Terence Hill

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 longtime film partner and friend Bud Spencer During the height of his popularity Hill was among Italys highestpaid 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 costarring Henry Fonda Hill also went on to a successful television career in Italy most notably playing the title character in the longrunning Rai 1 series Don Matteo from 2000 until 2022 Hill was born on 29 March 1939 in Venice Italy Hills 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 Risis 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 damore 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 OConnor 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 CCBYSA