Massimo Girotti
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PERSONAL DATA OF MASSIMO GIROTTI
Born in: MOGLIANO (Macerata)
Born on: 18/05/1918
He dies at: ROME
He dies on: 06/01/2003
BIOGRAPHY OF MASSIMO GIROTTI
Actor. From the Marches, a small swimming champion, he enrolled at the University where he studied law until he was chosen for a small part in Mario Soldati’s film “Dora Nelson” (1939). It is however, with “La corona di ferro” (1941, by Alessandro Blasetti) that he asserted himself overwhelmingly as the ‘new beauty’ of Italian cinema. After all, the dilemma ‘better or more beautiful?’ will accompany him throughout his career, which lasted over sixty years and characterized by interpretations in about one hundred films. After his debut, he acts with Roberto Rossellini (“The Pilot returns” and “Desiderio”) and, immediately after, he meets Luchino Visconti, who entrusts him with the role of the protagonist in “Ossessione” (1943). Immediately after the end of the Second World War he confirmed himself as a reliable and talented actor in “Caccia tragica” (1946, by Giuseppe De Santis) and in “In the name of the law” (1949, by Pietro Germi). The post-war period was undoubtedly his best period: he worked, in fact, with Michelangelo Antonioni (“Cronaca di un amore”, 1950), Giuseppe De Santis (“A husband for Anna Zaccheo”, 1953) and, above all, with Luchino Visconti in “Senso” (1954) one of his greatest hits. As the years go by, he falls back on increasingly ordinary roles, confirming that his best period has probably passed. Despite this, he acts with Lizzani, Bolognini, and Cottafavi. At the end of the Sixties he experiences a new, brief, golden period with Pier Paolo Pasolini, who values it in “Teorema” (1968) and then in “Medea” (1970). Two years later Bernardo Bertolucci entrusted him with the part of the lover in “Last Tango in Paris” (1972). At the turn of the seventies and eighties he alternates film interpretations with television shows. In recent years, several directors of the new generation had started looking for him again, including Roberto Benigni (“The monster”). He died of a heart attack at the Policlinico di Roma, where he was hospitalized. He had worked until a few weeks before his death, on the set of the film ‘The front window’, by Ferzan Ozpetek, which earned him the David di Donatello 2003 (posthumously) as best actor.
THE MOST RECENT FILMS BY MASSIMO GIROTTI
The front window
Role: Actor
Year: 2003
The Cardinal (Der Kardinal – Der Preis der Liebe)
Role: Actor
Year: 2000
Luchino Visconti
Role: Actor
Year: 1999
One fine day we’ll see
Role: Actor
Year: 1996 Go to the complete Filmography
THE MOST RECURRING GENRES OF MASSIMO GIROTTI
Drama: 59% Comedy: 10% Adventure: 8% Historical: 3%
RECENT ROLES INTERPRETED BY MASSIMO GIROTTI
| Movie | Role |
|---|---|
The front window | David |
The cardinal | Donated |
Luchino Visconti | Himself |
The monster | The distinguished tenant |
Love after | Ing. Staino |
From night to dawn | Vergiotti |
La Boheme | The Sir |
REBUS | Count Valery Du Terrail |
Berlin interior | Werner Von Heiden |
Ars Amandi – The art of loving | Publius Ovid |
PASSION OF LOVE | Colonel |
Who is Mr. Klein? | Charles |
Agnes goes to die | Palita |
The innocent | Count Egano |
Mark the cop fires first | Chief Commissioner |
The kiss | Duke Dazzi |
The last chance | Fred Norton |
Last Tango in Paris | Marcel |
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