetery.

Ma tu mi vuoi bene?

Ma tu mi vuoi bene?