Terence Hill
Acting
Born: March 29, 1939 (age 87) · Venice, Veneto, Kingdom of Italy [Now Italy]
Highest Rated
Biography
Terence Hill (born Mario Girotti; 29 March 1939) is an Italian actor, film director, screenwriter and film producer. He began his career as a child actor and gained international fame for starring roles in action and comedy films, many with his long-time film partner and friend Bud Spencer. During the height of his popularity, Hill was among Italy's highest-paid actors. His most widely seen films include comic and standard spaghetti Westerns, some based on popular novels by German author Karl May about the Wild West. Of these, the most famous are Lo chiamavano Trinità (They Call Me Trinity, 1970); ...continuavano a chiamarlo Trinità (Trinity Is Still My Name, 1971), the highest grossing Italian film at that time; and Il mio nome è Nessuno (My Name Is Nobody, 1973), co-starring Henry Fonda. Hill also went on to a successful television career in Italy, most notably playing the title character in the long-running Rai 1 series Don Matteo from 2000 until 2022. Hill was born on 29 March 1939 in Venice, Italy. Hill's mother, Hildegard Girotti (née Thieme), was from Dresden, Germany; his father, Girolamo Girotti, was Italian from Amelia, Umbria, and a chemist by occupation. During his childhood, Hill lived in the small town of Lommatzsch, Saxony. As a child, he experienced the bombing of Dresden, which was traumatic for him. He was there up to the End of World War II in Europe. He was discovered at the age of 12 by Italian filmmaker Dino Risi at a swimming meet, and he became a child actor, appearing in Risi's Vacation with a Gangster (1951) as Gianni, the orphan gang leader. "They were looking for a boy gang leader and they found me", he later said. He had small roles in Voice of Silence (1953) with Jean Marais, Too Young for Love (1953), and It Happened in the Park (1953). He was in Golden Vein (1954) with Märta Torén and Richard Basehart, The Abandoned (1955) and Folgore Division (1955). Girotti had his first lead in Guaglione (1956). He could also be seen in Mamma sconosciuta (1956), I vagabondi delle stelle (1956), La grande strada azzurra (1956) with Yves Montand and Alida Valli, and Lazzarella (1957). Girotti did Anna of Brooklyn (1958) with Gina Lollobrigida, The Sword and the Cross (1958) with Yvonne de Carlo (playing Lazarus of Bethany), and a TV version of The Picture of Dorian Gray (1958). He had support parts in Il padrone delle ferriere (1959) with Virna Lisi, Juke box - Urli d'amore (1959), and Hannibal (1959) with Victor Mature and Carlo Pedersoli, who would later become known as Bud Spencer. Girotti had the lead roles in Spavaldi e innamorati (1959) and Cerasella (1959), a teen comedy. It was back to support roles with Carthage in Flames (1960), Un militare e mezzo (1960), and The Story of Joseph and His Brethren (1961) with Geoffrey Horne and Robert Morley, directed by Irving Rapper. Girotti had support parts in The Wonders of Aladdin (1961) with Donald O'Connor and directed by Henry Levin and Mario Bava, Pecado de amor (1961), Seven Seas to Calais (1962) with Rod Taylor, and The Shortest Day (1963). ... Source: Article "Terence Hill" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
Known for
They Call Me Trinity
1970
My Name Is Nobody
1973
Trinity Is Still My Name
1971
The Leopard
1963
Watch Out, We're Mad
1974
Crime Busters
1977
Who Finds a Friend Finds a Treasure
1981
Double Trouble
1984
Go for It
1983
I'm for the Hippopotamus
1979
Miami Supercops
1985
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
1971
Photos (3)
Movies (84)
They Call Me Trinity
Trinità
Trinity Is Still My Name
Trinità
Double Trouble
Elliot Vance / Sebastiano Coímbra
The Leopard
Count Cavriaghi
Watch Out, We're Mad
Kid
My Name Is Nobody
Nobody
Crime Busters
Matt Kirby
I'm for the Hippopotamus
Slim
The Two Missionaries
Padre J.
All the Way Boys
Plata
Miami Supercops
Doug Bennett / Jay Donell
Boot Hill
Cat Stevens
Super Fuzz
Dave Speed
God Forgives... I Don't!
