Fosco Giachetti
Birthday: 1900-03-28 | Place of Birth: Sesto Fiorentino - Tuscany - ItalyFosco 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
Acting
Role
as The Colonel
as Aulio Gellio
as Alberto
as Libero
as Bertuccio
as Il maggiore Stone
as João Fernandes de Oliveira
as Ludovico Buonarroti
as Abramo
as Priamos
as Voivode
as Voivode
as Captain Hugh Hardy
as General Benito Mesci
as Antonio
as Doctor boxing
as Giuseppe Verdi
as Lucero
as Antonio Berti
as Laurent Bertal (Italian version)
as Tito Ansperti
as Garosi
as Toniani
as Pianista Marco de Santis
