Franca Scagnetti

[Ciavazzaro]

Franca Scagnetti in Morte sospetta di una minorenne (1975)

Here we celebrate the most famous generica of the all italian cinema: Franca Scagnetti.

She 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 and 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 his 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 his 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 1 November 1999, a few months after her last movie, Regina Coeli (1999).

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FILMOGRAPHY

1970

1. Ehi amigo... sei morto! (uncredited) .... Nathaniel's wife
   
   1971
2. In nome del popolo italiano (uncredited) .... Concierge
3. Trastevere (credited) .... A 'trasteverina'
   
   1972
4. Girolimoni, il mostro di Roma (uncredited) .... Woman in the angry crowd
5. I familiari delle vittime non saranno avvertite (uncredited) .... Don Faiena's maid
6. Il sindacalista (uncredited) .... Worker
7. Le avventure di Pinocchio (TV mini series) (uncredited) .... Laundress
8. Lo scopone scientifico (credited) .... Pasqualina, the maid
   
   1973
9. Anche gli angeli mangiano fagioli (uncredited) .... Mourning woman
10. Bella, ricca, lieve difetto fisico, cerca anima gemella (uncredited) .... Nun
11. Giovannona coscialunga disonorata con onore (uncredited) .... Matilde, the maid
12. La mano nera (uncredited) .... Woman who finds a corpse in the trash can
13. Mordi e fuggi (unredited) .... Woman in autogrill
14. Sessomatto (credited) .... Grazia's mother (segment: "Viaggio di nozze")
15. Tutti per uno... botte per tutti (uncredited) .... Circus member
    
    1974
16. Abbasso tutti, viva noi (credited) .... Rosa, the maid
17. Bello come un arcangelo (credited) .... Nun
18. Fischia il sesso (credited) .... Mother
19. Le scomunicate di San Valentino (uncredited) .... Nun
20. Permettete signora che ami vostra figlia? (uncredited) .... Hotelier
21. Profumo di donna (uncredited) .... Nursing nun
22. Sesso in testa (uncredited) .... Prostitute
23. Zorro (uncredited) .... Woman cleaning tables
    
    1975
24. Ah sí? E io lo dico a Zzzorro! (uncredited) .... Cook
25. A mezzanotte va la ronda del piacere (uncredited) .... Tina Candela's neighbour
26. Attenti al buffone (uncredited) .... Slaughterhouse worker
27. Due cuori, una cappella (uncredited) .... Neighbor
28. L'anatra all'arancia (uncredited) .... Advertising ballet woman in costume
29. Lo sgarbo (uncredited) .... Casino player
30. Morte sospetta di una minorenne (uncredited) .... Giannino's mother
31. Roma violenta (uncredited) .... Woman on the bus
32. Son tornate a fiorire le rose (uncredited) .... Woman in road
33. Ultimo tango a Zagarol (uncredited) .... Dancer at the dance hall
    
    1976
34. Cuore di cane (uncredited) .... Tavern guest
35. Febbre da cavallo (uncredited) .... Train passenger
36. Il comune senso del pudore (uncredited) .... Waitress
37. Paura in città (uncredited) .... Concierge
38. Poliziotti violenti (uncredited) .... One of the angry women attacking the muggers
39. Roma l'altra faccia della violenza (uncredited) .... Woman who blocks the road for the police
40. Sorbole... che romagnola (credited) .... Fat wife at meeting
    
    1977
41. Casotto (uncredited) .... Woman at the beach
42. Il mostro (uncredited) .... Concierge
43. Pane, burro e marmellata (credited) .... Caterina Ciccetti, the housekeeper
44. Per amore di Poppea (uncredited) .... Sutler
45. Ritornano quelli della calibro 38 (uncredited) .... Woman
46. Suspiria (credited) …. The cook at the dance academy
47. Taxi Girl (uncredited) .... Arab woman
    
    1978
48. Avere vent'anni (uncredited) .... Woman on the street
49. Porca società (credited) …. Mother of Paolo
50. Tanto va la gatta al lardo - segment "Fuga nella valigia" (uncredited) .... Maria's mother
51. Tutto suo padre (uncredited) .... Woman at Adalgisa's deathbed
    
