Terence Hill (born Mario Girotti; 29 March 1939) is an Italian actor, film director, screenwriter and film producer. He began his career as a child actor and gained international fame for starring roles in action and comedy films, many with his long-time film partner and friend Bud Spencer. During the height of his popularity, Hill was among Italy's highest-paid actors. His most widely seen films include comic and standard spaghetti Westerns, some based on popular novels by German author Karl May about the Wild West. Of these, the most famous are Lo chiamavano Trinità (They Call Me Trinity, 1970); ...continuavano a chiamarlo Trinità (Trinity Is Still My Name, 1971), the highest grossing Italian film at that time; and Il mio nome è Nessuno (My Name Is Nobody, 1973), co-starring Henry Fonda. Hill also went on to a successful television career in Italy, most notably playing the title character in the long-running Rai 1 series Don Matteo from 2000 until 2022. Hill was born on 29 March 1939 in Venice, Italy. Hill's mother, Hildegard Girotti (née Thieme), was from Dresden, Germany; his father, Girolamo Girotti, was Italian from Amelia, Umbria, and a chemist by occupation. During his childhood, Hill lived in the small town of Lommatzsch, Saxony. As a child, he experienced the bombing of Dresden, which was traumatic for him. He was there up to the End of World War II in Europe. He was discovered at the age of 12 by Italian filmmaker Dino Risi at a swimming meet, and he became a child actor, appearing in Risi's Vacation with a Gangster (1951) as Gianni, the orphan gang leader. "They were looking for a boy gang leader and they found me", he later said. He had small roles in Voice of Silence (1953) with Jean Marais, Too Young for Love (1953), and It Happened in the Park (1953). He was in Golden Vein (1954) with Märta Torén and Richard Basehart, The Abandoned (1955) and Folgore Division (1955). Girotti had his first lead in Guaglione (1956). He could also be seen in Mamma sconosciuta (1956), I vagabondi delle stelle (1956), La grande strada azzurra (1956) with Yves Montand and Alida Valli, and Lazzarella (1957). Girotti did Anna of Brooklyn (1958) with Gina Lollobrigida, The Sword and the Cross (1958) with Yvonne de Carlo (playing Lazarus of Bethany), and a TV version of The Picture of Dorian Gray (1958). He had support parts in Il padrone delle ferriere (1959) with Virna Lisi, Juke box - Urli d'amore (1959), and Hannibal (1959) with Victor Mature and Carlo Pedersoli, who would later become known as Bud Spencer. Girotti had the lead roles in Spavaldi e innamorati (1959) and Cerasella (1959), a teen comedy. It was back to support roles with Carthage in Flames (1960), Un militare e mezzo (1960), and The Story of Joseph and His Brethren (1961) with Geoffrey Horne and Robert Morley, directed by Irving Rapper. Girotti had support parts in The Wonders of Aladdin (1961) with Donald O'Connor and directed by Henry Levin and Mario Bava, Pecado de amor (1961), Seven Seas to Calais (1962) with Rod Taylor, and The Shortest Day (1963). ... Source: Article "Terence Hill" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.

