Fosco Giachetti

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Fosco Giachetti
Born	(1900-03-28)28 March 1900 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
Died	22 December 1974(1974-12-22) (aged 74) Rome, Italy
Years active	1934–1974

Fosco Giachetti (28 March 1900, Sesto Fiorentino – 22 December 1974, Rome) was an Italian actor.

He was the brother of the actor Gianfranco Giachetti.

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 a galleria was opened in his honor.

Selected filmography

Giuseppe Verdi (1938)

Awards

Venice Film Festival Best Actor for Bengasi, 1942

External links

Fosco Giachetti at the Internet Movie Database

Authority control	VIAF: 90301242 ICCU: IT\ICCU\RAVV\089899

Persondata
Name	Giachetti, Fosco
Alternative names
Short description	Actor
Date of birth	1900-03-28
Place of birth	Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
Date of death	22 December 1974(1974-12-22) (aged 74)
Place of death	Rome, Italy

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