Candida Martinelli's Italophile Site (Terence Hill)

Terence Hill, Spaghetti Westerns, Don Matteo

Cinema

Photo Tours

Terence Hill Biography

Four Spaghetti Western T-shirt designs

Terence Hill in his Spaghetti Western Days

Here's a clip with Terence Hill and Henry Fonda in 'My Name is Nobody', featuring the fabulous music of Ennio Morricone

Gallery of images of Terence Hill

Terence Hill as Matinee Idol Mario Girotti (his birth name)

This is a tribute to Ennio Morricone's haunting music from the film 'Once Upon a Time in the West', featuring the faces of the eclectic cast.

A-Team-like Violence

The Famous Comic-Action Duo, Terence Hill and Bud Spencer, pseudonyms for Mario Girotti and Carlo Pedersoli.

This is a tribute to Ennio Morricone's Deborah's Theme from 'Once Upon a Time in America'

Terence Hill as Don Matteo in Gubbio, Italy. Click on the image to read more about 'Don Matteo' in English. Click here, to visit the Gubbio, Umbria, site. It's in Italian.

Introduction to Mr. Terence Hill

A Biography

An Official Website in Italy

A Unique Interview

My Name is Nobody

Bud Spencer and Terence Hill

Don Matteo, a Priest Detective

Movie Posters for Sale

Introduction to Mr. Terence Hill

Italian-made western films are known around the world, usually as Spaghetti Westerns. But one of their most famous stars, Terence Hill, actually began his long career as "Italy's fidanzato". In many films he played the ideal young man for any Italian's daughter to marry.

He's actually half Italian and half German, and sadly, as a child he lived through the fire bombing of Dresden at the end of World War II. After the war, his family returned it Italy. His western films began, however, in Germany, when he sought to end the type-casting he was stuck with in Italy.

A Biography

If you'd like to read a wonderful mini-biography of Mr. Hill, by Ms. Federica Tronci, on-line, just click below to read it in English or Italian.

An Official Website in Italy

The Official Website based in Italy is available in English and Italian and some other languages too.

A Unique Interview

The site boasts a unique interview Mr. Hill gave to a film reviewer in Perugia, Italy, covering his entire career, including his work with the famous director, Sergio Leone. The webmaster recorded the entire interview, that was in Italian, but you can read it in Italian or English.

My Name is Nobody

The wonderfully entertaining western that made a true international star of Terence Hill was My Name is Nobody (1973). Together with Henry Fonda, Mr. Hill, Sergio Leone (the producer and story originator), and Tonino Valerii (the director) added a post-modern, self-referential, humorous take on the traditional film western.

The Terence Hill Site also boasts a recent interview with the director, Tonino Valerii in which he discusses the making of the film. Here are the direct links to the interview in the original Italian, and in an English translation.

Bud Spencer and Terence Hill

Besides his westerns, both comic and serious, Terence Hill has made many films with fellow Italian actor Bud Spencer. Their films are in the same spirit as the films now made by Jackie Chan: action-comedies that aim to entertain the whole family.

The action is sometimes called "A-Team Violence", meaning after all the hits and falls, everyone gets up, brushes themselves off, and walks away. If you're a fan of these films, click on the star, to the right, to go to a site set up by a Dutch fan celebrating the Spencer-Hill duo.

Don Matteo, a Priest-Detective

Today, Mr. Hill stars in a series seen around the world, Don Matteo, which has won he and the shows' producers International Television Awards for best actor and best series, respectively.

Don Matteo is a former missionary priest who returns to being a parish priest in a small town in Italy, only to find that he is constantly being drawn into police investigations, often solving the crimes before the town's comic Carabinieri.

The show boasts top European stars, quality writing and directing, and Terence Hill, known the world over for his long career of making family films. Click here or on the cross, to the right, if you want to read more about Don Matteo, in English. Click here for the Italian version.

The series is co-produced by the Rai, the Italian Television Authority, and LuxVide. LuxVide has an information site for the show off their main site.

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Just enter the category such as 'Books' (or 'DVD' or 'VHS') in the 'Search' field, and 'Terence Hill' (or a film name, for example) in the 'Keywords' field. Then click on the 'Go' button to see the resulting list with descriptions, comments from people, and prices.