Filmography

• 2026The Socceritos — Soccerito Terence
• 2021Caterina Caselli - Una vita, 100 vite
• 2018My Name Is Thomas — Thomas, Director, Writer
• One Step from Heaven — Pietro
• 2009Doc West — Doc West, Director
• 2009Doc West II : Triggerman — Doc West, Director
• L'uomo che cavalcava nel buio — Rocco
• 2006L'uomo che sognava con le aquile — Rocco Ventura
• L'uomo che sognava con le aquile — Rocco Ventura
• 2004Vier Fäuste lassen's krachen
• Father Matteo — Don Matteo
• 2000Klaus Kinski: I'm not an actor — Nobody (archive footage)
• 1997Virtual Weapon — Skims
• 1994Troublemakers — Travis, Director
• Lucky Luke — Lucky Luke, Director
• 1992Lucky Luke 2 — Lucky Luke (archive footage)
• 1991Lucky Luke — Lucky Luke, Director
• 1991They call me Lucky Luke - Ma Dalton — Lucky Luke
• 1987Renegade — Luke, Story
• 1985Miami Supercops — Doug Bennett / Jay Donell
• 1984Don Camillo — Don Camillo, Producer, Director
• 1984Double Trouble — Elliot Vance / Sebastiano Coímbra
• 1983Go for It — Rosco Frazer / Steinberg
• 1981Who Finds a Friend Finds a Treasure — Alan Lloyd
• 1980Super Fuzz — Dave Speed
• 1979I'm for the Hippopotamus — Slim
• 1979ORG — Zohommm!!!, Producer
• 1978Odds and Evens — Johnny Firpo
• 1977Crime Busters — Matt Kirby
• 1977March or Die — Marco Segrain
• 1977Mr. Billion — Guido Falcone
• 1976Das Schwert der Nibelungen — Giselher
• 1975A Genius, Two Friends, and an Idiot — Joe Thanks
• 1974The Two Missionaries — Padre J.
• 1974Watch Out, We're Mad — Kid
• 1973My Name Is Nobody — Nobody
• 1972All the Way Boys — Plata
• 1972Man of the East — Sir Thomas Fitzpatrick Phillip Moore
• 1972The Hassled Hooker — Marco Manin
• 1971Blackie the Pirate — Blackie
• 1971Trinity Is Still My Name — Trinità
• Rischiatutto
• 1970They Call Me Trinity — Trinità, Stunts
• 1970Wrath of the Wind — Marco
• 1969Boot Hill — Cat Stevens
• 1969The Tough and the Mighty — Graziano Cassitta
• 1968Ace High — Cat Stevens
• 1968Django, Prepare a Coffin — Django / Joe
• 1967God Forgives... I Don't! — Cat Stevens
• 1967Io non protesto, io amo — Gabriele
• 1967Rita the Field Marshal — Prof. Giuliano Fineschi
• 1967The Crazy Westerners — Black Star
• 1967Whom the Gods Wish to Destroy 2 — Giselher
• 1966Whom the Gods Wish to Destroy — Giselher
• 1965Duel at Sundown — Larry McGow
• 1965Flaming Frontier — Toby
• 1965Rampage at Apache Wells — Richard Forsythe
• 1965Ruf der Wälder — Marcello Scalzi
• 1965Shots in 3/4 Time — Enrico
• 1964Frontier Hellcat — Baker Jr.
• 1964Last of the Renegades — Lieutenant Robert Merril
• 1963The Leopard — Count Cavriaghi
• 1963The Shortest Day — Soldato austriaco
• 1962Seven Seas to Calais — Babington
• 1961Joseph and His Brethren — Benjamin
• 1961Pecado de amor — Ángel Vega
• 1961The Wonders of Aladdin — Prince Moluk
• 1960A Soldier and a Half — Giorgio Strazzonelli
• 1960Carthage in Flames — Tsour
• 1959Cerasella — Bruno
• 1959Hannibal — Quintilius
• 1959Il padrone delle ferriere — Octave de Beaulieu
• 1959Juke Box - Screams of Love — Othello
• 1959Spavaldi e innamorati — Paolo
• 1958Fast and Sexy — Ciccillo
• 1958Il Novelliere - Il salotto di Oscar Wilde — Dorian Gray
• 1958The Sword and the Cross — Lazzaro
• 1957Lazzarella — Luciano Pico
• 1957The Wide Blue Road — Renato
• 1956Guaglione — Franco Danieli
• 1956I vagabondi delle stelle — Franco
• 1956Mamma sconosciuta — Gianni Martini
• 1955Abandoned — Wounded Estray
• 1955The Golden Vein — Corrado
• 1954Divisione Folgore — Delavigne
• 1953It Happened in the Park — Anna Maria's Classmate (segment "Pi-greco") (uncredited)
• 1953The Age of Indiscretion — (uncredited)
• 1953The Street of Hope — as Girolamo Girotti (unconfirmed)
• 1953Voice of Silence — Boy at Barrier
• 1952Vacation with a Gangster — Giannini

Appearances as themselves (24)

• 2025Terence Hill, Bud Spencer… & me — Self (Archive)
• 2025Terence Hill: Pazifist und Cowboy — Self
• 2023Lui era Trinità — Self
• 2022On l'appelle Terence Hill — Self
• 2020The Last Movie Painter — Self
• 2019Die Terence Hill Story — Self
• 2019Le 1000 vite di Bud Spencer — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 2018Piedone nyomában — Self
• Abendshow — Self
• 2017They Called Him Spencer — Self
• 2012Bud's Best - Die Welt des Bud Spencer — Self
• 2006Denn sie kennen kein Erbarmen - Der Italowestern — Self (archive footage)
• 2005Nobody is Perfect — Self / Self - Interviewee
• Ulisse - The Pleasure of Discovery — Self
• Volle Kanne — Self
• Leute heute — Self
• Sacrée soirée — Self
• Champs-Elysées — Self
• Wetten, dass..? — Self
• Auf los geht's los — Self
• Telespiele — Self
• Film '72 — Self
• Aktuelle Schaubude — Self
• Bambi — Self