Gianni Garko
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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
Known for
Credits
Waterloo (1970)
as Drouot
The Psychic (1977)
as Francesco Ducci
Bad Man's River (1971)
as Ed Pace
Light the Fuse… Sartana Is Coming (1970)
as Sartana
Have a Good Funeral, My Friend… Sartana Will Pay (1970)
as Sartana
If You Meet Sartana Pray for Your Death (1968)
as Sartana
Monster Shark (1984)
as Sheriff Gordon
Tower of the First Born (1998)
as Commander
Hercules (1983)
as Valcheus
Three Swedish Girls in Upper Bavaria (1977)
as Otto Gruber
The Shortest Day (1963)
as Uomo alla stazione (uncredited)
I Am Sartana Your Angel of Death (1969)
as Sartana
$10,000 for a Massacre (1967)
as Django
Vengeance Is Mine (1967)
as John Forest
Joy of Flying (1977)
as Jörg Bronner
The Night of the Devils (1972)
as Nicola
$1,000 on the Black (1966)
as Sartana Liston
Those Dirty Dogs! (1973)
as Korano
The Mongols (1961)
as Henry de Valois
His Name Was Holy Ghost (1972)
as Holy Ghost
Sartana Kills Them All (1970)
as Santana
Cold Eyes of Fear (1971)
as Peter Flower
The Avenger (1962)
as Turno, King of the Rusalie
One Night at the Beach (1961)
as Heinrich
Cannon Serenade (1958)
as Un altro ufficiale
In nome del popolo sovrano (1990)
as Nicolas Charles Victor Oudinot
Kapo (1960)
as Karl
Don Camillo in Moscow (1965)
as Scamoggia
The New Godfathers (1979)
as Capitano Ivano Radovich
The Heroes (1973)
as Schreiber
Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1 (2008)
as Self
Taste of Vengeance (1968)
as Bryan Clarke
Dracula Blows His Cool (1979)
as Stan / Count Stanislaus
They Call Him Cemetery (1971)
as Camposanto / 'The Stranger'
Crazy Desire (1962)
as Piero
Five for Hell (1969)
as Lt. Glenn Hoffmann
Star Odyssey (1979)
as Dirk
Family Flaw (2002)
Actor
Vamos a Matar - Storia e storie del western mediterraneo (2025)
as Sé stesso
Body Puzzle (1992)
as Capo della polizia
The Boss (1973)
as Police Commissioner Torri
Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema (2001)
as Self - Actor
Mole Men Against the Son of Hercules (1961)
as Kathar - Kahab's Son
Heads or Tails? (2025)
as Mr. Rupè
The Flower with Petals of Steel (1973)
as Dr. Andrea Valenti
Summer Night Fever (1978)
as Jacky / Playboy
Red Roses for the Fuhrer (1968)
as Alex Rostov / il tenente Mann
The Price of Death (1971)
as Silver
Tulips of Haarlem (1970)
as Bernardo
Almost a Man (1966)
as Michele's Brother
Death of a Friend (1960)
as Aldo
Thunder from the West (1969)
as Riccardo Cloro
Skipper (1987)
Actor
Saul and David (1964)
as David
Maldoror (1977)
as Il regista
Pontius Pilate (1962)
as Jonathan
Denn sie kennen kein Erbarmen - Der Italowestern (2006)
as Self
Drei und eine halbe Portion (1985)
as Fabo
Con rabbia e con amore (1997)
Actor
Gila and Rik (1987)
as Giovanni
Lucrezia (1968)
as Fabrizio Aldobrandi
Lo scugnizzo (1979)
Actor
The Cop (1970)
as Dan Rover
Django, Sartana, Trinita' et les autres… (2014)
as Lui-même
Do You Remember Lucio Fulci? (2006)
as Self
Babystrich im Sperrbezirk (1983)
Actor
George Hilton - The World Belongs to the Daring (2019)
as Himself
Amok (1983)
as Le journaliste Breyten
L'occhio di Giuda (1982)
as Harry
Encounters in the Deep (1979)
as Mike
Eighteen in the Sun (1962)
as Nicola Molino
Entscheidung für die Liebe (1998)
Actor
Western all'italiana (2004)
Actor
Aquel último tiburón (2025)
as Self
Seven Jackals (1974)
as Luis
Hello, Hello Baby! (Rains) (1959)
Actor
Bloody Days (1968)
Actor
Il passo falso (1983)
Actor
Black Tunnel (1986)
Actor
Giallo Western (2010)
as self
Mondo Garko (2005)
as Himself