Fosco 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 was opened in his honor.
Filmography (73 Appearances)
Ricorda con rabbia
The Inheritor
Scipio the African
The Conformist
Another Man's Wife
I racconti del faro
The Count of Monte Cristo
Quinta colonna
David Copperfield
Samba
Vita di Michelangelo
Jacob: The Man Who Fought with God
Giacobbe ed Esau
La notte dell'innominato
The Fury of Achilles
Plains of Battle
The Nun of Monza
Taras Bulba
Conqueror of the Orient
The Wastrel
Re Lear
Love and Larceny
Un uomo facile
The Virtuous Bigamist
House of Ricordi
Condemned to Hang
Quattro rose rosse
The Counterfeiters
The Glass Castle
Romanticismo
Vento d'Africa
Una lettera all'alba
Crossroads of Passion
Four Women
The Brothers Karamazov
Nothing
L'altra
The Damned
Night of the Storm
Farewell, My Beautiful Naples
Life Begins Anew
Fear No Evil
L'abito nero da sposa
Una piccola moglie
Scorned Flesh
Labbra serrate
We the Living, Part Two
We the Living, Part One
A Pistol Shot
Headlights in the Fog
Bengasi
L'amante segreta
Luce nelle tenebre
Ridi pagliaccio
La figlia del corsaro verde
Senza cielo
The Sinner
The Siege of the Alcazar
Carmen and the Reds
Napoli che non muore
The Dream of Butterfly
Pride
The Life of Giuseppe Verdi
The Woman of Monte Carlo
Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal
Sentinels of Bronze
Heart of Tramp
Luci sommerse
Fiordalisi d'oro
White Squadron
L'avvocato difensore
Creature della notte
Il trattato scomparso