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Fosco Giachetti is a Actor Italien born on 28 march 1900 at Sesto Fiorentino (Italie)

Fosco Giachetti

Fosco Giachetti
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Nationality Italie
Birth 28 march 1900 at Sesto Fiorentino (Italie)
Death 22 december 1974 (at 74 years) at Rome (Italie)

Fosco Giachetti (28 March 1900, Sesto Fiorentino – 22 December 1974, 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.

Biography

Il était la grande vedette du cinéma fasciste mussolinien.

Best films

The Damned (1947)
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Filmography of Fosco Giachetti (49 films)

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The Inheritor, 1h52
Directed by Alain Payet, Bernard Queysanne, Philippe Labro
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Actors Jean-Paul Belmondo, Carla Gravina, Charles Denner, Jean Rochefort, Jean Desailly, Jean Martin
Roles Luigi Balazzi
Rating62% 3.148533.148533.148533.148533.14853
Hugo Cordell, grand patron de la presse et de l'industrie, trouve la mort dans l'explosion de son avion, entre Genève et Paris. L'examen des débris de l'appareil ne permet pas d'établir avec certitude les causes de l'accident.
The Conformist, 1h56
Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci
Origin Italie
Genres Drama
Themes Politique, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Political films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Jean-Louis Trintignant, Stefania Sandrelli, Dominique Sanda, Gastone Moschin, Pierre Clémenti, Fosco Giachetti
Roles The Colonel
Rating78% 3.947673.947673.947673.947673.94767
The film opens with Marcello Clerici (Jean-Louis Trintignant) in Paris finalizing preparations to assassinate his former college professor, Luca Quadri (Enzo Tarascio). It frequently returns to the interior of a car driven by Manganiello (Gastone Moschin) as the two of them pursue the professor and his wife.
Scipio the African, 1h54
Directed by Luigi Magni
Origin Italie
Genres Comedy, Historical
Themes Political films
Actors Marcello Mastroianni, Silvana Mangano, Vittorio Gassman, Philippe Hersent, Ruggero Mastroianni, Turi Ferro
Roles Aulio Gellio
Rating66% 3.336163.336163.336163.336163.33616
During the Second Punic War, the commander Scipio Africanus is in crisis because the Roman army can not defeat the many legions Carthaginian Hannibal Barca. Teaming with his brother Scipio Asiaticus, Africanus manages to destroy the troops of Hannibal at Zama and avincere the war. When he returns triumphant to Rome realizes that has been manipulated like a puppet by the consul Marcus Porcius Cato, called "the Censor". Scipio, disgusted by the poor Roman politics, he withdraws from his rank of general, while Cato plans to destroy a third war with the cursed city of Carthage.
Samba
Samba (1965)
, 1h46
Directed by Rafael Gil
Origin Bresil
Genres Comedy
Themes Musical films
Actors Sara Montiel, Fosco Giachetti, Marc Michel, Eliezer Gomes, Antônio Pitanga
Roles João Fernandes de Oliveira
Rating61% 3.066513.066513.066513.066513.06651
Plains of Battle, 1h36
Origin France
Genres Action, Historical
Actors Jean-François Poron, Lorella De Luca, Fosco Giachetti, Erno Crisa, Sylvia Sorrente, Mirko Ellis
Roles Voïvode
Rating67% 3.3552653.3552653.3552653.3552653.355265
Tarass Boulba, chef des Cosaques Zaporogues(orthodoxes) refuse que ses fils soient emmenés en otages à Cracovie auprès du roi de Pologne(catholique). Il les fait revenir de Kiev, où ils étudiaient, à la Setch (campement cosaque), et les provoque en combat singulier au cours d'une grande fête qui tourne à l'orgie. Mais à Kiev, André, son jeune fils est tombé passionnément amoureux de Nadia, la fille du Voïvode polonais. Les chefs cosaques refusent de payer le tribut au roi de Pologne déclenchent différentes attaques contre les Tartares, et les Polonais. Ceux-ci tentent d'assassiner Tarass, défendu par son fils, il est sauvé. Mais les Tartares enlèvent André qu'ils livrent au Voïvode à Doubno.
The Fury of Achilles, 1h58
Directed by Marino Girolami
Genres Drama, War, Action, Adventure, Historical, Romance
