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