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Known For
Acting
Birthday
May 18, 1918
Died
January 5, 2003
Place of Birth
Mogliano, Macerata, Italy
Also Known As
- Массимо Джиротти
Massimo Girotti
0.8 Popularity
Biography
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.
Known For
7.3
Self (archive footage)
Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita
2021
7.0
Simone / Davide Veroli
Facing Windows
2003
6.2
Self (archive footage)
Luchino Visconti
2002
🎬
0.0
Donato
Der Kardinal - Der Preis der Liebe
2000
🎬
0.0
Emilio Venditti
Un bel dì vedremo
1996
6.9
il condomino distinto
The Monster
1994
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0.0
Ing. Staino
L'Amore Dopo
1993
0.0
Vergiotti
From Night to Dawn
1992
0.0
Le comte di Falco
Der Erfolg ihres Lebens
1990
10.0
L'envoyé du Pape (« Les Années Lumière »)
The French Revolution
1989
Credits
Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita
as Self (archive footage)
2021
7.3
Facing Windows
as Simone / Davide Veroli
2003
7.0
Luchino Visconti
as Self (archive footage)
2002
6.2
🎬
Der Kardinal - Der Preis der Liebe
as Donato
2000
0.0
🎬
Un bel dì vedremo
as Emilio Venditti
1996
0.0
The Monster
as il condomino distinto
1994
6.9
🎬
L'Amore Dopo
as Ing. Staino
1993
0.0
From Night to Dawn
as Vergiotti
1992
0.0
Der Erfolg ihres Lebens
as Le comte di Falco
1990
0.0
The French Revolution
as L'envoyé du Pape (« Les Années Lumière »)
1989
10.0
The French Revolution
as Envoyé du Pape
1989
7.5
Affairs
as Count Valery Du Terrail
1989
2.3
La Bohème
as The Old Pretender / Featuring
1988
6.0
Der Ochsenkrieg
as Someier
1987
3.7
The Berlin Affair
as Werner von Heiden
1985
5.2
Christopher Columbus
as Duca Medina Coeli
1985
6.5
Quo Vadis?
as Aulus Plautius
1985
5.4
Art of Love
as Ovid
1983
5.0
Passion of Love
as Colonel
1981
6.5
🎬
Un reietto delle isole
as Tom Lingard
1980
0.0
L'Ultimo Aereo per Venezia
as Marcello Masini
1977
0.0
Origins of the Mafia
as Viceroy Caracciolo
1976
0.0
And Agnes Chose to Die
as Palita
1976
6.6
Mr. Klein
as Charles, Florence's husband
1976
7.2
The Innocent
as Count Stefano Egano
1976
6.8
Mark Shoots First
as Il Questore Spaini
1975
6.6
The Suspicious Death of a Minor
as Gaudenzio Pesce
1975
5.9
Cagliostro
as Giacomo Casanova
1975
0.0
The Kiss
as Eugenio Dazzi
1974
2.0
Stateline Motel
as Fred Norton
1973
5.0
The Voracious Ones
as Olmi
1973
5.2
Last Tango in Paris
as Marcel
1972
6.9
My Body With Anger
as Gabriele
1972
0.0
Baron Blood
as Dr. Karl Hummel
1972
6.2
Il segno del comando
as George Powell
1971
8.0
Medea
as Creonte
1969
6.5
The Red Tent
as Giuseppe Romagna Manoja
1969
6.0
La coppia
as Guido
1969
0.0
The Sisters
as Alex
1969
3.8
Jekyll
as John Utterson
1969
4.0
Listen, Let's Make Love
as Tassi
1968
4.2
Theorem
as Paolo, the Father
1968
7.0
The Witches
as Sportsman (segment "La strega bruciata viva")
1967
6.0
The Mysterious Mr. Van Eyck
as Friend of Charles
1966
0.0
Idoli controluce
as Ugo Sanfelice
1965
0.0
