Here we celebrate the most famous generica of all italian cinema: Franca Scagnetti.
Franca was born in Rome on May 17, 1924, and lived all her life in Via Gregorio IX, where she was an housewife. She entered in the world of entertainment in the past forty years as an extra. She often participates with very modest roles, more often with a "figurazione speciale" (an extra with some lines of speech), in all to over a hundred movies. Her characteristic roman sympathy and her abundant figure typical of the middle-aged woman of popular extraction, contribute to increase her fame to the point that over the years has become more important than many actresses of her period.
After thirty years of career, in the late nineties, also forgotten by relatives and in serious economic difficulties, she appeared as a guest in an episode of the Rai TV program "Domenica In": interviewed by Mara Venier, she asked, in tears, "to give her a part" for her own subsistence. The late revaluation of her spontaneous art and the affection for her figure, takes place with some participation in the fictions Casa Vianello (1998), Don Matteo (1999) and Un medico in famiglia (1998-99). She left on 1st November 1999, a few months after her last movie, Regina Coeli (1999).
FILMOGRAPHY
- Ehi amigo... sei morto! (uncredited) .... Nathaniel's wife
1971 - Cose di Cosa Nostra (uncredited) .... Neighbor in the window
- I due assi del guantone (uncredited) .... Greengrocer
- In nome del popolo italiano (uncredited) .... Concierge
- Trastevere (credited) .... A 'trasteverina'
1972 - Alfredo Alfredo (uncredited) .... Servant
- Amico, stammi lontano almeno un palmo (uncredited) .... Spectator at sack race
- Girolimoni, il mostro di Roma (uncredited) .... Woman in the angry crowd
- I familiari delle vittime non saranno avvertite (uncredited) .... Don Faiena's maid
- Il sindacalista (uncredited) .... Worker
- Le avventure di Pinocchio (TV mini series) (uncredited) .... Laundress
- Lo scopone scientifico (credited) .... Pasqualina, the maid
- Meo patacca (uncredited) .... Female villager
1973 - Anche gli angeli mangiano fagioli (uncredited) .... Mourning woman
- Bella, ricca, lieve difetto fisico, cerca anima gemella (uncredited) .... Nun
- Bisturi la mafia bianca (uncredited) .... Patient
- Giovannona coscialunga disonorata con onore (uncredited) .... Matilde, the maid
- La mano nera (uncredited) .... Woman who finds a corpse in the trash can
- Le Amazzoni - Donne d'amore e di guerra (unredited) .... Villager
- Mordi e fuggi (unredited) .... Woman at the autogrill
- Polvere di stelle (credited) .... Woman who notices the theft of cured meats
- Sessomatto - segment: "Viaggio di nozze" (credited) .... Grazia's mother
- Sette monache a Kansas City (uncredited) .... Nun
- Tutti per uno... botte per tutti (uncredited) .... Circus member
- Ultimo tango a Zagarol (uncredited) .... Dancer at the dance hall
1974 - Abbasso tutti, viva noi (credited) .... Rosa, the maid
- Bello come un arcangelo (credited) .... Nun
- Fischia il sesso (credited) .... The mother
- Il bestione (uncredited) .... Friend of Matteo's wife
- Il sorriso del grande tentatore (uncredited) .... Supermarket customer
- Il testimone deve tacere (uncredited) .... Woman at hospital
- Il venditore di palloncini (uncredited) .... Costume assistant at the theatre
- La badessa di Castro (uncredited) .... Abortionist
- La rivolta delle gladiatrici (uncredited) .... Cook
- La sculacciata (uncredited) .... Peasant woman
- Le scomunicate di San Valentino (uncredited) .... Nun
- Mio Dio, come sono caduta in basso! (uncredited) .... Nursing nun
- Permettete signora che ami vostra figlia? (uncredited) .... Hotelier
- Piedino il questurino (uncredited) .... Mourning woman
- Profumo di donna (uncredited) .... Nursing nun
- Sesso in testa (uncredited) .... Prostitute
- Zorro (uncredited) .... Woman cleaning tables
1975 - Ah sí? E io lo dico a Zzzorro! (uncredited) .... Cook
- A mezzanotte va la ronda del piacere (uncredited) .... Tina Candela's neighbour
- Attenti al buffone (uncredited) .... Slaughterhouse worker
- Due cuori, una cappella (uncredited) .... Neighbor
- L'anatra all'arancia (uncredited) .... Advertising ballet woman in costume
- La verginella (credited) .... Brothel owner
- Lo sgarbo (uncredited) .... Casino player
- Morte sospetta di una minorenne (uncredited) .... Giannino's mother
- Per le antiche scale (uncredited) .... Nursing-nun
- Roma violenta (uncredited) .... Robbery victim on the bus
