马西莫·吉洛蒂 (1918) Massimo Girotti
演员
Manly, chiseled, exceedingly handsome, very agile Massimo Girotti was
an engineering student and polo/swimming star before entering films in
1939. He began auspiciously in serious leads, most notably
Roberto Rossellini's
Desiderio (1946),
Luchino Visconti's
Ossessione (1943) and
Vittorio De Sica's
La porta del cielo (1945),
while his physical stature and all-round athletism were put to good use
in actioneers such as Spartaco (1953) in
which he played the pre-Kirk Douglas slave-turned-leader role of
Spartacus. By the 60s, however, Girotti was reduced to support roles in
swashbuckling adventure and badly-dubbed sand-and-spear spectacles,
appearing only occasionally in well-mounted films of quality, such as
Pier Paolo Pasolini's
Teorema (1968),
Bernardo Bertolucci's
Ultimo tango a Parigi (1972)
and Visconti's
L'innocente (1976). He died only
a few weeks before the release of his last film,
Ferzan Özpetek's
La finestra di fronte (2003).
