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Acting
Massimo Girotti
Also known as: Массимо Джиротти
Biography
Massimo Girotti (18 May 1918 – 5 January 2003) was an Italian film actor whose career spanned seven decades. Born in Mogliano, in the province of Macerata, Girotti developed his athletic physique by swimming and playing polo. While studying engineering, he attracted the attention of Mario Soldati, who offered him a small part in the film Dora Nelson (1939), but it was not until later, in Alessandro Blasetti's La corona di ferro (The Iron Crown) (1941) and Roberto Rossellini's Un Pilota ritorna (A Pilot Returns) (1942), that he began to make an impression as a serious actor. In 1943 came a turning point in his career when Luchino Visconti cast him opposite the torrid Clara Calamai in Ossessione (Obsession), an earlier adaptation of the same novel on which Hollywood's The Postman Always Rings Twice is based. The film marked, in a sense, the birth of Italian neo-realism. Some of his notable post-war films include Caccia tragica (The Tragic Hunt) (1946) by Giuseppe De Santis and In nome della legge (1949) (In the Name of the Law) by Pietro Germi. In 1950, he starred opposite Lucia Bosé in Michelangelo Antonioni's first full-length feature, Cronaca di un amore (Story of a Love Affair) (1950). In 1953, he played Spartacus in an Italian epic film known in the US as Sins of Rome and then, returned to work again for Visconti, in Senso (1954), giving perhaps the finest performance of his career. In the years which followed, he appeared in many mainly Italian films for directors such as Lizzani, Bolognini, Vittorio Cottafavi, Lattuada, but it was not until 1968 that he once again played a role worthy of his talents - that of the father in Pasolini's Teorema (Theorem) with Terence Stamp and Silvana Mangano. Two years later, Pasolini cast him as Creonte opposite Maria Callas in his Medea (1969). In 1972, he was in Bernardo Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris. That same year he made a rare appearance in a horror film when he agreed to a supporting role in Baron Blood as a favor to its director Mario Bava. He continued to act in character roles for the next thirty years. Some of the films he appeared in have been notable, including Joseph Losey's Monsieur Klein (1976) with Alain Delon and Jeanne Moreau, Art of Love (1983) by Walerian Borowczyk, the 1985 television miniseries Quo Vadis?, Roberto Benigni's Il mostro (The Monster) (1994). He died in Rome of a heart attack after having just completed his last film, Ferzan Özpetek's La Finestra di fronte (Facing Windows) (2003). Source: Article "Massimo Girotti" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
May 18, 1918
Day of Death
January 5, 2003
Age at Death
84 years old
Place of Birth
Mogliano, Macerata, Italy
Popularity Score
0.8
Filmography
Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita
Self (archive footage)
2021Movie
Facing Windows
Simone / Davide Veroli
2003Movie
Luchino Visconti
Self (archive footage)
2002Movie
Der Kardinal - Der Preis der Liebe
Donato
2000Movie
Un bel dì vedremo
Emilio Venditti
1996Movie
The Monster
il condomino distinto
1994Movie
L'Amore Dopo
Ing. Staino
1993Movie
From Night to Dawn
Vergiotti
1992Movie
Der Erfolg ihres Lebens
Le comte di Falco
1990TV
The French Revolution
Envoyé du Pape
1989Movie
Affairs
Count Valery Du Terrail
1989Movie
The French Revolution
L'envoyé du Pape (« Les Années Lumière »)
1989TV
La Bohème
The Old Pretender / Featuring
1988Movie
Der Ochsenkrieg
Someier
1987TV
The Berlin Affair
Werner von Heiden
1985Movie
Quo Vadis?
