About
Massimo Girotti (18 May 1918 – 5 January 2003) was an Italian film actor whose career spanned seven decades. Born in Mogliano, in the province of Macerata, Girotti developed his athletic physique by swimming and playing polo. While studying engineering, he attracted the attention of Mario Soldati, who offered him a small part in the film Dora Nelson (1939), but it was not until later, in Alessandro Blasetti's La corona di ferro (The Iron Crown) (1941) and Roberto Rossellini's Un Pilota ritorna (A Pilot Returns) (1942), that he began to make an impression as a serious actor. In 1943 came a turning point in his career when Luchino Visconti cast him opposite the torrid Clara Calamai in Ossessione (Obsession), an earlier adaptation of the same novel on which Hollywood's The Postman Always Rings Twice is based. The film marked, in a sense, the birth of Italian neo-realism. Some of his...
Known for
Last Tango in ParisMovie • 1972
The InnocentMovie • 1976
Mr. KleinMovie • 1976
ObsessionMovie • 1943
Facing WindowsMovie • 2003
SensoMovie • 1954
TheoremMovie • 1968
Romulus and RemusMovie • 1961
The French RevolutionMovie • 1989
The Red TentMovie • 1969
The MonsterMovie • 1994
MedeaMovie • 1969
The WitchesMovie • 1967
The Berlin AffairMovie • 1985
Story of a Love AffairMovie • 1950
Baron BloodMovie • 1972
Passion of LoveMovie • 1981
The Shortest DayMovie • 1963
The Suspicious Death of a MinorMovie • 1975
The Iron CrownMovie • 1941
In the Name of the LawMovie • 1949
Rome 11:00Movie • 1952
Difficult YearsMovie • 1948