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 Aulus Gellius
1967
- I racconti del faro as Libero
- Another Man's Wife as Alberto
1966
- The Count of Monte Cristo as Bertuccio
- Quinta colonna as Il maggiore Stone
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
- The Fury of Achilles as Priamos
- Taras Bulba as Voivode
- The Nun of Monza as Monsignor Barca
- Plains of Battle as Voivode
- La notte dell'innominato
1961
- Conqueror of the Orient as Omar - Nadir's Father
- The Wastrel as Captain Hugh Hardy
1960
- Love and Larceny as General Benito Mesci
- Re Lear
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
- Romanticismo as Tito Ansperti
- Vento d'Africa
1948
- Crossroads of Passion as Toniani
- Una lettera all'alba as Carlo Marini
1947
- The Damned as Garosi
- The Brothers Karamazov as Dimitri
- Nothing as Roman Brunet
- L'altra as Pianista Marco de Santis
- Four Women
1946
- Farewell, My Beautiful Naples as Carlo Sanna
- Night of the Storm as Domenico
1945
- L'abito nero da sposa as il cardinal Giovanni de' Medici
- Fear No Evil as Benedetto
- Life Begins Anew as Dr. Paolo Martini
1943
- Una piccola moglie as Giulio
- Scorned Flesh as Paolo Vieri
1942
- A Pistol Shot as Andrea Anickoff
- We the Living, Part Two as Andrej Taganov
- We the Living, Part One as Andrei Taganov
- Bengasi as Hauptmann Enrico Berti / Il capitano Enrico Berti
- Headlights in the Fog as Cesare
- Labbra serrate as Ruggero D'Anzi
1941
- Luce nelle tenebre as Alberto Serrani
- L'amante segreta
- Ridi pagliaccio
1940
- The Siege of the Alcazar as Cap. Vela
- Senza cielo as Mario
- La figlia del corsaro verde as Carlos de la Riva
- The Sinner as Salvatore, fratello di Adele
1939
- The Dream of Butterfly as Harry Peters
- Napoli che non muore as Mario Fusco
- Carmen and the Reds as Javier Navarro (Italian cut)
1938
- Pride as Alberto Celoria
- The Woman of Monte Carlo as Giorgio Duclos
- The Life of Giuseppe Verdi as Giuseppe Verdi
1937
- Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal as Captain Massinissa
- Sentinels of Bronze as Capitano Negri
1936
- Luci sommerse as Lord Spider
- Heart of Tramp
- White Squadron as Il capitano Santelia
- Fiordalisi d'oro as Conte Andrea di Beaulieu
1933
- Il trattato scomparso as Raythan