After the smack movies, Hill has given life to Don Matteo Bondini, the parish priest of a small town for almost 20 years
Actor Bud Spencer dies
On October 29, Bud Spencer would have turned 90. The Italian actor, whose real name was Carlo Pedersoli, will be remembered with a great retrospective in Naples, his hometown, three years after his death. Whoever was his other half on the big screen, Terence Hill, remembered his partner tenderly during his funeral: "We respected and loved each other." That was the secret of his success.
A lifetime together that was embodied in almost two dozen films, most of them shot in Almeria, where both were seen for the first time. Mario Girotti, the Italian actor of German origin who embodied the mythical pillous and mocking character that accompanied - and sometimes took off - Bud Spencer in He was called Trinidad or You forgive ... I do not , remains one of the most popular interpreters and dear ones in Italy. This year he turned 80 and celebrated where he likes to be, on stage.
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The actor has given life for almost 20 years to Don Matteo Bondini, the parish priest of a small Italian town with a detective instinct and capable of undoing the biggest mistakes of his neighbors, the absolute protagonist of the series of the same name that the Italian public television broadcast uninterruptedly until 2018 and Spanish viewers were able to continue on TVE. That same year he directed the movie My name is Thomas , a road movie shot in Almeria that recreated the atmosphere of the western spaghetti and dedicated to his inseparable Bud Spencer.
He received the news of the death of his great friend while looking for locations in Spain for his film. "I felt a great pain but it was also a sign: at that moment I knew that I had to shoot there, in the same places where I met and shared so much time with him," he recalled in an interview.
Mario Girotti lived the disappearance of his "other half" with absolute discretion, a characteristic that has guided him throughout his career. The son of an Italian chemist from the Umbria region and a German chemist , Mario Girotti was born in Venice in 1939 "by chance" and grew up in the city of Dresden in Germany. By chance he also took his first steps in the world of entertainment. Despite his recognized shyness, he agreed to participate in some film productions of the time to finance his studies in literature at a Roman university. He even got a small role in El Gatopardo (1963) by Luchino Visconti.
His great opportunity came, however, next to Bud Spencer in Le called Trinidad (1971) and its sequels. Only a few years before he had met on the set of another shoot his wife , the German-born American Lori Zwicklbauer, with whom he left Italy to settle on a ranch in Massachusetts, in the United States. With her he had two children, Jess and Ross. The death in 1990 in a traffic accident with 16 years of the first, which was trying to make its way into the world of interpretation, plunged the actor and director into a deep depression.
A dark era that kept him out of the front line for almost ten years and from which he only recovered thanks to Don Matteo and the public recognition, especially in Germany, where he is a star, and in Italy. In 2010 he received the honorary David de Donatello award - the equivalent of the Spanish Goyas - together with Carlo Pedersoli, who on stage proudly confessed to never having "discussed" with his other half.
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