Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1900-03-28
Day of Death
1974-12-22
Place of Birth
Sesto Fiorentino - Tuscany - Italy
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.
Filmography (65)
The Inheritor
1973
Scipio the African
1971
The Conformist
1971
Another Man's Wife
1967
Samba
1965
Jacob: The Man Who Fought with God
1963Giacobbe ed Esau
1963
La notte dell'innominato
1962
The Fury of Achilles
1962
Plains of Battle
1962
The Nun of Monza
1962
Taras Bulba
1962
Conqueror of the Orient
1961
The Wastrel
1961
