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
Saul and David (1964)
as David
Waterloo (1970)
as Drouot
The Heroes (1973)
as Schreiber
The Cop (1970)
as Dan Rover
Skipper (1987)
Actor
One Night at the Beach (1961)
as Heinrich
The Psychic (1977)
as Francesco Ducci
Lo scugnizzo (1979)
Actor
Lucrezia (1968)
as Fabrizio Aldobrandi
Maldoror (1977)
as Il regista
Vamos a Matar - Storia e storie del western mediterraneo (2025)
as Sé stesso
Crazy Desire (1962)
as Piero
Bad Man's River (1971)
as Ed Pace
Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema (2001)
as Self - Actor
The Shortest Day (1963)
as Uomo alla stazione (uncredited)
If You Meet Sartana Pray for Your Death (1968)
as Sartana
Mio padre è innocente (1997)
as Luigi Ammannati
The Boss (1973)
as Police Commissioner Torri
Cannon Serenade (1958)
as Un altro ufficiale
I Am Sartana Your Angel of Death (1969)
as Sartana
The New Godfathers (1979)
as Capitano Ivano Radovich
Three Swedish Girls in Upper Bavaria (1977)
as Otto Gruber
Tulips of Haarlem (1970)
as Bernardo
Hercules (1983)
as Valcheus
Body Puzzle (1992)
as Police Chief
Have a Good Funeral, My Friend… Sartana Will Pay (1970)
as Sartana
Gila and Rik (1987)
as Giovanni
Dracula Blows His Cool (1979)
as Stan / Count Stanislaus
$1,000 on the Black (1966)
as Sartana Liston
Light the Fuse… Sartana Is Coming (1970)
as Sartana
Five for Hell (1969)
as Lt. Glenn Hoffmann
Kapo (1960)
as Karl
They Call Him Cemetery (1971)
as Camposanto / 'The Stranger'
Mole Men Against the Son of Hercules (1961)
as Kathar - Kahab's Son
Those Dirty Dogs! (1973)
as Korano
$10,000 for a Massacre (1967)
as Django
Heads or Tails? (2025)
as Mr. Rupè
Star Odyssey (1979)
as Dirk
Aquel último tiburón (2025)
as Self
Joy of Flying (1977)
as Jörg Bronner
The Avenger (1962)
as Turno, King of the Rusalie
Babystrich im Sperrbezirk (1983)
Actor
Devil Fish (1984)
as Sheriff Gordon
Cold Eyes of Fear (1971)
as Peter Flower
Family Flaw (2002)
Actor
Summer Night Fever (1978)
as Jacky / Playboy
The Night of the Devils (1972)
as Nicola
The Price of Death (1971)
as Silver
The Mongols (1961)
as Henry de Valois
Taste of Vengeance (1968)
as Bryan Clarke
In nome del popolo sovrano (1990)
as Nicolas Charles Victor Oudinot
His Name Was Holy Ghost (1972)
as Holy Ghost
Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1 (2008)
as Self
The Flower with Petals of Steel (1973)
as Dr. Andrea Valenti
Pontius Pilate (1962)
as Jonathan
Red Roses for the Fuhrer (1968)
as Alex Rostov / il tenente Mann
Don Camillo in Moscow (1965)
as Scamoggia
Sartana Kills Them All (1970)
as Santana
Bloody Days (1968)
Actor
Eighteen in the Sun (1962)
as Nicola Molino
Western all'italiana (2004)
Actor
Do You Remember Lucio Fulci? (2006)
as Self
Denn sie kennen kein Erbarmen - Der Italowestern (2006)
as Self
Django, Sartana, Trinita' et les autres… (2014)
as Lui-même
Vengeance Is Mine (1967)
as John Forest
Amok (1983)
as Le journaliste Breyten
Almost a Man (1966)
as Michele's Brother
George Hilton - The World Belongs to the Daring (2019)
as Himself
Death of a Friend (1960)
as Aldo
Una prova d'innocenza (1991)
as Cremonese
Seven Jackals (1974)
as Luis
Mondo Garko (2005)
as Himself
Encounters in the Deep (1979)
as Mike
Black Tunnel (1986)
Actor
Hello, Hello Baby! (Rains) (1959)
Actor
Drei und eine halbe Portion (1985)
as Fabo
Con rabbia e con amore (1997)
Actor
Il passo falso (1983)
Actor
Thunder from the West (1969)
as Riccardo Cloro
L'occhio di Giuda (1982)
as Harry
Giallo Western (2010)
as self