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February 15, 2018
He has always been remembered for his western adventures
with Bud Spencer. Famous and with a past full of films and collaborations,
today the face of Terence Hill is that of Don Matteo, the Rai TV series on air
since 2000. At the Mario Girotti registry office, Terence Hill, 1.82 cm high
for 77 kilos weight, born in Venice in 1939, but soon moved to Germany,
returning to Italy only at the end of the war. He made his film debut at the
age of 12 (a small part in a film by Dino Risi, Vacation with the gangster).
The real launch of his career as an actor was, however, the participation
(though not the main protagonist) in the famous film by Luchino Visconti, Il
Gattopardo. Much of his success is linked to the many films shot with Carlo
Pedersoli (better known as Bud Spencer). His success is linked above all to
some titles like "neo-spaghetti western" such as the unforgettable
"They Call Me Trinity" (from 1970), and the sequel "Trinity is
STILL My Name", paired with Bud Spencer. At the time the trend was to
devalue Italian artists in favor of foreign ones coming in particular from
America and for this reason he changed his name.
He chooses a name inspired by an author of Latin history
he was reading at the time, Terenzio, and the surname from his wife: Mario
Girotti becomes Terence Hill for everyone. In his career, as well as being an
actor, he is also a director, screenwriter, television producer and has had
experiences as an interpreter of photo novels. The film “God Forgives ... I
Don’t!” allowed Girotti to meet two people who would definitely change his
life: one of them is the one who would become his wife, Lori Hill, born Lori
Zwicklbauer, an American girl of German origin; Terence and Lori were married
in 1967 and had two children, Jess and Ross, a foster child, who died at 16 in
a car accident in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, on January 30th of that year in
1990.
In the crash of the car driven by the young man who lost
his life also Ross's friend who was with him and to them, with the caption
"Love is eternal", the whole series 'Lucky Luke' was dedicated that
later underwent drastic changes. After the tragedy, Terence Hill withdrew from
the scene for ten years until '' Don Matteo '', in which Girotti plays a priest
with a remarkable investigative talent that helps the police solve the news
stories. Another Rai television series in which the actor appears as the main
protagonist is ''A Step from Heaven''.
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