Fosco Giachetti

Fosco Giachetti

1900-03-28 – 1974-12-22 (age 74) Sesto Fiorentino - Tuscany - Italy
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Biography

Fosco Giachetti (28 March 1900, in Sesto Fiorentino – 22 December 1974, in Rome) was an Italian actor.

Fosco Giachetti was the protagonist of Lo squadrone bianco (1936), directed by Augusto Genina. He became the leading man in Fascist propaganda films such as Tredici uomini e un cannone (1936), Sentinelle di bronzo (1937), Scipione l'Africano, Edgar Neville's Italian Carmen fra i rossi (1939), L'assedio dell'Alcazar (1940) and Bengasi (1942). In 1942, he also co-starred in Goffredo Alessandrini's two part Noi Vivi and Addio Kira!.

Un colpo di pistola (1942) by Renato Castellani and Fari nella nebbia (1942) by Gianni Franciolini were not as successful as his earlier films.

After the war, he returned to the stage. He worked in Spain with Edgar Neville in Nada and in Carne de horca. He had a supporting role in 1959 Dino Risi's successful comedy Il mattatore. In 1964, he appeared in an adaptation of A. J. Cronin's novel, The Citadel.

In 2003, the Galleria Fosco Giachetti in Sesto Fiorentino was opened in his honor.

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Known For

The Conformist
The Conformist

1971

as The Colonel

Carmen and the Reds
Carmen and the Reds

1939

as Javier Navarro (Italian cut)

House of Ricordi
House of Ricordi

1954

as Giuseppe Verdi

The Counterfeiters
The Counterfeiters

1951

as Ispettore Moroni

The Inheritor
The Inheritor

1973

as Luigi Balazzi

Senza cielo
Senza cielo

1940

as Mario

Conqueror of the Orient
Conqueror of the Orient

1961

as Omar - Nadir's Father

Luce nelle tenebre
Luce nelle tenebre

1941

as Alberto Serrani

Love and Larceny
Love and Larceny

1960

as General Benito Mesci

The Fury of Achilles
The Fury of Achilles

1962

as Priamos

Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal
Condemned to Hang
Condemned to Hang

1953

as Lucero

The Nun of Monza
The Nun of Monza

1962

as Monsignor Barca

Plains of Battle
Plains of Battle

1962

as Voivode

The Wastrel
The Wastrel

1961

as Captain Hugh Hardy

The Glass Castle
The Glass Castle

1950

as Laurent Bertal (Italian version)

Scipio the African
Scipio the African

1971

as Aulio Gellio

The Virtuous Bigamist
The Virtuous Bigamist

1956

as Antonio

The Damned
The Damned

1947

as Garosi

The Siege of the Alcazar
The Siege of the Alcazar

1940

as Cap. Vela