Franco Coop

Franco Coop

Born: September 27, 1891
Died: March 27, 1962
in Napoli, Italy

Movies for Franco Coop...

Il principe fusto
Title: Il principe fusto
Character: Bastiano
Released: March 26, 1960
Type: Movie
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Non perdiamo la testa
Title: Non perdiamo la testa
Character: baronetto sir Greenwood
Released: April 16, 1959
Type: Movie
A mad scientist pursues a man hoping to study his brain.
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Totò, Vittorio and the Doctor
Title: Totò, Vittorio and the Doctor
Character: Il maître della 'Conchiglia'
Released: December 23, 1957
Type: Movie
The fake private detective Mike Spillone is hired by two old ladies to find out if Brigitte, the wife of their nephew Otello Bellomo, has a lover. Brigitte is a physician but the two aunts are unaware of the fact. While investigating, Mike and his assistant Johnny discover Brigitte with a prospective patient, the marquis De Vitti who was shot by the husband of the woman he tried to seduce. Afterwards Spillone finds her with her husband who he believes to be her lover.
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Sette canzoni per sette sorelle
Title: Sette canzoni per sette sorelle
Released: February 14, 1957
Type: Movie
The six daughters of the mayor are not concerned with their six boyfriends because they are all infatuated with Claudio Villa. When this really comes to the village, everything happens, but as in Cinderella's fable, Claudio Villa falls in love with the seventh daughter, who is actually a child, and everything settles.
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Le vacanze del Sor Clemente
Title: Le vacanze del Sor Clemente
Character: Anastasio, il maggiordomo
Released: June 1, 1955
Type: Movie
Sor Clemente tries to avoid an underwater fishing trip together with his authoritarian wife's friends and pretends to be ill. Left alone in the villa he's left in the company of a friend and a butler.
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The Art of Getting Along
Title: The Art of Getting Along
Character: Il sindaco di Catania
Released: December 29, 1954
Type: Movie
In this comedy Alberto Sordi plays Rosario Scimoni, known as Sasà, an opportunistic and unscrupulous guy, nephew of the mayor of Catania, and he's always ready to take sides with anyone who can help him. He switches from socialism to fascism; he changes his political faith the same way he changes women. He even tries to found his own party.
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The Fate of Two Queens
Title: The Fate of Two Queens
Released: December 24, 1954
Type: Movie
Anthology film in which Hedy Lamarr plays 2 queens during 2 different time periods. Ulmer directed the Genoveffa di Brabante part whereas Allégret was responsible for the empress Josephine section after he left due to artistic differences with Lamarr.
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Neapolitan Carousel
Title: Neapolitan Carousel
Character: Idominatore #3
Released: October 14, 1954
Type: Movie
Music, ballet, folk dances and mime eliciting the spirit of Naples across the ages are loosely tied together by the comedic wanderings and exploits of the Esposito family.
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Singing Café
Title: Singing Café
Character: Anastasio, il maggiordomo
Released: June 15, 1954
Type: Movie
Sor Clemente escapes the surveillance of his wife and goes to attend a variety show.
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Ridere! Ridere! Ridere!
Title: Ridere! Ridere! Ridere!
Character: Il direttore del manicomio
Released: January 1, 1954
Type: Movie
A series of comical sketches featuring a doctor, a travelling salesman and some posh gents.
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Cavalcade of Song
Title: Cavalcade of Song
Released: October 9, 1953
Type: Movie
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Mademoiselle Gobete
Title: Mademoiselle Gobete
Character: Marius, il capo usciere
Released: October 4, 1952
Type: Movie
A singer and operetta dancer works in a small french town where the authorities want to expel her because of her scandalous conduct and performance. When a puritan judge closes the show, the woman will take revenge involving the judge in an affair before the selfsame Justice minister. From that moment on, a series of diversions and misunderstandings will play out leading the main characters to the city of Paris.
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La bisarca
Title: La bisarca
Character: Otto Kruger
Released: November 4, 1950
Type: Movie
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Taxi di notte
Title: Taxi di notte
Released: September 9, 1950
Type: Movie
A taxi driver, with singing ambitions, finds an abandoned baby in his cab and begins to look for his mother. He doesn't find her but succeeds in finding two people who want to adopt the child.
