ACTOR

Franco Citti

1935 - 2016

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Franco Citti (Italian: [ˈfraŋko ˈtʃitti]; 23 April 1935 – 14 January 2016) was an Italian actor, best known as one of the close collaborators of director Pier Paolo Pasolini. He came to fame for playing the title role in Pasolini's film Accattone, which brought him a BAFTA Award nomination for Best Foreign Actor. He subsequently starred in six of Pasolini's films, as well as 60 other film and television roles. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Franco Citti has received more than 280,926 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. Franco Citti is the 1,525th most popular actor (up from 1,584th in 2019), the 2,038th most popular biography from Italy (down from 2,032nd in 2019) and the 55th most popular Italian Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 280k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.09

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.44

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.56

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Franco Citti ranks 1,525 out of 13,578. Before him are Joan Chen, François Berléand, Sarah Wayne Callies, Ralph Waite, Choi Eun-hee, and Bruce Greenwood. After him are Rita Wilson, Tony Lip, Peter Gallagher, Chris Noth, Christina Applegate, and Sal Mineo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1935, Franco Citti ranks 127. Before him are Jerry Fodor, Chaim Topol, Tsutomu Hata, Mohamed Choukri, Sergei Khrushchev, and Richard Brautigan. After him are Lyudmila Chernykh, Djamila Bouhired, Dominique Venner, Kurt Westergaard, Samak Sundaravej, and Peter Boyle. Among people deceased in 2016, Franco Citti ranks 131. Before him are Péter Esterházy, Andrew Grove, Goran Hadžić, Isao Tomita, Louis Pilot, and Greg Lake. After him are Juan Gabriel, Carmen Pereira, Gato Barbieri, Fredrik Barth, Neville Marriner, and Maurice White.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Franco Citti ranks 2,038 out of 5,161. Before him are Sophron (-500), Rainier I of Monaco, Lord of Cagnes (1267), Properzia de' Rossi (1490), Kaspar Capparoni (1964), Angelo Amato (1938), and Carmine Crocco (1830). After him are Roger III of Sicily (1175), Anna Sforza (1476), Ercole III d'Este, Duke of Modena (1727), Aloysius Bertrand (1807), Antonio Grimani (1434), and Walter VI, Count of Brienne (1302).

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Among ACTORS In Italy

Among actors born in Italy, Franco Citti ranks 55. Before him are Valeria Bruni Tedeschi (1964), Fabio Testi (1941), Isa Miranda (1909), Nicoletta Braschi (1960), Nino Castelnuovo (1936), and Kaspar Capparoni (1964). After him are Anthony Steffen (1930), Valeria Golino (1965), Laura Betti (1927), Massimo Girotti (1918), Lina Cavalieri (1874), and Gloria Guida (1955).

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Television and Movie Roles

The Godfather
Calo - Sicilian Sequence
Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attempt on his life, his youngest son, Michael steps in to take care of the would-be killers, launching a campaign of bloody revenge.
Mar 14o 19728.692 / 10
Accattone
Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi
A pimp with no other means to provide for himself finds his life spiralling out of control when his prostitute is sent to prison.
Sep 25o 19617.734 / 10
The Godfather Part III
Calo
In the midst of trying to legitimize his business dealings in 1979 New York and Italy, aging mafia don, Michael Corleone seeks forgiveness for his sins while taking a young protege under his wing.
Dec 25o 19907.426 / 10