Terence Hill
Terence Hill (born Mario Girotti; 29 March 1939) is an Italian actor, film director, screenwriter and film producer. He began his career as a child actor and gained international fame for starring roles in action and comedy films, many with his long-time film partner and friend Bud Spencer. During the height of his popularity, Hill was among Italy's highest-paid actors.
His most widely seen films include comic and standard spaghetti Westerns, some based on popular novels by German author Karl May about the Wild West. Of these, the most famous are Lo chiamavano Trinità (They Call Me Trinity, 1970); ...continuavano a chiamarlo Trinità (Trinity Is Still My Name, 1971), the highest grossing Italian film at that time; and Il mio nome è Nessuno (My Name Is Nobody, 1973), co-starring Henry Fonda. Hill also went on to a successful television career in Italy, most notably playing the title character in the long-running Rai 1 series Don Matteo from 2000 until 2022.
Hill was born on 29 March 1939 in Venice, Italy. Hill's mother, Hildegard Girotti (née Thieme), was from Dresden, Germany; his father, Girolamo Girotti, was Italian from Amelia, Umbria, and a chemist by occupation. During his childhood, Hill lived in the small town of Lommatzsch, Saxony. As a child, he experienced the bombing of Dresden, which was traumatic for him. He was there up to the End of World War II in Europe.
He was discovered at the age of 12 by Italian filmmaker Dino Risi at a swimming meet, and he became a child actor, appearing in Risi's Vacation with a Gangster (1951) as Gianni, the orphan gang leader. "They were looking for a boy gang leader and they found me", he later said.
He had small roles in Voice of Silence (1953) with Jean Marais, Too Young for Love (1953), and It Happened in the Park (1953). He was in Golden Vein (1954) with Märta Torén and Richard Basehart, The Abandoned (1955) and Folgore Division (1955).
Girotti had his first lead in Guaglione (1956). He could also be seen in Mamma sconosciuta (1956), I vagabondi delle stelle (1956), La grande strada azzurra (1956) with Yves Montand and Alida Valli, and Lazzarella (1957).
Girotti did Anna of Brooklyn (1958) with Gina Lollobrigida, The Sword and the Cross (1958) with Yvonne de Carlo (playing Lazarus of Bethany), and a TV version of The Picture of Dorian Gray (1958).
He had support parts in Il padrone delle ferriere (1959) with Virna Lisi, Juke box - Urli d'amore (1959), and Hannibal (1959) with Victor Mature and Carlo Pedersoli, who would later become known as Bud Spencer. Girotti had the lead roles in Spavaldi e innamorati (1959) and Cerasella (1959), a teen comedy.
It was back to support roles with Carthage in Flames (1960), Un militare e mezzo (1960), and The Story of Joseph and His Brethren (1961) with Geoffrey Horne and Robert Morley, directed by Irving Rapper.
Girotti had support parts in The Wonders of Aladdin (1961) with Donald O'Connor and directed by Henry Levin and Mario Bava, Pecado de amor (1961), Seven Seas to Calais (1962) with Rod Taylor, and The Shortest Day (1963). ...
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Photos
Movies (96)
The Socceritos
2026 · Soccerito Terence
Terence Hill - Pazifist und Cowboy
2025 · Self (archive footage)
Terence Hill, Bud Spencer… & me
2025 · Self (Archive)
Lui era Trinità
2023 · Self
On l'appelle Terence Hill
2022 · Self
Caterina Caselli - Una vita, 100 vite
2021
The Last Movie Painter
2020 · Self
Le 1000 vite di Bud Spencer
2019 · Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Die Terence Hill Story
2019 · Self
Piedone nyomában
2018 · Self
My Name Is Thomas
2018 · Thomas, Director, Writer
They Called Him Spencer
2017 · Self
Bud's Best - Die Welt des Bud Spencer
2012 · Self
Doc West II : Triggerman
2009 · Doc West, Director
Doc West
2009 · Doc West, Director
Denn sie kennen kein Erbarmen - Der Italowestern
2006 · Self (archive footage)
L'uomo che sognava con le aquile
2006 · Rocco Ventura
Nobody is Perfect
2005 · Self / Self - Interviewee
Vier Fäuste lassen's krachen
2004
Klaus Kinski: I'm not an actor
2000 · Nobody (archive footage)
Virtual Weapon
1997 · Skims
Troublemakers
1994 · Travis, Director
Lucky Luke 2
1992 · Lucky Luke (archive footage)
Lucky Luke
1991 · Lucky Luke, Director
They call me Lucky Luke - Ma Dalton
1991 · Lucky Luke
Renegade
1987 · Luke, Story
Miami Supercops
1985 · Doug Bennett / Jay Donell
Double Trouble
1984 · Elliot Vance / Sebastiano Coímbra
Don Camillo
1984 · Don Camillo, Director, Producer
Go for It
1983 · Rosco Frazer / Steinberg
Who Finds a Friend Finds a Treasure
1981 · Alan Lloyd
Super Fuzz
1980 · Dave Speed
I'm for the Hippopotamus
1979 · Slim
ORG
1979 · Zohommm!!!, Producer
Odds and Evens
1978 · Johnny Firpo
March or Die
1977 · Marco Segrain
Crime Busters
1977 · Matt Kirby
Mr. Billion
1977 · Guido Falcone
Das Schwert der Nibelungen
1976 · Giselher
A Genius, Two Friends, and an Idiot
1975 · Joe Thanks
The Two Missionaries
1974 · Padre J.
