Gianni Garko

Known for ActingBorn 1935-07-15 (age 90)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 tvRead more

Movies & web series

Con rabbia e con amore

Thunder from the West

Italian Restaurant

L'isola del tesoro

Django, Sartana, Trinita' et les autres…

Mio padre è innocente

Amok

Maldoror

Maggie & Bianca Fashion Friends

Bloody Days

Skipper

Giallo Western

I promessi sposi

Uno di noi

Space: 1999

Black Tunnel

Waterloo

Don Camillo in Moscow

The Psychic

Seven Jackals

the famous escapes

The New Godfathers

Lo scugnizzo

The Boss

Cannon Serenade

Denn sie kennen kein Erbarmen - Der Italowestern

Heads or Tails?

Kapo

Those Dirty Dogs!

Vengeance Is Mine

Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema

In nome del popolo sovrano

Pontius Pilate

Saul and David

Taste of Vengeance

I Am Sartana Your Angel of Death

Red Roses for the Fuhrer

Crazy Desire

Death of a Friend

Have a Good Funeral, My Friend… Sartana Will Pay

Almost a Man

The Cop

Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1

Light the Fuse… Sartana Is Coming

The Night of the Devils

Family Flaw

His Name Was Holy Ghost

The Avenger