Cast

Massimo Girotti

Acting

Cast

Massimo Girotti

Known for

Acting

Born

1918-05-18

From

Mogliano, Macerata, Italy

Died

2003-01-05

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. 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.

Massimo Girotti

Massimo Girotti

Biography

Passion of Love

Last Tango in Paris

Mr. Klein

The French Revolution

Lost Youth

Imperial Venus

Baron Blood

The Monster

Theorem

Saranno uomini

The Berlin Affair

The Innocent

The Red Tent

The Witches

Affairs

The Shortest Day

Obsession

Asphalt

Marguerite of the Night

Romulus and Remus

It Happened in Rome

Senso

Medea

Art of Love

Apparizione

Marco the Magnificent

Kolossal - The Magnificent Macisti

The Love of a Woman

Facing Windows

In the Name of the Law

Rome 11:00

Lieutenant Giorgio

Herod the Great

Letters of a Novice

The Sisters

Desire

The Giants of Thessaly

And Agnes Chose To Die

Sul ponte dei sospiri

Story of a Love Affair

Listen, Let's Make Love

Stateline Motel

Mark Shoots First

The Iron Crown

Difficult Years

The Suspicious Death of a Minor

Gold for the Caesars

Luchino Visconti

Woman Trouble

La bestia humana

Fabiola

La tua donna

A Husband for Anna

The Kiss

Tragic Hunt

The Voracious Ones

Wolves in the Abyss

Behind Closed Shutters

La cento chilometri

Four of the Thundering Jet

Goddess Of Love

Christmas at Camp 119

The Cossacks

A Pilot Returns

Sins of Rome

From Night to Dawn

La carne e l'anima

The Gates of Heaven

The Year Long Road

A Day in the Life

Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita

La famiglia Brambilla in vacanza

Cagliostro

Leathernose

Dora Nelson

La Bohème

Vortice