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...
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Complete Filmography

The Inheritor
1973
as Luigi Balazzi
After his father is killed in a plane crash, Bart Cordell returns back home to France to claim his inheritance: to lead the industrial empire his fath...

Scipio the African
1971
as Aulio Gellio
Years after the Second Punic War, Scipio Africanus finds himself generally unliked, despite his defeat of Hannibal Barca. He and his brother, Scipio A...

The Conformist
1970
as The Colonel
A weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad to arrange the assassination of his old teacher, now a political dissident.

Another Man's Wife
1967
as Alberto
Ana and Andres meet again after many years. They are no longer two youngsters, both are married with children. Andres insists, but Ana has trouble in ...

Samba
1965
as João Fernandes de Oliveira
Singer Laura Monteiro (Montiel) is murdered by her old protector João Fernandes de Oliveira (Giachetti), who has found out her love affair with Assis ...

Jacob: The Man Who Fought with God
1963
as Abramo
Biblical figure Jacob is forced to flee for his life when an enraged Esau vows to kill him.
Giacobbe ed Esau
1963
as Isacco - Isaac
A film about twin bothers Jacob & Esau

La notte dell'innominato
1962
On the night of Lucia's kidnapping, the Unnamed revisits his life. Many years earlier a caravan of Andalusian gypsies arrived at the gates of Milan. A...

The Fury of Achilles
1962
as Priamos
In the tenth year of the Trojan War, tensions between Achilles and Agamemnon divide the Greek camp while giving hope to the Trojans.

Plains of Battle
1962
as Voivode
Despite the disagreement of their mother, the sons of old Taras Bulba are taken to the Dnieper camp on their return from a Kiev seminary, to teach the...

The Nun of Monza
1962
as Monsignor Barca
Virginia de Leyva, daughter of a Spanish Lord, becomes a nun in Monza, in 1600s. She becomes very strict with herself and the students until she's una...

Taras Bulba
1962
as Voivode
Italian adaptation of the historical novella of the same name by Nikolai Gogol.

Conqueror of the Orient
1961
as Omar - Nadir's Father
Centuries ago in the Orient, the fiscal exactions on the people lead to a revolt against the usurper of the throne, and the empowerment of a new leade...

The Wastrel
1961
as Captain Hugh Hardy
A wealthy and self-serving man, sets out on a perilous ocean voyage with his son. An unexpected incident with the vessel causes him to reflect on his ...

Re Lear
1960
An old king believes he can retire to private life, leaving his kingdom in the hands of his daughters. The two older ones don't take long to take over...

Love and Larceny
1960
as General Benito Mesci
Gerardo, an aspiring actor, trying unsuccessfully to cross over from comedy to tragedy, is involved, due to his ability to mimic dialects of Italy, in...

Un uomo facile
1959
as Doctor boxing
The changing fortunes of two boxers are explored in this interesting drama by Paolo Heusch, seen from the point of view of the women the boxers love. ...

The Virtuous Bigamist
1956
as Antonio
The Provence, somewhere in the 1950's. Paul Verdier, traveling salesman, leaves his home and his quarrelsome wife for his weekly round. On the train h...

House of Ricordi
1954
as Giuseppe Verdi
The film covers a hundred years in the lives of the Ricordi family, the Milan publishing house of the title, and the various composers and other histo...

Condemned to Hang
1953
as Lucero
Andalusia, Spain, 19th century. The roads are infested with bandits who sow panic among travelers. Although most of them are ruthless killers, Lucero ...

The Counterfeiters
1951
as Ispettore Moroni
Producers of phony currency become the object of a crackdown by law enforcement agencies.

The Glass Castle
1950
as Laurent Bertal (Italian version)
Evelyne, a judge's young wife, falls in love with Rémy while vacationing in Italy. Upon returning home, she must decide between telling her husband an...

Romanticismo
1949
as Tito Ansperti
Drama set in Milan in 1858. Dr. Antonio Ansperti from Como, implicated in the clandestine activities of the Young Italy revolutionary movement, is arr...
L'Altra
1949
as Pianista Marco de Santis
Vento d'Africa
1949

Una lettera all'alba
1948
as Carlo Marini

Crossroads of Passion
1948
as Toniani
Lisbon, the capital of Neutral Portugal, is a hotbed of spies. Mario, a cabaret singer working for the Allies is responsible for the death of an Itali...

Four Women
1947
The entrance of a woman in a café where, gathered by chance, four men play cards, brings to the mind of each of them the memory of their past love exp...

The Brothers Karamazov
1947
as Dimitri
When a tragedy strikes father Fyodor Karamazov, the wretched relation with his three sons reveals itself surrounded by intrigue, envy and deceit.

