Gianni Garko
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
Acted in
George Hilton - The World Belongs to the Daring
2019
as Himself
Maggie & Bianca Fashion Friends
2016
as Tancredi Lombardi
Django, Sartana, Trinita' et les autres…
2014
as Lui-même
Giallo Western
2010
as self
Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1
2008
as Self
Do You Remember Lucio Fulci?
2006
as Self
Denn sie kennen kein Erbarmen - Der Italowestern
2006
as Self
Mondo Garko
2005
as Himself
Western all'italiana
2004
Family Flaw
2002
Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema
2001
as Self - Actor
Vivere
1999
as Pierfrancesco Moretti
Con rabbia e con amore
1997
Uno di noi
1996
Italian Restaurant
1994
as Henken
Italian Restaurant
1994
Body Puzzle
1992
as Police Chief
In nome del popolo sovrano
1990
as Nicolas Charles Victor Oudinot
I promessi sposi
1989
as fratello gentiluomo
Skipper
1987
Gila and Rik
1987
as Giovanni
Black Tunnel
1986
Drei und eine halbe Portion
1985
as Fabo
Devil Fish
1984
as Sheriff Gordon
Hercules
1983
as Valcheus
Il passo falso
1983
Babystrich im Sperrbezirk
1983
Amok
1983
as Le journaliste Breyten
Star Odyssey
1979
as Dirk
Dracula Blows His Cool
1979
as Stan / Count Stanislaus
Lo scugnizzo
1979
Morte a passo di valzer
1979
as Jack Cheviot
The New Godfathers
1979
as Capitano Ivano Radovich
Encounters in the Deep
1979
as Mike
Summer Night Fever
1978
as Jacky / Playboy
Maldoror
1977
as Il regista
Three Swedish Girls in Upper Bavaria
1977
as Otto Gruber
Joy of Flying
1977
as Jörg Bronner
The Psychic
1977
as Francesco Ducci
Space: 1999
1975
as Tony Cellini
Seven Jackals
1974
as Luis
The Flower with Petals of Steel
1973
as Dr. Andrea Valenti
Those Dirty Dogs!
1973
as Korano
The Heroes
1973
as Schreiber
The Boss
1973
as Police Commissioner Torri
Night of the Devils
1972
as Nicola
His Name Was Holy Ghost
1972
as Spirito Santo / Holy Ghost
the famous escapes
1972
as Benvenuto Cellini
Bad Man's River
1971
as Ed Pace
They Call Him Cemetery
1971
as Camposanto / 'The Stranger'
The Price of Death
1971
as Silver
Cold Eyes of Fear
1971
as Peter Flower
Light the Fuse… Sartana Is Coming
1970
as Sartana
Waterloo
1970
as Drouot
Have a Good Funeral, My Friend… Sartana Will Pay
1970
as Sartana
The Cop
1970
as Dan Rover
Sartana Kills Them All
1970
as Santana
Tulips of Haarlem
1970
as Bernardo
I Am Sartana Your Angel of Death
1969
as Sartana
Thunder from the West
1969
as Riccardo Cloro
Five for Hell
1969
as Lt. Glenn Hoffmann
If You Meet Sartana Pray for Your Death
1968
as Sartana
Lucrezia
1968
as Fabrizio Aldobrandi
Red Roses for the Fuhrer
1968
as Alex Rostov / il tenente Mann
Bloody Days
1968
Taste of Vengeance
1968
as Bryan Clarke
Vengeance Is Mine
1967
as John Forest
$10,000 for a Massacre
1967
as Django
$1,000 on the Black
1966
as Sartana Liston
Almost a Man
1966
as Michele's Brother
Don Camillo in Moscow
1965
as Scamoggia
Saul and David
1964
as David
The Shortest Day
1963
as Uomo alla stazione (uncredited)
The Avenger
1962
as Turno, King of the Rusalie
Eighteen in the Sun
1962
as Nicola Molino
Crazy Desire
1962
as Piero
Pontius Pilate
1962
as Jonathan
Mole Men Against the Son of Hercules
1961
as Kathar - Kahab's Son
The Mongols
1961
as Henry de Valois
One Night at the Beach
1961
as Heinrich
Kapo
1960
as Karl
Death of a Friend
1960
as Aldo
Hello, Hello Baby! (Rains)
1959
L'isola del tesoro
1959
as Harry
Cannon Serenade
1958
as Un altro ufficiale
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