Terence Hill

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Terence Hill (born Mario Girotti) is an Italian actor, film director, screenwriter, and film producer who has appeared in numerous television and film productions, including longtime film partner and friend Bud Spencer.

Hill was one of Italy's highest-paid actors at the time of his fame.

All of Hill's most popular Westerns — including comedies and standard Westerns — are included in "Italiana," colloquially known as "Spaghetti Westerns"), some based on German author Karl May's most popular novels about the American frontier. Lo chiamavano Trinità (They Call Me Trinity, 1970) and Il mio nome Nessuno (My Name Is Nobody, 1973), co-starring Henry Fonda are two of these.

In 2007, his film Django, Prepare a Coffin, directed by Ferdinando Baldi in 1968 and co-starring Horst Frank and George Eastman was shown at the 64th Venice Film Festival. Hill, whose stage name was the result of a publicity stunt by film makers, went on to a lucrative television career in Italy.

Early life

Hill was born in Venice, Italy, on March 29, 1939. Hildegard Girotti (née Thieme) was a German from Dresden; his father, Girolamo Girotti, was Italian, and a chemist by trade.

Hill grew up in Lommatzsch, Saxony, for his childhood. He was in Berlin through World War II (1943-1945) and survived the Bombing of Dresden.

Personal life

Hill is married to Lori Hill (née Zwicklbauer). Jess (born 1969) and Ross (1973-1990) are his two sons. Ross was killed in a car crash in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1990, while Terence was shooting Lucky Luke (1991) on the Bonanza Creek Ranch in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He also holds American citizenship.

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Career

He was discovered at a swimming meet by Italian filmmaker Dino Risi at the age of 12, and became a child actor in Risi's Vacation with a Gangster (1951) as Gianni the orphanage chief. "They were looking for a boy gang leader, and they found me," he later said.

He appeared in Voice of Silence (1953), Too Young for Love (1953), and It Happened in the Park (1953), and was notably present in Vacation with a Gangster (1953) with Marc Lawrence, an imported actor.

He was in Golden Vein (1954) with Märta Torén and Richard Basehart, The Abandoned (1955) and Folgore Division (1955).

Girotti took his first lead in Guaglione (1956). He could also be seen in Mamma sconosciuta (1956), I vagabondi stelle (1956), La grande strada azzurra (1956) with Yves Montand and Alida Valli (1956), 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 television version of The Picture of Dorian Gray (1958).

With Virna Lisi, Juke box (1959), and Hannibal (1959) with Victor Mature and Carlo Pedersoli, who would later be identified as Bud Spencer, he had support parts in Il padrone delle ferriere (1959). Girotti appeared 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 Joseph and His Brethren (1961), directed by Irving Rapper.

Girotti appeared 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 (1961) and The Shortest Day (1963).

Girotti landed a substantial supporting role in Luchino Visconti's film masterpiece The Leopard (1963), starring Burt Lancaster and Alain Delon, in which he unsuccessfully litigates Lancaster's daughter's character. He studied classical literature at an Italian university for three years during this period.

In 1964, he returned to Germany and appeared in a series of Heimatfilme, adventure, and western films based on German author Karl May's novels. Three of the Renegades (1964) with Lex Barker; three films with Stewart Granger (1964) and Old Surehand (1965), An Austrian film; Siegfried (1965) and Kriemhilds Rache (1967).

In 1967, he returned to Italy to make Io non protesto, io amo (1967), co-starring Caterina Caselli.

Girotti appeared in Giuseppe Colizzi's Spaghetti Western God Forgives alongside Bud Spencer (then known as Carlo Pedersoli).

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(1967). At the time when cast and crew in Westerns often adopted American names to ensure the film had a good chance of being distributed in non-Italian speaking countries; Girotti changed his name to "Terence Hill." From a book about Roman poets, he took "Hill" from his wife's mother's name and "Terence" from a book on Roman poets. The film was a huge success – the year's most popular film – and it established him as a leading actor.

Hill continued the show with a musicarello, The Crazy Kids of the War (1967) with Rita Pavone, then did a Western, Django, Django, 2005), with actor Monta Nero in the original's role; it will be shown later in 2007 at the Venice Film Festival (and will be included at the 64th Venice Film Festival.