    1979
52. Aragosta a colazione (uncredited) .... Porter
53. Gardenia il giustiziere della male (uncredited) .... Cleaning lady in the airport toilets
54. Giallo napoletano (uncredited) .... Asylum patient
55. La venere d'Ille (TV) (uncredited) .... Wedding guest
56. Lo scugnizzo (uncredited) .... Woman watching the street musicians
57. Scusi, lei è normale? (uncredited) .... Landlady
    
    1980
58. Arrivano i gatti (credited) .... Tv porter
59. Café Express (uncredited) .... Train passenger who uses the toilet
60. Mia moglie è una strega .... Maid
61. Zucchero, miele e peperoncino (uncredited) .... Mother of the kidnapped girl
    
    1981
62. I carabbimatti (uncredited) .... Fallen woman at the cinema
63. Il berretto a sonagli (credited) .... Neighbor
64. Il contratto (credited) .... Party guest
65. Pierino contro tutti (uncredited) .... The bar's cashier
66. Pierino il fichissimo (uncredited) .... Woman eating pasta
67. Una vacanza del cactus (credited) .... Cook
68. Un paio di scarpe per tanti chilometri (TV mini series) (uncredited) .... A mother waiting for the train
    
    1982
69. Caligola... la storia mai raccontata (uncredited) .... Escaping Christian woman
70. Monsignor (uncredited) .... Don Appolini's maid / Nun
71. Sesso e volentieri - segment "Domenica in" (uncredited) .... Woman with hands blocked
72. Sogni mostruosamente proibiti (uncredited) .... Party guest
    
    1983
73. Acqua e sapone (uncredited) .... Woman at the window
74. 'F.F.S.S.', cioè:... che mi hai portato a fare sopra a Posillipo se non mi vuoi più bene? (uncredited) .... Nun in tavern
75. Il ras del quartiere (uncredited) .... Domingo's aunt
76. Jenny (TV mini series) (uncredited) .... Sleeping Italian woman on the train
77. Quer pasticciaccio brutto de via Merulana (TV mini series) (credited) .... The concierge
78. Sapore di mare (uncredited) .... Woman on the beach
79. Sfrattato cerca casa equo canone (uncredited) .... Woman who lives on the bus
80. Vacanze di Natale (credited) .... Grandmother Marchetti
    
    1984
81. I ragazzi di celluloide n. 2 (TV mini-series) (credited) .... Farmer-wife
    
    1985
82. I soliti ignoti vent'anni dopo (credited) .... Erminia
83. Mamma Ebe (uncredited) .... Woman in church
    
    1987
84. Io e mia sorella (uncredited) .... Woman at the funeral
85. Teresa (uncredited) .... Angry woman at the wedding party
86. Turno di notte (TV series) - episode 2: "Heavy metal" (uncredited) .... Neighbor
    
    1988
87. 32 dicembre - segment "I penultimi fuochi" (uncredited) .... Anna, one of the women that assists at Alfonso's humiliation
88. Stradivari (uncredited) .... Passerby on the street
89. The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (uncredited) .... Woman in the crowd
    
    1989
90. Ho vinto la lotteria di capodanno (uncredited) .... The portier
    
    1990
91. Le comiche (uncredited) .... Wedding guest
92. Occhio alla perestrojka (uncredited) .... Woman at the fair
    
    1992
93. Ricky e Barabba (credited) .... Patient at the hospital
    
    1993
94. Amami (credited) .... The dressmaker in the movie studio
    
    1995
95. Pasolini - Un delitto italiano (credited) .... Woman at Idroscalo
    
    1996
96. Dio vede e provvede (TV series - episode: "La lucciola" (credited) .... Lellina, a woman in the shop
97. Escoriandoli (uncredited) .... Old lady at the funeral
98. Il maresciallo Rocca (TV series) - episode 2: "Senso di colpa" (uncredited) .... Resident at retirement home
    
    1997
99. Nuda proprietà vendesi (TV) (uncredited) .... Old woman in the window
100. Quer pasticciaccio brutto de via Merulana (TV) (credited) .... Old woman in the crowd
     
     1998
101. Casa Vianello (TV series) - season 7, episode 10: "Doppia personalità" (credited) .... Old woman attacked by Raimondo
102. Le ragazze di Piazza di Spagna (TV series) - episode 1 (uncredited) .... Marcello's grandmother
103. Un medico in famiglia (TV series) - season 1, episode 42: "Grazie, dottor Lele!" (credited) .... Patient in the waiting room at USL
     
