Franca Bettoia is an Italian actress. Born in Rome, she made her first film appearance in Un palco all'opera. The following year she appeared in Los amantes del desierto "Desert Warrior", a Spanish-Italian desert epic starring Ricardo Montalban, Carmen Sevilla and Gino Cervi. She next appeared opposite Pietro Germi in L'uomo di paglia (1958), and opposite Macha M�ril and Jacques Charrier in the French production La main chaude (1960, by G�rard Oury). She appeared as a nun in Apocalisse sul fiume giallo (it) (The Dam on the Yellow River, 1960), an anti-Communist propaganda film which portrays the victory of Mao Zedong's People's Liberation Army as seen through the eyes of an American journalist (Georges Marchal) reporting from the side of the nationalists. In 1961, she starred opposite Alan Ladd in Orazi e Curiazi (Duel of the Champions), a sword and sandals adventure set in ancient Rome. In 1964, Bettoia co-starred with Vincent Price in the horror/science fiction film The Last Man on Earth (1964, by Ubaldo Ragone and Sidney Salkow), the first screen adaptation of Richard Matheson's novel I Am Legend. 

May 14th, 1936 in Rome  /  Died:   Sep 13th, 2024 - aged 88