Terence Hill

Acting · 3.4 popularity

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Born: March 29, 1939
From: Venice, Veneto, Kingdom of Italy [Now Italy]
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Biography

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.

Works

96 films

Trinity Is Still My Name

19717.4

They Call Me Trinity

19707.5

Crime Busters

19777.0

My Name Is Nobody

19737.3

The Leopard

19637.7

Watch Out, We're Mad

19747.5

Double Trouble

19847.0

Go for It

19837.0

Who Finds a Friend Finds a Treasure

19816.9

Last of the Renegades

19646.7

Super Fuzz

19806.5

Troublemakers

19946.2

God Forgives... I Don't!

19676.6

I'm for the Hippopotamus

19796.8

Miami Supercops

19856.4

All the Way Boys

19726.8

A Genius, Two Friends, and an Idiot

19756.3

Boot Hill

19695.9

Ace High

19686.5

Lucky Luke

19915.4

Rampage at Apache Wells

19656.3

The Two Missionaries

19746.5

March or Die

19775.8

Flaming Frontier

19656.2

Mr. Billion

19775.5

It Happened in the Park

19536.5

Django, Prepare a Coffin

19686.3

Frontier Hellcat

19646.4

Hannibal

19595.6

Blackie the Pirate

19715.8

Man of the East

19726.6

The Socceritos

20266.0

Renegade

19876.1

Divisione Folgore

19546.5

Whom the Gods Wish to Destroy

19666.5

Doc West

20096.2

Doc West II : Triggerman

20096.3

The Shortest Day

19636.4

The Golden Vein

19556.7

Don Camillo

19845.7

The Crazy Westerners

19675.7

Whom the Gods Wish to Destroy 2

19676.5

Joseph and His Brethren

19616.2

ORG

19795.1

The Wonders of Aladdin

19615.2

Pecado de amor

19614.9

Guaglione

19566.8

Terence Hill, Bud Spencer… & me

2025

Virtual Weapon

19975.7

Wrath of the Wind

19705.1

Piedone nyomában

20186.7

Carthage in Flames

19605.2

Denn sie kennen kein Erbarmen - Der Italowestern

20066.5

Rita the Field Marshal

19675.2

The Sword and the Cross

19583.4

Seven Seas to Calais

19625.5

The Street of Hope

19536.0

The Last Movie Painter

20207.4

Ruf der Wälder

19654.7

I vagabondi delle stelle

19567.0

Terence Hill: Pazifist und Cowboy

20256.0

They Called Him Spencer

20176.8

Vacation with a Gangster

19527.2

The Tough and the Mighty

19696.4

Voice of Silence

19537.0

Duel at Sundown

19655.8

The Hassled Hooker

19726.3

Juke Box - Screams of Love

19595.0

My Name Is Thomas

20185.8

Shots in 3/4 Time

19657.8

Das Schwert der Nibelungen

197610.0

Fast and Sexy

19585.6

The Wide Blue Road

19576.3

They call me Lucky Luke - Ma Dalton

1991

Cerasella

19596.6

A Soldier and a Half

19607.2

The Age of Indiscretion

19538.5

Lazzarella

19576.3

Vier Fäuste lassen's krachen

2004

Abandoned

19557.0

Klaus Kinski: I'm not an actor

2000

Io non protesto, io amo

19676.5

Il padrone delle ferriere

19597.3

Lucky Luke 2

19925.5

L'uomo che sognava con le aquile

20066.7

Nobody is Perfect

2005

Caterina Caselli - Una vita, 100 vite

20218.5

Il Novelliere - Il salotto di Oscar Wilde

1958

Die Terence Hill Story

2019

Bud's Best - Die Welt des Bud Spencer

20126.5

Lui era Trinità

2023

Mamma sconosciuta

19567.0

Le 1000 vite di Bud Spencer

201910.0

On l'appelle Terence Hill

20226.2

Spavaldi e innamorati

19597.0

Odds and Evens

19787.0