Massimo Girotti

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About 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 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 a large number of 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.
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, 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).
[edit] Filmography

Dora Nelson (1939)
La corona di ferro (The Iron Crown, 1941)
Un Pilota ritorna (A Pilot Returns, 1942)
Ossessione (Obsession) (1943)
La porta del cielo (1945)
Caccia tragica (The Tragic Hunt 1946)
Un giorno nella vita (1946)
In nome della legge (In the Name of the Law, 1949)
Cronaca di un amore (Story of a Love Affair, 1950)
Sins of Rome (1953)
Senso (1954)
Wolves of the Deep (1959)
Venere Imperiale (1962)
Teorema (1968)
The Red Tent (1969)
Medea (1969)
Last Tango in Paris (1972)
Monsieur Klein (1976)
Passion of Love (1981)
Quo Vadis (1985)
Il mostro (The Monster, 1994)
La finestra di fronte (Facing Windows, 2003)

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Andrea Checchi (1946)
Amedeo Nazzari (1947)
Vittorio De Sica (1948)
Massimo Girotti (1949)
Aldo Fabrizi (1951)
Totò (1952)
Renato Rascel (1953)
Nino Taranto (1954)
Marcello Mastroianni (1955)
Alberto Sordi (1956)
Marcello Mastroianni (1958)
Vittorio Gassman (1959)
Alberto Sordi (1960)
Marcello Mastroianni (1961)
Marcello Mastroianni (1962)
Vittorio Gassman (1963)
Ugo Tognazzi (1964)
Saro Urzì (1965)
Nino Manfredi (1966)
Totò (1967)
Gian Maria Volonté (1968)
Ugo Tognazzi (1969)
Nino Manfredi (1970)
Gian Maria Volonté (1971)
Riccardo Cucciolla (1972)
Giancarlo Giannini (1973)
Giancarlo Giannini (1974)
Vittorio Gassman (1975)
Michele Placido (1976)
Alberto Sordi (1977)
Nino Manfredi (1978)
Flavio Bucci (1979)
Nino Manfredi (1980)
Vittorio Mezzogiorno (1981)
Ugo Tognazzi (1982)
Francesco Nuti (1983)
Carlo delle Piane (1984)
Michele Placido (1985)
Marcello Mastroianni (1986)
Roberto Benigni (1987)
Marcello Mastroianni (1988)
Gian Maria Volonté (1989)
Vittorio Gassman (1990)
Marcello Mastroianni (1991)
Roberto Benigni (1992)
Diego Abatantuono (1993)
Paolo Villaggio (1994)
Alessandro Haber (1995)
Sergio Castellitto (1996)
Leonardo Pieraccioni (1997)
Roberto Benigni (1998)
Giancarlo Giannini (1999)
Silvio Orlando (2000)
Stefano Accorsi (2001)
Sergio Castellitto (2002)
Neri Marcorè / Gigi Proietti (2003)
Alessio Boni / Fabrizio Gifuni / Luigi Lo Cascio / Andrea Tidona / Roberto Herlitzka (2004)
Toni Servillo (2005)
Pierfrancesco Favino / Kim Rossi Stuart / Claudio Santamaria (2006)
Silvio Orlando (2007)
Toni Servillo (2008)
Toni Servillo (2009)
Elio Germano / Christian De Sica (2010)
Kim Rossi Stuart (2011)
Pierfrancesco Favino (2012)









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