Gianni Garko
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- July 15, 1935 (age 91)
- Birthplace
- Zara, Dalmatia, Italy [now Zadar, Croatia]
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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Filmography
Heads or Tails?
Movie · as Mr. Rupè
Aquel último tiburón
Movie · as Self
Vamos a Matar - Storia e storie del western mediterraneo
Movie · as Sé stesso
George Hilton - The World Belongs to the Daring
Movie · as Himself
Maggie & Bianca Fashion Friends
TV · as Tancredi Lombardi · 3 eps
Django, Sartana, Trinita' et les autres…
Movie · as Lui-même
Giallo Western
Movie · as self
Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1
Movie · as Self
Denn sie kennen kein Erbarmen - Der Italowestern
Movie · as Self
Do You Remember Lucio Fulci?
Movie · as Self
Mondo Garko
Movie · as Himself
Western all'italiana
Movie
Family Flaw
Movie
Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema
Movie · as Self - Actor
Vivere
TV · as Pierfrancesco Moretti · 1 ep
Tower of the First Born
Movie · as Commander
Entscheidung für die Liebe
Movie
Con rabbia e con amore
Movie
Mio padre è innocente
TV · as Luigi Ammannati · 2 eps
Uno di noi
TV · 1 ep
Italian Restaurant
TV · as Henken · 8 eps
Body Puzzle
Movie · as Capo della polizia
Una prova d'innocenza
TV · as Cremonese · 2 eps
In nome del popolo sovrano
Movie · as Nicolas Charles Victor Oudinot
I promessi sposi
TV · as fratello gentiluomo · 5 eps
Skipper
Movie
Gila and Rik
Movie · as Giovanni
Black Tunnel
Movie
Drei und eine halbe Portion
Movie · as Fabo
Monster Shark
Movie · as Sheriff Gordon
Hercules
Movie · as Valcheus
Babystrich im Sperrbezirk
Movie
Amok
Movie · as Le journaliste Breyten
Il passo falso
Movie
L'occhio di Giuda
Movie · as Harry
Star Odyssey
Movie · as Dirk
Lo scugnizzo
Movie
Encounters in the Deep
Movie · as Mike
Dracula Blows His Cool
Movie · as Stan / Count Stanislaus
The New Godfathers
Movie · as Capitano Ivano Radovich
Morte a passo di valzer
TV · as Jack Cheviot · 3 eps
Summer Night Fever
Movie · as Jacky / Playboy
The Psychic
Movie · as Francesco Ducci
Three Swedish Girls in Upper Bavaria
Movie · as Otto Gruber
Joy of Flying
Movie · as Jörg Bronner
Maldoror
Movie · as Il regista
Space: 1999
TV · as Tony Cellini · 1 ep
Seven Jackals
Movie · as Luis
The Boss
Movie · as Police Commissioner Torri
Those Dirty Dogs!
Movie · as Korano
The Heroes
Movie · as Schreiber
The Flower with Petals of Steel
Movie · as Dr. Andrea Valenti
The Night of the Devils
Movie · as Nicola
His Name Was Holy Ghost
Movie · as Holy Ghost
the famous escapes
TV · as Benvenuto Cellini · 1 ep
The Price of Death
Movie · as Silver
Bad Man's River
Movie · as Ed Pace
Cold Eyes of Fear
Movie · as Peter Flower
They Call Him Cemetery
Movie · as Camposanto / 'The Stranger'
Light the Fuse… Sartana Is Coming
Movie · as Sartana
Have a Good Funeral, My Friend… Sartana Will Pay
Movie · as Sartana
The Cop
Movie · as Dan Rover
Sartana Kills Them All
Movie · as Santana
Waterloo
Movie · as Drouot
Tulips of Haarlem
Movie · as Bernardo
I Am Sartana Your Angel of Death
Movie · as Sartana
Five for Hell
Movie · as Lt. Glenn Hoffmann
Thunder from the West
Movie · as Riccardo Cloro
If You Meet Sartana Pray for Your Death
Movie · as Sartana
Taste of Vengeance
Movie · as Bryan Clarke
Red Roses for the Fuhrer
Movie · as Alex Rostov / il tenente Mann
Lucrezia
Movie · as Fabrizio Aldobrandi
Bloody Days
Movie
$10,000 for a Massacre
Movie · as Django
Vengeance Is Mine
Movie · as John Forest
$1,000 on the Black
Movie · as Sartana Liston
Almost a Man
Movie · as Michele's Brother
Don Camillo in Moscow
Movie · as Scamoggia
Saul and David
Movie · as David
The Shortest Day
Movie · as Uomo alla stazione (uncredited)
The Avenger
Movie · as Turno, King of the Rusalie
Pontius Pilate
Movie · as Jonathan
Eighteen in the Sun
Movie · as Nicola Molino
Crazy Desire
Movie · as Piero
The Mongols
Movie · as Henry de Valois
Mole Men Against the Son of Hercules
Movie · as Kathar - Kahab's Son
One Night at the Beach
Movie · as Heinrich
Kapo
Movie · as Karl
Death of a Friend
Movie · as Aldo
Hello, Hello Baby! (Rains)
Movie
L'isola del tesoro
TV · as Harry · 2 eps
Cannon Serenade
Movie · as Un altro ufficiale