Terence Hill
Gender: Male
Born: 29th March 1939 (currently 73 years old)
Nationality: Italy
TV programs: Don Matteo, Lucky Luke
Movies: My Name Is Nobody, They Call Me Trinity, Boot Hill, All the Way, Boys, Troublemakers, The Leopard, A Genius, Two Partners and a Dupe, March or Die, Trinity Is STILL My Name!, The Abandoned, Super Fuzz, Ace High, Renegade, Go for It, Miami Supercops, Mr. Billion, Double Trouble, The Wide Blue Road, A Friend Is a Treasure, God Forgives... I Don't!, Watch Out, We're Mad, Rita of the West, Crime Busters, Hill's Trinity, Doc West, , Duell vor Sonnenuntergang, Seven Seas to Calais, Triggerman, Man of the East, Blackie the Pirate, Rampage at Apache Wells, Il viale della speranza, Voice of Silence, Io sto con gli ippopotami, Odds and Evens, Anna di Brooklyn, A Genius, Two Partners and a Dupe
Terence Hill (born Mario Girotti; 29 March 1939) is an Italian actor. He is best known for starring in multiple action and western films (so-called spaghetti westerns) together with his longtime film partner Bud Spencer.
Hill was born in Venice, Italy. As a child, he lived in the small town of Lommatzsch, Germany from 1943 to 1945 during World War II, surviving the Dresden Bombing. His mother was German, his father an Italian chemist. After being discovered by Italian filmmaker Dino Risi for Vacanze col Gangster (Holiday with the Gangster, 1951) at an early age of 12, he had, after 27 movies in Italy (including Gli sbandati), a major film role in Luchino Visconti's The Leopard (Il Gattopardo, 1963). In 1964, he returned to Germany and there, appeared in a series of Heimatfilmen, adventure and western films, made after novels by German author Karl May. In 1967, he returned to Italy to act in God Forgives... I Don't! (Dio perdona... Io no!, 1968). He changed his name to Terence Hill in the same year. The name was made up, as a publicity stunt, by the film producers; he had to choose from a list of twenty names and picked the one with his mother's initials. In a Q&A, he dismissed as a
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