Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita
2021 · Movie
as Self (archive footage)
Massimo Girotti
1918-05-18
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Mogliano, 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.
Filmography
Facing Windows
2003 · Movie
as Simone / Davide Veroli
Luchino Visconti
2002 · Movie
as Self (archive footage)
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Der Kardinal - Der Preis der Liebe
2000 · Movie
as Donato
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Un bel dì vedremo
1996 · Movie
as Emilio Venditti
The Monster
1994 · Movie
as il condomino distinto
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L'Amore Dopo
1993 · Movie
as Ing. Staino
From Night to Dawn
1992 · Movie
as Vergiotti
Der Erfolg ihres Lebens
1990 · TV Show
as Le comte di Falco
The French Revolution
1989 · Movie
as Envoyé du Pape
Affairs
1989 · Movie
as Count Valery Du Terrail
The French Revolution
1989 · TV Show
as L'envoyé du Pape (« Les Années Lumière »)
La Bohème
1988 · Movie
as The Old Pretender / Featuring
Der Ochsenkrieg
1987 · TV Show
as Someier
The Berlin Affair
1985 · Movie
as Werner von Heiden
Quo Vadis?
1985 · TV Show
as Aulus Plautius
Christopher Columbus
1985 · TV Show
as Duca Medina Coeli
Art of Love
1983 · Movie
as Ovid
Passion of Love
1981 · Movie
as Colonel
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Un reietto delle isole
1980 · Movie
as Tom Lingard
L'Ultimo Aereo per Venezia
1977 · Movie
as Marcello Masini
Kolossal - The Magnificent Macisti
1977 · Movie
The Innocent
1976 · Movie
as Count Stefano Egano
Mr. Klein
1976 · Movie
as Charles, Florence's husband
And Agnes Chose to Die
1976 · Movie
as Palita
Origins of the Mafia
1976 · TV Show
as Viceroy Caracciolo
The Suspicious Death of a Minor
1975 · Movie
as Gaudenzio Pesce
Mark Shoots First
1975 · Movie
as Il Questore Spaini
Cagliostro
1975 · Movie
as Giacomo Casanova
The Kiss
1974 · Movie
as Eugenio Dazzi
The Voracious Ones
1973 · Movie
as Olmi
Stateline Motel
1973 · Movie
as Fred Norton
Last Tango in Paris
1972 · Movie
as Marcel
Baron Blood
1972 · Movie
as Dr. Karl Hummel
My Body With Anger
1972 · Movie
as Gabriele
Il segno del comando
1971 · TV Show
as George Powell
The Red Tent
1969 · Movie
as Giuseppe Romagna Manoja
Medea
1969 · Movie
as Creonte
The Sisters
1969 · Movie
as Alex
La coppia
1969 · Movie
as Guido
Jekyll
1969 · TV Show
as John Utterson
Theorem
1968 · Movie
as Paolo, the Father
Listen, Let's Make Love
1968 · Movie
as Tassi
The Witches
1967 · Movie
as Sportsman (segment "La strega bruciata viva")
The Mysterious Mr. Van Eyck
1966 · Movie
as Friend of Charles
Marco the Magnificent
1965 · Movie
as Nicolo, Marco's Father
Idoli controluce
1965 · Movie
as Ugo Sanfelice
Mafia alla sbarra
1963 · Movie
Gold for the Caesars
1963 · Movie
as Pro-consul Caius Cornelius Maximus)
The Shortest Day
1963 · Movie
as Capitano alla finestra (uncredited)
Imperial Venus
1962 · Movie
as Leclerc
Romulus and Remus
1961 · Movie
as Tazio
Letters of a Novice
1960 · Movie
as Don Paolo Conti
The Giants of Thessaly
1960 · Movie
as Orfeo
The Cossacks
1960 · Movie
as Tsar Alexander II
Cavalcata selvaggia
1960 · Movie
as Lorenzo
Wolves in the Abyss
1959 · Movie
as Comandante
La cento chilometri
1959 · Movie
as Toccaceli
Nights of the Teddy Boys
1959 · Movie
as Constantino's Father
The Head of a Tyrant
1959 · Movie
as Holofernes
Asphalt
1959 · Movie
as Éric
Herod the Great
1959 · Movie
as Ottaviano
The Year Long Road
1958 · Movie
as Chiacchiera (Naklapalo)
La trovatella di Pompei
1957 · Movie
as Guglielmo Curti
Goddess Of Love
1957 · Movie
as Prassitele
It Happened in Rome
1957 · Movie
as Ugo Parenti
La bestia humana
1957 · Movie
as Pedro Sandoval
Saranno uomini
1957 · Movie
as Don Antonio
Marguerite of the Night
1955 · Movie
as Valentin
Four of the Thundering Jet
1955 · Movie
as Maggiore Montanari
Disperato addio
1955 · Movie
as dottor Andrea Pitti
Senso
1954 · Movie
as Il Marchese Roberto Ussoni
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La tua donna
1954 · Movie
as Sandro Ademari
The Love of a Woman
1953 · Movie
as André Lorenz
At the Edge of the City
1953 · Movie
as Avv. Roberto Martini
A Husband for Anna
1953 · Movie
as Andrea Grazzi
Vortice
1953 · Movie
as Dr. Guido Aureli
Sins of Rome
1953 · Movie
as Spartacus
Sul ponte dei sospiri
1953 · Movie
as Marco Spada
Rome 11:00
1952 · Movie
as Nando the Unemployed
Leathernose
1952 · Movie
as Doctor Marchal
Il segreto delle tre punte
1952 · Movie
as Massimo Dal Colle
Lieutenant Giorgio
1952 · Movie
as Tenente Giorgio Biserta
Fugitive in Trieste
1952 · Movie
as Fred Nolan
Behind Closed Shutters
1951 · Movie
as Ingegnere Roberto
Duel Without Honor
1950 · Movie
as Carlo
Story of a Love Affair
1950 · Movie
as Guido
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Land der Sehnsucht
1950 · Movie
Fabiola
1949 · Movie
as Sebastian
In the Name of the Law
1949 · Movie
as Il pretore Guido Schiavi
Altura
1949 · Movie
as Stanis Archena
Difficult Years
1948 · Movie
as Giovanni Piscitello
Woman Trouble
1948 · Movie
as Paolo Bertoni
Lost Youth
1948 · Movie
as Marcello Mariani
Shamed
1947 · Movie
as Rocco
Fatalità
1947 · Movie
as Vincenzo Masi
Tragic Hunt
1947 · Movie
as Michele
Christmas at Camp 119
1947 · Movie
as Nane, il veneziano
A Day in the Life
1946 · Movie
as Luigi Monotti
Desire
1946 · Movie
as Nando Mancini
The Gates of Heaven
1945 · Movie
as The blind youth
La carne e l'anima
1945 · Movie
as Andrea
I dieci comandamenti
1945 · Movie
as (segment "Ricordati di santificare le feste")
Obsession
1943 · Movie
as Gino Costa
Harlem
1943 · Movie
as Tommaso Rossi
Apparizione
1943 · Movie
as Franco
A Pilot Returns
1942 · Movie
as Lieutenant Gino Rossati
The Iron Crown
1941 · Movie
as Arminio / King Licinio
I pirati della Malesia
1941 · Movie
as Tremal-Naik
Le due tigri
1941 · Movie
as Tremal-Naik
La famiglia Brambilla in vacanza
1941 · Movie
as Marco Sassoli
Dora Nelson
1939 · Movie
as Enrico
