Massimo Girotti (18 May 1918 – 5 January 2003) was an Italian film actor whose career spanned seven decades.
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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Filmography (Movies)
Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:16/05/2021
Facing Windows
Character:Simone / Davide Veroli
Release Date:27/02/2003
Luchino Visconti
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:23/06/2002
Der Kardinal - Der Preis der Liebe
Character:Donato
Release Date:25/12/2000
Un bel dì vedremo
Character:Emilio Venditti
Release Date:01/01/1996
The Monster
Character:il condomino distinto
Release Date:22/10/1994
L'Amore Dopo
Character:Ing. Staino
Release Date:01/01/1993
From Night to Dawn
Character:Vergiotti
Release Date:23/02/1992
The French Revolution
Character:Envoyé du Pape
Release Date:10/05/1989
Affairs
Character:Count Valery Du Terrail
Release Date:16/02/1989
La Bohème
Character:The Old Pretender / Featuring
Release Date:09/03/1988
The Berlin Affair
Character:Werner von Heiden
Release Date:03/10/1985
Art of Love
Character:Ovid
Release Date:07/12/1983
Passion of Love
Character:Colonel
Release Date:16/09/1981
Un reietto delle isole
Character:Tom Lingard
Release Date:31/10/1980
L'Ultimo Aereo per Venezia
Character:Marcello Masini
Release Date:07/06/1977
And Agnes Chose to Die
Character:Palita
Release Date:26/09/1976
Mr. Klein
Character:Charles, Florence's husband
Release Date:23/09/1976
The Innocent
Character:Count Stefano Egano
Release Date:18/05/1976
Mark Shoots First
Character:Il Questore Spaini
Release Date:22/12/1975
The Suspicious Death of a Minor
Character:Gaudenzio Pesce
Release Date:12/08/1975
Cagliostro
Character:Giacomo Casanova
Release Date:21/02/1975
The Kiss
Character:Eugenio Dazzi
Release Date:22/08/1974
Stateline Motel
Character:Fred Norton
Release Date:14/09/1973
The Voracious Ones
Character:Olmi
Release Date:11/01/1973
Last Tango in Paris
Character:Marcel
Release Date:15/12/1972
My Body With Anger
Character:Gabriele
Release Date:01/12/1972
Baron Blood
Character:Dr. Karl Hummel
Release Date:25/02/1972
Medea
Character:Creonte
Release Date:28/12/1969
The Red Tent
Character:Giuseppe Romagna Manoja
Release Date:23/12/1969
La coppia
Character:Guido
Release Date:23/10/1969
The Sisters
Character:Alex
Release Date:08/09/1969
Listen, Let's Make Love
Character:Tassi
Release Date:13/09/1968
Theorem
Character:Paolo, the Father
Release Date:07/09/1968
The Witches
Character:Sportsman (segment "La strega bruciata viva")
Release Date:22/02/1967
The Mysterious Mr. Van Eyck
Character:Friend of Charles
Release Date:10/03/1966
Idoli controluce
Character:Ugo Sanfelice
Release Date:12/11/1965
Marco the Magnificent
Character:Nicolo, Marco's Father
Release Date:06/08/1965
Gold for the Caesars
Character:Pro-consul Caius Cornelius Maximus)
Release Date:09/03/1963
Mafia alla sbarra
Character:
Release Date:15/02/1963
The Shortest Day
Character:Capitano alla finestra (uncredited)
Release Date:14/02/1963
Imperial Venus
Character:Leclerc
Release Date:22/12/1962
Romulus and Remus
Character:Tazio
Release Date:06/12/1961
The Giants of Thessaly
Character:Orfeo
Release Date:06/12/1960
Letters of a Novice
Character:Don Paolo Conti
Release Date:01/12/1960
The Cossacks
Character:Tsar Alexander II
Release Date:04/02/1960
Cavalcata selvaggia
Character:Lorenzo
Release Date:01/01/1960
Nights of the Teddy Boys
Character:Constantino's Father
Release Date:03/10/1959
La cento chilometri
Character:Toccaceli
Release Date:09/09/1959
Wolves in the Abyss
Character:Comandante
Release Date:23/06/1959
The Head of a Tyrant
Character:Holofernes
Release Date:26/02/1959
Asphalt
Character:Éric
Release Date:18/02/1959
Herod the Great
Character:Ottaviano
Release Date:01/01/1959
