
Fosco Giachetti
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.
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TV Shows
Known For
63 Credits
Senza cielo
as Mario
1940

The Conformist
as The Colonel
1971

Il Conte di Montecristo
as Bertuccio
1966

The Wastrel
as Captain Hugh Hardy
1961

The Fury of Achilles
as Priamos
1962

David Copperfield
as Daniel Peggotty
1965

The Glass Castle
as Laurent Bertal (Italian version)
1950

The Damned
as Garosi
1947

I racconti del faro
as Libero
1967

Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal
as Captain Massinissa
1937

Love and Larceny
as General Benito Mesci
1960

The Siege of the Alcazar
as Cap. Vela
1940