Terence Hill

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Terence Hill on August 20, 2018 at the German premiere of his film Mein Name ist Somebody in Dresden.

Terence Hill (born March 29, 1939 in Venice ; real life Mario Girotti ) is an Italian actor , film producer , screenwriter and director . He is also a US citizen . Along with Bud Spencer he trained for years a successful film duo in numerous films, including Western parodies and spaghetti westerns .

Life

Childhood and personal life

Terence Hill was born Mario Girotti in Venice on March 29, 1939. His father Girolamo Girotti comes from Gubbio in the Italian region of Umbria , his mother Hildegard Thieme from Dresden , according to other sources from Lommatzsch . The couple had two other sons, Oduardo and Piero. In 1943 the family moved to Lommatzsch near Dresden, where his grandparents lived and his father worked as a chemist for Schering AG . He spent the rest of his pre-school years in this city until 1945 and witnessed the heavy air raids on Dresden in late 1944 and early 1945. There he narrowly escaped death with his mother at the age of five. In 1947 the family moved to Amelia , Italy, where Hill graduated from school and studied literature for a few semesters. In 1995, after German reunification, after almost 50 years, he returned to the sites of his childhood in Lommatzsch.

Up to the age of six he spoke only German. He calls it his mother tongue and continues to speak it. His grandmother lived near Ortenburg in Lower Bavaria .

While filming God forgives ... Django never! in Almería , Spain In 1967 Hill married the Bavarian American Lori Zwicklbauer, who was the dialogue trainer for this film, two months after they had first met.

Hill took on US citizenship, but now lives in Gubbio, Italy, where his father came from, where the Don Matteo series is filmed.

On March 30, 2017, he opened the gelateria Girotti ice cream parlor in Amelia . His grandfather ran an ice cream parlor in the city as early as 1974. Since December 2019 there has also been a Gelateria Girotti - Terence Hill Ice Cream Saloon in Dresden.

Hill is a practicing Catholic.

Sports and film debut

Swimming was one of Terence Hill's hobbies . He won a bronze medal at the Italian Youth Championships with his team Lazio , which also included his future acting partner Bud Spencer. Later he also won a silver medal in rowing with his club Tevere Roma . The director Dino Risi discovered him swimming at the age of twelve and used him in Vacanze col gangster ( Holiday for Gangsters , 1951). After this first film appearance, Hill continued to act in smaller films in order to be able to afford his studies and his motorcycle hobby.

At the age of 15 he attended drama school for three years. After three years of studying literature at the University of Rome , Hill decided to focus entirely on acting.

His extraordinarily steel blue eyes helped Terence Hill in his acting career. It was often even suspected that he wore contact lenses (and that his eyes were brown), which he regularly denied in his interviews.

Acting career

After various monumental films , including Luchino Visconti's The Leopard (at the side of Claudia Cardinale , Burt Lancaster and Alain Delon ), the blue-eyed Hill was signed for the German Karl May films in 1964, still as Mario Girotti . In Winnetou II he was allowed to work as Lt. Robert Merril Winnetou's love to marry Ribanna . Three more Karl May films followed. After he had also played in Die Nibelungen in 1966 , he changed the genre in 1967 and played in spaghetti westerns.

For the film God forgives ... Django never! (Dio perdona… Io no!) In 1967 he and Bud Spencer had to choose their stage names: “The truth is, I was given a list of 20 names and had to choose one of them within 24 hours. 'Terence Hill' was one of those names. I just liked him, and the initials are the same as my mother's, which also influenced my decision. ”In the course of the emerging women's movement, it was claimed that he had taken his wife's name. He later denied that.

In 1959 Girotti was seen in Hannibal , as did his long-time acting partner Carlo Pedersoli (Bud Spencer) . In 1967 they made a joint film called God forgives ... Django never! . Giuseppe Colizzi, the film's director, also used the duo in Four for an Ave Maria (1968) and Hill of Bloody Boots (1969). These first films with Spencer and Hill were tough, typical spaghetti westerns with little humor. However, it quickly turned out that the two actors were very effective as a comedian duo. The wiry, tricky Hill and the corpulent, gruff Spencer complemented each other perfectly in terms of appearance and character. After the duo had become popular in funny films, their early spaghetti westerns were partly used again in the cinema with new, comedic synchronizations.