Marco the Magnificent
as Nicolo, Marco's Father
1965
4.7
Gold for the Caesars
as Pro-consul Caius Cornelius Maximus)
1963
4.2
Mafia alla sbarra
1963
0.0
The Shortest Day
as Capitano alla finestra (uncredited)
1963
6.2
Imperial Venus
as Leclerc
1962
3.3
Duel of the Titans
as Tazio
1961
5.2
The Giants of Thessaly
as Orfeo
1960
4.7
Letters of a Novice
as Don Paolo Conti
1960
6.4
The Cossacks
as Tsar Alexander II
1960
5.0
Cavalcata selvaggia
as Lorenzo
1960
0.0
Nights of the Teddy Boys
as Constantino's Father
1959
7.0
La cento chilometri
as Toccaceli
1959
0.0
Wolves in the Abyss
as Comandante
1959
7.6
The Head of a Tyrant
as Holofernes
1959
4.0
Asphalt
as Éric
1959
7.0
Herod the Great
as Ottaviano
1959
5.0
The Year Long Road
as Chiacchiera (Naklapalo)
1958
6.0
Goddess Of Love
as Prassitele
1957
2.3
La trovatella di Pompei
as Guglielmo Curti
1957
0.0
La bestia humana
as Pedro Sandoval
1957
6.3
It Happened in Rome
as Ugo Parenti
1957
5.4
Saranno uomini
as Don Antonio
1957
4.0
Four of the Thundering Jet
as Maggiore Montanari
1955
0.0
Marguerite of the Night
as Valentin
1955
4.5
Disperato addio
as dottor Andrea Pitti
1955
0.0
Senso
as Il Marchese Roberto Ussoni
1954
7.2
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La tua donna
as Sandro Ademari
1954
1.0
The Love of a Woman
as André Lorenz
1953
6.8
Vortice
as Dr. Guido Aureli
1953
7.0
At the Edge of the City
as Avv. Roberto Martini
1953
6.5
A Husband for Anna
as Andrea Grazzi
1953
5.4
Sul ponte dei sospiri
as Marco Spada
1953
5.0
Sins of Rome
as Spartacus
1953
5.8
Il segreto delle tre punte
as Massimo Dal Colle
1952
0.0
Lieutenant Giorgio
as Tenente Giorgio Biserta
1952
6.0
Fugitive in Trieste
as Fred Nolan
1952
0.0
Leathernose
as Doctor Marchal
1952
5.0
Rome 11:00
as Nando the Unemployed
1952
7.7
Behind Closed Shutters
as Ingegnere Roberto
1951
6.0
🎬
Land der Sehnsucht
1950
0.0
Story of a Love Affair
as Guido
1950
6.6
Duel Without Honor
as Carlo
1950
0.0
In the Name of the Law
as Il pretore Guido Schiavi
1949
7.1
Fabiola
as Sebastian
1949
5.4
Altura
as Stanis Archena
1949
0.0
Difficult Years
as Giovanni Piscitello
1948
7.7
Woman Trouble
as Paolo Bertoni
1948
6.5
Lost Youth
as Marcello Mariani
1948
6.1
Christmas at Camp 119
as Nane, il veneziano
1947
6.6
Tragic Hunt
as Michele
1947
6.4
Fatalità
as Vincenzo Masi
1947
3.9
Desire
as Nando Mancini
1946
5.4
A Day in the Life
as Luigi Monotti
1946
6.3
Preludio d'amore
1946
0.0
The Gate of Heaven
as The blind youth
1945
6.7
La carne e l'anima
as Andrea
1945
0.0
I dieci comandamenti
as (segment "Ricordati di santificare le feste")
1945
0.0
Obsession
as Gino Costa
1944
7.5
Apparizione
as Franco
1943
6.3
Harlem
as Tommaso Rossi
1943
0.0
A Pilot Returns
as Lieutenant Gino Rossati
1942
5.0
La famiglia Brambilla in vacanza
as Marco Sassoli
1941
0.0
Le due tigri
as Tremal-Naik
1941
0.0
I pirati della Malesia
as Tremal-Naik
1941
0.0
The Iron Crown
as Arminio / King Licinio
1941
5.6
Dora Nelson
as Enrico
1939
5.5