Armando Fragna

Born in Torre Annunziata, Naples, at just 18 years old Fragna started a long collaboration with Ettore Petrolini as the score composer of his theatrical works.[1][2] In 1930 he started a career as a film score composer.[1][2] In 1942 he entered EIAR as the conductor of its "Orchestra Nostrana".[2] He also composed several pop songs, and two of them entered the competition at the Sanremo Music Festival.[1] Among his most successful songs, "I pompieri di Viggiù" and "I cadetti di Guascogna".[1]

• The Haller Case (1933)
• Just Married (1934)
• Those Two (1935)
• The Phantom Gondola (1936)
• The Amnesiac (1936)
• The Castle Ball (1939)
• Red Tavern (1940)
• The Firemen of Viggiù (1949)
• Totò Tarzan (1950)
• The Count of Saint Elmo (1950)
• Il padrone del vapore (1951)
• Toto the Third Man (1951)
• The Ungrateful Heart (1951)
• Accidents to the Taxes!! (1951)
• The Piano Tuner Has Arrived (1952)
• Inganno (1952)
• Ivan, Son of the White Devil (1953)
• If You Won a Hundred Million (1953)

• Armando Fragna at IMDb
• Armando Fragna at Discogs