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Fosco Giachetti
Actor
Born March 28, 1900Died December 22, 1974 (74 years)
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.
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.
Known For
Filmography
| 1973 | The Inheritor · as Luigi Balazzi |
| 1971 | Scipio the African (1971) · as Aulio Gellio |
| 1970 | The Conformist · as The Colonel |
| 1969 | I fratelli Karamazov (TV Series) · as Kuz'mà Kuz'mic |
| 1968 | The boys of Father Tobia (TV Series) · as De Robbia |
| 1968 | Le mie prigioni (TV Series) · as Il Barone Von Münch |
| 1967 | La mujer de otro · as Alberto |
| 1967 | I racconti del faro (TV Series) · as Libero |
| 1967 | The fiancés (TV Series) · as Il Principe Padre |
| 1966 | The Count of Monte Cristo (1966) (TV Series) · as Bertuccio |
| 1965 | David Copperfield (TV Series) · as Daniel Peggotty |
| 1965 | Samba · as João Fernandes De Oliveira |
| 1964 | Vita di Michelangelo (TV Series) · as Ludovico Buonarroti |
| 1964 | The Little Town (TV Series) · as Prof. Gadsby |
| 1963 | Paul Claudel · as Annio Vercors |
| 1963 | Giacobbe, l'uomo che lottò con Dio · as Abramo |
| 1962 | Fury of Achilles · as Priamos |
| 1962 | Taras Bulba, the Cossack · as Voivode |
| 1961 | The Wastrel · as Captain Hugh Hardy |
| 1960 | The Conqueror of the Orient · as Omar - Nadir's Father |
| 1960 | Love and Larceny · as General Benito Mesci |
| 1956 | The Virtuous Bigamist · as Antonio |
| 1954 | House of Ricordi · as Giuseppe Verdi |
| 1953 | Carne de horca · as Lucero |
| 1950 | The Glass Castle · as Laurent Bertal (italian Version) |
| 1948 | Crossroads of Passion · as Toniani |
| 1947 | Nada · as Román Brunet |
| 1947 | The Damned · as Garosi |
| 1946 | Notte di tempesta · as Domenico |
| 1945 | Life Begins Anew · as Dr. Paolo Martini |
| 1945 | Fear No Evil · as Benedetto |
| 1942 | Addio Kira! · as Andrej Taganov |
| 1942 | We the Living · as Andrei Taganov |
| 1942 | Bengasi · as Hauptmann Enrico Berti / Il Capitano Enrico Berti |
| 1942 | A Pistol Shot · as Andrea Anickoff |
| 1942 | Fari nella nebbia · as Cesare |
| 1941 | Nozze di sangue · as Gidda |
| 1941 | |
| 1940 | La figlia del corsaro verde · as Carlos De La Riva |
| 1940 | The Sinner · as Salvatore, Fratello Di Adele |
| 1940 | The Siege of the Alcazar · as Cap. Vela |
| 1939 | Carmen fra i rossi · as Javier Navarro (italian Cut) |
| 1939 | The Dream of Butterfly · as Harry Peters |
| 1938 | The Life of Giuseppe Verdi · as Giuseppe Verdi |
| 1937 | Sentinels of Bronze · as Capitano Negri |
| 1937 | Scipione l'africano · as Captain Massinissa |
| 1936 | Lo squadrone bianco · as Il Capitano Santelia |