Aulus Plautius
1985TV
Christopher Columbus
Duca Medina Coeli
1985TV
Art of Love
Ovid
1983Movie
Passion of Love
Colonel
1981Movie
Un reietto delle isole
Tom Lingard
1980Movie
L'Ultimo Aereo per Venezia
Marcello Masini
1977Movie
Kolossal - The Magnificent Macisti
1977Movie
The Innocent
Count Stefano Egano
1976Movie
Mr. Klein
Charles, Florence's husband
1976Movie
And Agnes Chose to Die
Palita
1976Movie
Origins of the Mafia
Viceroy Caracciolo
1976TV
The Suspicious Death of a Minor
Gaudenzio Pesce
1975Movie
Mark Shoots First
Il Questore Spaini
1975Movie
Cagliostro
Giacomo Casanova
1975Movie
The Kiss
Eugenio Dazzi
1974Movie
The Voracious Ones
Olmi
1973Movie
Stateline Motel
Fred Norton
1973Movie
Last Tango in Paris
Marcel
1972Movie
Baron Blood
Dr. Karl Hummel
1972Movie
My Body With Anger
Gabriele
1972Movie
Il segno del comando
George Powell
1971TV
The Red Tent
Giuseppe Romagna Manoja
1969Movie
Medea
Creonte
1969Movie
The Sisters
Alex
1969Movie
La coppia
Guido
1969Movie
Jekyll
John Utterson
1969TV
Theorem
Paolo, the Father
1968Movie
Listen, Let's Make Love
Tassi
1968Movie
The Witches
Sportsman (segment "La strega bruciata viva")
1967Movie
The Mysterious Mr. Van Eyck
Friend of Charles
1966Movie
Marco the Magnificent
Nicolo, Marco's Father
1965Movie
Idoli controluce
Ugo Sanfelice
1965Movie
Mafia alla sbarra
1963Movie
Gold for the Caesars
Pro-consul Caius Cornelius Maximus)
1963Movie
The Shortest Day
Capitano alla finestra (uncredited)
1963Movie
Imperial Venus
Leclerc
1962Movie
Romulus and Remus
Tazio
1961Movie
Letters of a Novice
Don Paolo Conti
1960Movie
The Giants of Thessaly
Orfeo
1960Movie
The Cossacks
Tsar Alexander II
1960Movie
Cavalcata selvaggia
Lorenzo
1960Movie
Wolves in the Abyss
Comandante
1959Movie
La cento chilometri
Toccaceli
1959Movie
Nights of the Teddy Boys
Constantino's Father
1959Movie
The Head of a Tyrant
Holofernes
1959Movie
Asphalt
Éric
1959Movie
Herod the Great
Ottaviano
1959Movie
The Year Long Road
Chiacchiera (Naklapalo)
1958Movie
La trovatella di Pompei
Guglielmo Curti
1957Movie
Goddess Of Love
Prassitele
1957Movie
It Happened in Rome
Ugo Parenti
1957Movie
La bestia humana
Pedro Sandoval
1957Movie
Saranno uomini
Don Antonio
1957Movie
Marguerite of the Night
Valentin
1955Movie
Four of the Thundering Jet
Maggiore Montanari
1955Movie
Disperato addio
dottor Andrea Pitti
1955Movie
Senso
Il Marchese Roberto Ussoni
1954Movie
La tua donna
Sandro Ademari
1954Movie
The Love of a Woman
André Lorenz
1953Movie
At the Edge of the City
Avv. Roberto Martini
1953Movie
A Husband for Anna
Andrea Grazzi
1953Movie
Vortice
Dr. Guido Aureli
1953Movie
Sins of Rome
Spartacus
1953Movie
Sul ponte dei sospiri
Marco Spada
1953Movie
Rome 11:00
Nando the Unemployed
1952Movie
Leathernose
Doctor Marchal
1952Movie
Il segreto delle tre punte
Massimo Dal Colle
1952Movie
Lieutenant Giorgio
Tenente Giorgio Biserta
1952Movie
Fugitive in Trieste
Fred Nolan
1952Movie
Behind Closed Shutters
Ingegnere Roberto
1951Movie
Duel Without Honor
Carlo
1950Movie
Story of a Love Affair
Guido
1950Movie
Land der Sehnsucht
1950Movie
Fabiola
Sebastian
1949Movie
In the Name of the Law
Il pretore Guido Schiavi
1949Movie
Altura
Stanis Archena
1949Movie
Difficult Years
Giovanni Piscitello
1948Movie
Woman Trouble
Paolo Bertoni
1948Movie
Lost Youth
Marcello Mariani
1948Movie
Shamed
Rocco
1947Movie
Fatalità
Vincenzo Masi
1947Movie
Tragic Hunt
Michele
1947Movie
Christmas at Camp 119
Nane, il veneziano
1947Movie
A Day in the Life
Luigi Monotti
1946Movie
Desire
Nando Mancini
1946Movie
The Gates of Heaven
The blind youth
1945Movie
La carne e l'anima
Andrea
1945Movie
I dieci comandamenti
(segment "Ricordati di santificare le feste")
1945Movie
Obsession
Gino Costa
1943Movie
Harlem
Tommaso Rossi
1943Movie
Apparizione
Franco
1943Movie
A Pilot Returns
Lieutenant Gino Rossati
1942Movie
The Iron Crown
Arminio / King Licinio
1941Movie
I pirati della Malesia
Tremal-Naik
1941Movie
Le due tigri
Tremal-Naik
1941Movie
La famiglia Brambilla in vacanza
Marco Sassoli
1941Movie
Dora Nelson
Enrico
1939Movie