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Gian Maria Volonté

Acting Born Apr 9, 1933 Milano, Lombardia, Italy 24 credits

Biography

Gian Maria Volonté (9 April 1933 – 6 December 1994) was an Italian actor. He is perhaps most famous outside of Italy for his roles as the main villain in Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars (credited in the USA as "Johnny Wels") and For a Few Dollars More.

In Italy and much of Europe, he was notable for his roles in high-profile social dramas depicting the political and social stirrings of Italian and European society in the 1960s and 1970s, including four films directed by Elio Petri - We Still Kill the Old Way (1967), Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1971), The Working Class Goes to Heaven (1971) and Todo modo (1976). He is also recognized for his performances in Jean-Pierre Melville's Le Cercle Rouge (1970) and Giuliano Montaldo's Sacco & Vanzetti (1971).

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Known for

Film

For a Few Dollars More

as El Indio
Film

A Fistful of Dollars

as Ramón Rojo
Film

Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion

as Dottore
Film

The Working Class Goes to Heaven

as Lulù Massa

Full filmography

  • Spécial cinéma (1974) as Self
  • For a Few Dollars More (1965) as El Indio
  • A Fistful of Dollars (1964) as Ramón Rojo
  • Le Cercle Rouge (1970) as Vogel
  • Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970) as Dottore
  • The Charterhouse of Parma (1982) as Count Mosca
  • Le inchieste del commissario Maigret (1964) as Radek
  • Lucky Luciano (1973) as Charles 'Lucky' Luciano
  • The Assassination (1972) as Sadiel
  • Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1987) as Dr. Cristo Bedoya
  • Sacco & Vanzetti (1971) as Bartolomeo Vanzetti
  • The Magnificent Cuckold (1964) as Assessore
  • One Way or Another (1976) as M.
  • Operation Ogre (1979) as Izarra
  • Diamoci del tu (1967) as Self
  • A Bullet for the General (1967) as Chuncho Munos / 'El Chuncho'
  • Vita di Michelangelo (1964) as Michelangelo
  • Girl with a Suitcase (1961) as Piero Benotti
  • The Working Class Goes to Heaven (1971) as Lulù Massa
  • For Love and Gold (1966) as Teofilatto dei Leonzi
  • Spanish Western (2015) as The Indian (archive footage)
  • The Abyss (1988) as Zenone
  • We Are Cinema (2021) as Self (archive footage)
  • The Idiot (1959) as Parfen Rogozin