Gianni Garko
Acting
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
Born: July 15, 1935
Place of Birth: Zara, Dalmatia, Italy [now Zadar, Croatia]
Known For
Filmography
as Self
as Mr. Rupè
as Tancredi Lombardi
as Lui-même
as Self
as Self - Actor
as Pierfrancesco Moretti
as Henken
as Police Chief
as Cremonese
as Nicolas Charles Victor Oudinot
as fratello gentiluomo
as Giovanni
as Fabo
as Sheriff Gordon
as Valcheus
as Le journaliste Breyten
as Harry
as Dirk
as Stan / Count Stanislaus
as Jack Cheviot
as Capitano Ivano Radovich
as Mike
as Jacky / Playboy
as Otto Gruber
as Jörg Bronner
as Francesco Ducci
as Tony Cellini
as Luis
as Dr. Andrea Valenti
as Korano
as Schreiber
as Police Commissioner Torri
as Nicola
as Holy Ghost
as Benvenuto Cellini
as Ed Pace
as Camposanto / 'The Stranger'
as Silver
as Peter Flower
as Sartana
as Drouot
as Dan Rover
as Santana
as Bernardo
as Sartana
as Riccardo Cloro
as Lt. Glenn Hoffmann
as Sartana
as Fabrizio Aldobrandi
as Alex Rostov / il tenente Mann
as Bryan Clarke
as John Forest
as Django
as Sartana Liston
as Michele's Brother
as Scamoggia
as David
as Uomo alla stazione (uncredited)
as Turno, King of the Rusalie
as Nicola Molino
as Piero
as Jonathan
as Kathar - Kahab's Son
as Henry de Valois
as Heinrich
as Karl
as Aldo
as Harry
as Un altro ufficiale