# Fosco Giachetti

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 [it] (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

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1933 | The Missing Treaty | Giorgio Raytham | |
| 1934 | Dimmed Lights | Lord Spider | |
| 1934 | The Last of the Bergeracs | Il tenente | |
| 1934 | Creatures of the Night | | Uncredited |
| 1935 | L'avvocato difensore | | Uncredited |
| 1936 | Cuor di vagabondo | Giovanni | |
| 1936 | Luci sommerse | Lord Spider | |
| 1936 | Lo squadrone bianco | Il capitano Santelia | |
| 1936 | Tredici uomini e un cannone [it] | Uomo #1 | |
| 1936 | Fiordalisi d'oro | Conte Andrea di Beaulieu | |
| 1937 | Scipio Africanus | Captain Massinissa | |
| 1937 | Sentinels of Bronze | Capitano Negri | |
| 1938 | Giuseppe Verdi | Giuseppe Verdi | |
| 1938 | Pride | Alberto Celoria | |
| 1938 | The Woman of Monte Carlo | Giorgio Duclos | |
| 1939 | Naples Will Never Die | Mario Fusco | |
| 1939 | The Dream of Butterfly | Harry Peters | |
| 1939 | Hurricane in the Tropics | Il capitano Moraes | |
| 1939 | Carmen fra i rossi | Saverio | |
| 1940 | The Last Enemy | Franco Rossi | |
| 1940 | The Siege of the Alcazar | Captain Vela | |
| 1940 | The Sinner | Salvatore, fratello di Adele | |
| 1940 | Senza cielo | Mario Riccardi | |
| 1940 | The Daughter of the Green Pirate | Carlos de la Riva | |
| 1941 | Ridi pagliaccio | Pietro Rinaldi | |
| 1941 | Light in the Darkness | Alberto Serrani | |
| 1941 | Blood Wedding | Gidda | |
| 1941 | The Secret Lover | Giorgio Amholt | |
| 1942 | Headlights in the Fog | Cesare | |
| 1942 | A Pistol Shot | Andrea Anickoff | |
| 1942 | Bengasi | Il capitano Enrico Berti | |
| 1942 | We the Living | Andrei Taganov | |
| 1942 | Addio Kira! | Andrei Taganov | |
| 1942 | Yellow Hell | Francesco | |
| 1942 | Sealed Lips | Ruggero D'Anzi | |
| 1943 | A Living Statue | Paolo Vieri | |
| 1943 | A Little Wife | Giulio Nardi | |
| 1945 | L'abito nero da sposa | Giovanni de Medici | |
| 1945 | Fear No Evil | Benedetto | |
| 1945 | Life Begins Anew | Paolo Martini | |
| 1946 | Notte di tempesta | Domenico | |
| 1947 | The Damned | Garosi | |
| 1947 | The Other | Marco de Santis | |
| 1947 | Nada | Román Brunet | |
| 1947 | The Brothers Karamazov | Dimitri Karamazov | |
| 1947 | Four Women | Alberto Reyes, pintor | |
| 1947 | Farewell, My Beautiful Naples | Carlo Sanna | |
| 1948 | Crossroads of Passion | Toniani | |
| 1948 | Letter at Dawn | Carlo Marini | |
| 1949 | Romanticismo | Tito Ansperti | |
| 1950 | The Glass Castle | Laurent Bertal | |
| 1951 | The Counterfeiters | Ispettore Moroni | |
| 1951 | Four Red Roses | Antonio Berti | |
| 1953 | Condemned to Hang | Lucero | |
| 1954 | House of Ricordi | Giuseppe Verdi | |
| 1956 | The Virtuous Bigamist | Antonio | |
| 1959 | The Defeated Victor | Doctor boxing | |
| 1960 | Il Mattatore | General Mesci | |
| 1960 | The Conqueror of the Orient | Omar, Nadir's Father | |
| 1961 | The Wastrel | Captain Hugh Hardy | |
| 1962 | La monaca di Monza | Monsignor Barca | |
| 1962 | Taras Bulba, the Cossack | Voivode | |
| 1962 | The Fury of Achilles | Priamos | |
| 1962 | La notte dell'innominato | | |
| 1963 | Jacob and Esau | Isaac | |
| 1963 | Giacobbe, l'uomo che lottò con Dio | Abramo – Abraham | |
| 1965 | Samba | João Fernandes de Oliveira | |
| 1967 | Another's Wife | Alberto | |
| 1970 | The Conformist | The Colonel | |
| 1971 | Scipio the African | Aulio Gellio | |
| 1973 | The Inheritor | Luigi Galazzi | |

## Awards

* Venice Film Festival Best Actor for Bengasi, 1942