- Simone e Matteo: Un gioco da ragazzi (uncredited) .... Woman hoeing field
- Son tornate a fiorire le rose (uncredited) .... Woman in the street
- Vai gorilla (uncredited) .... The fence's wife
1976 - Bruciati da cocente passione (uncredited) .... Fortune teller
- Colpita da improvviso benessere (uncredited) .... Market vendor
- Cuginetta... amore mio! (uncredited) .... The priest's house maid
- Cuore di cane (uncredited) .... Tavern guest
- Febbre da cavallo (uncredited) .... Train passenger
- Prima notte di nozze - segment "Venice" (credited) .... Hotel customer
- Il comune senso del pudore (uncredited) .... Waitress
- Kidnap in Rome (uncredited) .... Mother at the market
- La dottoressa del distretto militare (uncredited) .... Passerby with torn skirt
- La poliziotta fa carriera (uncredited) .... Woman in suburbia
- La ragazza alla pari (uncredited) .... Woman at the condominium meeting
- Paura in città (uncredited) .... Concierge
- Poliziotti violenti (uncredited) .... One of the angry women attacking the muggers
- Remo e Romolo (uncredited) .... Sabine woman
- Roma, l'altra faccia della violenza (uncredited) .... Woman who blocks the road for the police
- San Pasquale Baylonne protettore delle donne (uncredited) .... Giuseppa's mother
- Sorbole... che romagnola (credited) .... Fat wife at meeting
1977 - Casotto (uncredited) .... Woman on the beach
- Il mostro (uncredited) .... Concierge
- Mala, amore e morte (credited) .... Cleaning lady
- Pane, burro e marmellata (credited) .... Caterina Ciccetti, the housekeeper
- Per amore di Poppea (uncredited) .... Sutler
- Ritornano quelli della calibro 38 (uncredited) .... Woman
- Suspiria (credited) .... The cook at the dance academy
- Taxi Girl (uncredited) .... Arab woman
1978 - Avere vent'anni (uncredited) .... Woman on the street
- Comincerà tutto un mattino: io donna tu donna (credited) .... The grandmother
- Porca società (credited) .... Paolo's mother
- Tanto va la gatta al lardo - segment "Fuga nella valigia" (uncredited) .... Maria's mother
- Tutto suo padre (uncredited) .... Woman at Adalgisa's deathbed
1979 - Aragosta a colazione (credited) .... Concierge
- Gardenia il giustiziere della male (uncredited) .... Cleaning lady in the airport toilets
- Giallo napoletano (uncredited) .... Asylum patient
- Il corpo della ragassa (uncredited) .... Brothel maid
- La venere d'Ille (TV) (uncredited) .... Wedding guest
- Lo scugnizzo (uncredited) .... Woman watching the street musicians
- Scusi, lei è normale? (uncredited) .... Landlady
1980 - Arrivano i gatti (credited) .... Tv porter
- Café Express (uncredited) .... Train passenger who uses the toilet
- Il commedione (TV series, credited) - Ep.: 1 .... One of the common people
- Mia moglie è una strega .... Maid
- Zucchero, miele e peperoncino (uncredited) .... Mother of the kidnapped girl
1981 - Ciao nemico (uncredited) .... Maid
- Fregoli (TV mini series) (uncredited) .... Cook
- I carabbimatti (uncredited) .... Fallen woman at the cinema
- I figli... so' pezzi 'e core (uncredited) .... Teresa
- Il berretto a sonagli (credited) .... Neighbor
- Il contratto (credited) .... Party guest
- Il turno (uncredited) .... Dancing wedding guest
- Pierino contro tutti (uncredited) .... The bar's cashier
- Pierino il fichissimo (uncredited) .... Woman eating pasta
- Pierino medico della S.A.U.B. (uncredited) .... Hospital patient
- Una vacanza bestiale (uncredited) .... Stewardess
- Una vacanza del cactus (credited) .... Cook
- Un paio di scarpe per tanti chilometri (TV mini series) (uncredited) .... A mother waiting for the train
1982 - Amici miei atto II° (uncredited) .... Cafeteria worker
- Borotalco (uncredited) .... Concierge
- Caligola... la storia mai raccontata (uncredited) .... Escaping Christian woman
- Eccezzziunale... veramente (uncredited) .... Cavalier La Monica's wife (only in extended TV version)
- Monsignor (uncredited) .... Don Appolini's maid / Nun
- Pierino la peste alla riscossa (credited) .... Tenant
- Scusa se è poco - 2nd segment (uncredited) .... Witness to Grazia's car investment
- Sesso e volentieri - segment "Domenica in" (uncredited) .... Woman with hands blocked
- Sogni mostruosamente proibiti (uncredited) .... Party guest
- Vai avanti tu che mi vien da ridere (uncredited) .... Cook at the embassy party
1983 - Acqua e sapone (uncredited) .... Woman at the window
- E la nave va (uncredited) .... Serbian refugee
- 'F.F.S.S.', cioè:... che mi hai portato a fare sopra a Posillipo se non mi vuoi più bene? (uncredited) .... Nun in tavern
