Terence Hill (born Mario Girotti; 29 March 1939) is an Italian actor, film director, screenwriter and film producer. He began his career as a child actor and gained international fame for starring roles in action and comedy films, many with his long-time film partner and friend Bud Spencer. During the height of his popularity, Hill was among Italy's highest-paid actors.
Terence Hill (born Mario Girotti; 29 March 1939) is an Italian actor, film director, screenwriter and film producer. He began his career as a child actor and gained international fame for starring roles in action and comedy films, many with his long-time film partner and friend Bud Spencer. During the height of his popularity, Hill was among Italy's highest-paid actors.
His most widely seen films include comic and standard spaghetti Westerns, some based on popular novels by German author Karl May about the Wild West. Of these, the most famous are Lo chiamavano Trinità (They Call Me Trinity, 1970); ...continuavano a chiamarlo Trinità (Trinity Is Still My Name, 1971), the highest grossing Italian film at that time; and Il mio nome è Nessuno (My Name Is Nobody, 1973), co-starring Henry Fonda. Hill also went on to a successful television career in Italy, most notably playing the title character in the long-running Rai 1 series Don Matteo from 2000 until 2022.
Hill was born on 29 March 1939 in Venice, Italy. Hill's mother, Hildegard Girotti (née Thieme), was from Dresden, Germany; his father, Girolamo Girotti, was Italian from Amelia, Umbria, and a chemist by occupation. During his childhood, Hill lived in the small town of Lommatzsch, Saxony. As a child, he experienced the bombing of Dresden, which was traumatic for him. He was there up to the End of World War II in Europe.
He was discovered at the age of 12 by Italian filmmaker Dino Risi at a swimming meet, and he became a child actor, appearing in Risi's Vacation with a Gangster (1951) as Gianni, the orphan gang leader. "They were looking for a boy gang leader and they found me", he later said.
He had small roles in Voice of Silence (1953) with Jean Marais, Too Young for Love (1953), and It Happened in the Park (1953). He was in Golden Vein (1954) with Märta Torén and Richard Basehart, The Abandoned (1955) and Folgore Division (1955).
Girotti had his first lead in Guaglione (1956). He could also be seen in Mamma sconosciuta (1956), I vagabondi delle stelle (1956), La grande strada azzurra (1956) with Yves Montand and Alida Valli, and Lazzarella (1957).
Girotti did Anna of Brooklyn (1958) with Gina Lollobrigida, The Sword and the Cross (1958) with Yvonne de Carlo (playing Lazarus of Bethany), and a TV version of The Picture of Dorian Gray (1958).
He had support parts in Il padrone delle ferriere (1959) with Virna Lisi, Juke box - Urli d'amore (1959), and Hannibal (1959) with Victor Mature and Carlo Pedersoli, who would later become known as Bud Spencer. Girotti had the lead roles in Spavaldi e innamorati (1959) and Cerasella (1959), a teen comedy.
It was back to support roles with Carthage in Flames (1960), Un militare e mezzo (1960), and The Story of Joseph and His Brethren (1961) with Geoffrey Horne and Robert Morley, directed by Irving Rapper.
Girotti had support parts in The Wonders of Aladdin (1961) with Donald O'Connor and directed by Henry Levin and Mario Bava, Pecado de amor (1961), Seven Seas to Calais (1962) with Rod Taylor, and The Shortest Day (1963). ...
