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Terence Hill

Italian actor, director, producer (born 1939)

"Mario Girotti" redirects here. For the Alpini general, see Mario Girotti (general).

Terence Hill
Hill in 2018
Born	Mario Girotti (1939-03-29) 29 March 1939 (age 85) Venice, Italy
Citizenship	Italy United States Germany
Occupations	Actor film director screenwriter film producer
Years active	1951–present
Spouse	Lori Zwicklbauer (m. 1967)
Children	2
Website	www.terencehill.com

Terence Hill (born Mario Girotti; 29 March 1939) is an Italian actor, film director, screenwriter and producer.^[1] He began his career as a child actor and gained international fame for starring roles in action and comedy films, many with longtime film partner and friend Bud Spencer. During the height of his popularity, Hill was among Italy's highest-paid actors.^[1]

His most widely seen films include comic and standard spaghetti Westerns, some based on popular novels by German author Karl May about the Wild We

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Terence Hill was born in Venice on March 29, 1939 and christened Mario Girotti by his Italian father and German mother. He was the second of their three children. When he was two and an half years old, they left Venice to live in Lommatzsch, the Saxon town where his mother was born, and moved in with his maternal grandparents.

While living in Germany, Terence learned German as his first language, but he can recall his father reading him “The Little Flowers of Saint Francis of Assisi” and “Saint Francis of Assisi’s The Canticle of the Creatures” to teach him Italian and values such as love and peace. Terence took these values immediately to heart, especially after surviving with his family the firebombing at the end of World War Two that destroyed nearby Dresden and other German cities. He remembers how horrible it was to be there during the bombing, so horrible that the terrible memories haunted him throughout his childhood.

When Terence was five years old, his family returned to Italy. After a few months in Venice, the Girotti family moved

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Terence Hill was born as Mario Girotti on March 29, 1939 in Venice, Italy to a chemist. His mother was German, and as a child the family lived near Dresden, Saxony, Germany where they survived the Allied bombings of World War II. Italian film-maker Dino Risi discovered him at a swimming meet and he made his first film at the age of 12, Vacanze col gangster (1952) (Holiday for Gangsters). He continued acting to finance his studies and motorcycle hobby. After studying classical literature at the University of Rome for three years, he decided to devote full time to acting. In 1962 he appeared in Luchino Visconti's The Leopard (1963), He then signed a contract for a series of adventure and western films in Germany. In 1967 he returned to Italy to play the lead in God Forgives... I Don't! (1967). While on location in Almeria, Spain, he married an American girl of Bavarian descent, Lori Zwicklbauer, who was the dialogue coach for the picture. The producers of this movie wanted him to change his name. He then got a list with 20 names on it and 24 hours time to choose one of the