Editing Terence Hill (section)

==Career==
===Child actor===
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.<ref name="march" />

He had small roles in ''[[Voice of Silence (1953 film)|Voice of Silence]]'' (1953) with [[Jean Marais]], ''[[Too Young for Love (1953 film)|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 film)|The Abandoned]]'' (1955) and ''[[Folgore Division]]'' (1955).

===Leading man===
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 (film)|Lazzarella]]'' (1957).<ref>As a Comrade, He Could Have Been A Contender: [Review]
Holden, Stephen. New York Times 6 June 2001: E.1.</ref>

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).<ref name="first">First American Film for Hill Thomas, Bob. Los Angeles Times 3 September 1976: f16</ref>

He had support parts in ''[[Il padrone delle ferriere]]'' (1959) with [[Virna Lisi]], ''Juke box - Urli d'amore'' (1959), and ''[[Hannibal (1959 film)|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]].<ref>CARTHAGE IN FLAMES "(Cartagine in Fiamme)"
Monthly Film Bulletin; London Vol. 27, Iss. 312, (1 January 1960): 169.</ref>

Girotti had support parts in ''[[The Wonders of Aladdin]]'' (1961) with [[Donald O'Connor]] and directed by [[Henry Levin (film director)|Henry Levin]] and [[Mario Bava]], ''[[Pecado de amor (film)|Pecado de amor]]'' (1961), ''[[Seven Seas to Calais]]'' (1962) with [[Rod Taylor]], and ''[[The Shortest Day]]'' (1963).<ref name="first" /><ref>'ALADDIN' PERFECT FOR CHILD AUDIENCE
Stinson, Charles. Los Angeles Times 16 December 1961: B6.</ref>

Girotti secured a substantial supporting role in [[Luchino Visconti]]'s film epic ''[[The Leopard (1963 film)|The Leopard]]'' (1963) alongside [[Burt Lancaster]] and [[Alain Delon]], in which he unsuccessfully tries to court the daughter of Lancaster's character. During this time he studied classical literature for three years at an Italian university.<ref name="march" />

===Germany===
In 1964, he returned to Germany and there appeared in a series of [[Heimatfilm]]e, adventure and [[Western (genre)#Film|Western film]]s, based on novels by German author [[Karl May]].<ref>{{Cite web |last= |date=2019-03-29 |title=Terence Hill wird 80: Mit Backpfeifen und Bud Spencer zum Erfolg |url=https://www.abendzeitung-muenchen.de/promis/terence-hill-wird-80-mit-backpfeifen-und-bud-spencer-zum-erfolg-art-466792 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210616201317/https://www.abendzeitung-muenchen.de/promis/terence-hill-wird-80-mit-backpfeifen-und-bud-spencer-zum-erfolg-art-466792 |archive-date=2021-06-16 |access-date=2025-03-29 |website=www.abendzeitung-muenchen.de |language=de}}</ref> These included ''[[Last of the Renegades]]'' (1964) with [[Lex Barker]]; three films with [[Stewart Granger]], ''[[Amongst Vultures]]'' (1964), ''[[The Oil Prince]]'' (1965) and ''[[Old Surehand]]'' (1965); ''[[Shots in 3/4 Time]]'' (1965); ''[[Duel at Sundown (film)|Duel at Sundown]]'' (1965) with [[Peter Van Eyck]]; ''[[Call of the Forest (1965 film)|Call of the Forest]]'' (1965), an Austrian movie; ''Die Nibelungen, Teil 1 - Siegfried'' (1965) and ''Die Nibelungen, Teil 2 - Kriemhilds Rache'' (1967).

In 1967, he returned to Italy to make ''[[Io non protesto, io amo]]'' (1967), co starring [[Caterina Caselli]].

