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Gianni Garko

Acting Born Jul 15, 1935 Zara, Dalmatia, Italy [now Zadar, Croatia] 24 credits

Biography

Born in Zadar, Dalmatia (then Italy, now part of Croatia), he moved to Trieste in 1948 to attend the acting school of the Piccolo Teatro di Trieste, and then to Rome to enter the Accademia nazionale d'arte drammatica. Garko began his career in the 1950s playing roles of various genres, especially in westerns and Italian-style comedies; in his later years he devoted himself to films for RAI television. He gave life to the character of Sartana (together with directors Gianfranco Parolini and later Giuliano Carnimeo), the protagonist of numerous spaghetti-westerns. In the film Il compagno don Camillo (1965) he played the character of Scamoggia, the photographer sent by the party to document the twinning.

In addition to the films he starred in, he had various television experiences. Among the many, we recall his appearance in the television series Space 1999 as astronaut Tony Cellini, in the episode entitled The Dragon's Domain (in addition to voicing Gwent in the episode The Infernal Machine in the same series), and in the television series Suspects, in the role of industrialist Martin Fisher. From 2002 to 2004 he starred in the soap opera Vivere, playing entrepreneur Pierfrancesco Moretti. He took part in a number of commercials; among others an olive oil, a wine, and finally a medicine alongside comedian Fabrizio Fontana from 1995-1997. Active now mainly as a character actor from tv

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Known for

Film

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

as Tony Cellini

I promessi sposi

as fratello gentiluomo
Film

Summer Night Fever

as Jacky / Playboy

BOSS

as Karl

Full filmography

  • Space: 1999 (1975) as Tony Cellini
  • I promessi sposi (1989) as fratello gentiluomo
  • Maggie & Bianca Fashion Friends (2016) as Tancredi Lombardi
  • the famous escapes (1972) as Benvenuto Cellini
  • Waterloo (1970) as Drouot
  • Summer Night Fever (1978) as Jacky / Playboy
  • L'isola del tesoro (1959) as Harry
  • Italian Restaurant (1994) as Henken
  • Italian Restaurant (1994)
  • Hercules (1983) as Valcheus
  • The Heroes (1973) as Schreiber
  • Three Swedish Girls in Upper Bavaria (1977) as Otto Gruber
  • Crazy Desire (1962) as Piero
  • Light the Fuse… Sartana Is Coming (1970) as Sartana
  • Kapo (1960) as Karl
  • Don Camillo in Moscow (1965) as Scamoggia
  • If You Meet Sartana Pray for Your Death (1968) as Sartana
  • The Psychic (1977) as Francesco Ducci
  • Bad Man's River (1971) as Ed Pace
  • The Shortest Day (1963) as Uomo alla stazione (uncredited)
  • Vivere (1999) as Pierfrancesco Moretti
  • Joy of Flying (1977) as Jörg Bronner
  • The Mongols (1961) as Henry de Valois
  • The Boss (1973) as Police Commissioner Torri