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

House of Ricordi

Headlights in the Fog

The Conformist

Ridi pagliaccio

Nothing

Love and Larceny

The Virtuous Bigamist

Napoli che non muore

Filmography

1973 The Inheritor

as Luigi Balazzi

1971 Scipio the African

as Aulio Gellio

1970 The Conformist

as The Colonel

---- Ricorda con rabbia

as Colonnello Redfern

---- Quattro rose rosse

as Antonio Berti

1967 Another Man's Wife

as Alberto

1967 I racconti del faro

as Libero

1966 Il Conte di Montecristo

as Bertuccio

1965 David Copperfield

as Daniel Peggotty

1965 Samba

as João Fernandes de Oliveira

1964 Vita di Michelangelo

as Ludovico Buonarroti

1963 Jacob: The Man Who Fought with God

as Abramo

1963 Giacobbe ed Esau

as Isacco - Isaac

1962 La notte dell'innominato

1962 The Fury of Achilles

as Priamos

1962 Plains of Battle

as Voivode

1962 The Nun of Monza

as Monsignor Barca

1962 Taras Bulba