Gianni Garko

Acting

Born Jul 15, 1935

From Zara, Dalmatia, Italy [now Zadar, Croatia]

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

Gianni Garko

Known For

Waterloo

Kapo

Hercules

Bad Man's River

The Psychic

The Boss

Three Swedish Girls in Upper Bavaria

The Shortest Day

Heads or Tails?

Don Camillo in Moscow

Filmography — Acting

Waterloo

Kapo

Hercules

Bad Man's River

The Psychic

The Boss

Three Swedish Girls in Upper Bavaria

The Shortest Day

Heads or Tails?

Don Camillo in Moscow

Body Puzzle

Light the Fuse… Sartana Is Coming

Devil Fish

Pontius Pilate

His Name Was Holy Ghost

The Cop

Crazy Desire

In nome del popolo sovrano

They Call Him Cemetery

The Night of the Devils

If You Meet Sartana Pray for Your Death

Taste of Vengeance

One Night at the Beach

The Mongols

The Flower with Petals of Steel

Dracula Blows His Cool

Cold Eyes of Fear

The Avenger

Joy of Flying

Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1

Red Roses for the Fuhrer

Western all'italiana

Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema

$10,000 for a Massacre

The New Godfathers

Vengeance Is Mine

Have a Good Funeral, My Friend… Sartana Will Pay

Summer Night Fever

Five for Hell

The Heroes

Sartana Kills Them All

$1,000 on the Black

Those Dirty Dogs!

Gila and Rik

Death of a Friend

The Price of Death

Mole Men Against the Son of Hercules

Tulips of Haarlem

Con rabbia e con amore

Drei und eine halbe Portion

Denn sie kennen kein Erbarmen - Der Italowestern

Amok

Do You Remember Lucio Fulci?

Skipper

Star Odyssey

Saul and David

Seven Jackals

Almost a Man

Cannon Serenade

I Am Sartana Your Angel of Death

Django, Sartana, Trinita' et les autres…

Eighteen in the Sun

Maldoror

George Hilton - The World Belongs to the Daring

Family Flaw

Encounters in the Deep

L'Occhio di Giuda