
Fosco Giachetti (28 March 1900, in Sesto Fiorentino – 22 December 1974, in Rome) was an Italian actor. Fosco Giachetti was the protagonist of Lo squadrone bianco (1936), directed by Augusto Genina. He became the leading man in Fascist propaganda films such as Tredici uomini e un cannone (1936), Sentinelle di bronzo (1937), Scipione l'Africano, Edgar Neville's Italian Carmen fra i rossi (1939), L'assedio dell'Alcazar (1940) and Bengasi (1942). In 1942, he also co-starred in Goffredo Alessandrini's two part Noi Vivi and Addio Kira!. Un colpo di pistola (1942) by Renato Castellani and Fari nella nebbia (1942) by Gianni Franciolini were not as successful as his earlier films. After the war, he returned to the stage. He worked in Spain with Edgar Neville in Nada and in Carne de horca. He had a supporting role in 1959 Dino Risi's successful comedy Il mattatore. In 1964, he appeared in an adaptation of A. J. Cronin's novel, The Citadel. In 2003, the Galleria Fosco Giachetti in Sesto Fiorentino was opened in his honor.

David Copperfield
TV • 1965

The Conformist
MOVIE • 1971

Vita di Michelangelo
TV • 1964

Il Conte di Montecristo
TV • 1966

The Wastrel
MOVIE • 1961

Carmen and the Reds
MOVIE • 1939

The Damned
MOVIE • 1947

The Inheritor
MOVIE • 1973

Another Man's Wife
MOVIE • 1967

Conqueror of the Orient
MOVIE • 1961

Love and Larceny
MOVIE • 1960

The Nun of Monza
MOVIE • 1962

House of Ricordi
MOVIE • 1954

We the Living, Part One
MOVIE • 1942

Life Begins Anew
MOVIE • 1945

The Woman of Monte Carlo
MOVIE • 1938

The Counterfeiters
MOVIE • 1951

Luce nelle tenebre
MOVIE • 1941