Franco Columbu
Birthday: 1941-08-07
Place of Birth: Ollolai, Nuoro, Italia
Biography: An Italian born former bodybuilder, actor and author. Despite his short statue at 5 ft 5 (165cm) he won Mr. Olympia bodybuilding in 1976 and 1981. During a competition in Munich in 1965, he met Arnold Schwarzenegger and the two of them got very close. After Arnolds relocation to USA, he brought Franco over not long after because he missed his best friend. It was a friendship that would last for 54 years til Franco'a death. Franco Columbo's would participate in several minor roles in movies after his US entry, acting along side Schwarzenegger in a few of his motion pictures. Although he held a US residence and lived there since the 1970's, Columbu would often travel back home to Sardinia on vacation, and it was there he ultimately passed away at the age of 78.
Movies
The Terminator
In the post-apocalyptic future, reigning tyrannical supercomputers teleport a cyborg assassin known ...
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The Comeback
After an absence of five years, six times Mr Olympia winner Arnold Schwarzenegger makes a comeback a...
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Pumping Iron
Amateur and professional bodybuilders prepare for the 1975 Mr. Olympia and Mr. Universe contests as ...
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The Hustler of Muscle Beach
A slick promoter in the bodybuilding subculture of Venice Beach, California, finds what he considers...
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Stay Hungry
A dishonest businessman asks rich layabout Craig Blake to help him buy a gym, which will be demolish...
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Ancient Warriors
Special Forces Captain Aldo Paccione must pull together his former world team Delta Force and go dee...
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Beretta's Island
Franco Armando - code name Beretta - is forced out of retirement to avenge the cold-blooded murder o...
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Conan the Barbarian
A horde of rampaging warriors massacre the parents of young Conan and enslave the young child for ye...
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Desperate Crimes
In the large industrial port of an Italian city - sailors, women, black market traffickers, sleazy n...
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Big Top Pee-wee
Paul Reubens stars as Pee-wee Herman in his second full-length film about a farmer who joins the cir...
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Getting Physical
The world of female bodybuilding provides the backdrop for this tale of an aspiring young actress wh...
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Taken Alive
A beautiful secret agent recruits a local sculptor to aid her in rescuing a presidential candidate's...
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Dreamland: The Land of Dreams
Giacomo, a boy from Puglia, leaves immediately after the war for the United States of America, where...
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Rocky IV: The American Punch
Rocky IV is dually symbolic - it embodies both the victory of the American boxer over the Soviet one...
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Doublecross on Costa's Island
Six years after stopping a multi-national arms deal that would have wiped out Los Angeles, Agent Enr...
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Rickles... On the Loose
Special featuring Don Rickles in his live comedy act at the Sahara Hotel in Las Vegas, mixed with fo...
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Raw Iron: The Making of 'Pumping Iron'
A documentary on the making of "Pumping Iron" to celebrate its 25th anniversary. Aired on Cinemax....
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The Running Man
By 2017, the global economy has collapsed and U.S. society has become a totalitarian police state, c...
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Schwarzenegger: Total Rebuild
After an absence of five years, six times Mr. Olympia winner Arnold Schwarzenegger makes a comeback ...
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The Road To Olympia
A truly iconic video based on the Mr. Olympia contest from 1984. Every single one of the competitors...
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Herakles
Basically, 'Herakles' is an omnium-gatherum of film clips depicting images of machismo. Some of thos...
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Predator
A team of elite commandos on a secret mission in a Central American jungle come to find themselves h...
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How To Become Rambo... Part One
Sylvester Stallone's body building coach shows how it's done...
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Last Man Standing
Roo Marcus has just spent 8 years in a mental institution, and takes up bare-knuckle boxing and gets...
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