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