Massimo Girotti
101 movies · 9 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- May 18, 1918
- Died
- Jan 5, 2003 (age 84)
- Place of birth
- Mogliano, Macerata, Italy
- Also known as
- Массимо Джиротти
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.
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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).
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Massimo Girotti: movies and TV shows
Acting (110)
- 2003 Facing Windows
as Simone / Davide Veroli
- 2000 Der Kardinal - Der Preis der Liebe
as Donato
- 1996 Un bel dì vedremo
as Emilio Venditti
- 1994 The Monster
as il condomino distinto
- 1993 L'Amore Dopo
as Ing. Staino
- 1992
- 1990
- 1989
- 1989 The French Revolution
as Envoyé du Pape
- 1989 Affairs
as Count Valery Du Terrail
- 1988 La Bohème
as The Old Pretender / Featuring
- 1987
- 1985 The Berlin Affair
as Werner von Heiden
- 1985
- 1985
- 1983 Art of Love
as Ovid
- 1981 Passion of Love
as Colonel
- 1980 Un reietto delle isole
as Tom Lingard
- 1977 L'Ultimo Aereo per Venezia
as Marcello Masini
- 1977
- 1976
- 1976 And Agnes Chose to Die
as Palita
- 1976 Mr. Klein
as Charles, Florence's husband
- 1976 The Innocent
as Count Stefano Egano
- 1975 Mark Shoots First
as Il Questore Spaini
- 1975 The Suspicious Death of a Minor
as Gaudenzio Pesce
- 1975 Cagliostro
as Giacomo Casanova
- 1974 The Kiss
as Eugenio Dazzi
- 1973 Stateline Motel
as Fred Norton
- 1973 The Voracious Ones
as Olmi
- 1972 Last Tango in Paris
as Marcel
- 1972 My Body With Anger
as Gabriele
- 1972 Baron Blood
as Dr. Karl Hummel
- 1971
- 1969 Medea
as Creonte
- 1969 The Red Tent
as Giuseppe Romagna Manoja
- 1969 La coppia
as Guido
- 1969 The Sisters
as Alex
- 1969
- 1968 Listen, Let's Make Love
as Tassi
- 1968 Theorem
as Paolo, the Father
- 1967 The Witches
as Sportsman (segment "La strega bruciata viva")
- 1966 The Mysterious Mr. Van Eyck
as Friend of Charles
- 1965 Idoli controluce
as Ugo Sanfelice
- 1965 Marco the Magnificent
as Nicolo, Marco's Father
- 1963 Gold for the Caesars
as Pro-consul Caius Cornelius Maximus)
- 1963
- 1963 The Shortest Day
as Capitano alla finestra (uncredited)
- 1962 Imperial Venus
as Leclerc
- 1961 Romulus and Remus
as Tazio
- 1960 The Giants of Thessaly
as Orfeo
- 1960 Letters of a Novice
as Don Paolo Conti
- 1960 The Cossacks
as Tsar Alexander II
- 1960 Cavalcata selvaggia
as Lorenzo
- 1959 Nights of the Teddy Boys
as Constantino's Father
- 1959 La cento chilometri
as Toccaceli
- 1959 Wolves in the Abyss
as Comandante
- 1959 The Head of a Tyrant
as Holofernes
- 1959 Asphalt
as Éric
- 1959 Herod the Great
as Ottaviano
- 1958 The Year Long Road
as Chiacchiera (Naklapalo)
- 1957 Goddess Of Love
as Prassitele
- 1957 La trovatella di Pompei
as Guglielmo Curti
- 1957 La bestia humana
as Pedro Sandoval
- 1957 It Happened in Rome
as Ugo Parenti
- 1957 Saranno uomini
as Don Antonio
- 1955 Four of the Thundering Jet
as Maggiore Montanari
- 1955 Marguerite of the Night
as Valentin
- 1955 Disperato addio
as dottor Andrea Pitti
- 1954 Senso
as Il Marchese Roberto Ussoni
- 1954 La tua donna
as Sandro Ademari
- 1953 The Love of a Woman
as André Lorenz
- 1953 Vortice
as Dr. Guido Aureli
- 1953 At the Edge of the City
as Avv. Roberto Martini
- 1953 A Husband for Anna
as Andrea Grazzi
- 1953 Sul ponte dei sospiri
as Marco Spada
- 1953 Sins of Rome
as Spartacus
- 1952 Il segreto delle tre punte
as Massimo Dal Colle
- 1952 Lieutenant Giorgio
as Giorgio Biserta
- 1952 Fugitive in Trieste
as Fred Nolan
- 1952 Leathernose
as Doctor Marchal
- 1952 Rome 11:00
as Nando the Unemployed
- 1951 Behind Closed Shutters
as Ingegnere Roberto
- 1950
- 1950 Story of a Love Affair
as Guido
- 1950 Duel Without Honor
as Carlo
- 1949 In the Name of the Law
as Il pretore Guido Schiavi
- 1949 Fabiola
as Sebastian
- 1949 Altura
as Stanis Archena
- 1948 Difficult Years
as Giovanni Piscitello
- 1948 Woman Trouble
as Paolo Bertoni
- 1948 Lost Youth
as Marcello Mariani
- 1947 Christmas at Camp 119
as Nane, il veneziano
- 1947 Tragic Hunt
as Michele
- 1947 Shamed
as Rocco
- 1947 Fatalità
as Vincenzo Masi
- 1946 Desire
as Nando Mancini
- 1946 A Day in the Life
as Luigi Monotti
- 1945 The Gates of Heaven
as The blind youth
- 1945 La carne e l'anima
as Andrea
- 1945 I dieci comandamenti
as (segment "Ricordati di santificare le feste")
- 1943 Apparizione
as Franco
- 1943 Obsession
as Gino Costa
- 1943 Harlem
as Tommaso Rossi
- 1942 A Pilot Returns
as Lieutenant Gino Rossati
- 1941 La famiglia Brambilla in vacanza
as Marco Sassoli
- 1941 Le due tigri
as Tremal-Naik
- 1941 I pirati della Malesia
as Tremal-Naik
- 1941 The Iron Crown
as Arminio / King Licinio
- 1939 Dora Nelson
as Enrico
Talk shows and appearances (3)
- 2021
- 2009
- 2002