--- name: "Giulio Brogi" canonical: "https://film.one/person/giulio-brogi" fi1m_id: "giulio-brogi" imdb_id: "nm0111185" tmdb_id: 225962 wikidata_id: "Q3769510" roles: ["Actor"] born: "3 May 1935" died: "19 February 2019" reviewed_on_fi1m: 2 average_fi1m_score: 82 average_as: "actor" average_over: 2 updated: "2026-09-26T17:08:19.853731+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Giulio Brogi ## Identity Giulio Brogi - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/giulio-brogi - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** giulio-brogi - **IMDb ID:** nm0111185 - **TMDB ID:** 225962 - **Wikidata ID:** Q3769510 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giulio_Brogi, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3769510, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0111185/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/225962 Actor. Born 3 May 1935 in Verona, Veneto, Italy. Died 19 February 2019. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 3 May 1935, Verona, Veneto, Italy - **Died:** 19 February 2019 - **Active:** 1970–2013 - **Average Fi1m score:** 82, as actor, over 2 titles - **Fi1m score by decade:** 1970s 80 (1), 2010s 83 (1) - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giulio_Brogi, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3769510, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0111185/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/225962 ## Fi1m on Giulio Brogi > Giulio Brogi makes inward-looking men worth sustained attention. His restraint gives *The Spider's Stratagem* its unsettling human centre, though even a performance as absorbing as his cannot quite overcome the film's emotional distance. In *The Spider's Stratagem* (1970), Giulio Brogi plays both a father and his son, and recognising him does not make either man easier to know. We found it unsettling because the same features kept bringing the other man to mind. Bernardo Bertolucci makes that resemblance central to his mystery, but Brogi keeps both men worth watching in their own right. His restraint suits a film that asks us to study people closely. It is a strong performance in a film we recommend with a reservation about its emotional distance. His work with Paolo and Vittorio Taviani gives us another place to look for that concentration. *I sovversivi* (1967) was his cinema debut, and he made four films with the brothers. In *St. Michael Had a Rooster* (1972), he plays Giulio Manieri, an imprisoned anarchist. The extended solitary passages require him to hold our attention without another actor to respond to, a useful test of the restraint that marks his screen acting. *The Spider's Stratagem* also shows the limit of what that kind of acting can do for an intricate script. Brogi keeps both men interesting while we compare them, but elsewhere people can seem important chiefly for their place in the plot. Alida Valli's Draifa gives us another compelling presence, yet our attention keeps returning to the puzzle. Brogi gives the film a firm human centre, though he cannot make its other characters less remote. The later career brought *Voyage to Cythera* (1984) with Theo Angelopoulos, followed by more selective film work from the 1990s. A supporting part in Daniele Luchetti's *The Yes Man* (1991) belongs to that quieter stretch, while theatre and television remained part of his working life. For an introduction, we would still choose *The Spider's Stratagem*. Save it for an evening when following a difficult mystery sounds like pleasure rather than homework. ## Biography Giulio Brogi was an Italian actor. He was born in Verona and died in Negrar in 2019. Brogi began working in theatre in the 1960s with directors including Giorgio Strehler, Luigi Squarzina and Franco Zeffirelli. He appeared in films from 1967, including *The Spider's Stratagem* (1970) directed by Bernardo Bertolucci, in which he played both Athos Magnani Jr. and Athos Magnani Sr. Other notable screen roles include *St. Michael Had a Rooster* (1972), *Voyage to Cythera* (1984) and *The Yes Man* (1991). He continued acting in film and television into the 2010s. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.* ## On Fi1m (2) - *The Great Beauty* (2013), Fi1m 83, as Maestro del Cinema, Master of Cinema (uncredited) — [page](https://film.one/film/the-great-beauty.md) - *The Spider's Stratagem* (1970), Fi1m 80, as Athos Magnani Jr. / Athos Magnani Sr. — [page](https://film.one/film/the-spiders-stratagem.md) ## Complete filmography (36) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *The Good Ground* (2018), as Padre Sergio - *Where I've Never Lived* (2017), as Manfredi - *Sweet Dreams* (2016), as Cavalieri - *Non lo so ancora* (2013), Actor - *The Great Beauty* (2013), as Maestro del Cinema, Master of Cinema (uncredited) — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/film/the-great-beauty.md) - *Niente è come sembra* (2007), as Giulio - *La signora delle Camelie* (2005), series, as Aldo Germonti - *The Assessment* (2001), as Mario Molinari - *Come si fa un Martini* (2001), as Albino - *Holy Tongue* (2000), as Maritan - *Sarahsarà* (1994), as Gershe - *The Secret of the Old Woods* (1993), as Bernardi - *La cattedra* (1991), as Prof. Adolfo dal Mario - *The Yes Man* (1991), as Francesco Sanna - *Carmela Campo* (1989), as Son - *Captain Meitanos. The Image of a Mythical Personage* (1987), Actor - *Voyage to Cythera* (1984), as Alexandros - *The Meadow* (1979), as Sergio - *The Seagull* (1977), as Trigorin - *How Wonderful to Die Assassinated* (1975), as Maggiore De Liguoro - *Gamma* (1975), series, as Jean Delafoy - *La vita in gioco* (1975), as Marco Antonio - *Morel's Invention* (1974), as The Castaway - *Eleonora* (1973), series, as Andrea - *The City of the Sun* (1973), as The Monk - *St. Michael Had a Rooster* (1972), as Giulio Manieri - *Eneide* (1971), series, as Aeneas - *The Lion Has Seven Heads* (1971), as Pablo - *The Spider's Stratagem* (1970), as Athos Magnani Jr. / Athos Magnani Sr. — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/the-spiders-stratagem.md) - *La promessa* (1970), as Marat - *Under the Sign of Scorpio* (1969), as Rutolo - *Galileo* (1968), as Giovanni Francesco Sagredo - *Gangsters '70* (1968), as Ludi - *Il rapporto* (1968), Actor - *The Subversives* (1967), as Ettore - *Ricorda con rabbia*, as Jimmy Porter ## Gallery - ![Giulio Brogi](https://film.one/media/person/684956/gallery-c960d25e90bc.png) Giulio Brogi — Sovversivi-1967-Brogi.png: Gawain78 at the Italian Wikipedia project. derivative work: Cavarrone, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0d/Sovversivi-1967-Brogi_cropped.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Giulio Brogi in Strategia del ragno (1970)](https://film.one/media/person/684956/gallery-22fe4df99d49.jpg) Giulio Brogi in Strategia del ragno (1970) — Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d9/Giuliobrogi.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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