Fosco Giachetti

Known for ActingBorn 1900-03-28Died 1974-12-22Sesto Fiorentino - Tuscany - Italy

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Plains of Battle

Romanticismo

L'abito nero da sposa

Ridi pagliaccio

Senza cielo

Creature della notte

The Life of Giuseppe Verdi

David Copperfield

Un uomo facile

Una lettera all'alba

Crossroads of Passion

L'altra

Pride

L'avvocato difensore

Il trattato scomparso

Il Conte di Montecristo

A Pistol Shot

We the Living, Part Two

We the Living, Part One

Giacobbe ed Esau

Conqueror of the Orient

Vento d'Africa

Four Women

Life Begins Anew

Luce nelle tenebre

Heart of Tramp

Fiordalisi d'oro

The Conformist

Notte di tempesta

Taras Bulba

Love and Larceny

Vita di Michelangelo

The Nun of Monza

La notte dell'innominato

Headlights in the Fog

Quattro rose rosse

Scipio the African

The Counterfeiters

The Brothers Karamazov

Farewell, My Beautiful Naples

Fear No Evil

Scorned Flesh

Labbra serrate

L'amante segreta

La figlia del corsaro verde

Napoli che non muore

The Woman of Monte Carlo

The Inheritor