Fosco Giachetti
Birthday: Born in 1900-03-28 in Sesto Fiorentino - Tuscany - Italy
Deathday: 1974-12-22
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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I racconti del faro
Character: Libero
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Vita di Michelangelo
Character: Ludovico Buonarroti
A mini series about the great artist's life....
Il Conte di Montecristo
Character: Bertuccio
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David Copperfield
Character: Daniel Peggotty
A young man journeys from a difficult childhood to maturity, exploring social injustice, personal development, and the complexities of human relationships....
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House of Ricordi
Character: Giuseppe Verdi
The film covers a hundred years in the lives of the Ricordi family, the Milan publishing house of the title, and the various composers and other historic personalities, whose careers intersected with the growth of the Ricordi house. It beautifully draws the parallel between the great music of the composers, the historic and social upheavals of their times, as well as the "smaller stories" of the successive generations of Ricordi....
Headlights in the Fog
Character: Cesare
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The Conformist
Character: The Colonel
A weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad to arrange the assassination of his old teacher, now a political dissident....
Ridi pagliaccio
Character:
When she is in jail to defend her colleague, the secretary Anna Alessandri finds out that her man got engaged to another woman....
Nothing
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When young Andrea arrives in Barcelona to begin her university studies, she stays at her aunt Angustias' house, where she lives with several relatives with whom she has constant arguments....
Love and Larceny
Character: General Benito Mesci
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....
The Virtuous Bigamist
Character: Antonio
The Provence, somewhere in the 1950's. Paul Verdier, traveling salesman, leaves his home and his quarrelsome wife for his weekly round. On the train he meets a young woman, Marie, who looks a little lost. No wonder. Marie is pregnant but lacks the customary husband. She's returning to her village but is not exactly looking forward to the confrontation with her parents and the villagers, all pretty conservative people. After getting to know Paul a little better (for which there is ample time duri...
Napoli che non muore
Character: Mario Fusco
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The Inheritor
Character: Luigi Balazzi
After his father is killed in a plane crash, Bart Cordell returns back home to France to claim his inheritance: to lead the industrial empire his father built. But when a prostitute tries to set him up for a drug smuggling charge, he is forced to accept that his father may have been assassinated and that the killers are out to get him as well......
The Damned
Character: Garosi
A group of Nazis and sympathizers board a submarine bound for South America in the hopes of finding shelter....
Another Man's Wife
Character: Alberto
Ana and Andres meet again after many years. They are no longer two youngsters, both are married with children. Andres insists, but Ana has trouble in forgetting what happened long ago, when he left without saying goodbye to go to Paris....
Condemned to Hang
Character: Lucero
Andalusia, Spain, 19th century. The roads are infested with bandits who sow panic among travelers. Although most of them are ruthless killers, Lucero is a true champion of the disinherited....
Samba
Character: João Fernandes de Oliveira
Singer Laura Monteiro (Montiel) is murdered by her old protector João Fernandes de Oliveira (Giachetti), who has found out her love affair with Assis (Carlos Alberto). Favela-girl Belén (also Montiel) is the look-alike who takes her place, unaware she is being used by a gang that smuggles precious stones sewn in Carnival costumes. Written by fabreu...
Senza cielo
Character: Mario
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Heart of Tramp
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When an innocent young woman finds herself abandoned by the proper young man whose child she's had, she is taken in by a troupe of traveling performers....
Scipio the African
Character: Aulio Gellio
Years after the Second Punic War, Scipio Africanus finds himself generally unliked, despite his defeat of Hannibal Barca. He and his brother, Scipio Asiaticus, are accused by Marcus Porcius Cato of the theft of 500 talents intended for Rome....
A Pistol Shot
Character: Andrea Anickoff
Count Anikoff, a Russian officer, challenges his best friend, Sergei, to a duel when he finds him courting the young woman he, too, is in love with. Sergei can't bring himself to kill his friend. He fires only after taking the bullet out of his pistol. Now, it is the Count's turn to fire......
We the Living, Part Two
Character: Andrej Taganov
After having been captured in a Crimea during a failed attempt to flee overseas, Leo returns in Petersburg for Kira....
The Siege of the Alcazar
Character: Cap. Vela
Set during the Spanish civil war, the story of a commander of a fort Alcazar in Toledo, faithful to general Franco....
