Franca Parisi (born 28 September 1933) is an Italian actress.

Biography

Parisi graduated from the

Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia The Centro sperimentale di cinematografia (Experimental Film Centre or Italian National film school) was established in 1935 in Italy and aims to promote the art and technique of cinematography and film. The centre is the oldest film school in ...

of Rome in 1955, and made her screen debut that same year in

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's film '' The White Angel''. She then acted in a number of films of the peplum or

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genre, sometimes under the pseudonym ''Margaret Taylor''. In 1959, she married the Austrian actor

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. In the '60s, Parisi came to television, where she starred in many television dramas : memorably, she played Jane in

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's ''The black arrow''. She retired to private life in the second half of the 1970s.

Selected filmography

Cinema

* 1954: ''The Shadow on the Hill'' * 1955: '' The White Angel'' * 1958: ''

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'' * 1960: ''

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'' * 1962: ''

Julius Caesar Against the Pirates ''Julius Caesar Against the Pirates'' ( it, Giulio Cesare contro i pirati) is a 1962 Italian adventure film written and directed by Sergio Grieco and starring Gustavo Rojo, Abbe Lane and Gordon Mitchell.Della Casa, Steve; Giusti, Marco. ''Il grand ...

'' * 1962: ''

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'' * 1963: ''

The Ten Gladiators ''The Ten Gladiators'' ( it, I dieci gladiatori) is a 1963 Italian film directed by Gianfranco Parolini. Plot summary Roccia and a band of fellow gladiators join forces with a patrician named Glaucus Valerius to replace Nero, (and his evil henc ...

Television

* 1963: ''

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'' * 1965: ''

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External links

* https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0661715/ * https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba250f0f5 * https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/franca_parisi_strahl * https://www.filmweb.pl/person/Franca+Parisi-98083

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Parisi, Franca 1933 births Living people Actresses from Palermo 20th-century Italian actresses