Gianni Garko
1935-07-15 ( 89 years old ) in 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

Movies

Giallo Western 2010-06-01
Mondo Garko 2005-09-02
Family Flaw 2002-05-26
Body Puzzle 1992-03-20
Skipper 1987-06-10
Gila and Rik 1987-01-01
Black Tunnel 1986-01-01
Devil Fish 1984-09-07
Hercules 1983-08-12
Il passo falso 1983-07-06
Amok 1983-04-01
Star Odyssey 1979-10-26
Lo scugnizzo 1979-10-08
Maldoror 1977-10-18
Joy of Flying 1977-09-09
The Psychic 1977-08-10
Seven Jackals 1974-01-01
The Heroes 1973-02-23
The Boss 1973-02-01
Waterloo 1970-10-26
The Cop 1970-10-05
Five for Hell 1969-01-18
Lucrezia 1968-07-07
Bloody Days 1968-04-10
Almost a Man 1966-09-22
Saul and David 1964-12-31
The Avenger 1962-11-28
Crazy Desire 1962-03-15
Pontius Pilate 1962-02-15
The Mongols 1961-08-31
Kapo 1960-09-27