Watch Out, We're Mad
1974 · Kid
My Name Is Nobody
1973 · Nobody
All the Way Boys
1972 · Plata
Man of the East
1972 · Sir Thomas Fitzpatrick Phillip Moore
The Hassled Hooker
1972 · Marco Manin
Trinity Is Still My Name
1971 · Trinità
Blackie the Pirate
1971 · Blackie
They Call Me Trinity
1970 · Trinità, Stunts
Wrath of the Wind
1970 · Marco
Boot Hill
1969 · Cat Stevens
The Tough and the Mighty
1969 · Graziano Cassitta
Ace High
1968 · Cat Stevens
Django, Prepare a Coffin
1968 · Django / Joe
Rita the Field Marshal
1967 · Prof. Giuliano Fineschi
God Forgives... I Don't!
1967 · Cat Stevens
The Crazy Westerners
1967 · Black Star
Io non protesto, io amo
1967 · Gabriele
Whom the Gods Wish to Destroy 2
1967 · Giselher
Whom the Gods Wish to Destroy
1966 · Giselher
Flaming Frontier
1965 · Toby
Ruf der Wälder
1965 · Marcello Scalzi
Duel at Sundown
1965 · Larry McGow
Rampage at Apache Wells
1965 · Richard Forsythe
Shots in 3/4 Time
1965 · Enrico
Frontier Hellcat
1964 · Baker Jr.
Last of the Renegades
1964 · Lieutenant Robert Merril
The Leopard
1963 · Count Cavriaghi
The Shortest Day
1963 · Soldato austriaco
Seven Seas to Calais
1962 · Babington
Pecado de amor
1961 · Ángel Vega
The Wonders of Aladdin
1961 · Prince Moluk
Joseph and His Brethren
1961 · Benjamin
A Soldier and a Half
1960 · Giorgio Strazzonelli
Carthage in Flames
1960 · Tsour
Hannibal
1959 · Quintilius
Cerasella
1959 · Bruno
Juke Box - Screams of Love
1959 · Othello
Spavaldi e innamorati
1959 · Paolo
Il padrone delle ferriere
1959 · Octave de Beaulieu
The Sword and the Cross
1958 · Lazzaro
Fast and Sexy
1958 · Ciccillo
Il Novelliere - Il salotto di Oscar Wilde
1958 · Dorian Gray
Lazzarella
1957 · Luciano Pico
The Wide Blue Road
1957 · Renato
Guaglione
1956 · Franco Danieli
I vagabondi delle stelle
1956 · Franco
Mamma sconosciuta
1956 · Gianni Martini
The Golden Vein
1955 · Corrado
Abandoned
1955 · Wounded Estray
Divisione Folgore
1954 · Delavigne
It Happened in the Park
1953 · Anna Maria's Classmate (segment "Pi-greco") (uncredited)
The Age of Indiscretion
1953 · (uncredited)
The Street of Hope
1953 · as Girolamo Girotti (unconfirmed)
Voice of Silence
1953 · Boy at Barrier
Vacation with a Gangster
1952 · Giannini
TV shows (18)
Abendshow
2017 · Self
One Step from Heaven
2011 · Pietro
L'uomo che cavalcava nel buio
2009 · Rocco
L'uomo che sognava con le aquile
2006 · Rocco Ventura
Ulisse - The Pleasure of Discovery
2001 · Self
Father Matteo
2000 · Don Matteo
Volle Kanne
1999 · Self
Leute heute
1997 · Self
Lucky Luke
1992 · Lucky Luke, Director
Sacrée soirée
1987 · Self
Champs-Elysées
1982 · Self
Wetten, dass..?
1981 · Self
Telespiele
1977 · Self
Auf los geht's los
1977 · Self
Film '72
1971 · Self
Rischiatutto
1970
Aktuelle Schaubude
1957 · Self
Bambi
1948 · Self