Fosco Giachetti

Fosco Giachetti

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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Sesto Fiorentino - Tuscany - Italy, 1900-03-28

Died: 1974-12-22

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1933	Il trattato scomparso	Raythan	0
2	1936	White Squadron	Il capitano Santelia	64
3	1936	Heart of Tramp		0
4	1937	Sentinels of Bronze	Capitano Negri	32
5	1937	Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal	Captain Massinissa	55
6	1939	Napoli che non muore	Mario Fusco	0
7	1939	Carmen and the Reds	Javier Navarro (Italian cut)	58
8	1940	The Siege of the Alcazar	Cap. Vela	57
9	1940	The Sinner	Salvatore, fratello di Adele	55
10	1940	Senza cielo	Mario	0
11	1941	Ridi pagliaccio		0
12	1942	Headlights in the Fog	Cesare	62
13	1942	A Pistol Shot	Andrea Anickoff	80
14	1942	We the Living, Part Two	Andrej Taganov	90
15	1942	Labbra serrate	Ruggero D'Anzi	0
16	1945	Life Begins Anew	Dr. Paolo Martini	75
17	1947	The Damned	Garosi	60
18	1947	Nothing		56
19	1948	Una lettera all'alba	Carlo Marini	0
20	1949	Vento d'Africa		0
21	1949	L'Altra	Pianista Marco de Santis	0
22	1953	Condemned to Hang	Lucero	53
23	1954	House of Ricordi	Giuseppe Verdi	62
24	1956	The Virtuous Bigamist	Antonio	57
25	1960	Love and Larceny	General Benito Mesci	72
26	1963	Giacobbe ed Esau	Isacco - Isaac	0
27	1963	Jacob: The Man Who Fought with God	Abramo	45
28	1965	Samba	João Fernandes de Oliveira	26
29	1967	Another Man's Wife	Alberto	10
30	1970	The Conformist	The Colonel	77
31	1971	Scipio the African	Aulio Gellio	68
32	1973	The Inheritor	Luigi Balazzi	63
33		Ricorda con rabbia	Colonnello Redfern	0
34	1934	Creature della notte		0
35	1934	L'avvocato difensore		0
36	1936	Fiordalisi d'oro	Conte Andrea di Beaulieu	0
37	1938	The Woman of Monte Carlo	Giorgio Duclos	0
38	1938	The Life of Giuseppe Verdi	Giuseppe Verdi	100
39	1939	The Dream of Butterfly	Harry Peters	50
40	1940	La figlia del corsaro verde	Carlos de la Riva	0
41	1941	Luce nelle tenebre	Alberto Serrani	0
42	1941	L'amante segreta		0
43	1942	Bengasi	Hauptmann Enrico Berti / Il capitano Enrico Berti	55
44	1942	We the Living, Part One	Andrei Taganov	82
45	1943	Scorned Flesh		0
46	1945	L'abito nero da sposa	il cardinal Giovanni de' Medici	0
47	1945	Fear No Evil	Benedetto	0
48	1946	Farewell, My Beautiful Naples	Carlo Sanna	0
49	1946	Notte di tempesta	Domenico	70
50	1947	The Brothers Karamazov	Dimitri	0
51	1947	Four Women		0
52	1948	Crossroads of Passion	Toniani	0
53	1949	Romanticismo	Tito Ansperti	0
54	1950	The Glass Castle	Laurent Bertal (Italian version)	56
55	1951	The Counterfeiters	Ispettore Moroni	0
56	1959	Un uomo facile	Doctor boxing	0
57	1960	Re Lear		0
58	1961	The Wastrel	Captain Hugh Hardy	49
59	1961	Conqueror of the Orient	Omar - Nadir's Father	70
60	1962	Taras Bulba	Voivode	60
61	1962	The Nun of Monza	Monsignor Barca	50
62	1962	Plains of Battle	Voivode	0
63	1962	The Fury of Achilles	Priamos	51
64		Quattro rose rosse	Antonio Berti	0
65	1962	La notte dell'innominato		0

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1964	Vita di Michelangelo	Ludovico Buonarroti	55
2	1965	David Copperfield	Daniel Peggotty	0
3	1966	Il Conte di Montecristo	Bertuccio	83
4	1967	I racconti del faro	Libero	0

Fosco Giachetti

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