Massimo Girotti

Massimo Girotti

Massimo Girotti (18 May 1918 – 5 January 2003) was an Italian film actor whose career spanned seven decades.Born in Mogliano, in the province of Macerata, Girotti developed his athletic physique by swimming and playing polo. While studying engineering, he attracted the attention of Mario Soldati, who offered him a small part in the film Dora Nelson (1939), but it was not until later, in Alessandro Blasetti's La corona di ferro (The Iron Crown) (1941) and Roberto Rossellini's Un Pilota ritorna (A Pilot Returns) (1942), that he began to make an impression as a serious actor. In 1943 came a turning point in his career when Luchino Visconti cast him opposite the torrid Clara Calamai in Ossessione (Obsession), an earlier adaptation of the same novel on which Hollywood's The Postman Always Rings Twice is based. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Massimo Girotti has received more than 116,108 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 23 in 2019). Massimo Girotti is the 1,672nd most popular actor (down from 1,417th in 2019), the 2,090th most popular biography from Italy (down from 1,943rd in 2019) and the 57th most popular Italian Actor.