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Terence Hill

Terence Hill was born in Venice as Mario Girotti on March 29, 1939.

As a child he lived in the small town Lommatzsch, Germany where he lived from 1943 to 1945 during World War II, surviving the Dresden Bombing. His mother was German, his father an Italian chemist.

After being discovered by Italian filmmaker Dino Risi for Vacanze col gangster (1951) (Holiday with the Gangster) at an early age of 12, he had, after 27 movies in Italy, a major film-role in Luchino Visconti's The Leopard (Il Gattopardo, 1963). In 1964 he returned to Germany and there appeared in a series of Heimatfilmen, adventure and western films, made after novels by German author Karl May. In 1967, he returned to Italy to act in God Forgives, I don't (Dio perdona... Io no!, 1968). He changed his name to Terence Hill in the same year. The name was made up, as a publicity stunt, by the film producers; he had to choose from a list of twenty names and picked the one with his mother's initials. In a Q&A[1], he dismissed as a journalist's invention the rumour that it might have been taken from the Roman scholar Terence and his wife's surname (his wife was Lori Zwicklbauer; she later took her husband's surname).

In the following years, he starred in many action and western films (so-called Spaghetti Westerns) together with his long time partner Bud Spencer. The pair were notable for their funny films, successful not only in Italy, but also abroad. They made a large number of Italian Westerns and other films together, including (listed below using their most common US titles):

God Forgives... I Don't! (1967)
Ace High (1968)
Boot Hill (1969)
They Call Me Trinity (1970)
Blackie the Pirate (1971)
Trinity Is STILL My Name! (1971)
All the Way, Boys! (1972)
My Name Is Nobody (1973)
Watch Out, We're Mad (1974)
Two Missionaries (1975)
Crime Busters (1976)
Odds And Evens (1978)
I'm for the Hippopotamus (1979)
Who Finds a Friend, Finds a Treasure (1981)
Super Fuzz (1981)
Go For It (1983)
Double Trouble (1984)
Miami Supercops (1985)
Troublemakers (1994)
Many of these have alternate titles, depending upon the country and distributor. Some have longer Italian versions that were edited for release abroad. These films gathered popularity for both actors, especially in Europe.[2] Possibly their most famous film is the 1971 western Lo chiamavano Trinità (They Call Me Trinity) and the 1972 sequel Continuavano a chiamarlo Trinità (Trinity Is STILL My Name!) He has stated in interviews that Il mio nome è Nessuno (My Name Is Nobody, 1973) in which he co-starred with the American Henry Fonda, is his personal favorite of all his films.

His first American films were Mr. Billion and March Or Die (both 1977), after which he divided his time between Italy and the US.

Hill suffered from depression after the death of his adopted son Ross in 1990. He later recovered and started a successful TV career. His most recent acting job is in the Italian television series Don Matteo, in which he stars as a crimefighting parish priest.




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Terence Hill - what members say


  • They Call Me Trinity / Trinity Is Still My Name
  • They Call Me Trinity / Trinity Is Still My Name review by A customer from Stafford, United Kingdon
    Rated - 5 stars Brilliant Movie 3 February 2004
    ...it is full of slapstick. Those of you who have watched other Bud Spencer and Terence Hill movies will be dissapointed that there voices have been dubbed over though....  
  • My Name Is Nobody
  • My Name Is Nobody review by A customer from ENGLAND, BUT BORN IN FRANCE
    Rated - 5 stars Classic Spaghetti Western 23 July 2004
    ...d sense of humour and a good morale... And for the ladies, deep blue eyes of Terence Hill... I never get bored of watching it!!!...  
  • A Genius, Two Partners And A Dupe
  • A Genius, Two Partners And A Dupe review by from oxford
    Rated - 3 stars Not Sergio Leone, but great fun nonetheless 8 November 2004
    ... riff on Ford classics such as 'Fort Apache'. Joe Thanks (played bythe handsome Terence Hill), a fast-talking, charismatic genius, outsmarts everyone from the Doc (Klaus Ki...  

Terence Hill - filmography


  • Double Trouble on DVD (1984)
    Starring: Bud Spencer,  Terence Hill
    Director: E.B. Clucher
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    When an agency dealing with 'doubles' hires a saxophone player and a windsurfer to take the place of two highly influential gentlemen who need to be in two places at the same time, madness and mayhem are the order of the day!
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  • Go For It on DVD (1983)
    Starring: Bud Spencer,  Terence Hill
    Director: E.B. Clucher
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    The Trinity boys, this time unwitting ace agents, suddenly find themselves dodging everything from booby-trapped Shirley Temples to killer whales in order to save humankind from a sinister new secret weapon.
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 59% from 265 members
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  • Crimebusters on DVD (1977)
    Starring: Bud Spencer,  Terence Hill
    Director: Enzo Barboni
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A morally dubious duo feature in this escapade as they fall out with a mob who run a harbour complex. They resort to crime and plan a supermarket robbery which, not surprisingly, goes haywire.
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 62% from 221 members
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  • March Or Die on DVD (1977)
    Starring: Gene Hackman,  Terence Hill,  Max von Sydow
    Director: Dick Richards
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Expelled from West Point, a man enlists in the French Foreign Legion and commands a motley crew of men assigned to protect an archaeological expedition. Things don't go as planned. Filmed in the Sahara Desert and starring Gene Hackman.
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 166 members
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  • Blackie the Pirate to Watch Now (1971)
    Starring: Terence Hill,  Bud Spencer
    Director: Vincent Thomas
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC (TBC)
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    Run time: 97 minutes
    Captain Blackie sails the high seas, fighting the Viceroy's men, capturing galleons laden with gold, and even making time for a love affair with the Viceroy's beautiful wife, Isabella.
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Terence Hill facts

5 most recent films

Miami Supercops - 3.0 stars
Double Trouble - 3.0 stars
Go For It - 3.0 stars
Who Finds A Friend Finds A Treasure - 3.0 stars
Odds And Evens - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

They Call Me Trinity / Trinity Is Still My Name - 3.5 stars
My Name Is Nobody - 3.5 stars
Crimebusters - 3.0 stars
Odds And Evens - 3.0 stars
Double Trouble - 3.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

The Black Pirate - 2.0 stars
Man Of The East - 2.5 stars
Boot Hill - 2.0 stars
March Or Die - 2.5 stars
A Genius, Two Partners And A Dupe - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Bud Spencer - 10 times - show films
Sal Borgese - 2 times - show films
Miou Miou - 1 times - show films
Geoffrey Lewis - 1 times - show films
Pasquale Basile - 1 times - show films

Most frequent directors

E.B. Clucher - 4 times - show films
Bruno Corbucci - 2 times - show films
Sergio Corbucci - 2 times - show films
Sergio Leone - 1 times - show films
Lorenzo Gicca Palli - 1 times - show films