Actors Gordon Mitchell, Jacques Bergerac, Cristina Gaioni, Piero Lulli, Gloria Milland, Fosco Giachetti
Roles Priamos
Rating57% 2.8574752.8574752.8574752.8574752.857475
Care fellow Greeks to Troy, since the prince Paris has abducted the Spartan Princess Helen, wife of Menelaus. In the fighting stands the invincible hero Achilles, who leads his Myrmidons to assault. Now in the tenth year of the war, Troy has not yet been destroyed. For the contention of a slave, Agamemnon, king of the Greeks offends Achilles because a female slave and the hero withdraws from the war, creating confusion in the army. The Trojans in fact have the opportunity to drive out the Greeks at sea and so Patroclus, Achilles best friend wears, without the knowledge of Achilles, his divine armor to instill courage in the soldiers Myrmidons. But Patroclus is killed by the Trojan prince Hector: Achilles rages, killing many Trojans, including the same Hector.
Love and Larceny, 1h35
Directed by Dino Risi
Origin Italie
Genres Comedy
Themes Escroquerie
Actors Vittorio Gassman, Dorian Gray, Peppino De Filippo, Anna Maria Ferrero, Mario Carotenuto, Alberto Bonucci
Roles General Benito Mesci
Rating70% 3.541053.541053.541053.541053.54105
Gerardo, an aspiring actor, trying unsuccessfully to cross over from comedy to tragedy, is involved, due to his ability to mimic dialects of Italy, in a scam concocted by Lallo against a rich cloth-merchant. His inexperience means that he is the only one to be arrested and sentenced to several months in prison, where he encounters a vast array of petty criminals, devoted primarily to scams of various kinds. He befriends Chinotto, a con man for whom the doors of the prisons are like "revolving doors of a large hotel."
Goliath and the Barbarians, 1h40
Directed by Romolo Guerrieri, Carlo Campogalliani, Sergio Bergonzelli
Origin France
Genres Action, Adventure, Peplum
Actors Steve Reeves, Bruce Cabot, Giulia Rubini, Andrea Checchi, Arturo Dominici, Livio Lorenzon
Roles Giovanni
Rating56% 2.8045152.8045152.8045152.8045152.804515
Set in the 6th century, it follows the start of the Barbarian invasions and deals with one group that attacks a village and destroys anything that is there. One man, Emiliano, is left, and he swears revenge and wages a one man war against the evil tribes. He also is helped by the survivors and Landa, the daughter of the tribal leader.
The Virtuous Bigamist, 1h37
Directed by Mario Soldati
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Fernandel, Giulia Rubini, Fosco Giachetti, Alberto Sordi, Leda Gloria, Renato Salvatori
Roles Antonio
Rating64% 3.2232053.2232053.2232053.2232053.223205
Paul Verdier est un modeste représentant en chocolaterie qui n'a pas trouvé en son épouse la femme idéale. Acariâtre, en permanence de mauvaise humeur et menant la maison et les affaires à la baguette, Juliette a pourtant trouvé en Paul le mari idéal, aimable, fidèle et travailleur. Puis, le hasard va le mettre, au cours de ses tournées, dans une situation plutôt équivoque : une jeune inconnue va lui demander de se faire passer pour son mari afin qu'elle puisse en toute quiétude regagner sa ferme natale. Le timide représentant, d'abord surpris, finit par consentir. D'abord, tout se passe à merveille, un grand repas a lieu, les voisins et le curé accourent. Le lendemain après que Paul ait dormi seul dans la grange la supercherie est découverte, mais le pardon arrive vite. Paul gardera le souvenir de sa bonne action et de la tendre Marie.
House of Ricordi, 1h50
Directed by Nanni Loy, Carmine Gallone
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Historical, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about classical music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Danièle Delorme, Roland Alexandre, Micheline Presle, Myriam Bru, Marcello Mastroianni, Elisa Cegani
Roles Giuseppe Verdi
Rating61% 3.0933053.0933053.0933053.0933053.093305
Le film raconte l'histoire - quelque peu romancée - de Giovanni Ricordi, qui peu à peu acquiert les partitions des plus grands compositeurs de son temps (Donizetti, Bellini, Puccini, Rossini, Verdi…) et fonde la maison d'édition musicale « Casa Ricordi ».