Gianni Garko

Gianni Garko (90)

1935-07-15 | Zara, Dalmatia, Italy [now Zadar, Croatia]

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

On Movies

  • Heads or Tails?
  • Family Flaw
  • Body Puzzle
  • Una prova d'innocenza
  • In nome del popolo sovrano
  • Gila and Rik
  • Black Tunnel
  • Devil Fish
  • Hercules
  • Amok
  • L'Occhio di Giuda
  • Star Odyssey
  • Dracula Blows His Cool
  • Lo scugnizzo
  • The New Godfathers
  • Encounters in the Deep
  • Summer Night Fever
  • Maldoror
  • Three Swedish Girls in Upper Bavaria
  • Joy of Flying
  • The Psychic
  • Seven Jackals
  • The Flower with Petals of Steel
  • Those Dirty Dogs!
  • The Heroes
  • The Boss
  • The Night of the Devils
  • His Name Was Holy Ghost
  • Bad Man's River
  • They Call Him Cemetery
  • The Price of Death
  • Cold Eyes of Fear
  • Light the Fuse… Sartana Is Coming
  • Waterloo
  • Have a Good Funeral, My Friend… Sartana Will Pay
  • The Cop
  • Sartana Kills Them All
  • Tulips of Haarlem
  • I Am Sartana Your Angel of Death
  • Thunder from the West
  • Five for Hell
  • If You Meet Sartana Pray for Your Death
  • Lucrezia
  • Red Roses for the Fuhrer
  • Taste of Vengeance
  • Vengeance Is Mine
  • $10,000 for a Massacre
  • $1,000 on the Black
  • Almost a Man
  • Don Camillo in Moscow
  • Saul and David
  • The Shortest Day
  • The Avenger
  • Eighteen in the Sun
  • Crazy Desire
  • Pontius Pilate
  • Mole Men Against the Son of Hercules
  • The Mongols
  • One Night at the Beach
  • Kapo
  • Death of a Friend

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