Gian Maria Volonté
Born: 1933-04-09 in Milano, Lombardia, Italy
Died: 1994-12-06
Known For: Acting
Biography
Gian Maria Volonté (9 April 1933 – 6 December 1994) was an Italian actor. He is perhaps most famous outside of Italy for his roles as the main villain in Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars (credited in the USA as "Johnny Wels") and For a Few Dollars More. In Italy and much of Europe, he was notable for his roles in high-profile social dramas depicting the political and social stirrings of Italian and European society in the 1960s and 1970s, including four films directed by Elio Petri - We Still Kill the Old Way (1967), Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1971), The Working Class Goes to Heaven (1971) and Todo modo (1976). He is also recognized for his performances in Jean-Pierre Melville's Le Cercle Rouge (1970) and Giuliano Montaldo's Sacco & Vanzetti (1971). Description above from the Wikipedia article Gian Maria Volonté, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
2024
- Volonté: The Man of a Thousand Faces as Self (archive footage)
2022
- Rosi About Eboli as Self
2021
- We Are Cinema as Self (archive footage)
2019
- Zénon the Rebel as Self (archive footage)
2017
- Forgotten Activism as Self (archive footage)
2015
- Spanish Western as The Indian (archive footage)
2005
- Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker as Self (archive footage)
- Un attore contro - Gian Maria Volonté as Self (archive footage)
2004
- Investigation of a Citizen Named Volonté as Self (archive footage)
1995
- Ulysses' Gaze ... (In Memory Of)
1993
- Banderas, the Tyrant as Tirano Banderas
- Funes, a Great Love as El tano Bérgami
1991
- A Simple Story as Carmelo Franzò
1990
- Open Doors as Giudice Vito Di Francesco
- Tre colonne in cronaca as Alberto Landolfi
1989
- Pestalozzi's Mountain as Pestalozzi
1988
- The Abyss as Zenone
1987
- Chronicle of a Death Foretold as Dr. Cristo Bedoya
- A Boy from Calabria as Felice
1986
- The Moro Affair as Aldo Moro
1983
- The Death of Mario Ricci as Bernard Fontana
1982
- The Charterhouse of Parma as Count Mosca
1981
- Lady of the Camelias as Plessis
- La Storia Vera Della Signora Dalle Camelie as Plessis
1980
- Stark System as Stark
- Cristo si è fermato a Eboli as Carlo Levi
1979
- Operation Ogre as Izarra
- Christ Stopped at Eboli as Carlo Levi
1978
- Reflections on a Political Cinema as Self - Interviewee
1977
- I Am Afraid as Brigadiere Ludovico Graziano
1976
- One Way or Another as M.
1975
- The Suspect as Emilio
- Letters from Marusia as Gregorio
1974
- Spécial cinéma as Self
1973
- Lucky Luciano as Charles 'Lucky' Luciano
- Giordano Bruno as Giordano Bruno
1972
- The Assassination as Sadiel
- Slap the Monster on Page One as Bizanti
- La tenda in piazza as Self (voice) (uncredited)
- The Mattei Affair as Enrico Mattei
- Reggio Calabria ... (Director)
1971
- Sacco & Vanzetti as Bartolomeo Vanzetti
- The Working Class Goes to Heaven as Lulù Massa
1970
- Many Wars Ago as Lt. Ottolenghi
- Le Cercle Rouge as Vogel
- Wind from the East as The Soldier
- Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion as Dottore
- Documenti su Giuseppe Pinelli as Self / Reenactor (uncredited)
- Ipotesi sulla morte di G. Pinelli as Self
1969
- The Bandit as Gramigna
- Apollon: una fabbrica occupata as Narrator (voice)
- Under the Sign of Scorpio as Renno
1968
- Summit as Paolo
- The Seven Cervi Brothers as Aldo Cervi
- The Violent Four as Piero Cavallero
1967
- A Bullet for the General as Chuncho Munos / 'El Chuncho'
- Caravaggio as Caravaggio
- Face to Face as Professor Brett Fletcher
- We Still Kill the Old Way as Professore Paolo Laurana
- Diamoci del tu as Self
1966
- A Gangstergirl as Jascha Freud
- For Love and Gold as Teofilatto dei Leonzi
- The Witch as Fabrizio
- Wake Up and Die as Inspector Moroni
- Seasons of Our Love as Leonardo Varzi
1965
- For a Few Dollars More as El Indio
- La strada più lunga as Michele
1964
- A Fistful of Dollars as Ramón Rojo
- The Magnificent Cuckold as Assessore
- Le inchieste del commissario Maigret as Radek
- Vita di Michelangelo as Michelangelo
1963
- Summer Night as Alberto
- The Felling of the Forest as Guglielmo
- The Terrorist as Renato Braschi , l'ingeniere
1962
- The Four Days of Naples as Stimolo
- A Man for Burning as Salvatore
1961
- Journey Beneath the Desert as Tarath
- On the Tiger's Back as Papaleo
- Girl with a Suitcase as Piero Benotti
- Hercules and the Captive Women as Re di Sparta
1960
- Under Ten Flags as Samuel Braunstein
1957
- Phaedra as Ippolito