     1999
104. Commesse (TV series) - episodes "Fiorenza" and "Paola" (uncredited) .... Maria
105. Un medico in famiglia (TV series) - season 2, episode 7: "L'appartamento" (uncredited) .... Patient visited by Lele
     
     2000
106. Don Matteo (TV series) - episode 8: "Il piccolo angelo" (credited) .... Witness
107. Linda e il brigadiere (TV series) - episode "Delitto al teatro dell'opera" .... Racecourse onlooker (Pic missing)

[Johan Melle]

Franca shows up everywhere, so we should be able to fill one page after another with pics from her movies, but let's start with these roles:

I familiari delle vittime non saranno avvertiti (1972) .... Don Faiena's maid (uncredited)

Anche gli angeli mangiano fagioli (1973) .... Mourning woman (uncredited)

Due cuori, una cappella (1975) .... Neighbor (credited)

Suspiria (1977) .... Cook at the dance academy (credited)

A small role but very memorable. The creepy scene with her and the little boy is one of the most inconic moments from this famous cult horror movie.


Scusi, lei è normale? (1979) .... Landlady (uncredited)

Una vacanza del cactus (1981) .... Cook (credited)

Turno di notte (1987) (TV series) - episode 2: "Heavy metal" .... Neighbor (uncredited)

And finally the biggest surprise of all. I never expected to find Franca Scagnetti in a Norwegian(!) production, but here she is (uncredited) in the Norwegian TV mini series Jenny (1983) with Liv Ullmann, shot on location in Italy! She's a woman on the train who has fallen asleep.

[Ciavazzaro]

Franca have so many roles, but we have to begin somehow. So let's begin with some comedies:

In Giovannona coscialunga disonorata con onore (1973) she is the maid of Vittorio Caprioli

And in Sessomatto (1973) together with Giancarlo Giannini

Let's continue with some crime movies: here as woman on the bus in the dramatic opening of Roma violenta (1975)

As asylum patient in Giallo napoletano (1979) pic by Johan

At the tavern in Cuore di cane (1976)

Franca as wedding guest in La venere d'Ille (1979) (TV)

And as maid in Mia moglie è una strega (1980)

[Ciavazzaro]

Sfrattato cerca casa equo canone (1983) As woman who lives in the bus

Credited in the TV mini series I ragazzi di celluloide n. 2 (1984)

And some more recent roles: first as portier in Ho vinto la lotteria di capodanno (1989)

And to end a very nice role from the famous italian tv-series Casa Vianello, episode "Doppia personalità" (1998)

Our poor Franca have the misfortune to meet Raimondo Vianello who just turned into a monster after drinking a potion

He pushed her into the staircase !

[Ciavazzaro]

More roles for Franca:

Credited in Arrivano i gatti (1980) as tv porter

Aragosta a colazione (1979) as porter

As prostitute in Sesso in testa (1974)

Nice uncredited role for Franca in Mordi e fuggi (1973) as woman in the autogrill who discovered that the terrorists do have a gun

From I soliti ignoti vent'anni dopo (1985)

As nun in Bello come un arcangelo (1974)

As woman in road in Son tornate a fiorire le rose (1975)

[carlos]

Western roles!

Ehi amigo... sei morto! (1970) as wife of Nathaniel - a nice but uncredited role

Tutti per uno... botte per tutti (1973) circus member

Zorro (Tessari, 1974) in the background cleaning tables

Ah sí? E io lo dico a Zzzorro! (1975) as the cook

[cinemaitaliano]

As a train passenger from Febbre da cavallo (1976) (uncredited)

[vecchiaguardia]

Il sindacalista (1972)

[Johan Melle]

Franca's topic is now restored, which means it's time to add some new roles. We start with some from early in Franca's career:

Trastevere (1971) .... A 'trasteverina' (credited)

Lo scopone scientifico (1972) .... Pasqualina, the maid (credited) - very good speaking role for her

Girolimoni, il mostro di Roma (1972) .... Woman in the angry crowd (uncredited)

La mano nera (1973) .... Woman who finds a corpse in the trash can (uncredited)

And finally a late role in an international production shot in Italy.
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988) .... Woman in the crowd (uncredited)

[Ciavazzaro]

Franca was really everywhere !