With the parodistic western The Right and Left Hand of the Devil , the two actors were able to record a great success in 1970, directed by Enzo Barboni , which was surpassed the following year by Four Fists for a Hallelujah . The sensational success of this western parody (also directed by Enzo Barboni), which attracted twelve million viewers in Germany alone, established Spencer and Hill as the most successful comedian duo of the 1970s. During that decade, the two actors appeared together in nine films, all made to the same recipe for success. The two stars were to be seen as good-natured, but powerful adventurer types, who stood out with flippant sayings. The obligatory beatings were bloodless and parodistically exaggerated. In films like Two Heavenly Dogs on the Way to Hell (1972), Two Can't Be Braked (1978), The Crocodile and His Hippo (1979) or Two Strong As A Bear (1983), Spencer and Hill regularly achieved great success. The recipe for success was not used up until the mid-1980s. After a ten-year hiatus, the two actors were back on screen together in The Troublemaker in 1994 , but could no longer build on previous successes. Bud Spencer announced in March 2008 that another film together was being planned, but denied in April 2011 that there would be another film with Terence Hill: “Never again. We move like old men. "

His best-known role was played by Terence Hill as Nobody in Mein Name ist Nobody ( Il mio nome è Nessuno , 1973) alongside Hollywood veteran Henry Fonda . Two years later, the film Nobody is the Greatest (Un Genio, due compari, un pollo) was released . This is marketed in Germany as a sequel to Mein Name ist Nobody , but is a completely independent film. 1977 Hill played in the comedy Mister trillion and the War March or Die alongside Gene Hackman and Catherine Deneuve .

Terence Hill was also active behind the camera. He directed some of his films such as Keiner haut wie Don Camillo ( Don Camillo , 1983) or The Troublemaker ( Botte di Natale , 1994), the last joint film with Bud Spencer. He wrote the script for the film Renegade .

Hill played the main character Lucky Luke in the 1991 film version of the Belgian comic series Lucky Luke by the comic artist Morris . The eponymous television series with eight episodes emerged from the pilot film, the plot of which is closely related to the story of the comic, but was only moderately successful.

Since 2000, Terence Hill has appeared in the Italian television series Don Matteo , which is broadcast on Rai 1 . By 2018, a total of 245 episodes were broadcast in 11 seasons. In the series he plays a pastor who solves criminal cases. The series' 12th season aired between January and March 2020.

From 2011 to 2015, Hill successfully played the forester Pietro in the television series The Mountain Police - Very Close to Heaven , who lives in seclusion in South Tyrol on Lake Braies and also helps the police with the fight against crime.

children

His biological son Jess Hill was born in 1969, and his second child was his adoptive son Ross Hill , born in 1973 , who died in a car accident in 1990.

Synchronization

Terence Hill was dubbed by various speakers - u. a. Hartmut Reck or Manfred Schott , before Thomas Danneberg became his standard voice. The dubbing of his films by Rainer Brandt and Karlheinz Brunnemann significantly shaped Hill's reputation in Germany. The texts were given numerous puns and puns, and the dialogues, which were often sparse in the original, were deliberately expanded. For example, actually silent shots, in which you cannot see lip movements, have been provided with text.

Filmography

actor

Director

  • 1983: Nobody skin like Don Camillo (Don Camillo)
  • 1991: Lucky Luke (The Movie)
  • 1992: Lucky Luke: A drink of very special quality (Lucky Luke - Una notte di mezza estate a Daisy Town)
  • 1992: Lucky Luke: Where is the antidote, please? (Lucky Luke - Magia indiana)
  • 1992: Lucky Luke: A tsar usually comes in April (Lucky Luke - Pesce d'aprile)
  • 1994: The Troublemaker (Botte di Natale)
  • 2008: Doc West
  • 2009: Triggerman
  • 2018: My name is Somebody - Two fists return (Il mio nome è Thomas)

Screenwriter

  • 1987: Renegade
  • 2018: My name is Somebody - Two fists return (Il mio nome è Thomas)

film producer

  • 1979: Org
  • 1983: Nobody skin like Don Camillo (Don Camillo)

Others

The computer game Bud Spencer & Terence Hill: Slaps and Beans is considered the last joint release of the duo Bud Spencer / Terence Hill . The game was released in December 2017 and contains various scenes from the well-known films, through which you beat yourself as Spencer or Hill. To complete the video game, money was raised via crowdfunding, the goal was 130,000 dollars.

