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Fosco Giachetti

Acting Born Mar 28, 1900 Sesto Fiorentino - Tuscany - Italy 24 credits

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.

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Known for

Film

The Conformist

as The Colonel

Vita di Michelangelo

as Ludovico Buonarroti

The Count of Monte Cristo

as Bertuccio

Full filmography

  • The Conformist (1971) as The Colonel
  • David Copperfield (1965) as Daniel Peggotty
  • The Life of Giuseppe Verdi (1938) as Giuseppe Verdi
  • Vita di Michelangelo (1964) as Ludovico Buonarroti
  • Il Conte di Montecristo (1966) as Bertuccio
  • The Glass Castle (1950) as Laurent Bertal (Italian version)
  • The Inheritor (1973) as Luigi Balazzi
  • The Fury of Achilles (1962) as Priamos
  • Scipio the African (1971) as Aulio Gellio
  • The Damned (1947) as Garosi
  • The Dream of Butterfly (1939) as Harry Peters
  • Condemned to Hang (1953) as Lucero
  • The Virtuous Bigamist (1956) as Antonio
  • Love and Larceny (1960) as General Benito Mesci
  • House of Ricordi (1954) as Giuseppe Verdi
  • Nothing (1947)
  • The Woman of Monte Carlo (1938) as Giorgio Duclos
  • Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal (1937) as Captain Massinissa
  • Jacob: The Man Who Fought with God (1963) as Abramo
  • Carmen and the Reds (1939) as Javier Navarro (Italian cut)
  • I racconti del faro (1967) as Libero
  • Crossroads of Passion (1948) as Toniani
  • The Nun of Monza (1962) as Monsignor Barca
  • Quinta colonna (1966) as Il maggiore Stone