Fosco Giachetti

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.

Known For

David Copperfield

Daniel Peggotty

The Conformist

The Colonel

Il Conte di Montecristo

Bertuccio

The Inheritor

Luigi Balazzi

Vita di Michelangelo

Ludovico Buonarroti

House of Ricordi

Giuseppe Verdi

The Sinner

Salvatore, fratello di Adele

Condemned to Hang

Lucero

Filmography

Year	Movie	Role
1973	The Inheritor	Luigi Balazzi
1971	Scipio the African	Aulio Gellio
1970	The Conformist	The Colonel
1967	Another Man's Wife	Alberto
1965	Samba	João Fernandes de Oliveira
1963	Giacobbe ed Esau	Isacco - Isaac
1963	Jacob: The Man Who Fought with God	Abramo
1962	Plains of Battle	Voivode
1962	The Fury of Achilles	Priamos
1962	The Nun of Monza	Monsignor Barca
1962	Taras Bulba	Voivode
1962	La notte dell'innominato
1961	Conqueror of the Orient	Omar - Nadir's Father
1961	The Wastrel	Captain Hugh Hardy
1960	Love and Larceny	General Benito Mesci
1960	Re Lear
1959	Un uomo facile	Doctor boxing
1956	The Virtuous Bigamist	Antonio
1954	House of Ricordi	Giuseppe Verdi
1953	Condemned to Hang	Lucero
1951	The Counterfeiters	Ispettore Moroni
1950	The Glass Castle	Laurent Bertal (Italian version)
1949	Vento d'Africa
1949	L'Altra	Pianista Marco de Santis
1949	Romanticismo	Tito Ansperti
1948	Una lettera all'alba	Carlo Marini
1948	Crossroads of Passion	Toniani
1947	Nothing
1947	The Damned	Garosi
1947	Four Women
1947	The Brothers Karamazov	Dimitri
1946	Notte di tempesta	Domenico
1946	Farewell, My Beautiful Naples	Carlo Sanna
1945	Life Begins Anew	Dr. Paolo Martini
1945	L'abito nero da sposa	il cardinal Giovanni de' Medici
1945	Fear No Evil	Benedetto
1943	Scorned Flesh
1942	Headlights in the Fog	Cesare
1942	A Pistol Shot	Andrea Anickoff
1942	We the Living, Part Two	Andrej Taganov
1942	Labbra serrate	Ruggero D'Anzi
1942	Bengasi	Hauptmann Enrico Berti / Il capitano Enrico Berti
1942	We the Living, Part One	Andrei Taganov
1941	Ridi pagliaccio
1941	L'amante segreta
1941	Luce nelle tenebre	Alberto Serrani
1940	Senza cielo	Mario
1940	The Siege of the Alcazar	Cap. Vela
1940	The Sinner	Salvatore, fratello di Adele
1940	La figlia del corsaro verde	Carlos de la Riva
1939	Napoli che non muore	Mario Fusco
1939	Carmen and the Reds	Javier Navarro (Italian cut)
1939	The Dream of Butterfly	Harry Peters
1938	The Life of Giuseppe Verdi	Giuseppe Verdi
1938	The Woman of Monte Carlo	Giorgio Duclos
1937	Sentinels of Bronze	Capitano Negri
1937	Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal	Captain Massinissa
1936	Heart of Tramp
1936	White Squadron	Il capitano Santelia
1934	Creature della notte
1934	L'avvocato difensore
1933	Il trattato scomparso	Raythan
	Ricorda con rabbia	Colonnello Redfern
	Quattro rose rosse	Antonio Berti

Year	TV Show	Role
1967	I racconti del faro	Libero
1966	Il Conte di Montecristo	Bertuccio
1965	David Copperfield	Daniel Peggotty
1964	Vita di Michelangelo	Ludovico Buonarroti