Massimo Girotti
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- May 18, 1918
- Died
- Jan 5, 2003 (aged 84)
- Place of birth
- Mogliano, Macerata, Italy
- Credits
- 113
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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Known for
Last Tango in Paris
1972Movie
Marcel
The Monster
1994Movie
il condomino distinto
Theorem
1968Movie
Paolo, the Father
Facing Windows
2003Movie
Simone / Davide Veroli
Mr. Klein
1976Movie
Charles, Florence's husband
Obsession
1943Movie
Gino Costa
Filmography
Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita
2021Movie
Self (archive footage)
A Film that Paved the Way
2009Movie
Self
Facing Windows
2003Movie
Simone / Davide Veroli
Luchino Visconti
2002Movie
Self (archive footage)
Der Kardinal - Der Preis der Liebe
2000Movie
Donato
Un bel dì vedremo
1996Movie
Emilio Venditti
The Monster
1994Movie
il condomino distinto
L'Amore Dopo
1993Movie
Ing. Staino
Dalla notte all'alba
1992TV
Vergiotti
Der Erfolg ihres Lebens
1990TV
Le comte di Falco
The French Revolution
1989TV
L'envoyé du Pape (« Les Années Lumière »)
The French Revolution
1989Movie
Envoyé du Pape
Affairs
1989Movie
Count Valery Du Terrail
La Bohème
1988Movie
The Old Pretender / Featuring
Der Ochsenkrieg
1987TV
Someier
The Berlin Affair
1985Movie
Werner von Heiden
Christopher Columbus
1985TV
Duca Medina Coeli
Quo Vadis?
1985TV
Aulus Plautius
Art of Love
1983Movie
Ovid
Passion of Love
1981Movie
Colonel
Un reietto delle isole
1980Movie
Tom Lingard
L'Ultimo Aereo per Venezia
1977Movie
Marcello Masini
Kolossal - The Magnificent Macisti
1977Movie
Origins of the Mafia
1976TV
Viceroy Caracciolo
And Agnes Chose to Die
1976Movie
Palita
Mr. Klein
1976Movie
Charles, Florence's husband
The Innocent
1976Movie
Count Stefano Egano
Mark Shoots First
1975Movie
Il Questore Spaini
The Suspicious Death of a Minor
1975Movie
Gaudenzio Pesce
Cagliostro
1975Movie
Giacomo Casanova
The Kiss
1974Movie
Eugenio Dazzi
Stateline Motel
1973Movie
Fred Norton
The Voracious Ones
1973Movie
Olmi
Last Tango in Paris
1972Movie
Marcel
My Body With Anger
1972Movie
Gabriele
Baron Blood
1972Movie
Dr. Karl Hummel
Il segno del comando
1971TV
George Powell
Medea
1969Movie
Creonte
The Red Tent
1969Movie
Giuseppe Romagna Manoja
La coppia
1969Movie
Guido
The Sisters
1969Movie
Alex
Jekyll
1969TV
John Utterson
Listen, Let's Make Love
1968Movie
Tassi
Theorem
1968Movie
Paolo, the Father
The Witches
1967Movie
Sportsman (segment "La strega bruciata viva")
The Mysterious Mr. Van Eyck
1966Movie
Friend of Charles
Idoli controluce
1965Movie
Ugo Sanfelice
Marco the Magnificent
1965Movie
Nicolo, Marco's Father
Gold for the Caesars
1963Movie
Pro-consul Caius Cornelius Maximus)
Mafia alla sbarra
1963Movie
The Shortest Day
1963Movie
Capitano alla finestra (uncredited)
Imperial Venus
1962Movie
Leclerc
Romulus and Remus
1961Movie
Tazio
The Giants of Thessaly
1960Movie
Orfeo
Letters of a Novice
1960Movie
Don Paolo Conti
The Cossacks
1960Movie
Tsar Alexander II
Cavalcata selvaggia
1960Movie
Lorenzo
Nights of the Teddy Boys
1959Movie
Constantino's Father
La cento chilometri
1959Movie
Toccaceli
Wolves in the Abyss
1959Movie
Comandante
The Head of a Tyrant
1959Movie
Holofernes
Asphalt
1959Movie
Éric
Herod the Great
1959Movie
Ottaviano
The Year Long Road
1958Movie
Chiacchiera (Naklapalo)
Goddess Of Love
1957Movie
Prassitele
La trovatella di Pompei
1957Movie
Guglielmo Curti
La bestia humana
1957Movie
Pedro Sandoval
It Happened in Rome
1957Movie
Ugo Parenti
Saranno uomini
1957Movie
Don Antonio
Four of the Thundering Jet
1955Movie
Maggiore Montanari
Marguerite of the Night
1955Movie
Valentin
Disperato addio
1955Movie
dottor Andrea Pitti
Senso
1954Movie
Il Marchese Roberto Ussoni
La tua donna
1954Movie
Sandro Ademari
The Love of a Woman
1953Movie
André Lorenz
Vortice
1953Movie
Dr. Guido Aureli
At the Edge of the City
1953Movie
Avv. Roberto Martini
A Husband for Anna
1953Movie
Andrea Grazzi
Sul ponte dei sospiri
1953Movie
Marco Spada
Sins of Rome
1953Movie
Spartacus
Il segreto delle tre punte
1952Movie
Massimo Dal Colle
Lieutenant Giorgio
1952Movie
Giorgio Biserta
Fugitive in Trieste
1952Movie
Fred Nolan
Leathernose
1952Movie
Doctor Marchal
Rome 11:00
1952Movie
Nando the Unemployed
Behind Closed Shutters
1951Movie
Ingegnere Roberto
Land der Sehnsucht
1950Movie
Story of a Love Affair
1950Movie
Guido
Duel Without Honor
1950Movie
Carlo
In the Name of the Law
1949Movie
Il pretore Guido Schiavi
Fabiola
1949Movie
Sebastian
Altura
1949Movie
Stanis Archena
Difficult Years
1948Movie
Giovanni Piscitello
Woman Trouble
1948Movie
Paolo Bertoni
Lost Youth
1948Movie
Marcello Mariani
Christmas at Camp 119
1947Movie
Nane, il veneziano
Tragic Hunt
1947Movie
Michele
Shamed
1947Movie
Rocco
Fatalità
1947Movie
Vincenzo Masi
Desire
1946Movie
Nando Mancini
A Day in the Life
1946Movie
Luigi Monotti
The Gates of Heaven
1945Movie
The blind youth
La carne e l'anima
1945Movie
Andrea
I dieci comandamenti
1945Movie
(segment "Ricordati di santificare le feste")
Apparizione
1943Movie
Franco
Obsession
1943Movie
Gino Costa
Harlem
1943Movie
Tommaso Rossi
A Pilot Returns
1942Movie
Lieutenant Gino Rossati
La famiglia Brambilla in vacanza
1941Movie
Marco Sassoli
Le due tigri
1941Movie
Tremal-Naik
I pirati della Malesia
1941Movie
Tremal-Naik
The Iron Crown
1941Movie
Arminio / King Licinio
Dora Nelson
1939Movie
Enrico