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)
The Leopard
Count Cavriaghi
Crime Busters
Matt Kirby
My Name Is Nobody
Nobody
Go for It
Rosco Frazer / Steinberg
Who Finds a Friend Finds a Treasure
Alan Lloyd
Watch Out, We're Mad
Kid
Blackie the Pirate
Blackie
They Call Me Trinity
Trinità
Frontier Hellcat
Baker Jr.
Miami Supercops
Doug Bennett / Jay Donell
All the Way Boys
Plata
Ace High
Cat Stevens
Double Trouble
Elliot Vance / Sebastiano Coímbra
Trinity Is Still My Name
Trinità
Troublemakers
Travis
Last of the Renegades
Lieutenant Robert Merril
Super Fuzz
Dave Speed
Flaming Frontier
Toby
Renegade
Luke
Man of the East
Sir Thomas Fitzpatrick Phillip Moore
March or Die
Marco Segrain
Rampage at Apache Wells
Richard Forsythe
The Sword and the Cross
Lazzaro
God Forgives... I Don't!
Cat Stevens
I'm for the Hippopotamus
Slim
Carthage in Flames
Tsour
Shots in 3/4 Time
Enrico
The Two Missionaries
Padre J.
Wrath of the Wind
Marco
A Genius, Two Friends, and an Idiot
Joe Thanks
Lucky Luke
Lucky Luke
Boot Hill
Cat Stevens
The Hassled Hooker
Marco Manin
The Crazy Westerners
Black Star
The Shortest Day
Soldato austriaco
Il padrone delle ferriere
Octave de Beaulieu
Hannibal
Quintilius
The Wide Blue Road
Renato
Django, Prepare a Coffin
Django / Joe
Don Camillo
Don Camillo
Mr. Billion
Guido Falcone
A Soldier and a Half
Giorgio Strazzonelli
Whom the Gods Wish to Destroy
Giselher
Doc West II : Triggerman
Doc West
Whom the Gods Wish to Destroy 2
Giselher
Pecado de amor
Ángel Vega
It Happened in the Park
Anna Maria's Classmate (segment "Pi-greco") (uncredited)
Virtual Weapon
Skims
Fast and Sexy
Ciccillo
The Wonders of Aladdin
Prince Moluk
The Golden Vein
Corrado
Lazzarella
Luciano Pico
Divisione Folgore
Delavigne
The Street of Hope
as Girolamo Girotti (unconfirmed)
Voice of Silence
Boy at Barrier
My Name Is Thomas
Thomas
Seven Seas to Calais
Babington
The Tough and the Mighty
Graziano Cassitta
Joseph and His Brethren
Benjamin
Doc West
Doc West
Guaglione
Franco Danieli
Duel at Sundown
Larry McGow
Klaus Kinski: I'm not an actor
Nobody (archive footage)
The Socceritos
Soccerito Terence
Caterina Caselli - Una vita, 100 vite
2021
Vacation with a Gangster
Giannini
ORG
Zohommm!!!
Io non protesto, io amo
Gabriele
The Age of Indiscretion
(uncredited)
Rita the Field Marshal
Prof. Giuliano Fineschi
Juke Box - Screams of Love
Othello
Das Schwert der Nibelungen
Giselher
Abandoned
Wounded Estray
Cerasella
Bruno
I vagabondi delle stelle
Franco
They call me Lucky Luke - Ma Dalton
Lucky Luke
Lucky Luke 2
Lucky Luke (archive footage)
Ruf der Wälder
Marcello Scalzi
Spavaldi e innamorati
Paolo
Vier Fäuste lassen's krachen
2004
L'uomo che sognava con le aquile
Rocco Ventura
Mamma sconosciuta
Gianni Martini
Il Novelliere - Il salotto di Oscar Wilde
Dorian Gray
Odds and Evens
Johnny Firpo
TV Shows (6)
Self / Appearances (20)
Leute heute
Self · 1 eps
Sacrée soirée
Self · 2 eps
Champs-Elysées
Self · 1 eps
Bambi
Self · 1 eps
Wetten, dass..?
Self · 3 eps
Ulisse - The Pleasure of Discovery
Self · 1 eps
Aktuelle Schaubude
Self · 1 eps
Auf los geht's los
Self · 2 eps
Piedone nyomában
Self
Le 1000 vite di Bud Spencer
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
They Called Him Spencer
Self
Die Terence Hill Story
Self
The Last Movie Painter
Self
Denn sie kennen kein Erbarmen - Der Italowestern
Self (archive footage)
Terence Hill, Bud Spencer… & me
Self (Archive)
Bud's Best - Die Welt des Bud Spencer
Self
Terence Hill: Pazifist und Cowboy
Self
On l'appelle Terence Hill
Self
Lui era Trinità
Self
Nobody is Perfect
Self / Self - Interviewee