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He was discovered by Italian filmmaker Dino Risi at a swimming meet at the age of 12, and became a child actor, appearing in Risi's Il viale della speranza (1953), billed as "Girolamo Girotti". Hill, whose stage name was the product of a publicity stunt by film producers, also went on to a successful television career in Italy. His film Django, Prepare a Coffin, shot in 1968 by director Ferdinando Baldi, and co-starring Horst Frank and George Eastman, was featured at the 64th Venice Film Festival in 2007. Of these, the most famous are Lo chiamavano Trinità ( They Call Me Trinity, 1970) …continuavano a chiamarlo Trinità (… they kept calling him Trinity, 1971), the highest grossing Italian film to date and Il mio nome è Nessuno ( My Name Is Nobody, 1973), co-starring Henry Fonda. Hill's most widely seen films include comic and standard Westerns all'Italiana ("Italian-style Westerns", colloquially called " Spaghetti Westerns"), some based on popular novels by German author Karl May about the Wild West. During the height of his popularity Hill was among Italy's highest-paid actors.
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Hill started his career as a child actor and gained international fame for starring roles in action and comedy films, many with longtime film partner and friend Bud Spencer. Terence Hill (born Mario Girotti 29 March 1939) is an Italian actor, film director, screenwriter and film producer.