Gianni Garko
Acting
- Born:
- 1935-07-15
- Place of birth:
- 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
Known For
Filmography
Vamos a Matar - Storia e storie del western mediterraneo
Aquel último tiburón
Heads or Tails?
George Hilton - The World Belongs to the Daring
Maggie & Bianca Fashion Friends
Django, Sartana, Trinita' et les autres…
Giallo Western
Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1
Do You Remember Lucio Fulci?
Denn sie kennen kein Erbarmen - Der Italowestern
Mondo Garko
Western all'italiana
Family Flaw
Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema
Vivere
Tower of the First Born
Entscheidung für die Liebe
Mio padre è innocente
Con rabbia e con amore
Uno di noi
Italian Restaurant
Body Puzzle
Una prova d'innocenza
In nome del popolo sovrano
I promessi sposi
Skipper
Gila and Rik
Black Tunnel
Drei und eine halbe Portion
Monster Shark
Hercules
Il passo falso
Babystrich im Sperrbezirk
Amok
L'occhio di Giuda
Star Odyssey
Dracula Blows His Cool
Lo scugnizzo
Morte a passo di valzer
The New Godfathers
Encounters in the Deep
Summer Night Fever
Maldoror
Three Swedish Girls in Upper Bavaria
Joy of Flying
The Psychic
Space: 1999
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
the famous escapes
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
Bloody Days
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
Hello, Hello Baby! (Rains)
L'isola del tesoro
Cannon Serenade