The Year Long Road
Character:Chiacchiera (Naklapalo)
Release Date:11/07/1958
Goddess Of Love
Character:Prassitele
Release Date:05/12/1957
La trovatella di Pompei
Character:Guglielmo Curti
Release Date:25/07/1957
La bestia humana
Character:Pedro Sandoval
Release Date:12/07/1957
It Happened in Rome
Character:Ugo Parenti
Release Date:08/04/1957
Saranno uomini
Character:Don Antonio
Release Date:23/03/1957
Four of the Thundering Jet
Character:Maggiore Montanari
Release Date:30/12/1955
Marguerite of the Night
Character:Valentin
Release Date:29/12/1955
Disperato addio
Character:dottor Andrea Pitti
Release Date:06/09/1955
Senso
Character:Il Marchese Roberto Ussoni
Release Date:25/03/1954
La tua donna
Character:Sandro Ademari
Release Date:01/01/1954
The Love of a Woman
Character:André Lorenz
Release Date:13/12/1953
Vortice
Character:Dr. Guido Aureli
Release Date:13/11/1953
At the Edge of the City
Character:Avv. Roberto Martini
Release Date:16/10/1953
A Husband for Anna
Character:Andrea Grazzi
Release Date:22/08/1953
Sul ponte dei sospiri
Character:Marco Spada
Release Date:21/08/1953
Sins of Rome
Character:Spartacus
Release Date:28/01/1953
Il segreto delle tre punte
Character:Massimo Dal Colle
Release Date:26/09/1952
Lieutenant Giorgio
Character:Tenente Giorgio Biserta
Release Date:27/06/1952
Fugitive in Trieste
Character:Fred Nolan
Release Date:18/04/1952
Leathernose
Character:Doctor Marchal
Release Date:26/03/1952
Rome 11:00
Character:Nando the Unemployed
Release Date:27/02/1952
Behind Closed Shutters
Character:Ingegnere Roberto
Release Date:08/03/1951
Land der Sehnsucht
Character:
Release Date:31/12/1950
Story of a Love Affair
Character:Guido
Release Date:03/11/1950
Duel Without Honor
Character:Carlo
Release Date:05/01/1950
In the Name of the Law
Character:Il pretore Guido Schiavi
Release Date:13/03/1949
Fabiola
Character:Sebastian
Release Date:03/03/1949
Altura
Character:Stanis Archena
Release Date:12/01/1949
Difficult Years
Character:Giovanni Piscitello
Release Date:28/12/1948
Woman Trouble
Character:Paolo Bertoni
Release Date:17/10/1948
Lost Youth
Character:Marcello Mariani
Release Date:02/04/1948
Christmas at Camp 119
Character:Nane, il veneziano
Release Date:22/12/1947
Tragic Hunt
Character:Michele
Release Date:04/11/1947
Fatalità
Character:Vincenzo Masi
Release Date:02/05/1947
Desire
Character:Nando Mancini
Release Date:09/09/1946
A Day in the Life
Character:Luigi Monotti
Release Date:05/04/1946
Preludio d'amore
Character:
Release Date:01/01/1946
The Gate of Heaven
Character:The blind youth
Release Date:16/02/1945
La carne e l'anima
Character:Andrea
Release Date:11/01/1945
I dieci comandamenti
Character:(segment "Ricordati di santificare le feste")
Release Date:08/01/1945
Obsession
Character:Gino Costa
Release Date:08/04/1944
Apparizione
Character:Franco
Release Date:23/12/1943
Harlem
Character:Tommaso Rossi
Release Date:21/04/1943
A Pilot Returns
Character:Lieutenant Gino Rossati
Release Date:08/04/1942
La famiglia Brambilla in vacanza
Character:Marco Sassoli
Release Date:18/12/1941
Le due tigri
Character:Tremal-Naik
Release Date:29/11/1941
I pirati della Malesia
Character:Tremal-Naik
Release Date:18/10/1941
The Iron Crown
Character:Arminio / King Licinio
Release Date:07/09/1941
Dora Nelson
Character:Enrico
Release Date:01/12/1939
Television Appearances
Der Erfolg ihres Lebens
Character:Le comte di Falco
The French Revolution
Character:L'envoyé du Pape (« Les Années Lumière »)
Der Ochsenkrieg
Character:Someier
Christopher Columbus
Character:Duca Medina Coeli
Quo Vadis?
Character:Aulus Plautius
Origins of the Mafia
Character:Viceroy Caracciolo
Il segno del comando
Character:George Powell
Jekyll
Character:John Utterson
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