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