# Franco Giacobini

Franco Giacobini (5 March 1926 – 27 December 2015) was an Italian actor.
Born in Rome as Francesco Giacobini, he graduated at Accademia Nazionale di Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico in 1948, then started a prolific stage career, working in comedy plays, dramas and revues. Giacobini also appeared in numerous films and TV-works, usually in comedic roles. He was married to actress Angela Goodwin.

## Selected filmography

* Papà diventa mamma (1952) - Il passeggero sul Tram
* Le marchand de Venise (1953)
* Ci troviamo in galleria (1953) - Funzionario RAI
* Via Padova 46 (1953) - The Journalist (uncredited)
* Caporale di giornata (1958) - The Sailor on the Telephone (uncredited)
* La cento chilometri (1959) - The Race Walker without His Underpants
* Uncle Was a Vampire (1959) - Il secondo play boy
* The Employee (1960) - Rotondi
* Run with the Devil (1960) - The TV Interviewer (uncredited)
* The Fascist (1961) - Militare a Rocca Sabina
* The Orderly (1961)
* Hercules in the Haunted World (1961) - Telemachus (Telemaco)
* Cronache del '22 (1961)
* Erik the Conqueror (1961) - Rustichello
* A cavallo della tigre (1961) - Medico del carcere
* The Two Marshals (1961) - Basilio Meneghetti
* His Women (1961) - The Police Commissioner
* Il mio amico Benito (1962) - Liberati
* Crazy Desire (1962) - Alberghetti
* Totò Diabolicus (1962) - Dottor Santoro
* La bellezza di Ippolita (1962) - Aurelio
* Eighteen in the Sun (1962) - Commissar
* Lo smemorato di Collegno (1962) - Giornalista
* Le Scorpion (1962)
* I motorizzati (1962) - Alberto
* Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace (1962) - Texas Collector
* The Shortest Day (1963) - (uncredited)
* Uno strano tipo (1963) - Journalist
* Sexy Toto (1963) - Un galeotti
* The Swindlers (1963) - The Lawyer Ovidio (segment "Società calcistica, La")
* Gli onorevoli (1963) - De Angelis
* La ballata dei mariti (1963) - Vicebrigadiere Licata
* Senza sole né luna (1964)
* I Kill, You Kill (1965) - Dottore (segment "Una boccata di fumo")
* Soldati e caporali (1965) - Serg. Pancani
* Assassination in Rome (1965)
* Two Sergeants of General Custer (1965) - Cochise
* Le sedicenni (1965)
* El Greco (1966) - Francisco
* Zärtliche Haie (1967) - Fähnrich
* O.K. Connery (1967) - Juan
* I 2 vigili (1967) - Romoletto
* Soldati e capelloni (1967) - Franco - il barbiere
* Quarta parete (1968)
* Donne... botte e bersaglieri (1968) - Marshal
* Don Chisciotte and Sancio Panza (1968) - Don Nicola - barber
* Dismissed on His Wedding Night (1968) - Facchetti
* The Mercenary (1968) - Pepote
* Chimera (1968) - Sergeant
* Alibi (1969) - Luca
* Why Did I Ever Say Yes Twice? (1969) - Roberto
* Terzo Canale - Avventura a Montecarlo (1970) - Mechanic
* Mazzabubù... Quante corna stanno quaggiù? (1971) - Boemondo
* It Can Be Done Amigo (1972) - L'uomo chi mangia la terra
* Sonny and Jed (1972) - Aparicito
* Abbasso tutti, viva noi (1974) - Teacher
* The Student Connection (1974) - Chief Inspector Delon
* Il gatto mammone (1975) - Priest
* As of Tomorrow (1976) - Maresciallo delle Carabinieri (uncredited)
* Three Tigers Against Three Tigers (1977) - Servant of Di Lazzaro
* Pane, burro e marmellata (1977) - Simona's Husband
* I'm Getting a Yacht (1980) - Fugitive #1
* Sing Sing (1983) - Baron Orfeo della Torre (first story)
* Scrivilo sui muri (2007) - Anziano
* Il volto di un'altra (2012) - Proprietario del negozio di animali impagliati