Terence Hill
Acting • Born 1939-03-29
Biography
Terence Hill (born Mario Girotti; 29 March 1939) is an Italian actor, film director, screenwriter and film producer. He began his career as a child actor and gained international fame for starring roles in action and comedy films, many with his long-time film partner and friend Bud Spencer. During the height of his popularity, Hill was among Italy's highest-paid actors. His most widely seen films include comic and standard spaghetti Westerns, some based on popular novels by German author Karl May about the Wild West. Of these, the most famous are Lo chiamavano Trinità (They Call Me Trinity, 1970); ...continuavano a chiamarlo Trinità (Trinity Is Still My Name, 1971), the highest grossing Italian film at that time; and Il mio nome è Nessuno (My Name Is Nobody, 1973), co-starring Henry Fonda. Hill also went on to a successful television career in Italy, most notably playing the title character in the long-running Rai 1 series Don Matteo from 2000 until 2022. Hill was born on 29 March 1939 in Venice, Italy. Hill's mother, Hildegard Girotti (née Thieme), was from Dresden, Germany; his father, Girolamo Girotti, was Italian from Amelia, Umbria, and a chemist by occupation. During his childhood, Hill lived in the small town of Lommatzsch, Saxony. As a child, he experienced the bombing of Dresden, which was traumatic for him. He was there up to the End of World War II in Europe. He was discovered at the age of 12 by Italian filmmaker Dino Risi at a swimming meet, and he became a child actor, appearing in Risi's Vacation with a Gangster (1951) as Gianni, the orphan gang leader. "They were looking for a boy gang leader and they found me", he later said. He had small roles in Voice of Silence (1953) with Jean Marais, Too Young for Love (1953), and It Happened in the Park (1953). He was in Golden Vein (1954) with Märta Torén and Richard Basehart, The Abandoned (1955) and Folgore Division (1955). Girotti had his first lead in Guaglione (1956). He could also be seen in Mamma sconosciuta (1956), I vagabondi delle stelle (1956), La grande strada azzurra (1956) with Yves Montand and Alida Valli, and Lazzarella (1957). Girotti did Anna of Brooklyn (1958) with Gina Lollobrigida, The Sword and the Cross (1958) with Yvonne de Carlo (playing Lazarus of Bethany), and a TV version of The Picture of Dorian Gray (1958). He had support parts in Il padrone delle ferriere (1959) with Virna Lisi, Juke box - Urli d'amore (1959), and Hannibal (1959) with Victor Mature and Carlo Pedersoli, who would later become known as Bud Spencer. Girotti had the lead roles in Spavaldi e innamorati (1959) and Cerasella (1959), a teen comedy. It was back to support roles with Carthage in Flames (1960), Un militare e mezzo (1960), and The Story of Joseph and His Brethren (1961) with Geoffrey Horne and Robert Morley, directed by Irving Rapper. Girotti had support parts in The Wonders of Aladdin (1961) with Donald O'Connor and directed by Henry Levin and Mario Bava, Pecado de amor (1961), Seven Seas to Calais (1962) with Rod Taylor, and The Shortest Day (1963). ... Source: Article "Terence Hill" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
Filmography
112 credits
The Leopard
Movie • 1963
Count Cavriaghi
All the Way Boys
Movie • 1972
Plata
Miami Supercops
Movie • 1985
Doug Bennett / Jay Donell
Last of the Renegades
Movie • 1964
Lieutenant Robert Merril
A Genius, Two Friends, and an Idiot
Movie • 1975
Joe Thanks
The Hassled Hooker
Movie • 1972
Marco Manin
Lucky Luke
Movie • 1991
Lucky Luke
Super Fuzz
Movie • 1980
Dave Speed
Whom the Gods Wish to Destroy
Movie • 1966
Giselher
Whom the Gods Wish to Destroy 2
Movie • 1967
Giselher
Who Finds a Friend Finds a Treasure
Movie • 1981
Alan Lloyd
Odds and Evens
Movie • 1978
Johnny Firpo
Don Camillo
Movie • 1984
Don Camillo
The Two Missionaries
Movie • 1974
Father / Padre J.
Crime Busters
Movie • 1977
Matt Kirby
Go for It
Movie • 1983
Rosco Frazer / Steinberg
Watch Out, We're Mad
Movie • 1974
Kid
Trinity Is Still My Name
Movie • 1971
Trinity
Renegade
Movie • 1987
Luke
Ace High
Movie • 1968
Cat Stevens
Double Trouble
Movie • 1984
Elliot Vance / Sebastiano Coímbra
March or Die
Movie • 1977
Marco Segrain
Boot Hill
Movie • 1969
Cat Stevens
I'm for the Hippopotamus
Movie • 1979
Slim
My Name Is Nobody
Movie • 1973
Nobody
Troublemakers
Movie • 1994
Travis
Frontier Hellcat
Movie • 1964
Baker Jr.
Flaming Frontier
Movie • 1965
Toby
They Call Me Trinity
Movie • 1970
Trinity
God Forgives... I Don't!
