Fabio Testi
Born: 1941-08-02 in Peschiera del Garda, Verona, Italy
Known For: Acting
Biography
Fabio Testi (born 2 August 1941) is an Italian film actor, notable as the star of, among many other films, First Action Hero. Born in Peschiera del Garda, Italy, the 1.84m tall actor started his film career as a stuntman in his college years. His most famous job as a stuntman was in Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West, where he fell from a rooftop and hit the ground on his shoulder. Testi married only once, in 1979, to Lola Navarro, with whom he fathered three children. He skirted international stardom through a series of unusual role choices and a firm decision to remain in Italy. He chose to work with people like Miles Deem, known as the "Ed Wood of Spaghetti Westerns" when better roles were available. Testi was cast by director Andrzej Żuławski in L'important c'est d'aimer (1975), opposite Romy Schneider, Klaus Kinski, Jacques Dutronc and Claude Dauphin. Description above from the Wikipedia article Fabio Testi, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
2025
- Reflection in a Dead Diamond as John Diman (old)
- Pasquale Squitieri: il vizio della libertà as Self
2023
2022
- The Garden That Doesn't Exist as Self (archive footage)
- Romy, A Free Woman as Self - Servais Mont (archive footage)
2019
- Curse of the Blind Dead as Jailer
- Very Valentine as Domenico Vechiarelli
2013
- King of the Sands as Abdulaziz Al Saud (Ibn Saud)
- Il tempo delle mimose
2011
- La donna che ritorna as Bruno Gedda
2010
- Letters to Juliet as Count Lorenzo
- Road to Nowhere as Nestor Duran
- Al di la del lago as Luciano Serramonti
- Love Strikes as Pietro
2009
- Il falco e la colomba as Savelli
2008
2005
- Torrente 3: The Protector as Montellini Roures
2001
- Vento di primavera as Dr. Leonardis
2000
- Father Matteo as Dottor Ruggeri
1998
- Ciao Darwin as Capitano Padania
- Annarè as Fausto D'Alessio
1997
- Desert of Fire as Daniel Diderot
- Desert of Fire as Daniel Diderot
- La dottoressa Giò as Armando Colucci
1996
- The Return of Sandokan as Janez De Gomera
1995
- Ragazzi della notte as Schizzo's father
1994
- Crime of Passion as Peter
- First Action Hero as Mark Fierro
1993
- The Final Contract as Commissario Luca Calarno
1992
- Piazza di Spagna as Claudio
- Solo per Dirti Addio
1991
- Manuela as Carlo
- El sueño de Tánger as Carlos
1990
- Le Gorille as René Faragi
- Only One Survived as Sergio Dinardo
1989
- Julia Forever as Ermes Corsini
1988
- Iguana as Gamboa
1986
- Bilbao Blues as Lucas Iturriaga
1985
- Deceptions as Carlo Ferraro
- Mussolini and I as Lorenzo
- The Ambassador as Mustapha Hashimi
- Madman at War as Boda
- Deceptions as Carlo Ferraro
1984
- Summer Games as Roberto Ripa
1981
- Il falco e la colomba as Michele Alemani
- A Gun for a Cop as Francesco Palumbo
- The Hawk and the Dove as Michele Alemani
1980
- Speed Driver as Rudi
- Contraband as Luca Di Angelo
- Speed Cross as Paolo
- S+H+E: Security Hazards Expert as Rudolf Caserta
- The Black Hand as Fabio Testi
1979
- Manaos as Arquimedes
1978
- Rings of Fear as Inspector Gianni Di Salvo
- China 9, Liberty 37 as Clayton Drumm
- The Uranium Conspiracy as Renzo
1977
- The Heroin Busters as Fabio
1976
- The Inheritance as Mario Ferramonti
- The Big Racket as Nicola Palmieri
1975
- Four of the Apocalypse as Stubby Preston
- That Most Important Thing: Love as Servais Mont
- Red Coat as Bill Cormack
- Go Gorilla, Go! as Marco Sartori
1974
- Blood Brothers as Don Gaetano Fungillo
- The Nada Gang as Buenaventura Diaz
- Blood River as Ringo
1973
- Revolver as Milo Ruiz
- Stateline Motel as Floyd
- Un amore così fragile, così violento as Gerolamo Poliziani - detto 'Gepo'
1972
- What Have You Done to Solange? as Enrico Rosseni
- Killer as Georges Gasset
- Camorra as Tonino Russo
1971
- 'Tis Pity She's a Whore as Soranzo
- At the End of the Rainbow as Roy Greenford
1970
- The Garden of the Finzi-Continis as Bruno
- One Damned Day at Dawn... Django Meets Sartana! as Sheriff Jack Ronson / Sartana
1969
- Cemetery Without Crosses as Rogers' Man (uncredited)
- The Avenger, Zorro as Zorro / Don Diego
- Death Knocks Twice as Francesco di Villaverde
- The Battle of the Damned as Pvt. Terry Wilson
- A Place In Hell as Ross
- Zingara as (uncredited)
1968
- Once Upon a Time in the West as Frank's Gunman (uncredited)
- Barbarella as Tall Man at Party (uncredited)
- And Now... Make Your Peace with God as Steve Cooper
- I due Crociati as Warrior enlisting Franco and Ciccio
- Two Eyes to Kill as Jean
- Make the Sign of the Cross, Stranger! as Donovan henchman
- Gun Shy Piluk as Bit part (uncredited)
1966
- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly ... (Stunts)
1961
- Barabbas ... (Stunts)