Massimo Girotti
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- May 18, 1918
- Died
- January 5, 2003 (aged 84)
- Birthplace
- Mogliano, Macerata, Italy
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.
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Filmography
Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
A Film that Paved the Way
Movie · as Self
Facing Windows
Movie · as Simone / Davide Veroli
Luchino Visconti
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Der Kardinal - Der Preis der Liebe
Movie · as Donato
Un bel dì vedremo
Movie · as Emilio Venditti
The Monster
Movie · as il condomino distinto
L'Amore Dopo
Movie · as Ing. Staino
Dalla notte all'alba
TV · as Vergiotti · 2 eps
Der Erfolg ihres Lebens
TV · as Le comte di Falco · 4 eps
The French Revolution
Movie · as Envoyé du Pape
Affairs
Movie · as Count Valery Du Terrail
The French Revolution
TV · as L'envoyé du Pape (« Les Années Lumière ») · 2 eps
La Bohème
Movie · as The Old Pretender / Featuring
Der Ochsenkrieg
TV · as Someier · 6 eps
The Berlin Affair
Movie · as Werner von Heiden
Quo Vadis?
TV · as Aulus Plautius · 6 eps
Christopher Columbus
TV · as Duca Medina Coeli · 4 eps
Art of Love
Movie · as Ovid
Passion of Love
Movie · as Colonel
Un reietto delle isole
Movie · as Tom Lingard
L'Ultimo Aereo per Venezia
Movie · as Marcello Masini
Kolossal - The Magnificent Macisti
Movie
The Innocent
Movie · as Count Stefano Egano
Mr. Klein
Movie · as Charles, Florence's husband
And Agnes Chose to Die
Movie · as Palita
Origins of the Mafia
TV · as Viceroy Caracciolo · 1 ep
The Suspicious Death of a Minor
Movie · as Gaudenzio Pesce
Mark Shoots First
Movie · as Il Questore Spaini
Cagliostro
Movie · as Giacomo Casanova
The Kiss
Movie · as Eugenio Dazzi
The Voracious Ones
Movie · as Olmi
Stateline Motel
Movie · as Fred Norton
Last Tango in Paris
Movie · as Marcel
Baron Blood
Movie · as Dr. Karl Hummel
My Body With Anger
Movie · as Gabriele
Il segno del comando
TV · as George Powell · 5 eps
The Red Tent
Movie · as Giuseppe Romagna Manoja
Medea
Movie · as Creonte
The Sisters
Movie · as Alex
La coppia
Movie · as Guido
Jekyll
TV · as John Utterson · 4 eps
Theorem
Movie · as Paolo, the Father
Listen, Let's Make Love
Movie · as Tassi
The Witches
Movie · as Sportsman (segment "La strega bruciata viva")
The Mysterious Mr. Van Eyck
Movie · as Friend of Charles
Marco the Magnificent
Movie · as Nicolo, Marco's Father
Idoli controluce
Movie · as Ugo Sanfelice
Mafia alla sbarra
Movie
Gold for the Caesars
Movie · as Pro-consul Caius Cornelius Maximus)
The Shortest Day
Movie · as Capitano alla finestra (uncredited)
Imperial Venus
Movie · as Leclerc
Romulus and Remus
Movie · as Tazio
Letters of a Novice
Movie · as Don Paolo Conti
The Giants of Thessaly
Movie · as Orfeo
The Cossacks
Movie · as Tsar Alexander II
Cavalcata selvaggia
Movie · as Lorenzo
Wolves in the Abyss
Movie · as Comandante
La cento chilometri
Movie · as Toccaceli
Nights of the Teddy Boys
Movie · as Constantino's Father
The Head of a Tyrant
Movie · as Holofernes
Asphalt
Movie · as Éric
Herod the Great
Movie · as Ottaviano
The Year Long Road
Movie · as Chiacchiera (Naklapalo)
La trovatella di Pompei
Movie · as Guglielmo Curti
Goddess Of Love
Movie · as Prassitele
It Happened in Rome
Movie · as Ugo Parenti
La bestia humana
Movie · as Pedro Sandoval
Saranno uomini
Movie · as Don Antonio
Marguerite of the Night
Movie · as Valentin
Four of the Thundering Jet
Movie · as Maggiore Montanari
Disperato addio
Movie · as dottor Andrea Pitti
Senso
Movie · as Il Marchese Roberto Ussoni
La tua donna
Movie · as Sandro Ademari
The Love of a Woman
Movie · as André Lorenz
At the Edge of the City
Movie · as Avv. Roberto Martini
A Husband for Anna
Movie · as Andrea Grazzi
Vortice
Movie · as Dr. Guido Aureli
Sins of Rome
Movie · as Spartacus
Sul ponte dei sospiri
Movie · as Marco Spada
Rome 11:00
Movie · as Nando the Unemployed
Leathernose
Movie · as Doctor Marchal
Il segreto delle tre punte
Movie · as Massimo Dal Colle
Lieutenant Giorgio
Movie · as Giorgio Biserta
Fugitive in Trieste
Movie · as Fred Nolan
Behind Closed Shutters
Movie · as Ingegnere Roberto
Duel Without Honor
Movie · as Carlo
Story of a Love Affair
Movie · as Guido
Land der Sehnsucht
Movie
Fabiola
Movie · as Sebastian
In the Name of the Law
Movie · as Il pretore Guido Schiavi
Altura
Movie · as Stanis Archena
Difficult Years
Movie · as Giovanni Piscitello
Woman Trouble
Movie · as Paolo Bertoni
Lost Youth
Movie · as Marcello Mariani
Shamed
Movie · as Rocco
Fatalità
Movie · as Vincenzo Masi
Tragic Hunt
Movie · as Michele
Christmas at Camp 119
Movie · as Nane, il veneziano
A Day in the Life
Movie · as Luigi Monotti
Desire
Movie · as Nando Mancini
The Gates of Heaven
Movie · as The blind youth
La carne e l'anima
Movie · as Andrea
I dieci comandamenti
Movie · as (segment "Ricordati di santificare le feste")
Obsession
Movie · as Gino Costa
Harlem
Movie · as Tommaso Rossi
Apparizione
Movie · as Franco
A Pilot Returns
Movie · as Lieutenant Gino Rossati
The Iron Crown
Movie · as Arminio / King Licinio
I pirati della Malesia
Movie · as Tremal-Naik
Le due tigri
Movie · as Tremal-Naik
La famiglia Brambilla in vacanza
Movie · as Marco Sassoli
Dora Nelson
Movie · as Enrico Gabardo