Fosco Giachetti
Known for
Fame aside, Fosco Giachetti is above all a career actor whose name has been turning up in credits for decades. The role of The Colonel in 'The Conformist' is the one that keeps being brought up. 'The Inheritor' rounds out the better-known part of the filmography. The first screen credit dates from 1933. 93 years of work add up to around 57 titles.
Fosco Giachetti
53 Movies
4 Series
Fame aside, Fosco Giachetti is above all a career actor whose name has been turning up in credits for decades. The role of The Colonel in 'The Conformist' is the one that keeps being brought up. 'The Inheritor' rounds out the better-known part of the filmography. The first screen credit dates from 1933. 93 years of work add up to around 57 titles.
Movies
Plays Mario
Senza cielo
1940
Plays The Colonel
The Conformist
1971
Plays Giulio
Una piccola moglie
1943
Plays Captain Hugh Hardy
The Wastrel
1961
Plays Priamos
The Fury of Achilles
1962
Plays Alberto
Another Man's Wife
1967
Plays Dimitri
The Brothers Karamazov
1947
Plays Laurent Bertal (Italian version)
The Glass Castle
1950
Plays Omar - Nadir's Father
Conqueror of the Orient
1961
Plays Giuseppe Verdi
House of Ricordi
1954
Plays Cap. Vela
The Siege of the Alcazar
1940
Plays General Benito Mesci
Love and Larceny
1960
Plays il cardinal Giovanni de' Medici
L'abito nero da sposa
1945
Plays Antonio
The Virtuous Bigamist
1956
Plays Garosi
The Damned
1947
Plays Harry Peters
The Dream of Butterfly
1939
Plays Luigi Balazzi
The Inheritor
1973
Plays Aulus Gellius
Scipio the African
1971
Plays Abramo
Jacob: The Man Who Fought with God
1963
Plays Dr. Paolo Martini
Life Begins Anew
1945
Plays Voivode
Taras Bulba
1962
Plays Lucero
Condemned to Hang
1953
Plays Capitano Negri
Sentinels of Bronze
1937
Plays Il capitano Santelia
White Squadron
1936
Plays Andrei Taganov
We the Living, Part One
1942
Plays Hauptmann Enrico Berti / Il capitano Enrico Berti
Bengasi
1942
Plays Captain Massinissa
Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal
1937
Plays Javier Navarro (Italian cut)
Carmen and the Reds
1939
Plays João Fernandes de Oliveira
Samba
1965
Plays Domenico
Night of the Storm
1946
Plays Salvatore, fratello di Adele
The Sinner
1940
Plays Cesare
Headlights in the Fog
1942
Plays Giuseppe Verdi
The Life of Giuseppe Verdi
1938
Plays Andrej Taganov
We the Living, Part Two
1942
Plays Andrea Anickoff
A Pistol Shot
1942
Plays Roman Brunet
Nothing
1947
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The Conformist
Full Filmography
The Inheritor
Luigi Balazzi
1973
Film
Scipio the African
Aulus Gellius
1971
Film
The Conformist
The Colonel
1971
Film
Another Man's Wife
Alberto
1967
Film
I racconti del faro
Libero · 6 episodes
1967–
TV
The Count of Monte Cristo
Bertuccio · 8 episodes
1966–
TV
David Copperfield
Daniel Peggotty · 7 episodes
1965–
TV
Samba
João Fernandes de Oliveira
1965
Film
Vita di Michelangelo
Ludovico Buonarroti · 3 episodes
1964–
TV
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Frequently Asked Questions
Is Fosco Giachetti still alive?
Fosco Giachetti passed away on December 22, 1974 at age 74.
What are the most famous roles of Fosco Giachetti?
Fosco Giachetti is best known for roles in The Conformist, The Inheritor, Love and Larceny.
How many movies has Fosco Giachetti been in?
Over a 41-year career (since 1933), Fosco Giachetti has appeared in 53 movies and 4 TV shows.
What was Fosco Giachetti's first movie?
The career of Fosco Giachetti began with Il trattato scomparso (1933).
What is Fosco Giachetti's most recent movie or series?
Fosco Giachetti's most recent release is The Inheritor, which premiered on March 22, 1973.
What TV shows has Fosco Giachetti appeared in?
On television, Fosco Giachetti has appeared in The Count of Monte Cristo, Vita di Michelangelo, David Copperfield, I racconti del faro.
Fosco Giachetti
1900-03-28 · Sesto Fiorentino - Tuscany - Italy
Fosco Giachetti (28 March 1900, in Sesto Fiorentino – 22 December 1974, in Rome) was an Italian actor.
Fosco Giachetti was the protagonist of Lo squadrone bianco (1936), directed by Augusto Genina. He became the leading man in Fascist propaganda films such as Tredici uomini e un cannone (1936), Sentinelle di bronzo (1937), Scipione l'Africano, Edgar Neville's Italian Carmen fra i rossi (1939), L'assedio dell'Alcazar (1940) and Bengasi (1942). In 1942, he also co-starred in Goffredo Alessandrini's two part Noi Vivi and Addio Kira!.
Un colpo di pistola (1942) by Renato Castellani and Fari nella nebbia (1942) by Gianni Franciolini were not as successful as his earlier films.
After the war, he returned to the stage. He worked in Spain with Edgar Neville in Nada and in Carne de horca. He had a supporting role in 1959 Dino Risi's successful comedy Il mattatore. In 1964, he appeared in an adaptation of A. J. Cronin's novel, The Citadel.
In 2003, the Galleria Fosco Giachetti in Sesto Fiorentino was opened in his honor.