The Bud Spencer and Terence Hill Festival has been taking place in Germany since 2001 . In 2018, 4,000 visitors came to this festival.

Awards

  • 1972: Bravo Otto in bronze
  • 1973: Bravo Otto in bronze
  • 1974: Bravo Otto in gold
  • 1975: Bambi
  • 1975: Bravo Otto in gold
  • 1976: Bravo Otto in silver
  • 1977: Bravo Otto in bronze
  • 1980: Bravo Otto in silver
  • 2010: David di Donatello

Dedications

The Terence Hill outdoor pool Lommatzsch

The public swimming pool of the city of Lommatzsch in Saxony was reopened for use after renovation on May 16, 1998 under the name Terence-Hill-Freibad Lommatzsch . The name was dedicated to the honorary citizen of the city of Lommatzsch, as his donation made it possible to finance the giant slide of the pool. In 2010 the pool was permanently closed due to cracks in the pool. Terence Hill lived in Lommatzsch from 1943 to 1947.

In 2011 the band CONTROTEMPO dedicated the song Come Bud Spencer e Terence Hill to the duo . Terence Hill and Bud Spencer have a guest appearance in the music video.

A bridge in Worms should have been named after him in 2018. The plan was revoked in order not to devalue the previous dedication.

literature

Web links

Commons : Terence Hill  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Bud Spencer & Terence Hill at Wetten dass ... 1983 Part 1/2 at 02:38
  2. ↑ Hermann Tydecks: Unforgotten to this day! When Terence Hill was a Saxon. In: tag24.de. August 16, 2016, accessed October 3, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Terence Hill - exclusive and impressive
  4. ↑ Bud Spencer: My Life, My Films: The First Part of My Autobiography . tape 1 . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-942665-21-6 , pp. 139 .
  5. ^ Terence Hill - WHO'S WHO biography. Retrieved October 14, 2019 .
  6. ↑ a b [1] on budspencerofficial.com
  7. ↑ Bud Spencer & Terence Hill 1995 at Wetten, dass ..? (Part 1 of 3) , interview with Thomas Gottschalk
  8. ↑ "Nobody" is getting old: Terence Hill turns 75. n-tv.de , March 29, 2014, accessed on May 5, 2014 .
  9. ↑ Terence Hill opens Gelateria Girotti ice cream parlor . In: BudTerence.de . April 1, 2017 ( budterence.de [accessed October 10, 2017]).
  10. ↑ Terence Hill on a surprise visit. Saechsische Zeitung, December 23, 2019, accessed on December 28, 2019 .
  11. ↑ https://www.die-tagespost.de/feuilleton/online/Terence-Hill-wird-80-Glaube-ist-kostbare-Sache;art4690,196935
  12. ↑ a b Terencehill.de: Terence Hill answers questions from fans
  13. ↑ TerenceHill.de FAQ
  14. ↑ J. Puthenpurackal: Acting legend Bud Spencer as guest at image: They called him Mücke ... and today he walks with a crutch. In: bild.de. April 14, 2011, accessed January 30, 2017.
  15. ↑ Slaps and Beans | The first official videogame of Bud Spencer and Terence Hill. Retrieved August 21, 2018 .
  16. ↑ Bud Spencer and Terence Hill - Slaps and Beans - the video game. (No longer available online.) October 31, 2016, archived from the original on October 31, 2016 ; accessed on October 31, 2016 .
  17. ↑ dpa: Worms: Bridge named after Terence Hill. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine. June 5, 2018, accessed June 6, 2018 .
  18. ↑ No Terence Hill Bridge in Worms. In: SWR Aktuell. June 13, 2018, accessed July 5, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Hill, Terence
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Girotti, Mario (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian actor and director
DATE OF BIRTH March 29, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Venice , Italy