Cast

Terence Hill

Acting

Cast

Terence Hill

Known for

Acting

Born

1939-03-29

From

Venice, Veneto, Kingdom of Italy [Now Italy]

Also known as Mario Girotti

Biography

Terence Hill (born Mario Girotti; 29 March 1939) is an Italian actor, film director, screenwriter and film producer. He began his career as a child actor and gained international fame for starring roles in action and comedy films, many with his long-time film partner and friend Bud Spencer. During the height of his popularity, Hill was among Italy's highest-paid actors. His most widely seen films include comic and standard spaghetti Westerns, some based on popular novels by German author Karl May about the Wild West. Of these, the most famous are Lo chiamavano Trinità (They Call Me Trinity, 1970); ...continuavano a chiamarlo Trinità (Trinity Is Still My Name, 1971), the highest grossing Italian film at that time; and Il mio nome è Nessuno (My Name Is Nobody, 1973), co-starring Henry Fonda. Hill also went on to a successful television career in Italy, most notably playing the title character in the long-running Rai 1 series Don Matteo from 2000 until 2022. Hill was born on 29 March 1939 in Venice, Italy. Hill's mother, Hildegard Girotti (née Thieme), was from Dresden, Germany; his father, Girolamo Girotti, was Italian from Amelia, Umbria, and a chemist by occupation. During his childhood, Hill lived in the small town of Lommatzsch, Saxony. As a child, he experienced the bombing of Dresden, which was traumatic for him. He was there up to the End of World War II in Europe. He was discovered at the age of 12 by Italian filmmaker Dino Risi at a swimming meet, and he became a child actor, appearing in Risi's Vacation with a Gangster (1951) as Gianni, the orphan gang leader. "They were looking for a boy gang leader and they found me", he later said. He had small roles in Voice of Silence (1953) with Jean Marais, Too Young for Love (1953), and It Happened in the Park (1953). He was in Golden Vein (1954) with Märta Torén and Richard Basehart, The Abandoned (1955) and Folgore Division (1955). Girotti had his first lead in Guaglione (1956). He could also be seen in Mamma sconosciuta (1956), I vagabondi delle stelle (1956), La grande strada azzurra (1956) with Yves Montand and Alida Valli, and Lazzarella (1957). Girotti did Anna of Brooklyn (1958) with Gina Lollobrigida, The Sword and the Cross (1958) with Yvonne de Carlo (playing Lazarus of Bethany), and a TV version of The Picture of Dorian Gray (1958). He had support parts in Il padrone delle ferriere (1959) with Virna Lisi, Juke box - Urli d'amore (1959), and Hannibal (1959) with Victor Mature and Carlo Pedersoli, who would later become known as Bud Spencer. Girotti had the lead roles in Spavaldi e innamorati (1959) and Cerasella (1959), a teen comedy. It was back to support roles with Carthage in Flames (1960), Un militare e mezzo (1960), and The Story of Joseph and His Brethren (1961) with Geoffrey Horne and Robert Morley, directed by Irving Rapper. Girotti had support parts in The Wonders of Aladdin (1961) with Donald O'Connor and directed by Henry Levin and Mario Bava, Pecado de amor (1961), Seven Seas to Calais (1962) with Rod Taylor, and The Shortest Day (1963). ... Source: Article "Terence Hill" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.

Terence Hill

Terence Hill

Biography

They Call Me Trinity

Watch Out, We're Mad

Trinity Is Still My Name

I'm for the Hippopotamus

My Name Is Nobody

The Leopard

Double Trouble

Last of the Renegades

Who Finds a Friend Finds a Treasure

Crime Busters

God Forgives... I Don't!

Miami Supercops

Troublemakers

Super Fuzz

The Socceritos

The Two Missionaries

McCabe & Mrs. Miller

Boot Hill

Go for It

All the Way Boys

It Happened in the Park

March or Die

Piedone nyomában

Rampage at Apache Wells

Pecado de amor

Ace High

Django, Prepare a Coffin

Divisione Folgore

Blackie the Pirate

Lucky Luke

The Shortest Day

Doc West II : Triggerman

Flaming Frontier

Guaglione

Joseph and His Brethren

Man of the East

Renegade

Terence Hill, Bud Spencer… & me

Das Schwert der Nibelungen

Frontier Hellcat

Wrath of the Wind

Vacation with a Gangster

They Called Him Spencer

A Genius, Two Friends, and an Idiot

Doc West

Virtual Weapon

Mr. Billion

My Name Is Thomas

The Wide Blue Road

Hannibal

Terence Hill: Pazifist und Cowboy

The Wonders of Aladdin

ORG

Rita the Field Marshal

The Crazy Westerners

The Street of Hope

I vagabondi delle stelle

The Tough and the Mighty

Vier Fäuste lassen's krachen

Ruf der Wälder

Voice of Silence

Duel at Sundown

They call me Lucky Luke - Ma Dalton

Carthage in Flames

Lucky Luke 2

Fast and Sexy

The Golden Vein

Juke Box - Screams of Love

Whom the Gods Wish to Destroy 2

The Hassled Hooker

Io non protesto, io amo

Seven Seas to Calais

Cerasella

Whom the Gods Wish to Destroy

A Soldier and a Half

The Sword and the Cross

Lazzarella