Francesco Ciccio

Don Ciccio is one of the two main antagonists of the universally acclaimed Academy-Award winning gangster film, The Godfather: Part II.

He is a ruthless mobster who has Vito Corleone's father Antonio Andolini, murdered when he refuses to pay tribute to him, which was seen as a sign of disrespect. Vito's older brother Paolo swears vengeance on Ciccio, but is soon murdered as well at Antonio's funeral. Desperate, Vito's mother Signora comes to Ciccio, and begs him to spare her youngest and now only son, claiming that he is mute, intellectually challenged and harmless. Ciccio coldly refuses, saying that "It's not his words I'm afraid of. When he grows, he will become a man, and he will come back for vengeance."

To save Vito, his mother holds Ciccio at knifepoint, allowing Vito to escape, before Ciccio has her executed as well. He then threatens to kill any family that is hiding young Vito in Corleone, Sicily. Luckily, young Vito is shipped off by a kind-hearted family to the United States of America before Ciccio has a chance to get his hands on him. Many years later, Vito has become a powerful mob boss, and returns to Sicily with his new family. In order to avenge his old family, he returns to Ciccio's residence, where Ciccio is now a frail and elderly man, and brutally stabs him to death, avenging his family and Ciccio's presumed other victims.

He was portrayed by Italian actor Giuseppe Sillato.