About Me
"Hill was born in Venice as Mario Girotti. 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, 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."
Mario speaks german: Terence Hill at Rudi Carrell's TV Show at 1977.
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