Franco Coop
Also Known As: Francesco Coop
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Napoli, Italy
Adult: No
Birthday: September 27, 1891
Age: 133 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: March 27, 1962
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Taxi di notte
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1950-09-09
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Bionda sottochiave
Overview: A famous American director is looking for a special type of girl he needs to play in his next film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1939-06-18
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Don Pasquale
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1940-09-16
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L'allegro fantasma
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1941-03-16
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The Art of Getting Along
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-12-29
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Cinque a zero
Overview: Sports comedy film inspired by a 5–0 victory by A.S. Roma against their rivals Juventus in 1931.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1932-11-01
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Hands Off Me!
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1937-03-06
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Mademoiselle Gobete
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-10-04
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La scala
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 1931-01-01
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Ridere! Ridere! Ridere!
Overview: A series of comical sketches featuring a doctor, a travelling salesman and some posh gents.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-01-01
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Sette canzoni per sette sorelle
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1957-02-14
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Il conte di Bréchard
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1938-01-01
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Piccola mia
Overview: A woman leaves her husband and her young daughter after she falls for a rally driver.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1933-11-25
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Capitan Fracassa
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1940-11-15
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La bocca sulla strada
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1941-10-10
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Singing Café
Overview: Sor Clemente escapes the surveillance of his wife and goes to attend a variety show.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-06-15
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La mia canzone al vento
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Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1939-10-01
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Sette giorni all'altro mondo
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1940-04-15
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The Last Days of Pompeo
Overview: The title refers to a character named Pompeo Quarantini; an attorney tries to prevent marriage between an heiress and a musician, but without success.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1937-01-01
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La signorina dell'autobus
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1933-01-01
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Neapolitan Carousel
Overview: 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.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-10-14
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The secretary for everyone
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Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1932-10-16
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Before the Jury
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1931-01-31
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I'll Give a Million
Overview: A comedy about a hobo and a millionaire who swap roles after the millionaire rescues the hobo from a suicide attempt.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1935-01-02
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Lohengrin
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1936-01-01
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Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal
Overview: 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.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1937-08-04
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Le vacanze del Sor Clemente
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-06-01
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Everybody's Woman
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1934-11-29
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San Giovanni decollato
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1940-12-12
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Non perdiamo la testa
Overview: A mad scientist pursues a man hoping to study his brain.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-04-16
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Quei due
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1935-01-01
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The Serpent's Fang
Overview: Early, proto giallo set in a boarding house for girls.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1935-09-28
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Luck Comes from Heaven
Overview: 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.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1942-03-26
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The King's Jester
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1941-04-01
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The Fate of Two Queens
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-12-24
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Quel fantasma di mio marito
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1950-02-03
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Totò, Vittorio and the Doctor
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1957-12-23
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Il principe fusto
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-03-26
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Il matrimonio segreto
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1943-01-01
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Il barone Carlo Mazza
Overview: 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...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1948-11-11
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La bisarca
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1950-11-04
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Cavalcade of Song
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Genres: Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-10-09
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The Hotel of the Absent
Overview: 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.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1939-01-01
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Lo Smemorato
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1936-11-03
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Ore 10: lezione di canto
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Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-09-17
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Incantesimo tragico
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-10-13
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La mia vita sei tu
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1934-02-01
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Jealousy
Overview: A film based on the book Il marchese di Roccaverdina by Luigi Capuana about a marquis who is in love with his servant Agrippina but is unable to marry her because of her status. The marquis commands his trusted subject to marry her in his stead as long as he vows not to have sex with her.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1942-12-25
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