Terence Hill
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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
Credits
They Call Me Trinity (1970)
as Trinity
Trinity Is Still My Name (1971)
as Trinity
The Leopard (1963)
as Count Cavriaghi
My Name Is Nobody (1973)
as Nobody
Crime Busters (1977)
as Matt Kirby
Watch Out, We're Mad (1974)
as Kid
Double Trouble (1984)
as Elliot Vance / Sebastiano Coímbra
Who Finds a Friend Finds a Treasure (1981)
as Alan Lloyd
God Forgives... I Don't! (1967)
as Cat Stevens
Go for It (1983)
as Rosco Frazer / Steinberg
McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
as Townsperson (uncredited)
Miami Supercops (1985)
as Doug Bennett / Jay Donell
Super Fuzz (1980)
as Dave Speed
I'm for the Hippopotamus (1979)
as Slim
The Two Missionaries (1974)
as Padre J.
All the Way Boys (1972)
as Plata
Boot Hill (1969)
as Cat Stevens
March or Die (1977)
as Marco Segrain
Man of the East (1972)
as Sir Thomas Fitzpatrick Phillip Moore
Lucky Luke (1991)
as Lucky Luke
Last of the Renegades (1964)
as Lieutenant Robert Merril
Ace High (1968)
as Cat Stevens
Mr. Billion (1977)
as Guido Falcone
A Genius, Two Friends, and an Idiot (1975)
as Joe Thanks
Troublemakers (1994)
as Travis
Hannibal (1959)
as Quintilius
Doc West (2009)
as Doc West
Django, Prepare a Coffin (1968)
as Django / Joe
Frontier Hellcat (1964)
as Baker Jr.
Rampage at Apache Wells (1965)
as Richard Forsythe
Renegade (1987)
as Luke
Flaming Frontier (1965)
as Toby
The Shortest Day (1963)
as Soldato austriaco
Doc West II : Triggerman (2009)
as Doc West
ORG (1979)
as Zohommm!!!
Blackie the Pirate (1971)
as Blackie
The Crazy Westerners (1967)
as Black Star
Joseph and His Brethren (1961)
as Benjamin
The Socceritos (2026)
as Soccerito Terence
Don Camillo (1984)
as Don Camillo
The Wonders of Aladdin (1961)
as Prince Moluk
It Happened in the Park (1953)
as Anna Maria's Classmate (segment "Pi-greco") (uncredited)
Divisione Folgore (1954)
as Delavigne
Whom the Gods Wish to Destroy (1966)
as Giselher
Fast and Sexy (1958)
as Ciccillo
Rita the Field Marshal (1967)
as Prof. Giuliano Fineschi
Cerasella (1959)
as Bruno
Seven Seas to Calais (1962)
as Babington
Whom the Gods Wish to Destroy 2 (1967)
as Giselher
Carthage in Flames (1960)
as Tsour
Pecado de amor (1961)
as Ángel Vega
Voice of Silence (1953)
as Boy at Barrier
Virtual Weapon (1997)
as Skims
Wrath of the Wind (1970)
as Marco
Klaus Kinski: I'm not an actor (2000)
as Nobody (archive footage)
Juke Box - Screams of Love (1959)
as Othello
Lazzarella (1957)
as Luciano Pico
The Tough and the Mighty (1969)
as Graziano Cassitta
Terence Hill: Pazifist und Cowboy (2025)
as Self
The Sword and the Cross (1958)
as Lazzaro
A Soldier and a Half (1960)
as Giorgio Strazzonelli
Denn sie kennen kein Erbarmen - Der Italowestern (2006)
as Self (archive footage)
The Wide Blue Road (1957)
as Renato
My Name Is Thomas (2018)
as Thomas
Lucky Luke 2 (1992)
as Lucky Luke (archive footage)
Vacation with a Gangster (1952)
as Giannini
Il padrone delle ferriere (1959)
as Octave de Beaulieu
Duel at Sundown (1965)
as Larry McGow
The Age of Indiscretion (1953)
as (uncredited)
Guaglione (1956)
as Franco Danieli
Io non protesto, io amo (1967)
as Gabriele
Il Novelliere - Il salotto di Oscar Wilde (1958)
as Dorian Gray
Piedone nyomában (2018)
as Self
Abandoned (1955)
as Wounded Estray
Das Schwert der Nibelungen (1976)
as Giselher
The Hassled Hooker (1972)
as Marco Manin
I vagabondi delle stelle (1956)
as Franco
The Golden Vein (1955)
as Corrado
Shots in 3/4 Time (1965)
as Enrico
They Called Him Spencer (2017)
as Self
They call me Lucky Luke - Ma Dalton (1991)
as Lucky Luke
Die Terence Hill Story (2019)
as Self
Ruf der Wälder (1965)
as Marcello Scalzi
The Last Movie Painter (2020)
as Self
Bud's Best - Die Welt des Bud Spencer (2012)
as Self
The Street of Hope (1953)
as as Girolamo Girotti (unconfirmed)
Mamma sconosciuta (1956)
as Gianni Martini
Nobody is Perfect (2005)
as Self / Self - Interviewee
Caterina Caselli - Una vita, 100 vite (2021)
Actor
Terence Hill, Bud Spencer… & me (2025)
as Self (Archive)
Le 1000 vite di Bud Spencer (2019)
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Lui era Trinità (2023)
as Self
On l'appelle Terence Hill (2022)
as Self
Spavaldi e innamorati (1959)
as Paolo
L'uomo che sognava con le aquile (2006)
as Rocco Ventura
Vier Fäuste lassen's krachen (2004)
Actor
Odds and Evens (1978)
as Johnny Firpo