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Terence HillTerence 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. Terence Hill - what members say
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Terence Hill facts5 most recent filmsMiami Supercops - 3.0 starsDouble 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 filmsThey Call Me Trinity / Trinity Is Still My Name - 3.5 starsMy Name Is Nobody - 3.5 stars Crimebusters - 3.0 stars Odds And Evens - 3.0 stars Double Trouble - 3.0 stars 5 lowest-rated filmsThe Black Pirate - 2.0 starsMan 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-starsBud Spencer - 10 times - show filmsSal 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 directorsE.B. Clucher - 4 times - show filmsBruno Corbucci - 2 times - show films Sergio Corbucci - 2 times - show films Sergio Leone - 1 times - show films Lorenzo Gicca Palli - 1 times - show films |
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....
Not Sergio Leone, but great fun nonetheless 8 November 2004
