Actor Franco Chitty died

On January 14, Italian actor Franco Chitty died in Rome at the age of 80.

This was reported by ANSA .

Franco Chitti was born in 1935 in Rome, first starred in a movie in the debut film Pierre Paolo Pasolini Akkaton (1961), playing the main role in it - Roman pimp Vittorio Cataldo, by nickname Akkaton.

Subsequently, he became a regular participant in Pazolini’s films - “Mom Roma” ( Mamma Roma , 1962), “King Oedipus” ( Edipo Re , 1967), “Theorem” (Teorema, 1968), “Porcile” ( Porcile , 1969), “Decamerone” ( Il Decamerone , 1971), “Centerbury Tales” ( I Racconti di Canterbury , 1971), “Flower of a thousand one night” ( Il Fiore Delle Mille E Una Notte , 1974).

In addition, Franco Chitty starred in the episodes of two parts of the Cross Father Trilogy Francis Ford Coppola, in the film “Luna” ( La Luna , 1979) Bernardo Bertolucci, as well as in the films of his brother, Sergio Chitti, together with which created the “Cartoni Animati” painting ( Cartoni Animati 1997). Since the late 1980s he performed on television and theater stage.