Terence Hill
Known for: Acting
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
Series
Leute heute
Self
1997
Volle Kanne
Self
1999
Series
Wetten, dass..?
Self
1981
Series
Father Matteo
Don Matteo
2000
Series
Champs-Elysées
Self
1982
Series
Sacrée soirée
Self
1987
Film '72
Self
1971
Series
Bambi
Self
1948
Series
Ulisse - The Pleasure of Discovery
Self
2001
Series
Aktuelle Schaubude
Self
1957
Series
One Step from Heaven
Pietro
2011
Film
They Call Me Trinity
Trinity
1970
Film
Go for It
Rosco Frazer / Steinberg
1983
Film
Trinity Is Still My Name
Trinity
1971
Series
Auf los geht's los
Self
1977
Film
The Leopard
Count Cavriaghi
1963
Abendshow
Self
2017
Film
My Name Is Nobody
Nobody
1973
Series
Rischiatutto
1970
Film
Last of the Renegades
Lieutenant Robert Merril
1964
Film
Watch Out, We're Mad
Kid
1974
Film
Crime Busters
Matt Kirby
1977
Series
Lucky Luke
Lucky Luke
1992
Film
Super Fuzz
Dave Speed
1980
Film
Who Finds a Friend Finds a Treasure
Alan Lloyd
1981
Film
I'm for the Hippopotamus
Slim
1979
Film
Miami Supercops
Doug Bennett / Jay Donell
1985
Film
Double Trouble
Elliot Vance / Sebastiano Coímbra
1984
Film
All the Way Boys
Plata
1972
Film
A Genius, Two Friends, and an Idiot
Joe Thanks
1975
Film
Troublemakers
Travis
1994
Film
Blackie the Pirate
Blackie
1971
Film
Django, Prepare a Coffin
Django / Joe
1968
Film
March or Die
Marco Segrain
1977
Film
The Two Missionaries
Padre J.
1974
Film
Ace High
Cat Stevens
1968
Film
Flaming Frontier
Toby
1965
Film
God Forgives... I Don't!
Cat Stevens
1967
Film
Boot Hill
Cat Stevens
1969
Film
Rampage at Apache Wells
Richard Forsythe
1965
Film
Frontier Hellcat
Baker Jr.
1964
Telespiele
Self
1977
Film
Doc West II : Triggerman
Doc West
2009
Film
Lucky Luke
Lucky Luke
1991
Film
Virtual Weapon
Skims
1997
Film
Renegade
Luke
1987
Film
Man of the East
Sir Thomas Fitzpatrick Phillip Moore
1972
Film
It Happened in the Park
Anna Maria's Classmate (segment "Pi-greco") (uncredited)
1953
Film
Mr. Billion
Guido Falcone
1977
Film
The Wonders of Aladdin
Prince Moluk
1961
Film
Hannibal
Quintilius
1959
Series
L'uomo che sognava con le aquile
Rocco Ventura
2006
Film
The Crazy Westerners
Black Star
1967
Film
Don Camillo
Don Camillo
1984
Film
Rita the Field Marshal
Prof. Giuliano Fineschi
1967
Film
The Shortest Day
Soldato austriaco
1963
Film
Whom the Gods Wish to Destroy 2
Giselher
1967
Film
Whom the Gods Wish to Destroy
Giselher
1966
Film
Wrath of the Wind
Marco
1970
Film
Klaus Kinski: I'm not an actor
Nobody (archive footage)
2000
Film
Doc West
Doc West
2009
Film
Pecado de amor
Ángel Vega
1961
Film
Joseph and His Brethren
Benjamin
1961
Film
Divisione Folgore
Delavigne
1954
Film
Carthage in Flames
Tsour
1960
Film
Terence Hill, Bud Spencer… & me
Self (Archive)
2025
Film
Fast and Sexy
Ciccillo
1958
Film
ORG
Zohommm!!!
1979
Film
The Sword and the Cross
Lazzaro
1958
Series
L'uomo che cavalcava nel buio
Rocco
2009
Film
Seven Seas to Calais
Babington
1962
Film
Guaglione
Franco Danieli
1956
Film
My Name Is Thomas
Thomas
2018
Film
The Hassled Hooker
Marco Manin
1972
Film
Vacation with a Gangster
Giannini
1952
Film
The Tough and the Mighty
Graziano Cassitta
1969
Film
Juke Box - Screams of Love
Othello
1959
Film
I vagabondi delle stelle
Franco
1956
Film
Ruf der Wälder
Marcello Scalzi
1965
Film
A Soldier and a Half
Giorgio Strazzonelli
1960
Film
Cerasella
Bruno
1959
Film
The Wide Blue Road
Renato
1957
Film
Piedone nyomában
Self
2018
Film
Abandoned
Wounded Estray
1955
Film
Das Schwert der Nibelungen
Giselher
1976
Film
The Socceritos
Soccerito Terence
2026
Film
The Age of Indiscretion
(uncredited)
1953
Film
They Called Him Spencer
Self
2017
Film
Il padrone delle ferriere
Octave de Beaulieu
1959
Film
The Golden Vein
Corrado
1955
Film
Lazzarella
Luciano Pico
1957
Film
Io non protesto, io amo
Gabriele
1967
Film
Terence Hill: Pazifist und Cowboy
Self
2025
Film
The Last Movie Painter
Self
2020
Film
Voice of Silence
Boy at Barrier
1953
Film
Vier Fäuste lassen's krachen
2004
Film
Shots in 3/4 Time
Enrico
1965
Film
The Street of Hope
as Girolamo Girotti (unconfirmed)
1953
Film
They call me Lucky Luke - Ma Dalton
Lucky Luke
1991
Film
Lucky Luke 2
Lucky Luke (archive footage)
1992
Film
Spavaldi e innamorati
Paolo
1959
Film
Bud's Best - Die Welt des Bud Spencer
Self
2012
Film
Denn sie kennen kein Erbarmen - Der Italowestern
Self (archive footage)
2006
Film
Mamma sconosciuta
Gianni Martini
1956
Film
Lui era Trinità
Self
2023
Film
Le 1000 vite di Bud Spencer
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2019
Film
Il Novelliere - Il salotto di Oscar Wilde
Dorian Gray
1958
Film
Duel at Sundown
Larry McGow
1965
Film
Die Terence Hill Story
Self
2019
Film
Caterina Caselli - Una vita, 100 vite
2021
Film
Nobody is Perfect
Self / Self - Interviewee
2005
Film
L'uomo che sognava con le aquile
Rocco Ventura
2006
Film
On l'appelle Terence Hill
Self
2022
Film
Odds and Evens
Johnny Firpo
1978