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Gianni Garko

ActorBorn July 15, 1935 (89 years)
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

Movies & Shows on Plex

  • Space: 1999
  • The Boss
  • If You Meet Sartana Pray for Your Death
  • I Am Sartana, Your Angel of Death
  • Bad Man's River
  • Have a Good Funeral, My Friend... Sartana Will Pay
  • They Call Him Cemetery
  • The Avenger

Known For

  • If You Meet Sartana Pray for Your Death
  • The Psychic
  • Night of the Devils
  • Waterloo
  • Devil Fish
  • I Am Sartana, Your Angel of Death
  • Cold Eyes of Fear
  • Have a Good Funeral, My Friend... Sartana Will Pay
  • The Boss
  • $10,000 Blood Money
  • Five for Hell
  • Kapo
  • They Call Him Cemetery
  • Hercules
  • Vengeance Is Mine
  • Star Odyssey
  • The Price of Death
  • 3 Sexy Girls in Tirol
  • Those Dirty Dogs
  • Sartana Kills Them All
  • Dracula Blows His Cool
  • Body Puzzle
  • $1,000 on the Black
  • Crazy Desire

Filmography

2025
Heads or Tails? · as Mr. Rupè
2016
Maggie & Bianca: Fashion Friends (TV Series) · as Tancredi Lombardi
2014
2003
Un caso di coscienza (TV Series) · as L'ammiraglio
2002
2000
The Sands of Time · as Commander
1999
Shopgirls (TV Series) · as Roberta's Father
1999
Vivere (TV Series) · as Pierfrancesco Moretti
1994
Italian Restaurant (TV Series) · as Henken
1992
Body Puzzle · as Police Chief
1992
l'Edera (TV Series) · as Franz
1990
In nome del popolo sovrano · as Nicolas Charles Victor Oudinot
1989
I promessi sposi (TV Series) · as Fratello Gentiluomo
1985
1984
Devil Fish · as Sheriff Gordon
1983
Hercules · as Valcheus
1983
1979
Star Odyssey · as Dirk
1979
Dracula Blows His Cool · as Stan / Count Stanislaus
1979
1979
I contrabbandieri di Santa Lucia · as Capitano Ivano Radovich
1979
1978
Summer Night Fever · as Jacky / Playboy
1977
3 Sexy Girls in Tirol · as Otto Gruber
1977
The Joy of Flying · as Jörg Bronner
1977
The Psychic · as Francesco Ducci
1975
Space: 1999 (TV Series) · as Tony Cellini
1973
The Flower with the Deadly Sting · as Dr. Andrea Valenti
1973
Those Dirty Dogs · as Korano
1973
The Heroes · as Schreiber
1973
The Boss · as Police Commissioner Torri
1972
Night of the Devils · as Nicola
1972
His Name Was Holy Ghost · as Spirito Santo / Holy Ghost
1971
1971
They Call Him Cemetery · as Camposanto / 'the Stranger'
1971
The Price of Death · as Silver
1971
Cold Eyes of Fear · as Peter Flower
1970
1970
Waterloo · as Drouot
1970
1970
The Cop · as Dan Rover
1970
1969
1969
Thunder from the West · as Riccardo Cloro
1969
Five for Hell · as Lt. Glenn Hoffmann
1968
1968
Lucrezia · as Fabrizio Aldobrandi
1968
Code Name, Red Roses · as Alex Rostov / Il Tenente Mann
1968
The Taste of Vengeance · as Bryan Clarke
1967
Vengeance Is Mine · as John Forest
1967
$10,000 Blood Money · as Django
1966
$1,000 on the Black · as Sartana Liston
1966
Un uomo a metà · as Michele's Brother
1965
Don Camillo in Moscow · as Scamoggia
1964
Saul e David · as David
1964
Le inchieste del commissario Maigret (TV Series) · as Roger Couchet
1963
The Shortest Day · as Uomo Alla Stazione (uncredited)
1962
The Avenger · as Turno, King Of The Rusalie
1962
Eighteen in the Sun · as Nicola Molino
1962
Crazy Desire · as Piero
1962
Pontius Pilate · as Jonathan
1961
Mole Men Against the Son of Hercules · as Kathar - Kahab's Son
1961
The Mongols · as Henry De Valois
1961
One Night at the Beach · as Heinrich
1960
Kapo · as Karl
1960
1959
Tenente Sheridan (TV Series) · as Il Dottor Samwyer
1959
L'isola del tesoro (TV Series) · as Harry
1958
Always Victorious · as Un Altro Ufficiale

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