Editing Terence Hill (section)

===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).