Cat Stevens
Last of the Renegades
Lieutenant Robert Merril
Go for It
Rosco Frazer / Steinberg
Lucky Luke
Lucky Luke
Who Finds a Friend Finds a Treasure
Alan Lloyd
Troublemakers
Travis
Blackie the Pirate
Blackie
Renegade
Luke
Ace High
Cat Stevens
Doc West
Doc West
A Genius, Two Friends, and an Idiot
Joe Thanks
March or Die
Marco Segrain
Divisione Folgore
Delavigne
Django, Prepare a Coffin
Django / Joe
Hannibal
Quintilius
The Socceritos
Soccerito Terence
Frontier Hellcat
Baker Jr.
Mr. Billion
Guido Falcone
The Wonders of Aladdin
Prince Moluk
Rampage at Apache Wells
Richard Forsythe
Don Camillo
Don Camillo
The Crazy Westerners
Black Star
Flaming Frontier
Toby
It Happened in the Park
Anna Maria's Classmate (segment "Pi-greco") (uncredited)
Doc West II : Triggerman
Doc West
Carthage in Flames
Tsour
Man of the East
Sir Thomas Fitzpatrick Phillip Moore
The Shortest Day
Soldato austriaco
Virtual Weapon
Skims
Guaglione
Franco Danieli
Wrath of the Wind
Marco
The Golden Vein
Corrado
Joseph and His Brethren
Benjamin
Whom the Gods Wish to Destroy
Giselher
ORG
Zohommm!!!
The Hassled Hooker
Marco Manin
Das Schwert der Nibelungen
Giselher
The Street of Hope
as Girolamo Girotti (unconfirmed)
I vagabondi delle stelle
Franco
Pecado de amor
Ángel Vega
Whom the Gods Wish to Destroy 2
Giselher
Klaus Kinski: I'm not an actor
Nobody (archive footage)
Rita the Field Marshal
Prof. Giuliano Fineschi
The Sword and the Cross
Lazzaro
Vacation with a Gangster
Giannini
Fast and Sexy
Ciccillo
Seven Seas to Calais
Babington
My Name Is Thomas
Thomas
Voice of Silence
Boy at Barrier
The Tough and the Mighty
Graziano Cassitta
The Wide Blue Road
Renato
Cerasella
Bruno
Juke Box - Screams of Love
Othello
Abandoned
Wounded Estray
Shots in 3/4 Time
Enrico
Io non protesto, io amo
Gabriele
The Age of Indiscretion
(uncredited)
Duel at Sundown
Larry McGow
Ruf der Wälder
Marcello Scalzi
Lucky Luke 2
Lucky Luke (archive footage)
Il padrone delle ferriere
Octave de Beaulieu
They call me Lucky Luke - Ma Dalton
Lucky Luke
A Soldier and a Half
Giorgio Strazzonelli
Vier Fäuste lassen's krachen
2004
Spavaldi e innamorati
Paolo
Lazzarella
Luciano Pico
Il Novelliere - Il salotto di Oscar Wilde
Dorian Gray
Caterina Caselli - Una vita, 100 vite
2021
Mamma sconosciuta
Gianni Martini
L'uomo che sognava con le aquile
Rocco Ventura
Odds and Evens
Johnny Firpo
TV Shows (6)
Self / Appearances (20)
Leute heute
Self · 1 eps
Sacrée soirée
Self · 2 eps
Wetten, dass..?
Self · 3 eps
Champs-Elysées
Self · 1 eps
Bambi
Self · 1 eps
Ulisse - The Pleasure of Discovery
Self · 1 eps
Aktuelle Schaubude
Self · 1 eps
Auf los geht's los
Self · 2 eps
Terence Hill, Bud Spencer… & me
Self (Archive)
Piedone nyomában
Self
They Called Him Spencer
Self
Terence Hill: Pazifist und Cowboy
Self
Denn sie kennen kein Erbarmen - Der Italowestern
Self (archive footage)
Bud's Best - Die Welt des Bud Spencer
Self
Nobody is Perfect
Self / Self - Interviewee
Le 1000 vite di Bud Spencer
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Last Movie Painter
Self
On l'appelle Terence Hill
Self
Lui era Trinità
Self
Die Terence Hill Story
Self