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

The Monster

19947.0

The French Revolution

19897.5

Mr. Klein

19767.2

The Innocent

19766.9

Theorem

19687.0

The Year Long Road

19586.7

Baron Blood

19726.1

The Witches

19676.0

Imperial Venus

19624.1

The Red Tent

19696.1

Passion of Love

19816.7

Medea

19696.6

The Berlin Affair

19855.3

Romulus and Remus

19615.2

Facing Windows

20037.0

Senso

19547.2

Kolossal - The Magnificent Macisti

19779.0

Obsession

19437.5

The Shortest Day

19636.4

Marco the Magnificent

19654.8

Lost Youth

19486.2

It Happened in Rome

19575.8

Mark Shoots First

19756.6

Saranno uomini

19575.0

Story of a Love Affair

19506.7

Art of Love

19835.3

Difficult Years

19487.8

Tragic Hunt

19476.6

Apparizione

19437.2

Asphalt

19597.6

Letters of a Novice

19606.5

Marguerite of the Night

19554.8

The Cossacks

19607.5

Stateline Motel

19735.3

The Sisters

19694.4

Harlem

19439.0

And Agnes Chose to Die

19766.6

In the Name of the Law

19497.2

Fabiola

19495.8

Herod the Great

19596.3

Rome 11:00

19527.7

Cagliostro

19756.0

The Suspicious Death of a Minor

19756.0

Desire

19465.3

Leathernose

19526.3

The Giants of Thessaly

19604.9

I dieci comandamenti

19457.0

Luchino Visconti

20027.0

The Love of a Woman

19536.8

The Iron Crown

19415.7

Woman Trouble

19486.7

A Husband for Anna

19535.7

Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita

20217.3

Four of the Thundering Jet

195510.0

The Gates of Heaven

19457.0

Listen, Let's Make Love

19684.5

The Kiss

19743.5

Gold for the Caesars

19635.1

Wolves in the Abyss

19597.5

Goddess Of Love

19574.3

Affairs

19893.5

La cento chilometri

19597.0

Sins of Rome

19536.1

Christmas at Camp 119

19476.8

At the Edge of the City

19537.0

A Day in the Life

19466.5

Nights of the Teddy Boys

19598.5

From Night to Dawn

19929.0

Il segreto delle tre punte

19527.0

Cavalcata selvaggia

19607.0

Vortice

19538.5

Behind Closed Shutters

19516.8

Sul ponte dei sospiri

19537.0

L'Amore Dopo

1993

I pirati della Malesia

19418.0

Mafia alla sbarra

196310.0

La bestia humana

19576.5

Fatalità

19474.7

Land der Sehnsucht

1950

The Mysterious Mr. Van Eyck

196610.0

La tua donna

19543.3

A Pilot Returns

19425.2

Idoli controluce

196510.0

Fugitive in Trieste

19529.0

La coppia

196910.0

La Bohème

19887.5

The Voracious Ones

19736.0

My Body With Anger

19729.0

Un reietto delle isole

19808.0

Lieutenant Giorgio

19528.0

La trovatella di Pompei

19579.0

Shamed

1947

Disperato addio

195510.0

Der Kardinal - Der Preis der Liebe

20009.0

The Head of a Tyrant

19596.0

La famiglia Brambilla in vacanza

19419.0

L'Ultimo Aereo per Venezia

1977

Dora Nelson

19395.8

Altura

19497.5

Duel Without Honor

19507.0

Le due tigri

194110.0

La carne e l'anima

19459.0

Un bel dì vedremo

19969.0