Fosco Giachetti
Actor
- Born
- March 28, 1900 · Sesto Fiorentino - Tuscany - Italy
- Died
- December 22, 1974 (age 74)
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!.
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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.
Known for
The Conformist
January 29, 1971
The Inheritor
March 22, 1973
Love and Larceny
February 11, 1960
The Damned
September 19, 1947
Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal
August 4, 1937
Scipio the African
March 3, 1971
The Glass Castle
December 16, 1950
Samba
February 1, 1965
The Fury of Achilles
September 23, 1962
The Virtuous Bigamist
December 20, 1956
The Siege of the Alcazar
January 2, 1940
Nothing
November 11, 1947
Acting68
- 1973The Inheritor as Luigi Balazzi
- 1971Scipio the African as Aulus Gellius
- 1971The Conformist as The Colonel
- 1967Another Man's Wife as Alberto
- 1965Samba as João Fernandes de Oliveira
- 1963Jacob: The Man Who Fought with God as Abramo
- 1963Giacobbe ed Esau as Isacco - Isaac
- 1962La notte dell'innominato
- 1962The Fury of Achilles as Priamos
- 1962Plains of Battle as Voivode