Massimo Girotti
Age: N/A | From: Mogliano, Macerata, Italy
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Aliases: Массимо Джиротти
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Mogliano, Macerata, Italy
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Movie Involvements: 75
TV Involvements: 6
Most Famous Work
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.
Most Famous Work
Last Tango in Paris
(1972) Marcel
Medea
(1970) Creonte
Theorem
(1968) Paolo, the Father
The Innocent
(1976) Count Stefano Egano
Ossessione
(1944) Gino Costa
The French Revolution
(1989) Enviado do Papa
Facing Windows
(2003) Simone / Davide Veroli
Mr. Klein
(1976) CharlesActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 2003 | Simone / Davide Veroli | |
| 2000 | Donato | |
| 1999 | Self | |
| 1994 | il condomino distinto | |
| 1992 | Vergiotti | |
| 1989 | Enviado do Papa | |
| Count Valery Du Terrail | ||
| 1988 | N/A | |
| 1987 | Someier | |
| 1985 | Werner von Heiden | |
| Duca Medina Coeli | ||
| Aulus Plautius | ||
| 1983 | Ovid | |
| 1981 | Colonel | |
| 1980 | N/A | |
| 1976 | Viceroy Caracciolo | |
| Palita | ||
| Charles | ||
| Count Stefano Egano | ||
| 1975 | Il Questore Spaini | |
| Gaudenzio Pesce | ||
| Giacomo Casanova | ||
| 1974 | Eugenio Dazzi | |
| 1973 | Fred Norton | |
| Olmi | ||
| 1972 | Gabriele | |
| Marcel | ||
| Dr. Karl Hummel | ||
| 1971 | George Powell | |
| 1970 | Creonte | |
| 1969 | Giuseppe Romagna Manoja | |
| Alex | ||
| John Utterson | ||
| 1968 | Tassi | |
| Paolo, the Father | ||
| 1967 | Sportsman | |
| 1966 | N/A | |
| 1965 | Ugo Sanfelice | |
| Nicolo, Marco's Father | ||
| 1963 | Pro-consul Caius Cornelius Maximus) | |
| N/A | ||
| Capitano alla finestra (uncredited) | ||
| 1962 | Leclerc | |
| 1961 | Tazio | |
| 1960 | Orfeo | |
| Don Paolo Conti | ||
| Tsar Alexander II | ||
| Lorenzo | ||
| 1959 | Constantino's Father | |
| Toccaceli | ||
| Comandante | ||
| Holofernes | ||
| Éric | ||
| Ottaviano | ||
| 1958 | Chiacchiera (Naklapalo) | |
| 1957 | Prassitele | |
| Guglielmo Curti | ||
| Pedro Sandoval | ||
| Ugo Parenti | ||
| Don Antonio | ||
| 1955 | Maggiore Montanari | |
| Valentin | ||
| dottor Andrea Pitti | ||
| 1954 | Il marchese Roberto Ussoni | |
| N/A | ||
| 1953 | André Lorenz | |
| Dr. Guido Aureli | ||
| Avv. Roberto Martini | ||
| Andrea Grazzi | ||
| Marco Spada | ||
| Spartacus | ||
| 1952 | Massimo Dal Colle | |
| N/A | ||
| Doctor Marchal | ||
| Nando the Unemployed | ||
| 1951 | Ingegnere Roberto | |
| 1950 | Guido | |
| N/A | ||
| N/A | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1949 | Il pretore Guido Schiavi | |
| Sebastian | ||
| Stanis Archena | ||
| 1948 | Giovanni Piscitello | |
| Paolo Bertoni | ||
| Marcello Mariani | ||
| 1947 | Nane, il veneziano | |
| Michele | ||
| Vincenzo Masi | ||
| 1946 | Nando Mancini | |
| Luigi Monotti | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1945 | The blind youth | |
| N/A | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1944 | Gino Costa | |
| 1943 | Franco | |
| Tommaso Rossi | ||
| 1942 | Il tenente Gino Rossati | |
| 1941 | N/A | |
| Tremal-Naik | ||
| N/A | ||
| Arminio / King Licinio | ||
| 1939 | Enrico | |
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
