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