Fosco Giachetti
Born March 28, 1900 (Age: 126)
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Sesto Fiorentino - Tuscany - Italy
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.
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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Filmography
The Inheritor
1973
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as Luigi Balazzi
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Age: 72
The Conformist
1971
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as The Colonel
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Age: 70
Samba
1965
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as João Fernandes de Oliveira
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Age: 64
Jacob: The Man Who Fought with God
1963
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as Abramo
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Age: 63
No Image
Giacobbe ed Esau
1963
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as Isacco - Isaac
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Age: 62
La notte dell'innominato
1962
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as
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Age: 62
The Fury of Achilles
1962
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as Priamos
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Age: 62
Plains of Battle
1962
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as Voivode
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Age: 62
The Nun of Monza
1962
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as Monsignor Barca
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Age: 62
Taras Bulba
1962
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as Voivode
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Age: 61
Conqueror of the Orient
1961
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as Omar - Nadir's Father
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Age: 61
The Wastrel
1961
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as Captain Hugh Hardy
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Age: 60
Re Lear
1960
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as
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Age: 60
Love and Larceny
1960
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as General Benito Mesci
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Age: 59
Un uomo facile
1959
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as Doctor boxing
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Age: 59
The Virtuous Bigamist
1956
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as Antonio
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Age: 56
House of Ricordi
1954
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as Giuseppe Verdi
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Age: 54
Condemned to Hang
1953
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as Lucero
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Age: 53
The Glass Castle
1950
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as Laurent Bertal (Italian version)
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Age: 50
Life Begins Anew
1945
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as Dr. Paolo Martini
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Age: 45
Fear No Evil
1945
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as Benedetto
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Age: 45
L'abito nero da sposa
1945
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as il cardinal Giovanni de' Medici
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Age: 45
Labbra serrate
1942
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as Ruggero D'Anzi
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Age: 42
We the Living, Part Two
1942
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as Andrej Taganov
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Age: 42
We the Living, Part One
1942
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as Andrei Taganov
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Age: 42
A Pistol Shot
1942
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as Andrea Anickoff
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Age: 42
Headlights in the Fog
1942
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as Cesare
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Age: 41
Bengasi
1942
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as Hauptmann Enrico Berti / Il capitano Enrico Berti
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Age: 41
L'amante segreta
1941
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as
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Age: 41
Luce nelle tenebre
1941
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as Alberto Serrani
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Age: 41
Ridi pagliaccio
1941
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as
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Age: 40