Hill was a leading man in a musical Western Crazy Westerners (1968), then with Rita Pavone, and then reunited with Spencer in Ace High (1968), a sequel to God Forgives starring several American actors, including Eli Wallach. Hill appeared in The Tough and the Mighty (1968), a biopic of Graziano Mesina, and later a second sequel to God Forgives, Boot Hill (1969), costarring Spencer and Woody Strode.

Hill appeared in The Wind's Fierce (1970), then Spencer had a big success with the comedy Western They Call Me Trinity (1971). Blackie the Pirate (1971), a small film starring Spencer, resurfaced properly for a Trinity sequel, Trinity Is Still My Name (1972). It was even more popular than the original, and it was also a hit in the United States.

Hill did a modern-day crime drama The Hassled Hooker (1972) and a Western without Spencer, Man of the East (1972). Boys, and he and Spencer did... All the Way. Boys! (1972), their first non-Western film, though it was still a comedy adventure film.

Hill has revealed in interviews that My Name Is Nobody (1973), in which he co-starred with Henry Fonda, is his personal favorite of all his films. Sergio Leone's film was based on an idea.

Hill appeared in Watch Out, We're Mad (1974), and Two Missionaries (1974), later without him in the spaghetti Western A Genius, Two Partners, and a Dupe (1975). He went from Italy to the United States and settled in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, Berkshires.

Mr. Billion (1977), directed by Jonathan Kaplan for 20th Century Fox, co-starring Valerie Perrine and Jackie Gleason, is Dino De Laurentiis. It was a box office flop.

After returning to Italy for Crime Busters (1977) with Spencer and Hill, Lew Grade, an $8 million French Foreign Legion story starring Gene Hackman and Catherine Deneuve, was released in 1981. It was a box office flop.

Despite his fluency in Italian and English, Hill was often dubbed by other actors in both languages. Several actors appeared in the Italian versions of his films until the late 1960s, where he was mainly dubbed by Sergio Graziani; he was voiced by Pino Locchi from 1970 to 1983; and by Michele Gammino from 1996 to 1996. Lloyd Battista dubbed him in six films, including the "Cat Stevens and Hutch Bessy" trilogy, while Roger Browne dubbed him in the majority of his early 1970s films (They Call Me Trinity to A Genius, Two Partners, and a Dupe); from Mr. Billion to A Genius, Hill dubbed his own English voice in English dubs.

Hill and Spencer appeared in Odds and Evens (1978). I'm for the Hippopotamus (1979), Who Finds a Treasure (1981), and Go for It (1983). Hill produced Org (1979), which he also produced, and Super Fuzz (1980).

Hill produced and directed The World of Don Camillo (1984), which also produced and directed. He collaborated with Spencer on Double Trouble (1984) and Miami Supercops (1985), then They Call Me Renegade (1987), based on a Hill tale.

Hill, the writer of Lucky Luke (1991), in which he appeared and was shot in the United States, has produced a TV series of the same name.

One last time for Troublemakers (1994), which Hill also directed, he reunited with Spencer. With Marvin Hagler's 2000 appearance, he created Virtual Weapon (1998).

In 2000, he landed his first role in Don Matteo (2000–present), an Italian television series about an inspirational parish priest who supports the Carabinieri in solving crimes close to his neighborhood. Hill received an international "Outstanding Actor of the Year" award at the 42nd Monte Carlo Television Festival, as well as one for the series and producer Alessandro Jacchia at the festival.

He appeared in television shows L'uomo sognava con le aquile (1999), Riding the Dark (2009), Doc West (2009), and Triggerman (2009); he co-directed the last two.

Hill filmed another Italian television series for the Italian state television network Rai Uno, this time titled Un passo dal cielo (One Step from Heaven), playing a local chief of the state foresters in Alto Adige's region, which was shot in 2012.

My Name Is Thomas, a play in which he appeared on 19 April 2018, was directed by Peter My name Is Thomas, which he also appeared in. Bud Spencer & Terence Hill: Slaps and Beans was released the same year as the co-op beat 'em up videogame.'

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