
Massimo Girotti
Known for ActingBorn 1918-05-18Died 2003-01-05Mogliano, Macerata, Italy
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.Read more
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The French Revolution
1989 · Series
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La coppia
1969 · Movie
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The Mysterious Mr. Van Eyck
1966 · Movie
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Idoli controluce
1965 · Movie
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Mafia alla sbarra
1963 · Movie
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Four of the Thundering Jet
1955 · Movie
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Disperato addio
1955 · Movie
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Le due tigri
1941 · Movie
Der Kardinal - Der Preis der Liebe
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Der Kardinal - Der Preis der Liebe
2000 · Movie
Un bel dì vedremo
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Un bel dì vedremo
1996 · Movie
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From Night to Dawn
1992 · Movie
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Kolossal - The Magnificent Macisti
1977 · Movie
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My Body With Anger
1972 · Movie
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La trovatella di Pompei
1957 · Movie
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Fugitive in Trieste
1952 · Movie
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La carne e l'anima
1945 · Movie
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Harlem
1943 · Movie
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La famiglia Brambilla in vacanza
1941 · Movie
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Nights of the Teddy Boys
1959 · Movie
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Vortice
1953 · Movie
Un reietto delle isole
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Un reietto delle isole
1980 · Movie
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Origins of the Mafia
1976 · Series
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Il segno del comando
1971 · Series
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Lieutenant Giorgio
1952 · Movie
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Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita
2021 · Movie
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I pirati della Malesia
1941 · Movie
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The French Revolution
1989 · Movie
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La Bohème
1988 · Movie
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Difficult Years
1948 · Movie
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Rome 11:00
1952 · Movie
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Asphalt
1959 · Movie
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The Cossacks
1960 · Movie
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Wolves in the Abyss
1959 · Movie
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Luchino Visconti
2002 · Movie
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Altura
1949 · Movie
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Facing Windows
2003 · Movie
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Mr. Klein
1976 · Movie
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Obsession
1943 · Movie
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The Monster
1994 · Movie
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Senso
1954 · Movie
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Theorem
1968 · Movie
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The Innocent
1976 · Movie
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In the Name of the Law
1949 · Movie
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Apparizione
1943 · Movie
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Last Tango in Paris
1972 · Movie
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Cavalcata selvaggia
1960 · Movie
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La cento chilometri
1959 · Movie
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At the Edge of the City
1953 · Movie