===Partnership with Bud Spencer===
{{See also|Terence Hill and Bud Spencer}}
[[File:Preparati la bara! Terence Hill.png|thumb|Hill in ''[[Django, Prepare a Coffin]]'' (1968)]]
Girotti then appeared alongside [[Bud Spencer]] (then known as Carlo Pedersoli) in [[Giuseppe Colizzi]]'s spaghetti Western ''[[God Forgives... I Don't!]]'' (1967). (Although Girotti appeared in the same movie as Pedersoli in ''[[Annibale (film)|Hannibal]]'' in 1959, they did not meet during filming.<ref>{{Cite web |title=This & That {{!}} Terence Hill Official Website |url=https://en.terencehill.com/index.php?sel=thisandthat&sub=qa |access-date=2024-07-26|website=en.terencehill.com}}</ref>) At the time, cast and crew in Westerns frequently adopted American names to give the film a better chance of selling in non-Italian speaking countries; Girotti changed his name to "Terence Hill". He picked the name from a list of 20 he was given, the story about using his wife's name was a publicity idea.<ref>{{Cite web |title=This & That {{!}} Terence Hill Official Website |url=https://en.terencehill.com/index.php?sel=thisandthat&sub=qa |access-date=2023-09-11 |website=en.terencehill.com}}</ref> The film was a huge hit – the most popular film of the year in Italy – and established him as a star.
[[File:Lo chiamavano Trinità.png|thumb|Terence Hill (right) with Bud Spencer in ''[[They Call Me Trinity]]'' (1970)]]

Hill followed it with a ''[[musicarello]]'', ''[[The Crazy Kids of the War]]'' (1967) with [[Rita Pavone]], then did a Western, ''[[Django, Prepare a Coffin]]'' (1968) for director [[Ferdinando Baldi]], a sequel to ''[[Django (1966 film)|Django]]'' (1966) with Hill playing the role done by [[Franco Nero]] in the original; it co-starred [[Horst Frank]] and [[George Eastman (actor)|George Eastman]] (and would be featured, much later, at the 64th [[Venice Film Festival]], in 2007).<ref name="Naldi07">Paola Naldi (2007). "Il nuovo cinema cerca gloria," at ''[[La Repubblica]] [Bologna]''. 29 August 2007. [http://bologna.repubblica.it/dettaglio/il-nuovo-cinema-cerca-gloria/1358796 bologna.repubblica.it] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141226014053/http://bologna.repubblica.it/dettaglio/il-nuovo-cinema-cerca-gloria/1358796 |date=26 December 2014 }}. Retrieved 11 May 2015. Quote: "Per il resto l´istituzione diretta da Gianluca Farinelli, impegnatissima a Bologna con la rassegna dedicata a Chaplin, sarà presente alla manifestazione semplicemente come prestatrice (attività che svolge tutto l´anno) facendo arrivare sul grande schermo veneziano due pellicole per la rassegna "Western all´Italiana": «Preparati la abara», girato nel 1968 da Ferdinando Baldi, con Terence Hill, Horst Frank, George Eastman, José Torres; «I sette del Texas», anno 1964, di Joaquin Luis Romero Marchent."</ref>

Hill was a leading man in a musical Western ''[[Crazy Westerners]]'' (1968), again with Rita Pavone, then was reunited with Spencer in ''[[Ace High (1968 film)|Ace High]]'' (1968), a sequel to ''God Forgives'' with a cast including several American actors such as [[Eli Wallach]]. Hill did ''[[The Tough and the Mighty]]'' (1968), a biopic of [[Graziano Mesina]], then a second sequel to ''God Forgives'', ''[[Boot Hill (film)|Boot Hill]]'' (1969), co-starring Spencer and [[Woody Strode]].<ref name="march" />

Hill did ''[[The Wind's Fierce]]'' (1970) then had a huge hit with Spencer with the comedy Western ''[[They Call Me Trinity]]'' (1971). Hill did a swashbuckler, ''[[Blackie the Pirate]]'' (1971), in which Spencer had a small role; they reteamed properly for a ''Trinity'' sequel, ''[[Trinity Is Still My Name]]'' (1972). It was even more popular than the original and had a successful release in the USA.<ref name="first"/>

Hill did a modern-day crime drama ''[[The Hassled Hooker]]'' (1972) and a comedy Western without Spencer, ''[[Man of the East]]'' (1972). He and Spencer did ''[[... All the Way, Boys!]]'' (1972), their first non-Western though it was still a comic adventure film.

