Massimo Girotti
May 18, 1918 — Jan 5, 2003 (84 years)
Mogliano, Macerata, Italy
92 Movies
8 Series
A career spanning 87+ years and 100+ titles makes Massimo Girotti one of the trade's long-distance runners. his Marcel in 'Last Tango in Paris' ranks among the most remembered of his filmography. Drama has been his most frequent territory.
84R.I.P.
92Movies
8Series
Massimo Girotti
92 Movies
8 Series
A career spanning 87+ years and 100+ titles makes Massimo Girotti one of the trade's long-distance runners. his Marcel in 'Last Tango in Paris' ranks among the most remembered of his filmography. Drama has been his most frequent territory.
84 R.I.P.
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92
Movies
8
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Movies
Last Tango in Paris
1972
Passion of Love
1981
Mr. Klein
1976
The French Revolution
1989
Theorem
1968
Lost Youth
1948
Baron Blood
1972
The Monster
1994
The Berlin Affair
1985
Saranno uomini
1957
Imperial Venus
1962
The Red Tent
1969
The Innocent
1976
Facing Windows
2003
The Shortest Day
1963
Senso
1954
Romulus and Remus
1961
The Witches
1967
It Happened in Rome
1957
Obsession
1943
Marco the Magnificent
1965
Art of Love
1983
Marguerite of the Night
1955
Affairs
1989
Letters of a Novice
1960
Story of a Love Affair
1950
The Love of a Woman
1953
The Giants of Thessaly
1960
The Sisters
1969
Stateline Motel
1973
Asphalt
1959
Herod the Great
1959
Rome 11:00
1952
And Agnes Chose To Die
1976
Mark Shoots First
1975
Apparizione
1943
Difficult Years
1948
Medea
1969
At the Edge of the City
1953
The Suspicious Death of a Minor
1975
Leathernose
1952
Desire
1946
In the Name of the Law
1949
Woman Trouble
1948
Tragic Hunt
1947
A Pilot Returns
1942
Listen, Let's Make Love
1968
The Kiss
1974
The Iron Crown
1941
Gold for the Caesars
1963
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Simone / Davide Veroli
2003
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The Monster
il condomino distinto
1994
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From Night to Dawn
Vergiotti
1992
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Der Erfolg ihres Lebens
Le comte di Falco
1990
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The French Revolution
L'envoyé du Pape (« Les Années Lumière »)
1989
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The French Revolution
Envoyé du Pape
1989
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Affairs
Count Valery Du Terrail
1989
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La Bohème
The Old Pretender / Featuring
1988
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Der Ochsenkrieg
Someier
1987
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Is Massimo Girotti still alive?
Massimo Girotti passed away on January 5, 2003 at age 84.
What are the most famous roles of Massimo Girotti?
Massimo Girotti is best known for roles in Last Tango in Paris, The Monster, Theorem.
How many movies has Massimo Girotti been in?
Over a 64-year career (since 1939), Massimo Girotti has appeared in 102 movies and 8 TV shows.
What was Massimo Girotti's first movie?
The career of Massimo Girotti began with Dora Nelson (1939).
What is Massimo Girotti's most recent movie or series?
Massimo Girotti's most recent release is Facing Windows, which premiered on February 27, 2003.
What TV shows has Massimo Girotti appeared in?
On television, Massimo Girotti has appeared in Quo Vadis?, Il segno del comando, Christopher Columbus, Der Ochsenkrieg.
Massimo Girotti
1918-05-18 · Mogliano, Macerata, Italy
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).
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