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Massimo Girotti
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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 Ossessi…
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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.
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Massimo Girotti's Filmography
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Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita
as Self (archive footage)
A Film that Paved the Way
as Self
Facing Windows
as Simone / Davide Veroli
Luchino Visconti
as Self (archive footage)
No Poster
Der Kardinal - Der Preis der Liebe
as Donato
No Poster
Un bel dì vedremo
as Emilio Venditti
The Monster
as il condomino distinto
No Poster
L'Amore Dopo
as Ing. Staino
The French Revolution
as Envoyé du Pape
Affairs
as Count Valery Du Terrail
La Bohème
as The Old Pretender / Featuring
The Berlin Affair
as Werner von Heiden
Art of Love
as Ovid
Passion of Love
as Colonel
No Poster
Un reietto delle isole
as Tom Lingard
L'Ultimo Aereo per Venezia
as Marcello Masini
Kolossal - The Magnificent Macisti
And Agnes Chose to Die
as Palita
Mr. Klein
as Charles, Florence's husband
The Innocent
as Count Stefano Egano
Mark Shoots First
as Il Questore Spaini
The Suspicious Death of a Minor
as Gaudenzio Pesce
Cagliostro
as Giacomo Casanova
The Kiss
as Eugenio Dazzi
Stateline Motel
as Fred Norton
The Voracious Ones
as Olmi
Last Tango in Paris
as Marcel
My Body With Anger
as Gabriele
Baron Blood
as Dr. Karl Hummel
Medea
as Creonte
The Red Tent
as Giuseppe Romagna Manoja
La coppia
as Guido
The Sisters
as Alex
Listen, Let's Make Love
as Tassi
Theorem
as Paolo, the Father
The Witches
as Sportsman (segment "La strega bruciata viva")
The Mysterious Mr. Van Eyck
as Friend of Charles
Idoli controluce
as Ugo Sanfelice
Marco the Magnificent
as Nicolo, Marco's Father
Gold for the Caesars
as Pro-consul Caius Cornelius Maximus)
Mafia alla sbarra
The Shortest Day
as Capitano alla finestra (uncredited)
Imperial Venus
as Leclerc
Romulus and Remus
as Tazio
The Giants of Thessaly
as Orfeo
Letters of a Novice
as Don Paolo Conti
The Cossacks
as Tsar Alexander II
Cavalcata selvaggia
as Lorenzo
Nights of the Teddy Boys
as Constantino's Father
La cento chilometri
as Toccaceli
Wolves in the Abyss
as Comandante
The Head of a Tyrant
as Holofernes
Asphalt
as Éric
Herod the Great
as Ottaviano
The Year Long Road
as Chiacchiera (Naklapalo)
Goddess Of Love
as Prassitele
La trovatella di Pompei
as Guglielmo Curti
La bestia humana
as Pedro Sandoval
It Happened in Rome
as Ugo Parenti
Saranno uomini
as Don Antonio
Four of the Thundering Jet
as Maggiore Montanari
Marguerite of the Night
as Valentin
Disperato addio
as dottor Andrea Pitti
Senso
as Il Marchese Roberto Ussoni
No Poster
La tua donna
as Sandro Ademari
The Love of a Woman
as André Lorenz
Vortice
as Dr. Guido Aureli
At the Edge of the City
as Avv. Roberto Martini
A Husband for Anna
as Andrea Grazzi
Sul ponte dei sospiri
as Marco Spada
Sins of Rome
as Spartacus
Il segreto delle tre punte
as Massimo Dal Colle
Lieutenant Giorgio
as Giorgio Biserta
Fugitive in Trieste
as Fred Nolan
Leathernose
as Doctor Marchal
Rome 11:00
as Nando the Unemployed
Behind Closed Shutters
as Ingegnere Roberto
No Poster
Land der Sehnsucht
Story of a Love Affair
as Guido
Duel Without Honor
as Carlo
In the Name of the Law
as Il pretore Guido Schiavi
Fabiola
as Sebastian
Altura
as Stanis Archena
Difficult Years
as Giovanni Piscitello
Woman Trouble
as Paolo Bertoni
Lost Youth
as Marcello Mariani
Christmas at Camp 119
as Nane, il veneziano
Tragic Hunt
as Michele
Shamed
as Rocco
Fatalità
as Vincenzo Masi
Desire
as Nando Mancini
A Day in the Life
as Luigi Monotti
The Gates of Heaven
as The blind youth
La carne e l'anima
as Andrea
I dieci comandamenti
as (segment "Ricordati di santificare le feste")
Apparizione
as Franco
Obsession
as Gino Costa
Harlem
as Tommaso Rossi
A Pilot Returns
as Lieutenant Gino Rossati
La famiglia Brambilla in vacanza
as Marco Sassoli
Le due tigri
as Tremal-Naik
I pirati della Malesia
as Tremal-Naik
The Iron Crown
as Arminio / King Licinio
Dora Nelson
as Enrico