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Gianni Garko

Actor

Gianni Garko

Born July 15, 1935 in Zara, Dalmatia, Italy [now Zadar, Croatia]69 films

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.

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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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Waterloo posterFirst watchWaterloo19707.1as DrouotAfter defeating France and imprisoning Napoleon on Elba, ending two decades of war, Europe is shocked to find Napoleon has escaped and has caused the French Army to defect from the King…View film

Essential films

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The Psychic poster7.0The Psychic1977Don Camillo in Moscow poster7.1Don Camillo in Moscow1965Kapo poster6.9Kapo1960The Boss poster6.8The Boss1973Crazy Desire poster6.6Crazy Desire1962If You Meet Sartana Pray for Your Death poster5.9If You Meet Sartana Pray for Your Death1968The Night of the Devils poster6.3The Night of the Devils1972Hercules poster4.9Hercules1983

Filmography

69 films as actor
  1. 2025Heads or Tails?Mr. Rupè
  2. 2002Family Flaw
  3. 1998Tower of the First BornCommander
  4. 1998Entscheidung für die Liebe
  5. 1997Con rabbia e con amore
  6. 1992Body PuzzleCapo della polizia
  7. 1990In nome del popolo sovranoNicolas Charles Victor Oudinot
  8. 1987Skipper
  9. 1987Gila and RikGiovanni
  10. 1986Black Tunnel
  11. 1985Drei und eine halbe PortionFabo
  12. 1984Monster SharkSheriff Gordon
  13. 1983HerculesValcheus
  14. 1983Il passo falso
  15. 1983AmokLe journaliste Breyten
  16. 1982L'occhio di GiudaHarry
  17. 1979Star OdysseyDirk
  18. 1979Dracula Blows His CoolStan / Count Stanislaus
  19. 1979Lo scugnizzo
  20. 1979The New GodfathersCapitano Ivano Radovich
  21. 1979Encounters in the DeepMike
  22. 1978Summer Night FeverJacky / Playboy
  23. 1977MaldororIl regista
  24. 1977Three Swedish Girls in Upper BavariaOtto Gruber
  25. 1977Joy of FlyingJörg Bronner
  26. 1977The PsychicFrancesco Ducci
  27. 1974Seven JackalsLuis
  28. 1973The Flower with Petals of SteelDr. Andrea Valenti
  29. 1973Those Dirty Dogs!Korano
  30. 1973The HeroesSchreiber
  31. 1973The BossPolice Commissioner Torri
  32. 1972The Night of the DevilsNicola
  33. 1972His Name Was Holy GhostHoly Ghost
  34. 1971Bad Man's RiverEd Pace
  35. 1971They Call Him CemeteryCamposanto / 'The Stranger'
  36. 1971The Price of DeathSilver
  37. 1971Cold Eyes of FearPeter Flower
  38. 1970Light the Fuse… Sartana Is ComingSartana
  39. 1970WaterlooDrouot
  40. 1970Have a Good Funeral, My Friend… Sartana Will PaySartana
  41. 1970The CopDan Rover
  42. 1970Sartana Kills Them AllSantana
  43. 1970Tulips of HaarlemBernardo
  44. 1969I Am Sartana Your Angel of DeathSartana
  45. 1969Thunder from the WestRiccardo Cloro
  46. 1969Five for HellLt. Glenn Hoffmann
  47. 1968If You Meet Sartana Pray for Your DeathSartana
  48. 1968LucreziaFabrizio Aldobrandi
  49. 1968Red Roses for the FuhrerAlex Rostov / il tenente Mann
  50. 1968Bloody Days
  51. 1968Taste of VengeanceBryan Clarke
  52. 1967Vengeance Is MineJohn Forest
  53. 1967$10,000 for a MassacreDjango
  54. 1966$1,000 on the BlackSartana Liston
  55. 1966Almost a ManMichele's Brother
  56. 1965Don Camillo in MoscowScamoggia
  57. 1964Saul and DavidDavid
  58. 1963The Shortest DayUomo alla stazione (uncredited)
  59. 1962The AvengerTurno, King of the Rusalie
  60. 1962Eighteen in the SunNicola Molino
  61. 1962Crazy DesirePiero
  62. 1962Pontius PilateJonathan
  63. 1961Mole Men Against the Son of HerculesKathar - Kahab's Son
  64. 1961The MongolsHenry de Valois
  65. 1961One Night at the BeachHeinrich
  66. 1960KapoKarl
  67. 1960Death of a FriendAldo
  68. 1959Hello, Hello Baby! (Rains)
  69. 1958Cannon SerenadeUn altro ufficiale