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