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