Gianni Garko
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
Personal info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1935-07-15
Place of birth
Zara, Dalmatia, Italy [now Zadar, Croatia]
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Cast
Family Flaw
2002
5.60
Hercules
1983
4.92
The Psychic
1977
7.00
Night of the Devils
1972
6.37
Babystrich im Sperrbezirk
1983
1.00
Devil Fish
1984
3.24
Body Puzzle
1992
5.08
Don Camillo in Moscow
1965
7.12
Kapo
1960
6.90
I Am Sartana Your Angel of Death
1969
6.30
Five for Hell
1969
4.79
The Price of Death
1971
5.80
Star Odyssey
1979
2.10
The Cop
1970
6.39
The Boss
1973
6.90
Sartana Kills Them All
1970
5.00
$10,000 for a Massacre
1967
5.30
Bad Man's River
1971
4.27
Saul and David
1964
5.00
Cold Eyes of Fear
1971
4.83
Those Dirty Dogs!
1973
5.70
$1,000 on the Black
1966
5.20
His Name Was Holy Ghost
1972
5.50
Vengeance Is Mine
1967
6.61
Mondo Garko
2005
0.00
They Call Him Cemetery
1971
6.00
Taste of Vengeance
1968
5.80
The Avenger
1962
6.60
Pontius Pilate
1962
6.40
Eighteen in the Sun
1962
5.20
Lo scugnizzo
1979
6.80
Skipper
1987
6.50
Encounters in the Deep
1979
2.80
Seven Jackals
1974
0.00
Dracula Blows His Cool
1979
3.00
Waterloo
1970
7.13
Crazy Desire
1962
6.49
The New Godfathers
1979
6.80
Con rabbia e con amore
1997
0.00
Joy of Flying
1977
3.75
The Heroes
1973
4.50
Tulips of Haarlem
1970
5.70
The Mongols
1961
4.80
Maldoror
1977
0.00
Thunder from the West
1969
0.00
Amok
1983
0.00
Cannon Serenade
1958
0.00
Summer Night Fever
1978
3.08
Red Roses for the Fuhrer
1968
5.25
Almost a Man
1966
6.50
Lucrezia
1968
2.00
Black Tunnel
1986
0.00
In nome del popolo sovrano
1990
6.50
One Night at the Beach
1961
4.70
Gila and Rik
1987
0.00
Bloody Days
1968
0.00
The Flower with Petals of Steel
1973
5.50
Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema
2001
5.80
Do You Remember Lucio Fulci?
2006
0.00
Death of a Friend
1960
6.00
The Shortest Day
1963
6.20
Drei und eine halbe Portion
1985
2.00
Western all'italiana
2004
4.00
Heads or Tails?
2025
0.00
Giallo Western
2010
7.00
Hello, Hello Baby! (Rains)
1959
1.00
Il passo falso
1983
0.00
L'Occhio di Giuda
1982
0.00