Franco Silva

{{Short description|Italian actor}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2016}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Franco Silva

| image = File:Dawn Addams and Franco Silva.jpg

| caption = Dawn Addams and Franco Silva
in the film Mizar (1954)

| birth_name = Francesco Vistarini

| birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1920|2|18}}

| birth_place = Genoa, Kingdom of Italy

| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1995|11|10|1920|2|18}}

| death_place = Livorno, Italy

| occupation = Actor

| children = {{ublist|Carla Vistarini|Patrizia Vistarini}}

}}

Francesco Vistarini (18 February 1920 – 10 November 1995), known professionally as Franco Silva, was an Italian actor.

Born in Genoa, Silva moved in Rome to attend the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, from which he graduated in 1938;{{cite book|author1=Enrico Lancia |author2=Roberto Poppi |author3=Fabio Melelli |author4=Mario Pecorari |title=Gli Attori - Vol.3|publisher=Gremese Editore}} the following year he made his film debut in Ho visto brillare le stelle. Silva was mainly active between the 1950s and the mid-1960s; he was also active on stage and on television. Silva was the father of scriptwriter and novelist Carla Vistarini and actress Mita Medici.{{cite news|title=Morto l'attore Franco Silva|newspaper=La Stampa|date=12 November 1995}}