Gabriele Ferzetti
Acting
- Born:
- 1925-03-17
- Died:
- 2015-12-02
- Place of birth:
- Rome, Italy
Biography
Gabriele Ferzetti (born Pasquale Ferzetti; 17 March 1925 – 2 December 2015) was an Italian actor with more than 160 credits across film, television, and stage. His career was at its peak in the 1950s and 1960s. Ferzetti's first leading role was in the film Lo Zappatore (1950). He portrayed Puccini twice in the films Puccini (1953) and Casa Ricordi (1954). He made his international breakthrough in Michelangelo Antonioni's controversial L'Avventura (1960) as a restless playboy. After a series of romantic performances, he acquired a reputation in Italy as an elegant, debonair, and somewhat aristocratic looking leading man. Ferzetti starred as Lot in John Huston's biblical epic, The Bible: In the Beginning... (1966), and played railroad baron Morton in Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West (1968). Perhaps his best known role, internationally, was in the James Bond movie On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) as Marc Ange Draco, although his voice was dubbed by British actor David de Keyser. He was perhaps best known to non-mainstream audiences for his role as the psychiatrist, Hans, in Liliana Cavani's The Night Porter (1974). In the 1970s, he appeared in a significant number of crime films, often as an inspector. He appeared in Julia and Julia, opposite Laurence Olivier in Inchon (1982), and the cult film, First Action Hero. Later in his career, he played the role of Nono in the TV series Une famille formidable, while also appearing in Luca Guadagnino's 2009 film I Am Love. Ferzetti died on 2 December 2015, aged 90. Description above from the Wikipedia article Gabriele Ferzetti, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Filmography
18 Years Later
I Am Love
1612: Chronicles of the Dark Time
Pope John Paul I: The Smile of God
Pope John Paul I: The Smile of God
Callas & Onassis
Callas & Onassis
Concorso di colpa
An Opera of Violence
The Wages of Sin
Something to Do with Death
Lost Love
L'avvocato de Gregorio
Le ragazze di Miss Italia
Tower of the First Born
Porzûs
Con rabbia e con amore
Othello
Black as the Heart
Weihnachtsfest mit Hindernissen
First Action Hero
Die Ringe des Saturn
Private Crimes
Suffocating Heat
Édouard et ses filles
Una fredda mattina di maggio
Gli angeli del potere
Voyage of Terror: The Achille Lauro Affair
Around the World in 80 Days
Computron 22
Julia and Julia
La voglia di vincere
Quo Vadis?
Die goldenen Schuhe
Return to Lisca Bianca Island
Delitto e castigo
The Basileus Quartet
Grog
Death in the Vatican
Quasi quasi mi sposo
The Possessed Hand
The Devil's Game
Inchon
I Vecchi E I Giovani
Encounters in the Deep
The Burning Years
Pigs with a P.38
Last In, First Out
Mon Premier Amour
Suggestionata
The Psychic
Oedipus Orca
A Matter of Time
Nick the Sting
La Orca
The Hornet's Nest
Lezioni di violoncello con toccata e fuga
Calling All Police Cars
End of the Game
A Curious Man
Smiling Maniacs
The Proof of love
Kidnap
Quick Trial
Appassionata
The Night Porter
Hospitals: The White Mafia
Hitler: The Last Ten Days
Divorce His, Divorce Hers
3000 Million Without an Elevator
Beggars and Proud Ones
High Voltage
The Boxer
Million Dollar Eel
Cold Sweat
Cannabis
The Confession
L'amica
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
That Splendid November
Machine Gun McCain
Once Upon a Time in the West
Bandits in Rome
Love Problems
Better a Widow
The Protagonists
Come Play With Me
Escalation
A Devil Under the Pillow
We Still Kill the Old Way
The Devil in Love
The Bible: In the Beginning...
Three Rooms in Manhattan
Crime on a Summer Morning
Crucero de verano
Desideri d'estate
La calda vita
Death, Where Is Your Victory?
A Sentimental Attempt
Torpedo Bay
The Shortest Day
Imperial Venus
Beach Casanova
Cross of the Living
The Nun of Monza
Jessica
Eruption
Rencontres
Love, the Italian Way
Il carro armato dell'8 settembre
Long Night in '43
L'Avventura
Red Lips
Hannibal
The Great Deception
Everyone's in Love
Love on the Riviera
So Much Love Lost
Angel in a Taxi
March's Child
It Happened in Rome
Parola di ladro
Il prezzo della gloria
Donatella
Defend My Love
Un po' di cielo
Le Amiche
Adriana Lecouvreur
Sins of Casanova
House of Ricordi
Camilla
Modern Virgin
100 Years of Love
Clothing the Naked
Empty Eyes
Puccini
The Wayward Wife
Three Forbidden Stories
Inganno
The Counterfeiters
The Forbidden Christ
Gli amanti di Ravello
Lo zappatore
Sigillo rosso
Mountain Smugglers
Welcome Reverend!
Fabiola
Rondini in volo
William Tell
Les Misérables
Vertigine d'amore
Felicità perduta
La contessa Castiglione