Pippo Franco
Pippo Franco (actually Francesco Pippo, born September 2, 1940 in Rome ) is an Italian musician and actor.
Life
Franco played for many years on cabaret stages, for television and in theaters. On television, he scored in the broadcasts Pier Francesco Pingitores great success; on stage he succeeded with viola, violin and viola d' amore by Pietro Garinei and Sandro Giovannini. His film career began in 1960 in the musical romance Appuntamento ad Ischia, where he accompanied his group I pinguini the young singer Mina. This start his film career continued Franco in the 1960s and 1970s in numerous roles, mostly comedic nature, continued. This will be short but concise appearance in Avanti, avanti to be outstanding! considered. In 1981, he led in La spouse because pelare cinema director in its script and with its own music. It was his only film as a director.
Since 1968 he had recorded discs; so published until the mid- 1980s, about ten LPs. After he (since 1983) and in television to work on feature films - in addition to acting roles saw him in lottery shows and cooking shows - much shorter occurred, dedicated to Franco in the new millennium writing several books.
In 2006 he was a candidate for the Christian Democrats per le autonomy unsuccessfully for the Italian Senate.
In 2008, he performed at the Sanremo Festival with a new song.