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Filmography (Movies)
Terence Hill: Pazifist und Cowboy
Character:Self
Release Date:02/06/2025
Lui era Trinità
Character:Self
Release Date:19/10/2023
On l'appelle Terence Hill
Character:Self
Release Date:21/12/2022
The Last Movie Painter
Character:Self
Release Date:06/02/2020
Le 1000 vite di Bud Spencer
Character:Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Release Date:29/10/2019
Die Terence Hill Story
Character:Self
Release Date:27/03/2019
Piedone nyomában
Character:Self
Release Date:18/11/2018
My Name Is Thomas
Character:Thomas
Release Date:19/04/2018
They Called Him Spencer
Character:Self
Release Date:27/07/2017
Bud's Best - Die Welt des Bud Spencer
Character:Self
Release Date:17/03/2012
Doc West II : Triggerman
Character:Doc West
Release Date:14/09/2009
Doc West
Character:Doc West
Release Date:07/09/2009
Denn sie kennen kein Erbarmen - Der Italowestern
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:23/04/2006
L'uomo che sognava con le aquile
Character:Rocco Ventura
Release Date:02/01/2006
Nobody is Perfect
Character:Self / Self - Interviewee
Release Date:15/08/2005
Vier Fäuste lassen's krachen
Character:
Release Date:19/08/2004
Klaus Kinski: I'm not an actor
Character:Nobody (archive footage)
Release Date:21/05/2000
Virtual Weapon
Character:Skims
Release Date:25/08/1997
Troublemakers
Character:Travis
Release Date:25/11/1994
Lucky Luke 2
Character:Lucky Luke (archive footage)
Release Date:01/01/1992
Lucky Luke
Character:Lucky Luke
Release Date:04/07/1991
They call me Lucky Luke - Ma Dalton
Character:Lucky Luke
Release Date:01/01/1991
Renegade
Character:Luke
Release Date:30/10/1987
Miami Supercops
Character:Doug Bennett / Jay Donell
Release Date:11/12/1985
Double Trouble
Character:Elliot Vance / Sebastiano Coímbra
Release Date:19/10/1984
Don Camillo
Character:Don Camillo
Release Date:08/02/1984
Go for It
Character:Rosco Frazer / Steinberg
Release Date:01/02/1983
Who Finds a Friend Finds a Treasure
Character:Alan Lloyd
Release Date:09/12/1981
Super Fuzz
Character:Dave Speed
Release Date:18/09/1980
I'm for the Hippopotamus
Character:Slim
Release Date:30/11/1979
ORG
Character:Zohommm!!!
Release Date:31/08/1979
Odds and Evens
Character:Johnny Firpo
Release Date:28/10/1978
March or Die
Character:Marco Segrain
Release Date:08/09/1977
Crime Busters
Character:Matt Kirby
Release Date:01/04/1977
Mr. Billion
Character:Guido Falcone
Release Date:03/03/1977
Das Schwert der Nibelungen
Character:Giselher
Release Date:01/01/1976
A Genius, Two Friends, and an Idiot
Character:Joe Thanks
Release Date:16/12/1975
The Two Missionaries
Character:Father / Padre J.
Release Date:21/12/1974
Watch Out, We're Mad
Character:Kid
Release Date:29/03/1974
My Name Is Nobody
Character:Nobody
Release Date:13/12/1973
All the Way Boys
Character:Plata
Release Date:22/12/1972
Man of the East
Character:Sir Thomas Fitzpatrick Phillip Moore
Release Date:28/09/1972
The Hassled Hooker
Character:Marco Manin
Release Date:07/04/1972
Trinity Is Still My Name
Character:Trinity
Release Date:21/10/1971
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Character:Townsperson (uncredited)
Release Date:24/06/1971
Blackie the Pirate
Character:Blackie
Release Date:12/03/1971
They Call Me Trinity
Character:Trinity
Release Date:22/12/1970
Wrath of the Wind
Character:Marco
Release Date:04/12/1970
Boot Hill
Character:Cat Stevens
Release Date:20/12/1969
The Tough and the Mighty
Character:Graziano Cassitta
Release Date:23/09/1969
Ace High
Character:Cat Stevens
Release Date:02/10/1968
Django, Prepare a Coffin
Character:Django / Joe
Release Date:27/01/1968
Rita the Field Marshal
Character:Prof. Giuliano Fineschi
Release Date:21/12/1967
God Forgives... I Don't!
