Gianni Garko
Born: 1935-07-15 in Zara, Dalmatia, Italy [now Zadar, Croatia]
Known For: 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
Filmography
2025
- Heads or Tails? as Mr. Rupè
- Aquel último tiburón as Self
- Dead Souls ... (Writer)
2019
2016
- Maggie & Bianca Fashion Friends as Tancredi Lombardi
2014
- Django, Sartana, Trinita' et les autres… as Lui-même
2010
- Giallo Western as self
2008
2006
2005
- Mondo Garko as Himself
2004
2002
2001
- Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema as Self - Actor
1999
- Vivere as Pierfrancesco Moretti
1996
1994
- Italian Restaurant as Henken
1992
- Body Puzzle as Police Chief
1991
- Una prova d'innocenza as Cremonese
1990
- In nome del popolo sovrano as Nicolas Charles Victor Oudinot
1989
- I promessi sposi as fratello gentiluomo
1987
- Skipper
- Gila and Rik as Giovanni
1986
1985
- Drei und eine halbe Portion as Fabo
1984
- Devil Fish as Sheriff Gordon
1983
- Amok as Le journaliste Breyten
- Babystrich im Sperrbezirk
- Il passo falso
- Hercules as Valcheus
1982
- L'Occhio di Giuda as Harry
1979
- Dracula Blows His Cool as Stan / Count Stanislaus
- The New Godfathers as Capitano Ivano Radovich
- Lo scugnizzo
- Morte a passo di valzer as Jack Cheviot
- Star Odyssey as Dirk
- Encounters in the Deep as Mike
1978
- Summer Night Fever as Jacky / Playboy
1977
- Three Swedish Girls in Upper Bavaria as Otto Gruber
- Joy of Flying as Jörg Bronner
- The Psychic as Francesco Ducci
- Maldoror as Il regista
1975
- Space: 1999 as Tony Cellini
1974
- Seven Jackals as Luis
1973
- The Boss as Police Commissioner Torri
- The Heroes as Schreiber
- Those Dirty Dogs! as Korano
- The Flower with Petals of Steel as Dr. Andrea Valenti
1972
- The Night of the Devils as Nicola
- the famous escapes as Benvenuto Cellini
- His Name Was Holy Ghost as Holy Ghost
1971
- Bad Man's River as Ed Pace
- They Call Him Cemetery as Camposanto / 'The Stranger'
- Cold Eyes of Fear as Peter Flower
- The Price of Death as Silver
1970
- Light the Fuse… Sartana Is Coming as Sartana
- Waterloo as Drouot
- Sartana Kills Them All as Santana
- Tulips of Haarlem as Bernardo
- Have a Good Funeral, My Friend… Sartana Will Pay as Sartana
- The Cop as Dan Rover
1969
- Five for Hell as Lt. Glenn Hoffmann
- Thunder from the West as Riccardo Cloro
- I Am Sartana Your Angel of Death as Sartana
1968
- Lucrezia as Fabrizio Aldobrandi
- If You Meet Sartana Pray for Your Death as Sartana
- Red Roses for the Fuhrer as Alex Rostov / il tenente Mann
- Taste of Vengeance as Bryan Clarke
- Bloody Days
1967
- $10,000 for a Massacre as Django
- Vengeance Is Mine as John Forest
1966
- $1,000 on the Black as Sartana Liston
- Almost a Man as Michele's Brother
1965
- Don Camillo in Moscow as Scamoggia
1964
- Saul and David as David
1963
- The Shortest Day as Uomo alla stazione (uncredited)
1962
- Eighteen in the Sun as Nicola Molino
- Crazy Desire as Piero
- Pontius Pilate as Jonathan
- The Avenger as Turno, King of the Rusalie
1961
- The Mongols as Henry de Valois
- Mole Men Against the Son of Hercules as Kathar - Kahab's Son
- One Night at the Beach as Heinrich
1960
- Kapo as Karl
- Death of a Friend as Aldo
1959
1958
- Cannon Serenade as Un altro ufficiale