Nothing
1947
When young Andrea arrives in Barcelona to begin her university studies, she stays at her aunt Angustias' house, where she lives with several relatives...

The Damned
1947
as Garosi
A group of Nazis and sympathizers board a submarine bound for South America in the hopes of finding shelter.

Notte di tempesta
1946
as Domenico
The story is taken from the drama "I Pescatori" (The Fishermen) by Raffaele Viviani, and is set in a fishing island off the coast of Naples (clearly i...

Farewell, My Beautiful Naples
1946
as Carlo Sanna
In Naples, a local composer falls in love with an American tourist.

Life Begins Anew
1945
as Dr. Paolo Martini
A compelling portrayal of postwar Rome

Fear No Evil
1945
as Benedetto
The life of Saint Benedict, the founder of Western Monasticism.

L'abito nero da sposa
1945
as il cardinal Giovanni de' Medici

Scorned Flesh
1943
A sailor, Paolo, falls in love with a girl named Luisa. The two decides to get married, but on the day of the marriage the woman is involved in a seri...

Labbra serrate
1942
as Ruggero D'Anzi

We the Living, Part Two
1942
as Andrej Taganov
After having been captured in a Crimea during a failed attempt to flee overseas, Leo returns in Petersburg for Kira.

We the Living, Part One
1942
as Andrei Taganov
At 18, the beautiful and intelligent Kira comes to Petersburg as the Communists consolidate power. She rebuffs a cousin who rises in the Party and may...

A Pistol Shot
1942
as Andrea Anickoff
Count Anikoff, a Russian officer, challenges his best friend, Sergei, to a duel when he finds him courting the young woman he, too, is in love with. S...

Headlights in the Fog
1942
as Cesare

Bengasi
1942
as Hauptmann Enrico Berti / Il capitano Enrico Berti
The film is set in 1941 during the Second World War, when the city of Benghazi in Italian-ruled Libya was occupied by British forces. Italian inhabita...

L'amante segreta
1941

Luce nelle tenebre
1941
as Alberto Serrani
Alberto Serrani, a mining engineer, meets doctor's daughter Marina, sweet and simple, and the notorious and frivolous Clara who falls for him immediat...

Ridi pagliaccio
1941
When she is in jail to defend her colleague, the secretary Anna Alessandri finds out that her man got engaged to another woman.

La figlia del corsaro verde
1940
as Carlos de la Riva

Senza cielo
1940
as Mario

The Sinner
1940
as Salvatore, fratello di Adele
Seduced and abandonned by her fiance, Maria Ferrante leaves home to avoid any scandal. She is trying to find work and place to stay but one misfortune...

The Siege of the Alcazar
1940
as Cap. Vela
Set during the Spanish civil war, the story of a commander of a fort Alcazar in Toledo, faithful to general Franco.

Carmen and the Reds
1939
as Javier Navarro (Italian cut)
Javier Navarro, a Falangist, is ordered to infiltrate Republican Madrid to deliver a message to a member of the Fifth Column.

Napoli che non muore
1939
as Mario Fusco

The Dream of Butterfly
1939
as Harry Peters
Italian filmmaker Carmine Gallone was still in his "operetta" mode when he helmed 1938's Il Sogno di Butterfly (Dream of the Butterfly) Maria Cebotari...

The Life of Giuseppe Verdi
1938
as Giuseppe Verdi
The great Italian opera composer recalls his eventful life on his deathbed: his childhood in Busseto, his studies in Milan, his first opera "Oberto, c...

The Woman of Monte Carlo
1938
as Giorgio Duclos
An adventuress serves as bait for a swindler, who robs the naive people she brings to him with poker. A childhood friend helps him.

Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal
1937
as Captain Massinissa
A story of the Second Punic Wars, beginning with Scipio's futile pleas to the Roman Senate to build an army to battle Hannibal, that climaxes with the...

Sentinels of Bronze
1937
as Capitano Negri
Directed by Romolo Marcellini.

Heart of Tramp
1936
When an innocent young woman finds herself abandoned by the proper young man whose child she's had, she is taken in by a troupe of traveling performer...
Fiordalisi d'oro
1936
as Conte Andrea di Beaulieu
An italian film.

White Squadron
1936
as Il capitano Santelia
Lieutenant Mario Ludovici, an army officer, gets himself transferred to a Libyan post when his romance with society girl Cristiana goes on the rocks. ...

L'avvocato difensore
1934
Creature della notte
1934
Il trattato scomparso
1933
as Raythan
Ricorda con rabbia
N/A
as Colonnello Redfern

Quattro rose rosse
N/A
as Antonio Berti