Massimo Girotti

Acting · 0.8 popularity

Age

108

Movies

104

Born: May 18, 1918 – January 5, 2003
From: Mogliano, Macerata, Italy

Biography

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.

Works

104 films

Last Tango in Paris

19726.9

Mr. Klein

19767.2

The French Revolution

19897.5

The Innocent

19766.9

Baron Blood

19726.1

The Monster

19947.0

Theorem

19687.0

Imperial Venus

19624.1

The Witches

19676.0

Medea

19696.6

Romulus and Remus

19615.2

The Year Long Road

19586.7

The Red Tent

19696.1

Senso

19547.2

Passion of Love

19816.7

The Shortest Day

19636.4

Facing Windows

20037.0

The Berlin Affair

19855.3

Obsession

19437.5

Kolossal - The Magnificent Macisti

19779.0

Asphalt

19597.6

Marco the Magnificent

19654.8

Story of a Love Affair

19506.7

Lost Youth

19486.2

Difficult Years

19487.8

Saranno uomini

19575.0

It Happened in Rome

19575.8

Art of Love

19835.3

Mark Shoots First

19756.6

Tragic Hunt

19476.6

Herod the Great

19596.3

Goddess Of Love

19574.3

Apparizione

19437.2

The Iron Crown

19415.7

Marguerite of the Night

19554.8

Stateline Motel

19735.3

The Giants of Thessaly

19604.9

Fabiola

19495.8

Affairs

19893.5

And Agnes Chose to Die

19766.6

Cagliostro

19756.0

Letters of a Novice

19606.5

The Gates of Heaven

19457.0

The Sisters

19694.4

Behind Closed Shutters

19516.8

Rome 11:00

19527.7

The Cossacks

19607.5

The Suspicious Death of a Minor

19756.0

The Love of a Woman

19536.8

The Kiss

19743.5

Nights of the Teddy Boys

19598.5

Four of the Thundering Jet

195510.0

In the Name of the Law

19497.2

Woman Trouble

19486.7

Wolves in the Abyss

19597.5

Harlem

19439.0

Listen, Let's Make Love

19684.5

Gold for the Caesars

19635.1

Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita

20217.3

Christmas at Camp 119

19476.8

The Voracious Ones

19736.0

Luchino Visconti

20027.0

The Head of a Tyrant

19596.0

Sins of Rome

19536.1

From Night to Dawn

19929.0

Desire

19465.3

I dieci comandamenti

19457.0

La cento chilometri

19597.0

A Husband for Anna

19535.7

Leathernose

19526.3

Vortice

19538.5

A Pilot Returns

19425.2

Cavalcata selvaggia

19607.0

A Day in the Life

19466.5

La Bohème

19887.5

At the Edge of the City

19537.0

Fatalità

19474.7

Idoli controluce

196510.0

Lieutenant Giorgio

19528.0

Un reietto delle isole

19808.0

La bestia humana

19576.5

Fugitive in Trieste

19529.0

Disperato addio

195510.0

L'Amore Dopo

1993

La famiglia Brambilla in vacanza

19419.0

La trovatella di Pompei

19579.0

L'Ultimo Aereo per Venezia

1977

I pirati della Malesia

19418.0

Land der Sehnsucht

1950

La carne e l'anima

19459.0

Altura

19497.5

La tua donna

19543.3

Sul ponte dei sospiri

19537.0

Der Kardinal - Der Preis der Liebe

20009.0

The Mysterious Mr. Van Eyck

196610.0

Le due tigri

194110.0

Mafia alla sbarra

196310.0

Duel Without Honor

19507.0

My Body With Anger

19729.0

Dora Nelson

19395.8

La coppia

196910.0

Il segreto delle tre punte

19527.0

Shamed

1947

Un bel dì vedremo

19969.0