Fosco Giachetti profile
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Fosco Giachetti

28th March 1900 Sesto Fiorentino - Tuscany - Italy Acting

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.

60 Movies 4 TV Shows 73 Credits
Filmography

Movies & TV Shows

Samba poster
Samba 1st February 1965 as João Fernandes de Oliveira
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L'altra 24th October 1947 as Pianista Marco de Santis
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Bengasi 10th January 1942 as Hauptmann Enrico Berti / Il capitano Enrico Berti
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The Sinner 10th January 1940 as Salvatore, fratello di Adele