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Girotti secured a substantial supporting role in Luchino Visconti's film epic The Leopard (1963) alongside Burt Lancaster and Alain Delon, in which he unsuccessfully tries to court the daughter of Lancaster's character. Girotti had support parts in The Wonders of Aladdin (1961) with Donald O'Connor and directed by Henry Levin and Mario Bava, Pecado de amor (1961), Seven Seas to Calais (1962) with Rod Taylor, and The Shortest Day (1963). It was back to support roles with Carthage in Flames (1960), Un militare e mezzo (1960), and The Story of Joseph and His Brethren (1961) with Geoffrey Horne and Robert Morley, directed by Irving Rapper. Girotti had the lead roles in Spavaldi e innamorati (1959) and Cerasella (1959), a teen comedy. He had support parts in Il padrone delle ferriere (1959) with Virna Lisi, Juke box - Urli d'amore (1959), and Hannibal (1959) with Victor Mature and Carlo Pedersoli, who would later become known as Bud Spencer.

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Girotti did Anna of Brooklyn (1958) with Gina Lollobrigida, The Sword and the Cross (1958) with Yvonne de Carlo (playing Lazarus of Bethany), and a TV version of The Picture of Dorian Gray (1958). He could also be seen in Mamma sconosciuta (1956), I vagabondi delle stelle (1956), La grande strada azzurra (1956) with Yves Montand and Alida Valli, and Lazzarella (1957). Girotti had his first lead in Guaglione (1956). He was in Golden Vein (1954) with MГ¤rta TorГ©n and Richard Basehart, The Abandoned (1955) and Folgore Division (1955). He had small roles in Voice of Silence (1953) with Jean Marais, Too Young for Love (1953), and It Happened in the Park (1953), and had a particularly good part in Vacation with a Gangster (1953) with an imported star, Marc Lawrence. 'They were looking for a boy gang leader and they found me,' he later said.

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'. He was there through the end of World War II (1943вЂ“1945) and survived the Bombing of Dresden.

Дuring his childhood, Hill lived in the small town of Lommatzsch, Saxony. Hill's mother, Hildegard Girotti ( nГ©e Thieme), was German, from Dresden his father, Girolamo Girotti, was Italian, and a chemist by occupation. Hill was born on 29 March 1939 in Venice, Italy. Hill, whose stage name was the product of a publicity stunt by film producers, also went on to a successful television career in Italy.

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