Labbra serrate
Character: Ruggero D'Anzi
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Carmen and the Reds
Character: Javier Navarro (Italian cut)
Javier Navarro, a Falangist, is ordered to infiltrate Republican Madrid to deliver a message to a member of the Fifth Column....
Sentinels of Bronze
Character: Capitano Negri
A few months before the Ethiopian war. The Abyssinian army lays siege to a fort where the leaders of the tribes loyal to the Italians have taken refuge. The commander of the fort must hold out, and the situation is saved by the heroism of a sergeant who turns the tide of battle with the defeat of the Abyssinians....
White Squadron
Character: Il capitano Santelia
Lieutenant Mario Ludovici, an army officer, gets himself transferred to a Libyan post when his romance with society girl Cristiana goes on the rocks. Ludovici is looked upon as a weakling by Captain Santelia, the hard-boiled commander of the troops, but after a bitter campaign against a rebel tribe Ludovici proves his true worth and returns as commander when Santelia is mortally wounded. Cristiana arrives and tries to entice him to return to Rome, but he decides to stay in Africa with the army....
Jacob: The Man Who Fought with God
Character: Abramo
Biblical figure Jacob is forced to flee for his life when an enraged Esau vows to kill him....
Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal
Character: Captain Massinissa
A story of the Second Punic Wars, beginning with Scipio's futile pleas to the Roman Senate to build an army to battle Hannibal, that climaxes with the battle of Zama....
Una lettera all'alba
Character: Carlo Marini
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Life Begins Anew
Character: Dr. Paolo Martini
A compelling portrayal of postwar Rome...
The Sinner
Character: Salvatore, fratello di Adele
Seduced and abandonned by her fiance, Maria Ferrante leaves home to avoid any scandal. She is trying to find work and place to stay but one misfortune after another comes into her life Venice Film Festival 1940...
Crossroads of Passion
Character: Toniani
Lisbon, the capital of Neutral Portugal, is a hotbed of spies. Mario, a cabaret singer working for the Allies is responsible for the death of an Italian agent. His widow Irène heads to Portugal and in her desire for revenge she agrees to work for the Nazis....
Plains of Battle
Character: Voivode
Despite the disagreement of their mother, the sons of old Taras Bulba are taken to the Dnieper camp on their return from a Kiev seminary, to teach them how to become real Cossacks....
Romanticismo
Character: Tito Ansperti
Drama set in Milan in 1858. Dr. Antonio Ansperti from Como, implicated in the clandestine activities of the Young Italy revolutionary movement, is arrested by the Austrian authorities. After a trial he is sentenced to death and executed, in spite of efforts by his countryman Count Lamberti to intervene on his behalf with the Governor of Milan....
Conqueror of the Orient
Character: Omar - Nadir's Father
Centuries ago in the Orient, the fiscal exactions on the people lead to a revolt against the usurper of the throne, and the empowerment of a new leader....
The Fury of Achilles
Character: Priamos
In the tenth year of the Trojan War, tensions between Achilles and Agamemnon divide the Greek camp while giving hope to the Trojans....
The Life of Giuseppe Verdi
Character: Giuseppe Verdi
The great Italian opera composer recalls his eventful life on his deathbed: his childhood in Busseto, his studies in Milan, his first opera "Oberto, conte di San Bonifacio", the death of his wife and his children killed by smallpox....
The Glass Castle
Character: Laurent Bertal (Italian version)
Evelyne, a judge's young wife, falls in love with Rémy while vacationing in Italy. Upon returning home, she must decide between telling her husband and continuing to see Rémy....
Bengasi
Character: Hauptmann Enrico Berti / Il capitano Enrico Berti
The film is set in 1941 during the Second World War, when the city of Benghazi in Italian-ruled Libya was occupied by British forces. Italian inhabitants of Benghazi work to resist the British and discover their military plans. One man, Captain Enrico Berti, appears to be collaborating with the British but is in fact working undercover for Italian intelligence. The film ends with the city being recaptured by Italian troops and their Nazi German allies....
Notte di tempesta
Character: Domenico
The story is taken from the drama "I Pescatori" (The Fishermen) by Raffaele Viviani, and is set in a fishing island off the coast of Naples (clearly identifiable with Ischia). Here lives Concetta, a widow with two children, who now lives with another man who however secretly lusts after his stepdaughter until when, on a stormy night......
