Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#20053
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Terence Hill represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 63 years in, and Terence is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Terence Hill appears in 15 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Terence. They Call Me Trinity is the clearest case: a film rated 7.4 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, screen presence. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for western, comedy, romance. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Terence Hill, Enzo Barboni, Italo Zingarelli and others, Terence Hill helped set a standard other performers now audition against. Awards bodies have been slower than the work, which is usually the sign of a career built on choices rather than campaigns.
They Call Me Trinity (1970) as Trinity · The Leopard (1963) as Count Cavriaghi · Watch Out, We're Mad (1974) as Kid
Career snapshot
Ranked #20053 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
15
1963–2026
Career length
63 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.4
They Call Me Trinity
Average Nutevio score
6.7
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.7
The Leopard
Most frequent director
Enzo Barboni
4 films together
Longest collaboration
4×
With Enzo Barboni
Most common genre
Comedy
12 titles
Average runtime
1h 49m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
7.0
out of 10
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio metric
Cultural impact and legacy, measured separately from craft — how far the work travelled once it left the cinema.
Nutevio Influence Score
7.0
out of 10
A quieter influence — felt inside the films rather than across the industry.
How far the work travelled past the people who saw it first.
What survives once the release-week conversation has burned off.
Institutional acknowledgement, weighted but never decisive.
Years of chosen, relevant work rather than years merely employed.
Statuettes, read as evidence rather than verdict.
Roles named without needing the film named alongside them.
Directors who wrote parts because this performer existed.
The reading other performers now have to answer.
Actor DNA
A fingerprint derived from the roles themselves — register, range and the kind of film they carry.
The shape of a career
Every performance plotted in time. Hover a point to read the title behind it.
Peak years
Where the scores, the awards and the sheer volume of work agree with each other.
Best decade
1970s
7.0 average MV
The 1970s are where the work and the material meet. I'm for the Hippopotamus, Crime Busters, A Genius, Two Friends, and an Idiot — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1970s
7.0
Across 8 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1970s
7.1
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1960s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Ace High, God Forgives... I Don't!, The Leopard.
Most productive era
1970s
8 films
The busiest stretch of the catalogue — volume that reads as appetite rather than availability.
Range, mapped
Genres down the side, decades across the top. Warmer cells mean stronger titles.
| Genre | 1960s | 1970s | 1980s | 1990s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 7.02 films | 6.91 film | — | — | — |
| Action | 6.51 film | 7.04 films | 6.21 film | — | — |
| Comedy | 6.51 film | 7.07 films | 6.21 film | 6.02 films | 6.01 film |
| Romance | — | — | — | 6.31 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio · Highest rated performance
1963The Leopard
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Count Cavriaghi. 7.4 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Career peak
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
2026The Socceritos
The current state of the argument, as Soccerito Terence.
Our order
Every performance in the catalogue, ordered by Nutevio Score.
Every title
Filter by genre or decade, and compare any two titles side by side.
15 of 15 films
as Trinity
Directed by Enzo Barboni
as Slim
Directed by Italo Zingarelli
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
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The defining work
#1
Trinity
They Call Me Trinity (1970)
Performance score8.0
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Trinity gives Terence Hill a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Kid
Watch Out, We're Mad (1974)
Performance score7.8
Watch Out, We're Mad asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Kid is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Trinity
Trinity Is Still My Name (1971)
Performance score7.8
Trinity Is Still My Name asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Trinity is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Nobody
My Name Is Nobody (1973)
Performance score7.7
My Name Is Nobody asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Nobody is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Trinity
Start here. They Call Me Trinity is the clearest statement of what Terence Hill does — accessible, 115 minutes, and rated 7.4 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Terence at the most legible performance, then move forward in time so each film reads as a response to the one before it rather than a repetition of it.
Trinity Is Still My Name (1971)
Same director as They Call Me Trinity, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
My Name Is Nobody (1973)
Keeps the western register of Trinity Is Still My Name but asks for a colder reading of it.
Watch Out, We're Mad (1974)
Keeps the comedy register of My Name Is Nobody but asks for a colder reading of it.
I'm for the Hippopotamus (1979)
Keeps the action register of Watch Out, We're Mad but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Enzo Barboni
Director
4 films together
Notably They Call Me Trinity
Giuseppe Colizzi
Director
2 films together
Notably Ace High
Terence Hill
Director
2 films together
Notably Troublemakers
Luchino Visconti
Director
1 film together
Notably The Leopard
Robert Altman
Director
1 film together
Notably McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Tonino Valerii
Director
1 film together
Notably My Name Is Nobody
Marcello Fondato
Director
1 film together
Notably Watch Out, We're Mad
Damiano Damiani
Director
1 film together
Notably A Genius, Two Friends, and an Idiot
Italo Zingarelli
Director
1 film together
Notably I'm for the Hippopotamus
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Enzo Barboni
Director
4 films together · 6.9 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 4 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
They Call Me TrinityGiuseppe Colizzi
Director
2 films together · 6.5 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Ace HighTerence Hill
Director
2 films together · 6.0 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
TroublemakersLuchino Visconti
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The LeopardMarcello Fondato
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Watch Out, We're MadTonino Valerii
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
My Name Is NobodyRobert Altman
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
McCabe & Mrs. MillerItalo Zingarelli
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
I'm for the HippopotamusDamiano Damiani
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Genius, Two Friends, and an IdiotSix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
They Call Me Trinity
as Trinity
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Troublemakers
as Travis
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
The Leopard
as Count Cavriaghi
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
as Townsperson (uncredited)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
They Call Me Trinity
as Trinity
If the career had to be argued in a single scene, our editors would pick one from this film and rest the case.
In their films' words
“You can build a whole film around a performer who knows when not to speak. Terence Hill has known it for a long time.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
Ours alone
Recognitions handed out by this desk, on criteria no awards body uses.
Career Achievement
Awarded
63 years of relevant work — not merely a long career, but a long career of choices.
Comedy Legend
Awarded
12 catalogue titles in comedy, each one a reference point for the films that followed.
Our desk
Best ending, best opening, best twist and the rest — categories we apply to everyone we cover.
Best ending
They Call Me Trinity
as Trinity
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
They Call Me Trinity
as Trinity
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Troublemakers
as Travis
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
They Call Me Trinity
as Trinity
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
They Call Me Trinity
as Trinity
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Renegade
as Luke
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
as Townsperson (uncredited)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Lucky Luke
as Lucky Luke
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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