Fosco Giachetti
1900-03-28 ( 125 years old ) in Sesto 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.

Movies

The Inheritor 1973-03-22
The Conformist 1970-07-01
Samba 1965-02-01
Taras Bulba 1962-01-31
The Wastrel 1961-02-24
Re Lear 1960-07-01
Un uomo facile 1959-04-24
Romanticismo 1949-12-14
L'Altra 1949-07-06
Vento d'Africa 1949-01-01
Four Women 1947-12-08
Nothing 1947-11-11
The Damned 1947-09-19
Fear No Evil 1945-09-21
Scorned Flesh 1943-04-14
Labbra serrate 1942-11-13
A Pistol Shot 1942-08-31
Bengasi 1942-01-10
Senza cielo 1940-11-24
The Sinner 1940-01-10
Heart of Tramp 1936-04-02
White Squadron 1936-01-02