He was discovered by Italian filmmaker Dino Risi at a swimming meet at the age of 12, and became a child actor, appearing in Risi's Il viale della speranza (1953), billed as "Girolamo Girotti". He was there through the end of World War II (1943–1945) and survived the Bombing of Dresden. ĭuring his childhood, Hill lived in the small town of Lommatzsch, Saxony. Hill's mother, Hildegard Girotti ( née Thieme), was German, from Dresden his father, Girolamo Girotti, was Italian, and a chemist by occupation. Hill was born on 29 March 1939 in Venice, Italy. Hill, whose stage name was the product of a publicity stunt by film producers, also went on to a successful television career in Italy. His film Django, Prepare a Coffin, shot in 1968 by director Ferdinando Baldi, and co-starring Horst Frank and George Eastman, was featured at the 64th Venice Film Festival in 2007.
Of these, the most famous are Lo chiamavano Trinità ( They Call Me Trinity, 1970) …continuavano a chiamarlo Trinità (… they kept calling him Trinity, 1971), the highest grossing Italian film to date and Il mio nome è Nessuno ( My Name Is Nobody, 1973), co-starring Henry Fonda. Hill's most widely seen films include comic and standard Westerns all'Italiana ("Italian-style Westerns", colloquially called " Spaghetti Westerns"), some based on popular novels by German author Karl May about the Wild West. During the height of his popularity Hill was among Italy's highest-paid actors. Hill started his career as a child actor and gained international fame for starring roles in action and comedy films, many with longtime film partner and friend Bud Spencer. At the time, the most support they had was from outside, foreign sources such as other Latin American film industries that formed part of the “Third World Cinema”.Terence Hill (born Mario Girotti 29 March 1939) is an Italian actor, film director, screenwriter and film producer. (Institute of Uruguayan-Brazilian Culture) along with other cultural institutions were shut down during the dictatorship– they had no copyright protections, and lacked formally trained people, money and equipment. Mario Handler urgently points out that they had no economic or cultural support whatsoever –the I.C.U.B. 231 Despite being granted with the powerful opportunity of autonomously creating films, these filmmakers had several obstacles ahead of them. This in turn gave them the advantage of avoiding a common mistake which other revolutionary filmmakers make, which was attempting to create revolutionary cinema within the bourgeoisie frameworks of production, which in turn “trapped them inside the fortress of official cinema.” Towards a Third Cinema pg. Unlike their Latin American colleagues, Uruguayan filmmakers had no previous film industry and therefore had no previous models of production, distribution, and ideology. Besides westerns, Hilton appeared in numerous "gialli" (mostly in the 1970s), and in more conventional crime and action films after the spaghetti western craze ended. His most famous character is arguably that of the gunslinger Allelujah (or Hallelujah) in They Call Me Hallelujah (1971), created with director Giuliano Carnimeo, who also directed the sequel involving the same character (Return of Hallelujah, 1972) as well as Man Called Invincible (1973), in which Hilton played Tresette, another of his famous roles.
Soon Hilton became one of the major stars of spaghetti westerns, eventually playing Sartana in the last film of the "Sartana" series, Sartana's Here… Trade Your Pistol for a Coffin, after Gianni Garko left the role.
In the following year he participated in seven productions, enhancing his international reputation and garnering him significant attention, especially in Spain. In 1967 he appeared to even greater effect as "Stranger" in Any Gun Can Play (also known as Go Kill and Come Back) with Edd Byrnes and Gilbert Roland. His career in the Euro-western genre was launched by director Lucio Fulci with the film The Brute and the Beast (1966), starring Franco Nero, where his supporting role made him an instant icon in the genre.
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