Gabriele Ferzetti
Born: 1925-03-17 in Rome, Italy
Died: 2015-12-02
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2010
- I Am Love as Edoardo Recchi Senior
- 18 Years Later as Enrico
2006
- Pope John Paul I: The Smile of God as Card. Giuseppe Siri
- Pope John Paul I: The Smile of God as Card. Giuseppe Siri
2005
- Callas & Onassis as Livanos
- Callas & Onassis as Livanos
- Concorso di colpa as Vito Santamaria
2003
- The Wages of Sin as Self - Actor
- An Opera of Violence as Self - Actor
- Something to Do with Death as Self - Actor
- Lost Love as Tommaso Pasini
- L'avvocato de Gregorio as Alfonso
2002
- Le ragazze di Miss Italia as professor De Lollis
1998
- Tower of the First Born as Father Jacob
1997
- Porzûs as Strono vecchio
- Con rabbia e con amore as Leone
1995
- Othello as The Duke of Venice
1994
- First Action Hero as Ben Costa
- Black as the Heart as Signor Noé Alga Croce
- Weihnachtsfest mit Hindernissen as Vittorio
1993
- Private Crimes as Dr. Guido Braschi
- Die Ringe des Saturn
1991
- Suffocating Heat as Gaetano Castelli
1990
- Édouard et ses filles as Antoine di Marco
- Voyage of Terror: The Achille Lauro Affair
- Gli angeli del potere as Dr. Donhal
- Una fredda mattina di maggio as Signor Mantoni
1989
- Around the World in 80 Days as Italian Chief of Police
1988
- Julia and Julia as Alfredo
- Computron 22 as Il Nonno
1987
- La voglia di vincere as Professor Besson
1985
- Quo Vadis? as Pisone
1983
- Delitto e castigo as Svidrigajlov
- Die goldenen Schuhe as Marquesade Buenaventa
- Return to Lisca Bianca Island as Sandro (voice) (archive footage)
- The Basileus Quartet as Mario Cantone
1982
- Death in the Vatican as Cardinale Ixaguirre
- Grog as Alberto
- Quasi quasi mi sposo as Ingegnere
1981
- The Devil's Game as Master Gomin
- Inchon as Turkish Brigadier
- The Possessed Hand as Maestro Gomin
1979
- The Burning Years as Padre di Saverio
- I Vecchi E I Giovani
- Encounters in the Deep as Miles
1978
- Last In, First Out as Herzog
- Mon Premier Amour as Georges
- Pigs with a P.38 as Max Astarita
- Suggestionata as Gregorio
1977
- The Psychic as Emilio Rospini
- Oedipus Orca as Valerio
1976
- La Orca as Valerio
- A Matter of Time as Antonio Vicari
- Nick the Sting as Maurice
- The Hornet's Nest as Gaspard
- Lezioni di violoncello con toccata e fuga as Il padre di Stella
1975
- End of the Game as Dr. Lutz
- Smiling Maniacs as Prandó
- Calling All Police Cars as Professor Andrea Icardi
- A Curious Man as Moriondo
1974
- Appassionata as Dr. Emilio Rutelli
- The Night Porter as Hans
- Quick Trial as L'avvocato Finaldi
- The Proof of love as Angela Father
- Kidnap as Don Francesco Salvatore
1973
- Hospitals: The White Mafia as Prof. Daniele Vallotti
- Divorce His, Divorce Hers as Turi Livicci
- Hitler: The Last Ten Days as Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm Keitel
1972
- High Voltage as Pablo Moncada
- 3000 Million Without an Elevator as Raphaël
- The Boxer as Nick La Caterina / Tony La Monica
- Beggars and Proud Ones
1971
- Million Dollar Eel as Vasco
1970
- Cold Sweat as (uncredited)
- The Confession as Kohoutek
- Cannabis as Inspector Bardeche
1969
- On Her Majesty's Secret Service as Marc Ange Draco
- Machine Gun McCain as Don Francesco DeMarco
- That Splendid November as Biagio
- L'amica as Paolo Marchesi
1968
- Once Upon a Time in the West as Morton
- Love Problems as Guido
- Come Play With Me as Stefano
- Escalation as Augusto Lambertinghi
- Better a Widow as Don Calogero Minniti
- Bandits in Rome as Commissioner
- A Devil Under the Pillow as Anselmo
- The Protagonists as Il Commissario
1967
- We Still Kill the Old Way as Avvocato Rosello
1966
- The Bible: In the Beginning... as Lot
- The Devil in Love as Lorenzo de' Medici
1965
- Three Rooms in Manhattan as le comte Larsi
- Crime on a Summer Morning as Victor Dermott
1964
- Crucero de verano as Carlos Brul y Betancourt
- Death, Where Is Your Victory? as Max
- La calda vita as Guido
- Desideri d'estate
1963
- The Shortest Day as Tenente in trincea
- Torpedo Bay as Leonardi
- A Sentimental Attempt as Giulio
1962
- Jessica as Edmondo Raumo
- Rencontres as Ralph Scaffari
- Imperial Venus as Freron
- Eruption as Roberto Santi
- Beach Casanova as Avvocato Leblanc
- The Nun of Monza as Gian Paolo Osio
- Cross of the Living as Abbot Delcourt
1960
- L'Avventura as Sandro
- Love, the Italian Way as Alberto Bressan
- Long Night in '43 as Franco Villani
- Il carro armato dell'8 settembre as Tommaso
- Red Lips as Avvocato Paolo Martini
1959
- Hannibal as Senator Quintus Fabius
- The Great Deception as Bernard Turquet de Mayenne
- Everyone's in Love as Arturo
1958
- Love on the Riviera as Giulio Ferrari
- March's Child as Sandro
- So Much Love Lost as Frédéric Solingen
- Angel in a Taxi as Andrea
1957
- It Happened in Rome as Lawyer Alberto Cortini
- Parola di ladro as Desiderio
1956
- Defend My Love as Pietro Leonardi
- Donatella as Maurizio
- Il prezzo della gloria as Comandante Alberto Bruni
1955
- Le Amiche as Lorenzo
- Adriana Lecouvreur as Maurizio di Sassonia
- Un po' di cielo as Frank Lo Giudice
1954
- 100 Years of Love as Carlo, the Political Prisoner (segm. "Gli ultimi dieci Minuti")
- Clothing the Naked as Ludovico Nota
- Sins of Casanova as Casanova
- House of Ricordi as Giacomo Puccini
- Modern Virgin as Gabriele Demico
- Camilla as Dott. Mario Rossetti
1953
- Puccini as Giacomo Puccini
- Empty Eyes as Fernando Maestrelli
- The Wayward Wife as Professor Franco Vagnuzzi
1952
- Three Forbidden Stories as Mario
- Inganno as Andrea Vannini
1951
- The Forbidden Christ as (uncredited)
- The Counterfeiters as Dario
- Gli amanti di Ravello as Sandro Deodata
1950
- Lo zappatore
- Welcome Reverend! as The veteran
- Sigillo rosso
- Mountain Smugglers as Leutnant Berti
1949
- Fabiola as Claudio
- Rondini in volo as Ufficiale d'aviazione
1948
- William Tell
- Vertigine d'amore
- Les Misérables as (uncredited)
1946
1942
- La contessa Castiglione as (uncredited)