Massimo Girotti
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).
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Fotos
Películas (104)
Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita
2021 · Self (archive footage)
A Film that Paved the Way
2009 · Self
Facing Windows
2003 · Simone / Davide Veroli
Luchino Visconti
2002 · Self (archive footage)
Der Kardinal - Der Preis der Liebe
2000 · Donato
Un bel dì vedremo
1996 · Emilio Venditti
The Monster
1994 · il condomino distinto
L'Amore Dopo
1993 · Ing. Staino
The French Revolution
1989 · Envoyé du Pape
Affairs
1989 · Count Valery Du Terrail
La Bohème
1988 · The Old Pretender / Featuring
The Berlin Affair
1985 · Werner von Heiden
Art of Love
1983 · Ovid
Passion of Love
1981 · Colonel
Un reietto delle isole
1980 · Tom Lingard
L'Ultimo Aereo per Venezia
1977 · Marcello Masini
Kolossal - The Magnificent Macisti
1977
And Agnes Chose to Die
1976 · Palita
Mr. Klein
1976 · Charles, Florence's husband
The Innocent
1976 · Count Stefano Egano
Mark Shoots First
1975 · Il Questore Spaini
The Suspicious Death of a Minor
1975 · Gaudenzio Pesce
Cagliostro
1975 · Giacomo Casanova
The Kiss
1974 · Eugenio Dazzi
Stateline Motel
1973 · Fred Norton
The Voracious Ones
1973 · Olmi
Last Tango in Paris
1972 · Marcel
My Body With Anger
1972 · Gabriele
Baron Blood
1972 · Dr. Karl Hummel
Medea
1969 · Creonte
The Red Tent
1969 · Giuseppe Romagna Manoja
La coppia
1969 · Guido
The Sisters
1969 · Alex
Listen, Let's Make Love
1968 · Tassi
Theorem
1968 · Paolo, the Father
The Witches
1967 · Sportsman (segment "La strega bruciata viva")
The Mysterious Mr. Van Eyck
1966 · Friend of Charles
Idoli controluce
1965 · Ugo Sanfelice
Marco the Magnificent
1965 · Nicolo, Marco's Father
Gold for the Caesars
1963 · Pro-consul Caius Cornelius Maximus)
Mafia alla sbarra
1963
The Shortest Day
1963 · Capitano alla finestra (uncredited)
Imperial Venus
1962 · Leclerc
Romulus and Remus
1961 · Tazio
The Giants of Thessaly
1960 · Orfeo
Letters of a Novice
1960 · Don Paolo Conti
The Cossacks
1960 · Tsar Alexander II
Cavalcata selvaggia
1960 · Lorenzo
Nights of the Teddy Boys
1959 · Constantino's Father
La cento chilometri
1959 · Toccaceli
Wolves in the Abyss
1959 · Comandante
The Head of a Tyrant
1959 · Holofernes
Asphalt
1959 · Éric
Herod the Great
1959 · Ottaviano
The Year Long Road
1958 · Chiacchiera (Naklapalo)
Goddess Of Love
1957 · Prassitele
La trovatella di Pompei
1957 · Guglielmo Curti
La bestia humana
1957 · Pedro Sandoval
It Happened in Rome
1957 · Ugo Parenti
Saranno uomini
1957 · Don Antonio
Four of the Thundering Jet
1955 · Maggiore Montanari
Marguerite of the Night
1955 · Valentin
Disperato addio
1955 · dottor Andrea Pitti
Senso
1954 · Il Marchese Roberto Ussoni
La tua donna
1954 · Sandro Ademari
The Love of a Woman
1953 · André Lorenz
Vortice
1953 · Dr. Guido Aureli
At the Edge of the City
1953 · Avv. Roberto Martini
A Husband for Anna
1953 · Andrea Grazzi
Sul ponte dei sospiri
1953 · Marco Spada
Sins of Rome
1953 · Spartacus
Il segreto delle tre punte
1952 · Massimo Dal Colle
Lieutenant Giorgio
1952 · Giorgio Biserta
Fugitive in Trieste
1952 · Fred Nolan
Leathernose
1952 · Doctor Marchal
Rome 11:00
1952 · Nando the Unemployed
Behind Closed Shutters
1951 · Ingegnere Roberto
Land der Sehnsucht
1950
Story of a Love Affair
1950 · Guido
Duel Without Honor
1950 · Carlo
In the Name of the Law
1949 · Il pretore Guido Schiavi
Fabiola
1949 · Sebastian
Altura
1949 · Stanis Archena
Difficult Years
1948 · Giovanni Piscitello
Woman Trouble
1948 · Paolo Bertoni
Lost Youth
1948 · Marcello Mariani
Christmas at Camp 119
1947 · Nane, il veneziano
Tragic Hunt
1947 · Michele
Shamed
1947 · Rocco
Fatalità
1947 · Vincenzo Masi
Desire
1946 · Nando Mancini
A Day in the Life
1946 · Luigi Monotti
The Gates of Heaven
1945 · The blind youth
La carne e l'anima
1945 · Andrea
I dieci comandamenti
1945 · (segment "Ricordati di santificare le feste")
Apparizione
1943 · Franco
Obsession
1943 · Gino Costa
Harlem
1943 · Tommaso Rossi
A Pilot Returns
1942 · Lieutenant Gino Rossati
La famiglia Brambilla in vacanza
1941 · Marco Sassoli
Le due tigri
1941 · Tremal-Naik
I pirati della Malesia
1941 · Tremal-Naik
The Iron Crown
1941 · Arminio / King Licinio
Dora Nelson
1939 · Enrico Gabardo
Series (9)
Dalla notte all'alba
1992 · Vergiotti
Der Erfolg ihres Lebens
1990 · Le comte di Falco
The French Revolution
1989 · L'envoyé du Pape (« Les Années Lumière »)
Der Ochsenkrieg
1987 · Someier
Christopher Columbus
1985 · Duca Medina Coeli
Quo Vadis?
1985 · Aulus Plautius
Origins of the Mafia
1976 · Viceroy Caracciolo
Il segno del comando
1971 · George Powell
Jekyll
1969 · John Utterson