Massimo Girotti

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Massimo Girotti
Massimo Girotti in the movie Ossessione (1943)
Born(1918-05-18)18 May 1918
Mogliano, Macerata, Kingdom of Italy
Died5 January 2003(2003-01-05) (aged 84)
Rome, Italy
Height1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
SpouseMarcella Girotti

Massimo Girotti (18 May 1918 – 5 January 2003) was an Italian film actor whose career spanned seven decades.[1]

Biography

Born in

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

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

(The Monster) (1994).

He died in Rome of a heart attack after having just completed his last film,

La Finestra di fronte
(Facing Windows) (2003).

Selected filmography

Roma ore 11

References

  1. ^ Francis Lane, John (7 January 2003). "Obituary: Massimo Girotti". The Guardian. Retrieved 2013-05-04.

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