Movie • 1967
Cat Stevens
Vier Fäuste lassen's krachen
Movie • 2004
Cerasella
Movie • 1959
Bruno
Mr. Billion
Movie • 1977
Guido Falcone
Virtual Weapon
Movie • 1997
Skims
Django, Prepare a Coffin
Movie • 1968
Django / Joe
Wrath of the Wind
Movie • 1970
Marco
The Crazy Westerners
Movie • 1967
Texas Joe IF: Black Star
Doc West
Movie • 2009
Doc West
Rampage at Apache Wells
Movie • 1965
Richard Forsythe
Blackie the Pirate
Movie • 1971
Blackie
Duel at Sundown
Movie • 1965
Larry McGow
Man of the East
Movie • 1972
Sir Thomas Fitzpatrick Phillip Moore
Rita the Field Marshal
Movie • 1967
Prof. Giuliano Fineschi
Doc West II : Triggerman
Movie • 2009
Doc West
They call me Lucky Luke - Ma Dalton
Movie • 1991
Lucky Luke
Joseph and His Brethren
Movie • 1961
Benjamin
The Tough and the Mighty
Movie • 1969
Graziano Cassitta
Lucky Luke 2
Movie • 1992
Lucky Luke (archive footage)
Lazzarella
Movie • 1957
Luciano Pico
The Sword and the Cross
Movie • 1958
Lazzaro
Carthage in Flames
Movie • 1960
Tsour
Seven Seas to Calais
Movie • 1962
Babington
Abandoned
Movie • 1955
Wounded Estray
Ruf der Wälder
Movie • 1965
Marcello Scalzi
Io non protesto, io amo
Movie • 1967
Gabriele
ORG
Movie • 1979
Zohommm!!!
Lui era Trinità
Movie • 2023
Self
On l'appelle Terence Hill
Movie • 2022
Self
Shots in 3/4 Time
Movie • 1965
Enrico
Klaus Kinski: I'm not an actor
Movie • 2000
Nobody (archive footage)
The Wonders of Aladdin
Movie • 1961
Prince Moluk
The Golden Vein
Movie • 1955
Corrado
L'uomo che sognava con le aquile
Movie • 2006
Rocco Ventura
Fast and Sexy
Movie • 1958
Ciccillo
The Wide Blue Road
Movie • 1957
Renato
Voice of Silence
Movie • 1953
Boy at the barrier
Divisione Folgore
Movie • 1954
Delavigne
Vacation with a Gangster
Movie • 1952
Giannini
My Name Is Thomas
Movie • 2018
Thomas
Das Schwert der Nibelungen
Movie • 1976
Giselher
A Soldier and a Half
Movie • 1960
Giorgio Strazzonelli
Hannibal
Movie • 1959
Quintilius
They Called Him Spencer
Movie • 2017
Self
Bud's Best - Die Welt des Bud Spencer
Movie • 2012
Self
Mamma sconosciuta
Movie • 1956
Gianni Martini
I vagabondi delle stelle
Movie • 1956
Franco
Spavaldi e innamorati
Movie • 1959
Paolo
Guaglione
Movie • 1956
Franco Danieli
Il Novelliere - Il salotto di Oscar Wilde
Movie • 1958
Dorian Gray
Il padrone delle ferriere
Movie • 1959
Octave de Beaulieu
Juke Box - Screams of Love
Movie • 1959
Othello
Pecado de amor
Movie • 1961
Ángel Vega
The Shortest Day
Movie • 1963
Soldato austriaco
Denn sie kennen kein Erbarmen - Der Italowestern
Movie • 2006
Self (archive footage)
Piedone nyomában
Movie • 2018
Self
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Movie • 1971
Townsperson (uncredited)
Die Terence Hill Story
Movie • 2019
Self
The Last Movie Painter
Movie • 2020
Self
It Happened in the Park
Movie • 1953
A school friend of Anna Maria (segment: Pi-greco) (uncredited)
The Age of Indiscretion
Movie • 1953
(uncredited)
Nobody is Perfect
Movie • 2005
Self / Self - Interviewee
Le 1000 vite di Bud Spencer
Movie • 2019
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Terence Hill: Pazifist und Cowboy
Movie • 2025
Self
The Street of Hope
Movie • 1953
as Girolamo Girotti (unconfirmed)
Telespiele
TV • 1977
Self
Ulisse - The pleasure of discovery
TV • 2001
Self
Lucky Luke
TV • 1992
Lucky Luke
Father Matteo
TV • 2000
Don Matteo
One Step from Heaven
TV • 2011
Pietro
L'uomo che cavalcava nel buio
TV • 2009
Rocco
Wetten, dass..?
TV • 1981
Self
Rischiatutto
TV • 1970
L'uomo che sognava con le aquile
TV • 2006
Rocco Ventura
Leute heute
TV • 1997
Self
Bambi
TV • 1948
Self
Auf los geht's los
TV • 1977
Self
Volle Kanne
TV • 1999
Self
Champs-Elysées
TV • 1982
Self
Aktuelle Schaubude
TV • 1957
Self
Sacrée Soirée
TV • 1987
Self
Abendshow
TV • 2017
Self
Film '72
TV • 1971
Self