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Quel fantasma di mio marito
Title: Quel fantasma di mio marito
Character: El Kebir
Released: February 3, 1950
Type: Movie
Gianni Alberti is a journalist who is sent to Palestine. He decides to fake a fatal accident so he can then return home as a hero. But things don't turn out as planned, Gianni end up coming back to Italy, but only as a ghost.
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Il barone Carlo Mazza
Title: Il barone Carlo Mazza
Character: Cosimo Pezza
Released: November 11, 1948
Type: Movie
Rosa Pezza, a beautiful young girl, is forced into a thousand maneuvers and subterfuges to gain possession of a rich inheritance. She is ultimately forced to marry the penniless and bizarre baron Carlo Mazza but the baron, tired of his wife's escapades, decides to divorce her...
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Il matrimonio segreto
Title: Il matrimonio segreto
Released: January 1, 1943
Type: Movie
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Luck Comes from Heaven
Title: Luck Comes from Heaven
Character: Gionanni Illes, padre di Anna
Released: March 26, 1942
Type: Movie
The merchant Giovanni Illes is tracked down by the debtors, but cannot pay his debts. To save her father from bankruptcy, Anna talks to the lawyer, trying to earn an extension. The lawyer grants it to him, but he gets too close, even physically. She wants to defend herself, but his power dominates the impotence of the woman.
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La bocca sulla strada
Title: La bocca sulla strada
Character: Il marchese Andrea Del Fermo
Released: October 10, 1941
Type: Movie
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The King's Jester
Title: The King's Jester
Character: Duke Di Cosse
Released: April 1, 1941
Type: Movie
Based on a Victor Hugo play, and scored with music from the later opera by Giuseppe Verdi, the film tells about a hunchbacked clown whose beautiful daughter falls in love with the lecherous king.
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L'allegro fantasma
Title: L'allegro fantasma
Character: Maurizio Devalier
Released: March 16, 1941
Type: Movie
The noble Pantaleo Di Santa Paola has just died, and the preamble to his will is a confession in which he claims that in his youth he had a relationship with a circus rider that produced twin sons.
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San Giovanni decollato
Title: San Giovanni decollato
Character: Don Raffaele, the barber
Released: December 12, 1940
Type: Movie
Mastr'Antonio Miciaccio caretaker and shoemaker is devoted to Saint John Beheaded and is trying to find out who has been stealing the oil that keeps the candle to the saint burning. He also does not approve of his daughter's boy friend and he does not want him to marry her.
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Capitan Fracassa
Title: Capitan Fracassa
Character: Falso brigante
Released: November 15, 1940
Type: Movie
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Don Pasquale
Title: Don Pasquale
Character: Il dottore Malatesta
Released: September 16, 1940
Type: Movie
In the eighteenth-century Rome, Don Pasquale Corneto, wants his young nephew Ernesto, dedicated to a wasteful social life, to marry a rich spinster, both to save on the expenses of his maintenance and to increase the family heritage.
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Sette giorni all'altro mondo
Title: Sette giorni all'altro mondo
Character: Poliziotto privato
Released: April 15, 1940
Type: Movie
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La mia canzone al vento
Title: La mia canzone al vento
Character: Il presidente della filarmonica
Released: October 1, 1939
Type: Movie
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Bionda sottochiave
Title: Bionda sottochiave
Released: June 18, 1939
Type: Movie
A famous American director is looking for a special type of girl he needs to play in his next film.
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The Hotel of the Absent
Title: The Hotel of the Absent
Character: Police inspector
Released: January 1, 1939
Type: Movie
The young lady-in-waiting of a millionairess is kidnapped, in her stead, by people who had an interest in the disappearance of the rich heiress. The girl is entrusted to a shady figure who has, for years, organized a special "hotel" where - in rigorous segregation - he holds prisoners the people entrusted to him by those who, for reasons of interest, have decreed their disappearance.
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Il conte di Bréchard
Title: Il conte di Bréchard
Character: Matteo
Released: January 1, 1938
Type: Movie
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Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal
Title: Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal
Character: Mezio, Roman soldier
Released: August 4, 1937
Type: Movie
A story of the Second Punic Wars, beginning with Scipio's futile pleas to the Roman Senate to build an army to battle Hannibal, that climaxes with the battle of Zama.
