Massimo Girotti

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Role

Actor

Date of birth

05/18/1918

Date of death

01/05/2003

Place of birth

Mogliano, Marche, Italy

Also known as

Массимо Джиротти

Massimo Girotti

Biography

Manly, chiseled, exceedingly handsome, very agile Massimo Girotti was an engineering student and polo/swimming star before entering films in 1939. He began auspiciously in serious leads, most notably Roberto Rossellini's Desire (1946), Luchino Visconti's Obsession (1943) and Vittorio De Sica's The Gates of Heaven (1945), while his physical stature and all-round athletism were put to good use in actioneers such as Spartaco (1953) in which he played the pre-Kirk Douglas slave-turned-leader role of Spartacus. By the 60s, however, Girotti was reduced to support roles in swashbuckling adventure and badly-dubbed sand-and-spear spectacles, appearing only occasionally in well-mounted films of quality, such as Pier Paolo Pasolini's Teorema (1968), Bernardo Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris (1972) and Visconti's The Innocent (1976). He died only a few weeks before the release of his last film, Ferzan Özpetek's Facing Windows (2003).

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Role: Marcel
Teorema

Teorema

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Role: Paolo
Facing Windows

Facing Windows

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Role: Simone
The Monster

The Monster

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Role: Distinguished Resident
Mr. Klein

Mr. Klein

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Role: Charles - le mari de Florence
Senso

Senso

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Role: Il marchese Roberto Ussoni
Obsession

Obsession

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Role: Gino Costa
Medea

Medea

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Role: Creonte
The Innocent

The Innocent

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Role: Count Stefano Egano
Baron Blood

Baron Blood

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Role: Dr. Karl Hummel
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Role: Guido Garroni
The Red Tent

The Red Tent

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Role: Giuseppe Romagna Manoja
The Witches

The Witches

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Role: Sportsman (segment "La Strega Bruciata Viva")
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Role: L'envoyé du Pape (segment "Anées Lumière, Les")
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Role: Gaudenzio Pesce
Passion of Love

Passion of Love

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Role: Colonel
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Role: Re Tazio
Rome 11:00

Rome 11:00

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Role: Nando
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