===International films===
Hill has stated in interviews that ''[[My Name Is Nobody]]'' (1973), in which he co-starred with Henry Fonda,<ref name="N">{{cite web |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9D0CE2D8173FEF34BC4052DFB166838F669EDE |author=Canby, Vincent |author-link=Vincent Canby |title=Il Mio nome e Nessuno (1974) 'My Name Is Nobody,' Puts Fabled West on Film:The Cast |date=18 July 1974}}</ref> is his personal favorite of all his films.<ref name="N" /> The film was based on an idea by [[Sergio Leone]].
[[File:Altrimenti ci arrabbiamo.png|thumb|Hill and Bud Spencer in ''[[Watch Out, We're Mad!]]'' (1974)]]
Hill again starred with Spencer in ''[[Watch Out, We're Mad]]'' (1974) and ''[[Two Missionaries]]'' (1974) then without him in the spaghetti Western ''[[A Genius, Two Partners and a Dupe]]'' (1975). He moved from Italy to live in the US and settled in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in the Berkshires.<ref name="first" />

Dino De Laurentiis cast Hill in his first English-language film, ''[[Mr. Billion]]'' (1977), directed by [[Jonathan Kaplan]] for 20th Century Fox, co-starring [[Valerie Perrine]] and [[Jackie Gleason]]. It was a box office flop.<ref name="Trailers">[http://trailersfromhell.com/trailers/528 Jonathan Kaplan on ''Mr. Billion''] at [[Trailers From Hell]]</ref><ref>Terence Hill Makes American Film Debut in 'Mr. Billion'
Los Angeles Times 7 March 1977: e7.</ref>

After returning to Italy for ''[[Crime Busters]]'' (1977) with Spencer, Hill then made another English-language movie, ''[[March or Die (film)|March or Die]]'' (1977), an $8 million French Foreign Legion tale for [[Lew Grade]], co starring [[Gene Hackman]] and [[Catherine Deneuve]]. It was a box office disappointment.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.spaghetti-western.net/index.php/Terence_Hill|title = Terence Hill - the Spaghetti Western Database}}</ref><ref name="march">{{cite news|title=Movies: 'March or Die' a Dusty Venture for Terence Hill|last=Mills|first= Bart|newspaper= Los Angeles Times|date=16 January 1977|page= t36}}</ref>

Despite his fluency in Italian and English, Hill was usually dubbed by other actors in both languages. In the Italian versions of his films, various actors provided his voice until the late 1960s, where he was primarily dubbed by [[Sergio Graziani]]; he was voiced by [[Pino Locchi]] from 1970 to 1983, and by [[Michele Gammino]] from 1983 to 1996. For English dubs, [[Lloyd Battista]] dubbed him in six films, including the "Cat Stevens and Hutch Bessy" trilogy, while [[Roger Browne]] dubbed him in most of his early 1970s films (''They Call Me Trinity'' to ''[[A Genius, Two Partners and a Dupe]]''); from ''Mr. Billion'' onward, Hill dubbed his own English voice.<ref>{{cite AV media |title=[[Get Mean]] |publisher=[[Blue Underground]] |people=[[Lloyd Battista|Battista, Lloyd]], [[Tony Anthony (actor)|Anthony, Tony]] |medium=Blu-ray |at=Commentary |time=19:00}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Terence Hill |url=https://spencerhilldb.de/darsteller.php?darsteller=2 |website=Bud Spencer/Terence Hill Database |access-date=20 February 2019}}</ref>

Hill and Spencer starred in ''[[Odds and Evens (film)|Odds and Evens]]'' (1978), ''[[I'm for the Hippopotamus]]'' (1979), ''[[Who Finds a Friend Finds a Treasure]]'' (1981), and ''[[Go for It (1983 film)|Go for It]]'' (1983). Without Spencer, Hill made ''Org'' (1979), which he also produced, and ''[[Super Fuzz]]'' (1980).<ref>SUPER FUZZ' AND BORGNINE: [Review]
MITGANG, HERBERT. New York Times 17 May 1982: C.14.</ref>

===Director===
Hill did ''[[The World of Don Camillo]]'' (1984), which he also produced and directed. He teamed with Spencer for ''[[Non c'è due senza quattro|Double Trouble]]'' (1984), and ''[[Miami Supercops]]'' (1985), then did ''[[They Call Me Renegade]]'' (1987), based on a story by Hill.