L'amante segreta
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Scorned Flesh
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A sailor, Paolo, falls in love with a girl named Luisa. The two decides to get married, but on the day of the marriage the woman is involved in a serious car accident....
Four Women
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The entrance of a woman in a café where, gathered by chance, four men play cards, brings to the mind of each of them the memory of their past love experiences....
The Woman of Monte Carlo
Character: Giorgio Duclos
An adventuress serves as bait for a swindler, who robs the naive people she brings to him with poker. A childhood friend helps him....
The Dream of Butterfly
Character: Harry Peters
Italian filmmaker Carmine Gallone was still in his "operetta" mode when he helmed 1938's Il Sogno di Butterfly (Dream of the Butterfly) Maria Cebotari plays opera diva Rosa Belloni, currently starring in a production of Puccini's Madama Butterfly. The plot thickens when Rosa's backstage life begins to mirror the travails of the character she is portraying. The climax comes when Harry Peters (Fosco Giachetti), the American father of Rosa's illegitimate child, returns after four years with his new...
L'abito nero da sposa
Character: il cardinal Giovanni de' Medici
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Fear No Evil
Character: Benedetto
The life of Saint Benedict, the founder of Western Monasticism....
La figlia del corsaro verde
Character: Carlos de la Riva
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Farewell, My Beautiful Naples
Character: Carlo Sanna
In Naples, a local composer falls in love with an American tourist....
Luce nelle tenebre
Character: Alberto Serrani
Alberto Serrani, a mining engineer, meets doctor's daughter Marina, sweet and simple, and the notorious and frivolous Clara who falls for him immediately....
We the Living, Part One
Character: Andrei Taganov
At 18, the beautiful and intelligent Kira comes to Petersburg as the Communists consolidate power. She rebuffs a cousin who rises in the Party and may remember the slight. She falls in love with Leo, the son of an aristocrat, who gets into political trouble and never gets out....
Un uomo facile
Character: Doctor boxing
The changing fortunes of two boxers are explored in this interesting drama by Paolo Heusch, seen from the point of view of the women the boxers love. One of the pugilists is a rookie on the rise and his sister has married the reigning champion. Now the champ is getting older and less able to hold his own against the newcomers -- including his brother-in-law. As his fortunes begin to decline, his wife whom he married while affluent is slowly forced to deal with the difficulties of poverty. This I...
The Nun of Monza
Character: Monsignor Barca
Virginia de Leyva, daughter of a Spanish Lord, becomes a nun in Monza, in 1600s. She becomes very strict with herself and the students until she's unable to resist a romance with the nobleman Gian Paolo Osio which will lead both to danger....
The Brothers Karamazov
Character: Dimitri
When a tragedy strikes father Fyodor Karamazov, the wretched relation with his three sons reveals itself surrounded by intrigue, envy and deceit....
The Counterfeiters
Character: Ispettore Moroni
Producers of phony currency become the object of a crackdown by law enforcement agencies....
Taras Bulba
Character: Voivode
Italian adaptation of the historical novella of the same name by Nikolai Gogol....
The Wastrel
Character: Captain Hugh Hardy
A wealthy and self-serving man, sets out on a perilous ocean voyage with his son. An unexpected incident with the vessel causes him to reflect on his not so perfect life....
Quattro rose rosse
Character: Antonio Berti
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La notte dell'innominato
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On the night of Lucia's kidnapping, the Unnamed revisits his life. Many years earlier a caravan of Andalusian gypsies arrived at the gates of Milan. Among these were Esteban with his mother, his fiancée Maria Dolores, and the latter's sister, Carmencita who, in love with Esteban, resorts to every means to hinder the wedding. In a scuffle she caused, her sister was killed by thugs. The gypsies' wagons are destroyed and the few survivors, including Esteban and his mother, are forced to flee. Carme...
Re Lear
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An old king believes he can retire to private life, leaving his kingdom in the hands of his daughters. The two older ones don't take long to take over everything and reduce their father to a poor tramp. But the third daughter who married the king of France comes to the rescue. After a furious battle, a hecatomb takes place. Lear dies and with him his whole dynasty....
L'avvocato difensore
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