Gian Maria Volonté

Known for ActingBorn 1933-04-09Died 1994-12-06Milano, Lombardia, Italy

Gian Maria Volonté (9 April 1933 – 6 December 1994) was an Italian actor. He is perhaps most famous outside of Italy for his roles as the main villain in Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars (credited in the USA as "Johnny Wels") and For a Few Dollars More. In Italy and much of Europe, he was notable for his roles in high-profile social dramas depicting the political and social stirrings of Italian and European society in the 1960s and 1970s, including four films directed by Elio Petri - We Still Kill the Old Way (1967), Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1971), The Working Class Goes to Heaven (1971) and Todo modo (1976). He is also recognized for his performances in Jean-Pierre Melville's Le Cercle Rouge (1970) and Giuliano Montaldo's Sacco & Vanzetti (1971). Description above from the Wikipedia article Gian Maria Volonté, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.Read more

Movies & web series

Rosi About Eboli

Festival dell’Unità 1972

We Are Cinema

Spécial cinéma

Caravaggio

Le inchieste del commissario Maigret

The Charterhouse of Parma

Stark System

Forgotten Activism

Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion

The Idiot

Cristo si è fermato a Eboli

Reflections on a Political Cinema

Apollon: una fabbrica occupata

For a Few Dollars More

Diamoci del tu

Una vita in gioco

The Working Class Goes to Heaven

A Fistful of Dollars

Documents on Giuseppe Pinelli

For Love and Gold

One Way or Another

Ulysses' Gaze

Sacco & Vanzetti

Slap the Monster on Page One

Volonté: The Man of a Thousand Faces

Le Cercle Rouge

The Mattei Affair

Chronicle of a Death Foretold

Open Doors

The Four Days of Naples

Many Wars Ago

I Am Afraid

Christ Stopped at Eboli

On the Tiger's Back

A Simple Story

Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker

Girl with a Suitcase

Operation Ogre

Face to Face

Vita di Michelangelo

The Felling of the Forest

The Seven Cervi Brothers

Investigation of a Citizen Named Volonté

The Assassination

Wind from the East

Ipotesi sulla morte di G. Pinelli

The Moro Affair