Character:Cat Stevens
Release Date:31/10/1967
The Crazy Westerners
Character:Texas Joe IF: Black Star
Release Date:11/08/1967
Io non protesto, io amo
Character:Gabriele
Release Date:21/03/1967
Whom the Gods Wish to Destroy 2
Character:Giselher
Release Date:16/02/1967
Whom the Gods Wish to Destroy
Character:Giselher
Release Date:13/12/1966
Flaming Frontier
Character:Toby
Release Date:14/12/1965
Ruf der Wälder
Character:Marcello Scalzi
Release Date:30/09/1965
Duel at Sundown
Character:Larry McGow
Release Date:17/09/1965
Rampage at Apache Wells
Character:Richard Forsythe
Release Date:25/08/1965
Shots in 3/4 Time
Character:Enrico
Release Date:08/04/1965
Frontier Hellcat
Character:Baker Jr.
Release Date:08/12/1964
Last of the Renegades
Character:Lieutenant Robert Merril
Release Date:17/09/1964
The Leopard
Character:Count Cavriaghi
Release Date:27/03/1963
The Shortest Day
Character:Soldato austriaco
Release Date:14/02/1963
Seven Seas to Calais
Character:Babington
Release Date:22/12/1962
Pecado de amor
Character:Ángel Vega
Release Date:14/12/1961
The Wonders of Aladdin
Character:Prince Moluk
Release Date:31/10/1961
Joseph and His Brethren
Character:Benjamin
Release Date:23/08/1961
A Soldier and a Half
Character:Giorgio Strazzonelli
Release Date:11/02/1960
Carthage in Flames
Character:Tsour
Release Date:29/01/1960
Hannibal
Character:Quintilius
Release Date:21/12/1959
Cerasella
Character:Bruno
Release Date:11/12/1959
Juke Box - Screams of Love
Character:Othello
Release Date:28/11/1959
Spavaldi e innamorati
Character:Paolo
Release Date:27/06/1959
Il padrone delle ferriere
Character:Octave de Beaulieu
Release Date:11/03/1959
The Sword and the Cross
Character:Lazzaro
Release Date:22/12/1958
Fast and Sexy
Character:Ciccillo
Release Date:18/04/1958
Il Novelliere - Il salotto di Oscar Wilde
Character:Dorian Gray
Release Date:01/01/1958
Lazzarella
Character:Luciano Pico
Release Date:27/11/1957
The Wide Blue Road
Character:Renato
Release Date:22/11/1957
Guaglione
Character:Franco Danieli
Release Date:15/12/1956
I vagabondi delle stelle
Character:Franco
Release Date:20/10/1956
Mamma sconosciuta
Character:Gianni Martini
Release Date:20/07/1956
The Golden Vein
Character:Corrado
Release Date:30/09/1955
Abandoned
Character:Wounded Estray
Release Date:07/09/1955
Divisione Folgore
Character:Delavigne
Release Date:30/12/1954
It Happened in the Park
Character:A school friend of Anna Maria (segment: Pi-greco) (uncredited)
Release Date:18/12/1953
The Age of Indiscretion
Character:(uncredited)
Release Date:23/08/1953
The Street of Hope
Character:as Girolamo Girotti (unconfirmed)
Release Date:09/04/1953
Voice of Silence
Character:Boy at the barrier
Release Date:01/04/1953
Vacation with a Gangster
Character:Giannini
Release Date:22/03/1952
Television Appearances
Abendshow
Character:Self
One Step from Heaven
Character:Pietro
L'uomo che cavalcava nel buio
Character:Rocco
L'uomo che sognava con le aquile
Character:Rocco Ventura
Ulisse - Il piacere della scoperta
Character:Self
Father Matteo
Character:Don Matteo
Volle Kanne
Character:Self
Leute heute
Character:Self
Lucky Luke
Character:Lucky Luke
Sacrée Soirée
Character:Self
Champs-Elysées
Character:Self
Wetten, dass..?
Character:Self
Telespiele
Character:Self
Auf los geht's los
Character:Self
Film '72
Character:Self
Rischiatutto
Character:
Aktuelle Schaubude
Character:Self
Bambi
Character:Self
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