Biografía

Appeared in 18 films with frequent co-star Bud Spencer.

Part of the reason he was cast in the westerns was because he looked just like another actor who made hit westerns, Franco Nero. When Nero was not available to do a western, Italian producers cast Hill. Hill then went on to make a name for himself as a western star.

Changed his name in 1967. Hill stated on his official German website that it was made up by film producers who gave him a list with 20 names and 24 hours time to choose one of the names. He picked "Terence Hill" for he liked this name the most and it has his mother's initials whose name was "Hildegard Thieme". Most people to this day think that "Hill" was his wife's name. But her name was Lori Zwicklbauer and is today Zwicklbauer-Hill after she took his name. It was for publicity reasons when they said that Hill took his name from his wife. At this time of upcoming feminism a man who chose to take his wife's name was something special.

He can speak German fluently.

His mother was German, his father an Italian chemist.