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Hands Off Me!
Title: Hands Off Me!
Character: Vincenzino
Released: March 6, 1937
Type: Movie
In his first feature, great Italian clown Totò plays a carefree tramp moving from job to job, in order to provide for himself and his young Shirley Temple-like protégée.
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The Last Days of Pompeo
Title: The Last Days of Pompeo
Character: L'ufficiale della marina mercantile
Released: January 1, 1937
Type: Movie
The title refers to a character named Pompeo Quarantini; an attorney tries to prevent marriage between an heiress and a musician, but without success.
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Lo Smemorato
Title: Lo Smemorato
Character: L'amministratore
Released: November 3, 1936
Type: Movie
An amusing comedy taken from the repertoire of the great Sicilian comedian Angelo Musco and vaguely inspired by the case of the scatter – brain of Collegno: a man who has run away from his henpecking wife is welcomed by a rich woman who has mistaken him for her missing husband.
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Lohengrin
Title: Lohengrin
Character: Sebastiano
Released: January 1, 1936
Type: Movie
The monotonous life of a bourgeois family is disturbed by the announcement of the imminent return from America of Mr. Lohengrin, who had left Italy years earlier, leaving behind the reputation of being an irresistible womanizer. Lohengrin's cousin, worried about the stability of his marriage, convinces some relatives who live in the countryside to welcome the dreaded guest into their home and then, to avoid meeting him, leaves. Meanwhile, in the country house everyone eagerly awaits Lohengrin, and envy and spite are unleashed during the wait. In particular, while the young landlady prepares the house, the woman's husband begins to be tormented by jealousy. But the arrival of the long-awaited guest will be a huge disappointment for everyone: the once seductive man is now just an aged, with glasses and a prominent belly.
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I'll Give a Million
Title: I'll Give a Million
Character: banditore del circo
Released: January 2, 1935
Type: Movie
A comedy about a hobo and a millionaire who swap roles after the millionaire rescues the hobo from a suicide attempt.
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Quei due
Title: Quei due
Character: Giovanni
Released: January 1, 1935
Type: Movie
Adventures of two provincial actors looking for anyway done with something to eat. They are joined by a girl, Lili. They represent a magic number, but all I get are miscues and boos.
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Everybody's Woman
Title: Everybody's Woman
Character: L'impresario Veraldi
Released: November 29, 1934
Type: Movie
Gaby is expelled from school after a married teacher commits suicide after telling her he can't live without her. Though she has done nothing, she is punished for his act.
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Piccola mia
Title: Piccola mia
Released: November 25, 1933
Type: Movie
A woman leaves her husband and her young daughter after she falls for a rally driver.
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La signorina dell'autobus
Title: La signorina dell'autobus
Character: Leone
Released: January 1, 1933
Type: Movie
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Cinque a zero
Title: Cinque a zero
Character: Il direttore d'orchestra dell'Eden
Released: November 1, 1932
Type: Movie
Sports comedy film inspired by a 5–0 victory by A.S. Roma against their rivals Juventus in 1931.
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The secretary for everyone
Title: The secretary for everyone
Released: October 16, 1932
Type: Movie
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Before the Jury
Title: Before the Jury
Character: Carlo Lirossi, il portiere di casa Calandri
Released: January 31, 1931
Type: Movie
During a reception in a villa, wealthy banker Calandri is killed in the park with a gunshot. The gamekeeper Barra is immediately arrested, but he declares himself innocent. During the trial it turns out that the defendant had threatened the victim, guilty of courting his sister-in-law. But the deposition of a journalist present at the party soon leads to discover the existence of a dense network of equivocal relations between the victim, the guests and the servants. This judicial setting drama is allegedly the second Italian sound film after "The Song of Love", made using the RCA Photophone recording technique, and is also considered to be the first Italian detective film, a precursor to the later genre of Giallo films.
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La scala
Title: La scala
Character: Il compagno di varietà
Released: January 1, 1931
Type: Movie
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Fermo con le mani
Title: Fermo con le mani
Character: Vincenzino
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie