Franco CastellanoFilmography

Il Burbero

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Adriano Celentano, Debra Feuer, Jean Sorel, Mattia Sbragia, Angela Finocchiaro

Synopsis: In this light comedy and mystery film, Mary is a waitress living in New York. She is also a newlywed, blonde, and none too bright into the bargain. One day, she gets a call from her husband, who instructs her to take the next plane to Florence because he's struck it rich. However, when she lands Read More

Grandi Magazzini

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Alessandro Haber, Laura Antonelli, Enrico Montesano, Paolo Villaggio, Nino Manfredi

Synopsis: Perhaps taking a cue from the popular 1970s Brit television comedy "Are You Being Served?," this Italian department store comedy is a series of skits involving customers and store personnel from several departments. In one skit, Elena (Laura Antonelli) and her husband the personnel director, are Read More

Scuola Di Ladri

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Paolo Villaggio, Massimo Boldi, Enrico Maria Salerno

Synopsis: Frenetic in its pacing and with miniscule character development, this trite slapstick farce stars three Italian comics - Paolo Villaggio, Lino Banfi, and Massimo Boldi as the idiot-nephews of a wealthy invalid (Enrico Maria Salerno). The uncle's plan is to teach the trio how to successfully steal Read More

È Arrivato Mio Fratello

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Segni Particolari: Bellissimo

Crew: Director

Actors: Adriano Celentano, Federica Moro

Synopsis: The popular Italian comic Adriano Celentano stars in this light comedy as Mattia, a wealthy novelist besieged by female admirers who recruits the aid of his young neighbor to discourage any women from proposing marriage as a logical outcome of their affections. Federica Moro plays Michela Read More

Grand Hotel Excelsior

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Adriano Celentano, Carlo Verdone, Enrico Montesano, Diego Abatantuono, Eleonora Giorgi

Synopsis: Four popular Italian comedians (Adriano Celentano, Carlo Verdone, Enrico Montesano, and Diego Abantantuono), at the time this film was shot, play characters who either work in or visit a large hotel. Each comedian reprises some of the roles or attitudes that made him famous in a series of Read More

Innamorato Pazzo

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Adriano Celentano, Ornella Muti, Adolfo Celi

Synopsis: Cristina (Ornella Muti) is a rich, spoiled princess visiting Rome with her royal parents. The mission of their visit is to marry her off to a super-wealthy corporate type and thereby start to turn around the losses their small kingdom is experiencing in its casino business. These less-than-noble Read More

Asso

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Adriano Celentano, Edwige Fenech, Renato Salvatori, Sylva Koscina

Synopsis: On his wedding night, of all times, a husband appropriately named "Ace" (Adriano Celentano) gambles away the night at a local bar -- and wins a handy amount of money. As Ace heads home to his waiting bride Bocconcino (Edwige Fenech), he is killed by a hired gun. When he reappears to see his wife Read More

Il Bisbetico Domato

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Adriano Celentano, Ornella Muti, Edith Peters

Synopsis: This Taming of the Shrew in Italian is also a take off on the 1970 French film L'ours et la Poupee, and showcases the popular singer/comedian Adriano Celentano as an irascible country farmer named Elia, who locks horns with Lisa (Ornella Muti), a gorgeous society snob. Elia is a notoriously Read More

Mia Moglie è Una Strega

Crew: Director

Attila

Crew: Director

Mani Di Velluto

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Adriano Celentano, Eleonora Giorgi, John Sharp, Olga Karlatos

Synopsis: Guido (Italian pop-music superstar Adriano Celentano) is a millionaire who has made his fortune by inventing an unbreakable glass. He has everything he wants except for casual sex from a woman who knows nothing of his wealth. While riding the subway, his Rolex watch is lifted by the beautiful Read More

Sabato, Domenica E Venerdi

Crew: Director

Actors: Barbara Bouchet, Edwige Fenech, Michele Placido, Milena Vukotic, Adriano Celentano, Lino Banfi

Synopsis: This Italian anthology uses the standard sex comedy format but lacks the subtle social commentary present in its predecessors. In the "Saturday" episode, a modest accountant is sent by his boss to entertain a visiting Japanese engineer who turns out to be a pretty woman (Edwige Fenech). In the Read More

Il Bel Paese

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Paolo Villaggio, Silvia Dionisio

Synopsis: It often seems that Italy is on the verge of total collapse as a nation. Still, that family-centered and nearly anarchic land which its citizens ironically call Il Bel Paese, seems to survive everything that happens to it. In this satirical comedy, Guido Paolo is an oil-rig worker who has saved Read More

Tre Tigri Contro Tre Tigri

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Renato Pozzetto, Dalila di Lazzaro, Enrico Montesano, Paolo Villaggio

Synopsis: Three episodes of slapstick sexual comedy comprise this film. In the first, a young priest is deserted by his flock until an American protestant minister comes to town with his lovely wife. When the parishioners are convinced that their priest has proved his manhood with the minister's wife Read More

Neveroyatnye Priklyucheniya Italyantsev v Rossii

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Andrei Mironov, Ninetto Davoli, Antonia Santilli, Alighero Noschese, Tano Cimarosa

La Vita, a Volte, E Molto Dura, Vero Provvidenza?

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Tomas Milian, Gregg Palmer, Janet Agren, Dieter Eppler

Synopsis: This Italian western comedy has no shooting deaths, but a lot of fistfights. Provvidenza is a bounty hunter. He makes his living solely by catching his dim but powerful friend, the Hurricane Kid (Gregg Palmer) and turning him in for the reward money. A fully armed horseless carriage is one of the Read More

War Italian Style

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Franco Franchi, Ciccio Ingrassia, Fred Clark, Martha Hyer, Buster Keaton

Synopsis: This WW II comedy centers upon a hapless German general (played by Buster Keaton in one of his last roles) who is stationed in Italy the night before the Allied invasion. Two Yankee POWs are planning to steal the plans for the Nazi offensive strategy. The Germans anticipate this and replace the Read More

Kojak: Life, Liberation, and the Pursuit of Death

Synopsis: Lorelai Mason (Joanna Miles) is the only witness when two brilliant but unbalanced psychology students, Casey Nystrom (William Katt) and Bob Viliano (Jim Borrelli), murder their professor and dump his body into the harbor. To prevent Lorelai from talking, the two cunning killers begin playing Read More

Extraconiugale

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Gastone Moschin, Renato Salvatori

Synopsis: This three-part Italian comedy with several pretty females is another in a long series of gang-directed efforts. Director Masimo Franciosa adds a surrealistic touch to "The Shower," the story of a dedicated husband who takes a liking to extramarital affairs. "The World Belongs To The Rich" is Read More

I Maniaci

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: A minor comedy from Italian filmmaker Lucio Fulci (Zombi 2; L'Aldila), this anthology is of interest primarily to cult devotees for marking the notorious director's only collaboration with legendary "scream queen" Barbara Steele (La Maschera del Demonio). Lushly photographed and filled with Read More

3 Notti D'Amore

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Catherine Spaak, Renato Salvatori

Synopsis: Three different takes on love are presented in this episodic Italian film. The first story begins as a prostitute is involved in an auto wreck and ends up in a body cast. While recuperating, she attempts to seduce a young priest preparing to take his final vows. He does not succumb and instead Read More

Le Monachine

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Catherine Spaak, Sylva Koscina, Amedeo Nazzari, Didi Perego, Umberto D'Orsi

Synopsis: Italian nuns raise a quiet ruckus to stop a major airline from flying over their village in this gentle comedy. They are upset because the noise from the jets creates a vibration that is threatening to crumble a much-revered ancient fresco. It also interferes with the quiet of their cloistered Read More

Le Ore dell'Amore

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Emmanuelle Riva, Umberto D'Orsi, Barbara Steele

Synopsis: In this romantic comedy, two long-time lovers finally decide to tie the knot. Unfortunately, they find the mundane realities of marriage oppressive. They miss the thrill of courtship, and suddenly all those cute little quirks of theirs have turned into annoying habits. They get a divorce and go Read More

La Voglia Matta

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Ugo Tognazzi, Catherine Spaak, Gianni Garko, Beatrice Altariba

Synopsis: Crazy Desire (La Voglia Matta) stars Ugo Tognazzi as a middle-aged Italian businessman on a cross country motor trip. He comes across a group of rambunctious teenagers, including sexy Catherine Spaak. Infatuated by the girl, Tognazzi allows Spaak to deplete his pocketbook to pay for a wild seaside Read More

Il Federale

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Ugo Tognazzi, Georges Wilson, Mireille Granelli, Stefania Sandrelli, Gianrico Tedeschi

Synopsis: The Fascist (Il Federale) is a comedy set in 1944 Italy. Dedicated fascist Ugo Tognazzi is sent to capture anti-Mussolini professor Georges Wilson. He accomplishes his mission, but both captor and captive have a hard time getting home. After numerous comic misadventures in Tognazzi's motorcycle Read More