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
 * Sissignore (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