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Terence Hill (born Mario Girotti March 29, 1939 in
Venice) is an Italy|Italian-born actor. As a child
he lived in the small village Lommatzsch, Germany
where he survived World War II. His mother was
German, his father an Italian chemist.

After being discovered by Italian filmmaker Dino
Risi for Vacanze col gangster (1951) (Holiday for
Gangsters) 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 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. Name
was one of the options made up by producers and
words that he took it from the Roman scholar
Terence and his wife's surname, Lori Hill were
just a publicity stunt.

In the following years, he starred in many action
and western films (so-called Spaghetti Western)
together with his long time partner Bud Spencer.
The pair were notable for their funny, intelligent
films and were very successful not only in Italy. 

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).
In Il Mio nome è Nessuno (My name is Nobody,
1973) his co-star was the American screen-legend
and western-experienced Henry Fonda, who also
acted in "Once upon a time in the west" (C'era una
volta il West) (1968) of director Sergio Leone.


== External links ==
*imdb name|id=0001352|name=Terence Hill
*http://www.terencehill.com/ Terence Hill - The
Official International Website