- Il ras del quartiere (uncredited) .... Domingo's aunt
- Jenny (TV mini series) (uncredited) .... Sleeping Italian woman on the train
- Quer pasticciaccio brutto de via Merulana (TV mini series) (credited) .... The concierge
- Sapore di mare (uncredited) .... Woman on the beach
- Sfrattato cerca casa equo canone (uncredited) .... Woman who lives on the bus
- Transport (TV series) - episode 3: "De Italiaanse les" (credited as Franca Scaghetti) .... Benito's mother
- Vacanze di Natale (credited) .... Grandmother Marchetti
1984 - I ragazzi di celluloide n. 2 (TV mini series) (credited) .... Farmer-wife
- Quei trentasei gradini (TV mini series) (credited) .... Roman woman carrying basket
- Se tutto va bene siamo rovinati (uncredited) .... Fat woman insulted by Andrea
1985 - Cinecittà Cinecittà (TV show, segment: Il Capo Delle Comparse) (uncredited) .... Costume designer
- Colpo di fulmine (credited) .... Attilia
- I soliti ignoti vent'anni dopo (credited) .... Erminia
- Mamma Ebe (uncredited) .... Woman in church
1986 - Il bi e il ba (uncredited) .... Woman with dog at the vet
- La monaca nel peccato (uncredited) .... Nun
- La storia (TV mini series) (credited) .... Black market meat seller
- Storia d'amore (credited) .... Sora Assunta
1987 - I ragazzi della 3C (TV series) - season 1, episodes 7 & 8 (uncredited) .... Bruno's aunt
- Io e mia sorella (uncredited) .... Woman at the funeral
- Missione eroica - I pompieri 2 (uncredited) .... Waitress
- Soldati 365 all'alba (uncredited) .... Silvester party guest
- Teresa (uncredited) .... Angry woman at the wedding party
- Turno di notte (TV series) - episode 2: "Heavy metal" (uncredited) .... Neighbor
1988 - 32 dicembre - segment "I penultimi fuochi" (uncredited) .... Anna, one of the women that assists at Alfonso's humiliation
- Casa mia, casa mia... (uncredited) .... Evicted woman
- Stradivari (uncredited) .... Passerby on the street
- The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (uncredited) .... Woman in the crowd
1989 - Ho vinto la lotteria di capodanno (uncredited) .... The portier
- I ragazzi della 3C (TV series) - season 3, episode 4: "Tele 3C" (uncredited) .... Natalia Sacchi, Bruno's aunt
- Il vigile urbano (TV series) - episode 3: "Campa cavallo" (uncredited) .... Waitress
1990 - Il male oscuro (uncredited) .... One of Giuseppe's neighbors
- La voce della luna (uncredited) .... Woman at the fair
- Le comiche (uncredited) .... Wedding guest
- Occhio alla perestrojka (uncredited) .... Woman at the fair
- Un cane sciolto (TV mini-series) (credited) .... Concierge
1991 - Faccione (credited) .... Daniela's grandmother
1992 - Gole ruggenti (uncredited) .... Cleaning lady
- Ricky e Barabba (credited) .... Patient at the hospital
- Un inviato molto speciale (TV series) - episode 8: "Quando c'è la salute" (uncredited) .... Hospital patient
1993 - Amami (credited) .... Dressmaker in the porn movie studio
1995 - Pasolini - Un delitto italiano (credited) .... Woman at Idroscalo
1996 - Dio vede e provvede (TV series) - episode: "La lucciola" (credited) .... Lellina, a woman in the shop
- Escoriandoli (uncredited) .... Old lady at the funeral
- Giovani e belli (uncredited) .... Woman at the strip club
- Il maresciallo Rocca (TV series) - episode 2: "Senso di colpa" (uncredited) .... Resident at retirement home
1997 - Nuda proprietà vendesi (TV) (uncredited) .... Old woman in the window
- Quer pasticciaccio brutto de via Merulana (TV) (credited) .... Old woman in the crowd
1998 - Casa Vianello (TV series) - season 7, episode 10: "Doppia personalità" (credited as Franca Stagnetti) .... Old woman attacked by Raimondo
- L'odore della notte (uncredited) .... Waitress
- Le ragazze di Piazza di Spagna (TV series) - episode 1 (uncredited) .... Marcello's grandmother
- Un medico in famiglia (TV series) - season 1, episode 42: "Grazie, dottor Lele!" (credited) .... Patient in the waiting room at USL
1999 - Anni '60 (TV mini series) - episode 2 (credited) .... Bastiano's mother
- Commesse (TV series) - episodes "Fiorenza" and "Paola" (uncredited) .... Maria
- Un medico in famiglia (TV series) - season 2, episode 7: "L'appartamento" (uncredited) .... Patient visited by Lele
2000 - Don Matteo (TV series) - season 1, episode 8: "Il piccolo angelo" (credited) .... Witness
- Linda e il brigadiere (TV series) - season 3, episode 2: "Delitto al teatro dell'opera" (uncredited) .... Spectator at the race course