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.
Last Tango in Paris
as Marcel
Theorem
as Paolo, the Father
The Innocent
as Count Stefano Egano
The Monster
as il condomino distinto
Desire
as Nando Mancini
Medea
as Creonte
The French Revolution
as Envoyé du Pape
Senso
as Il Marchese Roberto Ussoni
Obsession
as Gino Costa
Cagliostro
as Giacomo Casanova
Passion of Love
as Colonel
Tragic Hunt
as Michele
The Witches
as Sportsman (segment "La strega bruciata viva")
Mr. Klein
as Charles, Florence's husband
Baron Blood
as Dr. Karl Hummel
The Red Tent
as Giuseppe Romagna Manoja
Romulus and Remus
as Tazio
Saranno uomini
as Don Antonio
Imperial Venus
as Leclerc
Facing Windows
as Simone / Davide Veroli
Apparizione
as Franco
The Berlin Affair
as Werner von Heiden
Marco the Magnificent
as Nicolo, Marco's Father
Stateline Motel
as Fred Norton
The Shortest Day
as Capitano alla finestra (uncredited)
Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita
as Self (archive footage)
In the Name of the Law
as Il pretore Guido Schiavi
The Kiss
as Eugenio Dazzi
Fabiola
as Sebastian
And Agnes Chose To Die
as Palita
Difficult Years
as Giovanni Piscitello
La tua donna
as Sandro Ademari
Art of Love
as Ovid
Story of a Love Affair
as Guido
The Suspicious Death of a Minor
as Gaudenzio Pesce
Behind Closed Shutters
as Ingegnere Roberto
Der Kardinal - Der Preis der Liebe
as Donato
It Happened in Rome
as Ugo Parenti
Asphalt
as Éric
Gold for the Caesars
as Pro-consul Caius Cornelius Maximus)
Rome 11:00
as Nando the Unemployed
The Cossacks
as Tsar Alexander II
The Gates of Heaven
as The blind youth
La Bohème
as The Old Pretender / Featuring
Kolossal - The Magnificent Macisti
Preludio d'amore
as Rocco
Goddess Of Love
as Prassitele
Marguerite of the Night
as Valentin
The Iron Crown
as Arminio / King Licinio
Herod the Great
as Ottaviano
Wolves in the Abyss
as Comandante
The Voracious Ones
as Olmi
Leathernose
as Doctor Marchal
Four of the Thundering Jet
as Maggiore Montanari
A Husband for Anna
as Andrea Grazzi
At the Edge of the City
as Avv. Roberto Martini
Listen, Let's Make Love
as Tassi
Luchino Visconti
as Self (archive footage)
Idoli controluce
as Ugo Sanfelice
La cento chilometri
as Toccaceli
Letters of a Novice
as Don Paolo Conti
The Sisters
as Alex
Un bel dì vedremo
as Emilio Venditti
Il segreto delle tre punte
as Massimo Dal Colle
The Giants of Thessaly
as Orfeo
I pirati della Malesia
as Tremal-Naik
Lieutenant Giorgio
as Tenente Giorgio Biserta
The Love of a Woman
as André Lorenz
Cavalcata selvaggia
as Lorenzo
Sins of Rome
as Spartacus
A Day in the Life
as Luigi Monotti
Vortice
as Dr. Guido Aureli
The Mysterious Mr. Van Eyck
as Friend of Charles
Affairs
as Count Valery Du Terrail
Christmas at Camp 119
as Nane, il veneziano
Fugitive in Trieste
as Fred Nolan
Mark Shoots First
as Il Questore Spaini
The Head of a Tyrant
as Holofernes
Lost Youth
as Marcello Mariani
From Night to Dawn
as Vergiotti
Harlem
as Tommaso Rossi
Fatalità
as Vincenzo Masi
Duel Without Honor
as Carlo
I dieci comandamenti
as (segment "Ricordati di santificare le feste")
La bestia humana
as Pedro Sandoval
La coppia
as Guido
Woman Trouble
as Paolo Bertoni
Nights of the Teddy Boys
as Constantino's Father
La carne e l'anima
as Andrea
My Body With Anger
as Gabriele
Land der Sehnsucht
La trovatella di Pompei
as Guglielmo Curti
La famiglia Brambilla in vacanza
as Marco Sassoli
A Pilot Returns
as Lieutenant Gino Rossati
The Year Long Road
as Chiacchiera (Naklapalo)
Mafia alla sbarra
Altura
as Stanis Archena
Disperato addio
as dottor Andrea Pitti
Dora Nelson
as Enrico
Le due tigri
as Tremal-Naik
Un reietto delle isole
as Tom Lingard
L'Ultimo Aereo per Venezia
as Marcello Masini
L'Amore Dopo
as Ing. Staino
Sul ponte dei sospiri
as Marco Spada