7.8
7.8
Rome 11:00
1952
as Nando the Unemployed
Massimo Girotti
Acting
Born:May 18, 1918
Died:January 5, 2003(aged 84)
Birthplace:Mogliano, Macerata, Italy
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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.
Filmography (100 movies)
7.7
7.7
Difficult Years
1948
as Giovanni Piscitello
7.6
7.6
Wolves in the Abyss
1959
as Comandante
7.5
7.5
Obsession
1944
as Gino Costa
7.3
7.3
Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita
2021
as Self (archive footage)
7.2
7.2
Mr. Klein
1976
as Charles, Florence's husband
7.2
7.2
Senso
1954
as Il Marchese Roberto Ussoni
7.1
7.1
In the Name of the Law
1949
as Il pretore Guido Schiavi
7.0
7.0
Theorem
1968
as Paolo, the Father
7.0
7.0
Nights of the Teddy Boys
1959
as Constantino's Father
7.0
7.0
Facing Windows
2003
as Simone / Davide Veroli
7.0
7.0
Vortice
1953
as Dr. Guido Aureli
7.0
7.0
Asphalt
1959
as Éric
7.0
7.0
The Monster
1994
as il condomino distinto
6.9
6.9
Last Tango in Paris
1972
as Marcel
6.8
6.8
The Love of a Woman
1953
as André Lorenz
6.8
6.8
The Innocent
1976
as Count Stefano Egano
6.7
6.7
The Gate of Heaven
1945
as The blind youth
6.6
6.6
Story of a Love Affair
1950
as Guido
6.6
6.6
Mark Shoots First
1975
as Il Questore Spaini
6.6
6.6
Christmas at Camp 119
1947
as Nane, il veneziano
6.6
6.6
Passion of Love
1981
as Colonel
6.5
6.5
Medea
1969
as Creonte
6.5
6.5
Woman Trouble
1948
as Paolo Bertoni
6.5
6.5
At the Edge of the City
1953
as Avv. Roberto Martini
6.4
6.4
Tragic Hunt
1947
as Michele
6.4
6.4
Letters of a Novice
1960
as Don Paolo Conti
6.3
6.3
A Day in the Life
1946
as Luigi Monotti
6.3
6.3
La bestia humana
1957
as Pedro Sandoval
6.3
6.3
Apparizione
1943
as Franco
6.2
6.2
Luchino Visconti
2002
as Self (archive footage)
6.2
6.2
Baron Blood
1972
as Dr. Karl Hummel
6.1
6.1
Lost Youth
1948
as Marcello Mariani
6.0
6.0
The Red Tent
1969
as Giuseppe Romagna Manoja
6.0
6.0
The Witches
1967
as Sportsman (segment "La strega bruciata viva")
6.0
6.0
Lieutenant Giorgio
1952
as Tenente Giorgio Biserta
6.0
6.0
La Bohème
1988
as The Old Pretender / Featuring
6.0
6.0
Behind Closed Shutters
1951
as Ingegnere Roberto
6.0
6.0
The Year Long Road
1958
as Chiacchiera (Naklapalo)
5.9
5.9
The Suspicious Death of a Minor
1975
as Gaudenzio Pesce
5.8
5.8
Sins of Rome
1953
as Spartacus
5.6
5.6
The Iron Crown
1941
as Arminio / King Licinio
5.5
5.5
Dora Nelson
1939
as Enrico
5.4
5.4
It Happened in Rome
1957
as Ugo Parenti
5.4
5.4
A Husband for Anna
1953
as Andrea Grazzi
5.4
5.4
Fabiola
1949
as Sebastian
5.4
5.4
Desire
1946
as Nando Mancini
5.2
5.2
The Voracious Ones
1973
as Olmi
5.2
5.2
The Berlin Affair
1985
as Werner von Heiden
5.2
5.2
Duel of the Titans
1961
as Tazio
5.1
5.1
Stateline Motel
1973
as Fred Norton
5.0
5.0
Leathernose
1952
as Doctor Marchal
5.0
5.0
Sul ponte dei sospiri
1953
as Marco Spada
5.0
5.0
Herod the Great
1959
as Ottaviano
5.0
5.0
The Cossacks
1960
as Tsar Alexander II
5.0
5.0
Art of Love
1983
as Ovid
5.0
5.0
A Pilot Returns
1942
as Lieutenant Gino Rossati
4.8
4.8
Marco the Magnificent
1965
as Nicolo, Marco's Father
4.7
4.7
The Giants of Thessaly
1960
as Orfeo
4.5
4.5
Marguerite of the Night
1955
as Valentin
4.2
4.2
Gold for the Caesars
1963
as Pro-consul Caius Cornelius Maximus)
4.2
4.2
Listen, Let's Make Love
1968
as Tassi
4.0
4.0
Saranno uomini
1957
as Don Antonio
4.0
4.0
The Head of a Tyrant
1959
as Holofernes
3.9
3.9
Fatalità
1947
as Vincenzo Masi
3.8
3.8
The Sisters
1969
as Alex
3.3
3.3
Imperial Venus
1962
as Leclerc
2.3
2.3
Affairs
1989
as Count Valery Du Terrail
2.3
2.3
Goddess Of Love
1957
as Prassitele
2.0
2.0
The Kiss
1974
as Eugenio Dazzi
1.0
1.0
La tua donna
1954
as Sandro Ademari
Disperato addio
1955
as dottor Andrea Pitti
My Body With Anger
1972
as Gabriele
Le due tigri
1941
as Tremal-Naik
Altura
1949
as Stanis Archena
La famiglia Brambilla in vacanza
1941
as Marco Sassoli
Cavalcata selvaggia
1960
as Lorenzo
Fugitive in Trieste
1952
as Fred Nolan
Duel Without Honor
1950
as Carlo
La coppia
1969
as Guido
Mafia alla sbarra
1963
L'Ultimo Aereo per Venezia
1977
as Marcello Masini
L'Amore Dopo
1993
as Ing. Staino
Un bel dì vedremo
1996
as Emilio Venditti
I pirati della Malesia
1941
as Tremal-Naik
Cagliostro
1975
as Giacomo Casanova
The Mysterious Mr. Van Eyck
1966
as Friend of Charles
Preludio d'amore
1946
Harlem
1943
as Tommaso Rossi
La trovatella di Pompei
1957
as Guglielmo Curti
Der Kardinal - Der Preis der Liebe
2000
as Donato
Il segreto delle tre punte
1952
as Massimo Dal Colle
Idoli controluce
1965
as Ugo Sanfelice
Four of the Thundering Jet
1955
as Maggiore Montanari
From Night to Dawn
1992
as Vergiotti
Un reietto delle isole
1980
as Tom Lingard
La carne e l'anima
1945
as Andrea
I dieci comandamenti
1945
as (segment "Ricordati di santificare le feste")
Land der Sehnsucht
1950
La cento chilometri
1959
as Toccaceli
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