Fosco Giachetti
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.
Known For
The roles that explain the career.
Filmography
26 credits across 2 departments.
| Year | Title | Role | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1973 | The Inheritor | Luigi Balazzi | Film |
| 1971 | Scipio the African | Aulio Gellio | Film |
| 1971 | The Conformist | The Colonel | Film |
| 1967 | Another Man's Wife | Alberto | Film |
| 1967 | I racconti del faro | Libero | TV |
| 1966 | The Count of Monte Cristo | Bertuccio | TV |
| 1965 | Samba | João Fernandes de Oliveira | Film |
| 1962 | Plains of Battle | Voivode | Film |
| 1962 | The Fury of Achilles | Priamos | Film |
| 1961 | The Wastrel | Captain Hugh Hardy | Film |
| 1960 | Love and Larceny | General Benito Mesci | Film |
| 1956 | The Virtuous Bigamist | Antonio | Film |
| 1954 | House of Ricordi | Giuseppe Verdi | Film |
| 1953 | Condemned to Hang | Lucero | Film |
| 1950 | The Glass Castle | Laurent Bertal (Italian version) | Film |
| 1947 | Four Women | Film | |
| 1947 | The Damned | Garosi | Film |
| 1947 | The Brothers Karamazov | Dimitri | Film |
| 1947 | Nothing | Film | |
| 1946 | Notte di tempesta | Domenico | Film |
| 1943 | Scorned Flesh | Paolo Vieri | Film |
| 1943 | Una piccola moglie | Giulio | Film |
| 1942 | We the Living, Part One | Andrei Taganov | Film |
| 1938 | The Life of Giuseppe Verdi | Giuseppe Verdi | Film |
| 1937 | Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal | Captain Massinissa | Film |
| 1936 | Luci sommerse | Lord Spider | Film |
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