Fosco Giachetti
Known For
Acting
Born
1900-03-28 in Sesto Fiorentino - Tuscany - Italy
Died
1974-12-22
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.
Most Known For
Senza cielo
as Mario
The Wastrel
as Captain Hugh Hardy
The Conformist
as The Colonel
The Glass Castle
as Laurent Bertal (Italian version)
Il Conte di Montecristo
as Bertuccio
Love and Larceny
as General Benito Mesci
David Copperfield
as Daniel Peggotty
The Damned
as Garosi
The Inheritor
as Luigi Balazzi
Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal
as Captain Massinissa
Vita di Michelangelo
as Ludovico Buonarroti
The Fury of Achilles
as Priamos
White Squadron
as Il capitano Santelia
I racconti del faro
as Libero
The Brothers Karamazov
as Dimitri
The Nun of Monza
as Monsignor Barca
The Siege of the Alcazar
as Cap. Vela
House of Ricordi
as Giuseppe Verdi
Scipio the African
as Aulio Gellio
Condemned to Hang
as Lucero