===Television===

Hill turned director for ''[[Lucky Luke (1991 film)|Lucky Luke]]'' (1991) in which he starred and that was shot in the United States; it led to a [[Lucky Luke (1992 TV series)|TV series of the same name]].<ref>Video – Lucky Luke directed by Terence Hill
Kermode, Mark. Sight and Sound; London Vol. 4, Iss. 1, (Jan 1994): 61.</ref><ref>In the U.S., Silenzio on the Set
By ANDY MEISLERLOS ANGELES. New York Times 2 August 1992: H25.</ref>

He reunited with Spencer one last time for ''[[Troublemakers (1994 film)|Troublemakers]]'' (1994) which Hill also directed. He did ''[[Virtual Weapon]]'' (1997) with [[Marvelous Marvin Hagler]].

In 2000, he landed the leading role in the Italian television series ''[[Don Matteo]]'' (2000–ongoing), about an inspirational [[Priesthood in the Catholic Church|parish priest]] who assists the [[Carabinieri]] in solving crimes local to his community. Hill left  This role earned Hill an international "Outstanding Actor of the Year" award at the [[Monte-Carlo Television Festival|42nd Monte Carlo Television Festival]], alongside ones for the series, and for producer [[Alessandro Jacchia]] at that festival.<ref>Jeri Jacquin (8 October 2014). [https://patch.com/california/imperialbeach/don-matteo-season-7-8-mhz-international-mystery patch.com "Don Matteo: Season 7 & 8 from MHz International Mystery"]. ''Imperial Beach Patch''. Retrieved 11 May 2015.</ref> Hill left Don Matteo in 2022 after thirteen seasons, last appearing in 2024.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-09-21 |title=Terence Hill and farewell to &quot;Don Matteo&quot;: emotion and hugs for the last take on the set |url=https://www.unionesarda.it/en/terence-hill-and-farewell-to-quot-don-matteoquot-emotion-and-hugs-for-the-last-take-on-the-set-y6ng2skl |access-date=2025-05-04 |website=L'Unione Sarda English |language=en}}</ref>

During the series' run he appeared in TV movies ''L'uomo che sognava con le aquile'' (2009), ''Riding the Dark'' (2009), ''Doc West'' (2009), and ''Triggerman'' (2009); he co-directed the last two.

In the summer of 2010, Hill filmed another Italian television series for the Italian state television channel [[Rai 1|Rai Uno]], this time entitled ''[[Un passo dal cielo]]'' (''One Step from Heaven''), playing a local chief of the [[State Forestry Corps|state foresters]] in the region of [[South Tyrol|Alto Adige]], with a second season filmed in 2012.

Hill directed the 2018 film ''[[My Name Is Thomas]]'', which he also appeared in.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://video.repubblica.it/spettacoli-e-cultura/il-mio-nome-e-thomas-terence-hill-torna-al-cinema-un-cowboy-on-the-road/299934/300564 |title='Il mio nome è Thomas': Terence Hill torna al cinema, un cowboy on the road |date=17 March 2018 |access-date=12 January 2019 |newspaper=[[La Repubblica]] |language=it |publisher=[[GEDI Gruppo Editoriale S.p.A.]]}}</ref> The same year, the co-op [[beat 'em up]] videogame ''[[Bud Spencer & Terence Hill: Slaps and Beans]]'' was released.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2018/07/bud_spencer_and_terence_hill_arrive_on_switch_with_slaps_and_beans_in_tow |title=Bud Spencer & Terence Hill Arrive On Switch With Slaps And Beans In Tow |first=Damien |last=McFerran |date=25 July 2018 |access-date=12 January 2019 |work=[[Nintendo Life]] |publisher=[[Gamer Network]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nintendolife.com/reviews/switch-eshop/bud_spencer_and_terence_hill_-_slaps_and_beans |title=Bud Spencer & Terence Hill – Slaps and Beans Review (Switch eShop) |first=Gonçalo |last=Lopes |date=30 July 2018 |access-date=12 January 2019 |work=[[Nintendo Life]] |publisher=[[Gamer Network]]}}</ref>