Fosco Giachetti
Born: 1900-03-28 in Sesto Fiorentino - Tuscany - Italy
Died: 1974-12-22
Known For: Acting
Biography
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.
Filmography
1973
- The Inheritor as Luigi Balazzi
1971
- The Conformist as The Colonel
- Scipio the African as Aulio Gellio
1967
- Another Man's Wife as Alberto
- I racconti del faro as Libero
1966
- Il Conte di Montecristo as Bertuccio
1965
- David Copperfield as Daniel Peggotty
- Samba as João Fernandes de Oliveira
1964
- Vita di Michelangelo as Ludovico Buonarroti
1963
- Jacob: The Man Who Fought with God as Abramo
- Giacobbe ed Esau as Isacco - Isaac
1962
- Plains of Battle as Voivode
- The Fury of Achilles as Priamos
- Taras Bulba as Voivode
- The Nun of Monza as Monsignor Barca
- La notte dell'innominato
1961
- The Wastrel as Captain Hugh Hardy
- Conqueror of the Orient as Omar - Nadir's Father
1960
- Re Lear
- Love and Larceny as General Benito Mesci
1959
- Un uomo facile as Doctor boxing
1956
- The Virtuous Bigamist as Antonio
1954
- House of Ricordi as Giuseppe Verdi
1953
- Condemned to Hang as Lucero
1952
- Quattro rose rosse as Antonio Berti
1951
- The Counterfeiters as Ispettore Moroni
1950
- The Glass Castle as Laurent Bertal (Italian version)
1949
- Vento d'Africa
- Romanticismo as Tito Ansperti
1948
- Una lettera all'alba as Carlo Marini
- Crossroads of Passion as Toniani
1947
- Four Women
- The Damned as Garosi
- Nothing
- The Brothers Karamazov as Dimitri
- L'altra as Pianista Marco de Santis
1946
- Notte di tempesta as Domenico
- Farewell, My Beautiful Naples as Carlo Sanna
1945
- L'abito nero da sposa as il cardinal Giovanni de' Medici
- Life Begins Anew as Dr. Paolo Martini
- Fear No Evil as Benedetto
1943
1942
- Labbra serrate as Ruggero D'Anzi
- We the Living, Part One as Andrei Taganov
- Bengasi as Hauptmann Enrico Berti / Il capitano Enrico Berti
- Headlights in the Fog as Cesare
- We the Living, Part Two as Andrej Taganov
- A Pistol Shot as Andrea Anickoff
1941
- Ridi pagliaccio
- L'amante segreta
- Luce nelle tenebre as Alberto Serrani
1940
- La figlia del corsaro verde as Carlos de la Riva
- Senza cielo as Mario
- The Siege of the Alcazar as Cap. Vela
- The Sinner as Salvatore, fratello di Adele
1939
- Carmen and the Reds as Javier Navarro (Italian cut)
- The Dream of Butterfly as Harry Peters
- Napoli che non muore as Mario Fusco
1938
- The Life of Giuseppe Verdi as Giuseppe Verdi
- The Woman of Monte Carlo as Giorgio Duclos
1937
- Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal as Captain Massinissa
- Sentinels of Bronze as Capitano Negri
1936
- Heart of Tramp
- Fiordalisi d'oro as Conte Andrea di Beaulieu
- White Squadron as Il capitano Santelia
1933
- Il trattato scomparso as Raythan