Terence Hill
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). ... Source: Article "Terence Hill" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
The Leopard
(Count Cavriaghi)
All the Way Boys
(Plata)
Miami Supercops
(Doug Bennett / Jay Donell)
Last of the Renegades
(Lieutenant Robert Merril)
A Genius, Two Friends, and an Idiot
(Joe Thanks)
The Hassled Hooker
(Marco Manin)
Lucky Luke
(Lucky Luke)
Super Fuzz
(Dave Speed)
Whom the Gods Wish to Destroy
(Giselher)
Whom the Gods Wish to Destroy 2
(Giselher)
Who Finds a Friend Finds a Treasure
(Alan Lloyd)
Odds and Evens
(Johnny Firpo)
Don Camillo
(Don Camillo)
The Two Missionaries
(Father / Padre J.)
Crime Busters
(Matt Kirby)
Go for It
(Rosco Frazer / Steinberg)
Watch Out, We're Mad
(Kid)
Trinity Is Still My Name
(Trinity)
Renegade
(Luke)
Ace High
(Cat Stevens)
Double Trouble
(Elliot Vance / Sebastiano Coímbra)
March or Die
(Marco Segrain)
Boot Hill
(Cat Stevens)
I'm for the Hippopotamus
(Slim)
My Name Is Nobody
(Nobody)
Troublemakers
(Travis)
Frontier Hellcat
(Baker Jr.)
Flaming Frontier
(Toby)
They Call Me Trinity
(Trinity)
God Forgives... I Don't!
(Cat Stevens)
Vier Fäuste lassen's krachen
Cerasella
(Bruno)
Mr. Billion
(Guido Falcone)
Virtual Weapon
(Skims)
Django, Prepare a Coffin
(Django / Joe)
Wrath of the Wind
(Marco)
The Crazy Westerners
(Texas Joe IF: Black Star)
Doc West
(Doc West)
Rampage at Apache Wells
(Richard Forsythe)
Blackie the Pirate
(Blackie)
Duel at Sundown
(Larry McGow)
Man of the East
(Sir Thomas Fitzpatrick Phillip Moore)
Rita the Field Marshal
(Prof. Giuliano Fineschi)
Doc West II : Triggerman
(Doc West)
They call me Lucky Luke - Ma Dalton
(Lucky Luke)
Joseph and His Brethren
(Benjamin)
The Tough and the Mighty
(Graziano Cassitta)
Lucky Luke 2
(Lucky Luke (archive footage))
Lazzarella
(Luciano Pico)
The Sword and the Cross
(Lazzaro)
Carthage in Flames
(Tsour)
Seven Seas to Calais
(Babington)
Abandoned
(Wounded Estray)
Ruf der Wälder
(Marcello Scalzi)
Io non protesto, io amo
(Gabriele)
ORG
(Zohommm!!!)
Lui era Trinità
(Self)
On l'appelle Terence Hill
(Self)
Shots in 3/4 Time
(Enrico)
Klaus Kinski: I'm not an actor
(Nobody (archive footage))
The Wonders of Aladdin
(Prince Moluk)
The Golden Vein
(Corrado)
L'uomo che sognava con le aquile
(Rocco Ventura)
Fast and Sexy
(Ciccillo)
The Wide Blue Road
(Renato)
Voice of Silence
(Boy at the barrier)
Divisione Folgore
(Delavigne)
Vacation with a Gangster
(Giannini)
My Name Is Thomas
(Thomas)
Das Schwert der Nibelungen
(Giselher)
A Soldier and a Half
(Giorgio Strazzonelli)
Hannibal
(Quintilius)
They Called Him Spencer
(Self)
Bud's Best - Die Welt des Bud Spencer
(Self)
Mamma sconosciuta
(Gianni Martini)
I vagabondi delle stelle
(Franco)
Spavaldi e innamorati
(Paolo)
Guaglione
(Franco Danieli)
Il Novelliere - Il salotto di Oscar Wilde
(Dorian Gray)
Il padrone delle ferriere
(Octave de Beaulieu)
Juke Box - Screams of Love
(Othello)
Pecado de amor
(Ángel Vega)
The Shortest Day
(Soldato austriaco)
Denn sie kennen kein Erbarmen - Der Italowestern
(Self (archive footage))
Piedone nyomában
(Self)
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
(Townsperson (uncredited))
Die Terence Hill Story
(Self)
The Last Movie Painter
(Self)
It Happened in the Park
(A school friend of Anna Maria (segment: Pi-greco) (uncredited))
The Age of Indiscretion
((uncredited))
Nobody is Perfect
(Self / Self - Interviewee)
Le 1000 vite di Bud Spencer
(Self (archive footage) (uncredited))
Terence Hill: Pazifist und Cowboy
(Self)
The Street of Hope
(as Girolamo Girotti (unconfirmed))
Telespiele
(Self)
Ulisse - Il piacere della scoperta
(Self)
Lucky Luke
(Lucky Luke)
Father Matteo
(Don Matteo)
One Step from Heaven
(Pietro)
L'uomo che cavalcava nel buio
(Rocco)
Wetten, dass..?
(Self)
Rischiatutto
L'uomo che sognava con le aquile
(Rocco Ventura)
Leute heute
(Self)
Bambi
(Self)
Auf los geht's los
(Self)
Volle Kanne
(Self)
Champs-Elysées
(Self)
Aktuelle Schaubude
(Self)
Sacrée Soirée
(Self)
Abendshow
(Self)
Film '72
(Self)
Lucky Luke
(Director)
Don Camillo
(Director)
Don Camillo
(Producer)
Troublemakers
(Director)
Doc West
(Director)
Doc West II : Triggerman
(Director)
My Name Is Thomas
(Director)
ORG
(Producer)
My Name Is Thomas
(Writer)
Renegade
(Story)
They Call Me Trinity
(Stunts)
Lucky Luke
(Director)
Lucky Luke
(Creator)