Fosco Giachetti
Actor
Biography
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.
Filmography
The Inheritor
as Luigi Balazzi 1973
Love and Larceny
as General Benito Mesci 1960
The Damned
as Garosi 1947
Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal
as Captain Massinissa 1937
Scipio the African
as Aulio Gellio 1971
The Glass Castle
as Laurent Bertal (Italian version) 1950
Samba
as João Fernandes de Oliveira 1965
The Fury of Achilles
as Priamos 1962
The Virtuous Bigamist
as Antonio 1956
The Siege of the Alcazar
as Cap. Vela 1940
Nothing
1947
Bengasi
as Hauptmann Enrico Berti / Il capitano Enrico Berti 1942
Condemned to Hang
as Lucero 1953
White Squadron
as Il capitano Santelia 1936
We the Living, Part One
as Andrei Taganov 1942
The Wastrel
as Captain Hugh Hardy 1961