Fosco Giachetti

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

Fosco Giachetti
Giachetti in 1942
Born	(1900-03-28)28 March 1900 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
Died	22 December 1974(1974-12-22) (aged 74) Rome, Italy
Nationality	Italian
Years active	1934–1974

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.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1933	The Missing Treaty	Giorgio Raytham
1934	Dimmed Lights	Lord Spider
	The Last of the Bergeracs	Il tenente
	Creatures of the Night		Uncredited
1935	L'avvocato difensore		Uncredited
1936	Cuor di vagabondo	Giovanni
	Luci sommerse	Lord Spider
	Lo squadrone bianco	Il capitano Santelia
	Tredici uomini e un cannone	Uomo #1
	Fiordalisi d'oro	Conte Andrea di Beaulieu
1937	Scipio Africanus	Captain Massinissa
	Sentinels of Bronze	Capitano Negri
1938	Giuseppe Verdi	Giuseppe Verdi
	Pride	Alberto Celoria
	The Woman of Monte Carlo	Giorgio Duclos
1939	Naples Will Never Die	Mario Fusco
	The Dream of Butterfly	Harry Peters
	Hurricane in the Tropics	Il capitano Moraes
	Carmen fra i rossi	Saverio
1940	The Last Enemy	Franco Rossi
	The Siege of the Alcazar	Captain Vela
	The Sinner	Salvatore, fratello di Adele
	Senza cielo	Mario Riccardi
	The Daughter of the Green Pirate	Carlos de la Riva
1941	Ridi pagliaccio	Pietro Rinaldi
	Light in the Darkness	Alberto Serrani
	Blood Wedding	Gidda
	The Secret Lover	Giorgio Amholt
1942	Headlights in the Fog	Cesare
	A Pistol Shot	Andrea Anickoff
	Bengasi	Il capitano Enrico Berti
	We the Living	Andrei Taganov
	Addio Kira!	Andrei Taganov
	Yellow Hell	Francesco
	Sealed Lips	Ruggero D'Anzi
1943	A Living Statue	Paolo Vieri
	A Little Wife	Giulio Nardi
1945	L'abito nero da sposa	Giovanni de Medici
	Fear No Evil	Benedetto
	Life Begins Anew	Paolo Martini
1946	Notte di tempesta	Domenico
1947	The Damned	Garosi
	The Other	Marco de Santis
	Nada	Román Brunet
	The Brothers Karamazov	Dimitri Karamazov
	Four Women	Alberto Reyes, pintor
	Farewell, My Beautiful Naples	Carlo Sanna
1948	Crossroads of Passion	Toniani
	Letter at Dawn	Carlo Marini
1949	Romanticismo	Tito Ansperti
1950	The Glass Castle	Laurent Bertal
1951	The Counterfeiters	Ispettore Moroni
	Four Red Roses	Antonio Berti
1953	Condemned to Hang	Lucero
1954	House of Ricordi	Giuseppe Verdi
1956	The Virtuous Bigamist	Antonio
1959	The Defeated Victor	Doctor boxing
1960	Il Mattatore	General Mesci
	The Conqueror of the Orient	Omar, Nadir's Father
1961	The Wastrel	Captain Hugh Hardy
1962	La monaca di Monza	Monsignor Barca
	Taras Bulba, the Cossack	Voivode
	The Fury of Achilles	Priamos
	La notte dell'innominato
1963	Jacob and Esau	Isaac
	Giacobbe, l'uomo che lottò con Dio	Abramo - Abraham
1965	Samba	João Fernandes de Oliveira
1967	Another's Wife	Alberto
1970	The Conformist	The Colonel
1971	Scipio the African	Aulio Gellio
1973	The Inheritor	Luigi Galazzi

Awards

• Venice Film Festival Best Actor for Bengasi, 1942

External links

• Fosco Giachetti at IMDb