Franco Silva

Italian actor

Carla Vistarini
Patrizia Vistarini

Francesco Vistarini (18 February 1920 – 10 November 1995), known professionally as Franco Silva, was an Italian actor.

Born in Genoa, Silva moved in Rome to attend the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, from which he graduated in 1938;^[1] the following year he made his film debut in Ho visto brillare le stelle. Silva was mainly active between the 1950s and the mid-1960s; he was also active on stage and on television.^[1] Silva was the father of scriptwriter and novelist Carla Vistarini and actress Mita Medici.^[1]^[2]

Partial filmography

Ho visto brillare le stelle (1939) - Mario
Vietato ai minorenni (1944) - Lo studento in medicina
The Lion of Amalfi (1950)
Malavita (1951) - Serg. Mario
The Wonderful Adventures of Guerrin Meschino (1952) - Bayazil
Femmina senza cuore (1952) - Carlo
The Queen of Sheba (1952) - Kabaal, commander of the Sheban army
The Man from Cairo (1953) - Armeno
Frine, Courtesan of Orient (1953) - Claus
Mizar (Frogwoman) (1954) - comandante Luigi Ferri
The Last Race (1954)
The Count of Bragelonne (1954) - Boissière
Processo all'amore (1955) - Enrico Mariani
Canzone proibita (1956) - Paolo
Allow Me, Daddy! (1956) - Gigi Biagi - Cognato di Rodolfo
Occhi senza luce (1956) - Sandro
Il canto dell'emigrante (1956) - Franco Lari
Donne, amore e matrimoni (1956) - Corrado
Il ricatto di un padre (1957) - Serpieri
Song of Naples (1957) - Max Rambarzi
Adorabili e bugiarde (1958) - Police Commissioner
Hannibal (1959) - Maharbal
Guardatele ma non toccatele (1959) - Morris Blond
The Mongols (1961) - Stepen of Crakow
The Count of Monte Cristo (1961) - Mario
L'urlo dei bolidi (1961)
Charge of the Black Lancers (1962) - Gamul
The Tough and the Mighty (1969) - Arecu
Questa libertà di avere... le ali bagnate (1971) - Robin
The Assassination of Matteotti (1973)
Spasmo (1974) - Luca
Patrick Still Lives (1980) - Lyndon Kraft (final film role)

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Enrico Lancia; Roberto Poppi; Fabio Melelli; Mario Pecorari. Gli Attori - Vol.3. Gremese Editore.
^ "Morto l'attore Franco Silva". La Stampa. 12 November 1995.