Name
Gianni Garko
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1935-07-15 (91 years old)
Place of Birth
Zara, Dalmatia, Italy [now Zadar, Croatia]
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
Known For
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Sartana is falsely accused of robbing a bank, and must find the real robbers and clear his...
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Two jerks are enlisted in the Italian army during W.W.1 and by pure luck manage to help wi...
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After a stagecoach is robbed and the passengers murdered, a long and tangled series of sur...
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The young wife Silvia is neglected by her husband Kurt. She dreams during the flight to a ...
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During the Mongol invasion of Poland, a conflict between Mongol Emperor Genghis Khan and h...
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Robber Roy King loses his wife, Alicia, to revolutionary Montero. Despite their rivalry th...
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Wily roving gunslinger Sartana arrives in a small town and tries to find a hidden fortune ...
- 2002 Family Flaw
- 1983 Hercules as Valcheus
- 1977 The Psychic as Francesco Ducci
- 1972 The Night of the Devils as Nicola
- 1983 Babystrich im Sperrbezirk
- 1984 Devil Fish as Sheriff Gordon
- 2008 Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1 as Self
- 1992 Body Puzzle as Police Chief
- 1965 Don Camillo in Moscow as Scamoggia
- 1960 Kapo as Karl
- 1969 I Am Sartana Your Angel of Death as Sartana
- 1968 If You Meet Sartana Pray for Your Death as Sartana
- 1970 Light the Fuse… Sartana Is Coming as Sartana
- 1970 Have a Good Funeral, My Friend… Sartana Will Pay as Sartana
- 1969 Five for Hell as Lt. Glenn Hoffmann
- 1971 The Price of Death as Silver
- 1979 Star Odyssey as Dirk
- 1970 The Cop as Dan Rover
- 1973 The Boss as Police Commissioner Torri
- 1970 Sartana Kills Them All as Santana
- 1967 $10,000 for a Massacre as Django
- 1971 Bad Man's River as Ed Pace
- 1964 Saul and David as David
- 1971 Cold Eyes of Fear as Peter Flower
- 1973 Those Dirty Dogs! as Korano
- 1966 $1,000 on the Black as Sartana Liston
- 1972 His Name Was Holy Ghost as Holy Ghost
- 1967 Vengeance Is Mine as John Forest
- 2005 Mondo Garko as Himself
- 1971 They Call Him Cemetery as Camposanto / 'The Stranger'
- 1968 Taste of Vengeance as Bryan Clarke
- 1962 The Avenger as Turno, King of the Rusalie
- 1962 Pontius Pilate as Jonathan
- 1962 Eighteen in the Sun as Nicola Molino
- 1977 Three Swedish Girls in Upper Bavaria as Otto Gruber
- 1979 Lo scugnizzo
- 1987 Skipper
- 1979 Encounters in the Deep as Mike
- 1974 Seven Jackals as Luis
- 1979 Dracula Blows His Cool as Stan / Count Stanislaus
- 2014 Django, Sartana, Trinita' et les autres… as Lui-même
- 1970 Waterloo as Drouot
- 1962 Crazy Desire as Piero
- 1979 The New Godfathers as Capitano Ivano Radovich
- 1997 Con rabbia e con amore
- 1977 Joy of Flying as Jörg Bronner
- 1973 The Heroes as Schreiber
- 1970 Tulips of Haarlem as Bernardo
- 1961 The Mongols as Henry de Valois
- 1977 Maldoror as Il regista
- 2006 Denn sie kennen kein Erbarmen - Der Italowestern as Self
- 1969 Thunder from the West as Riccardo Cloro
- 1983 Amok as Le journaliste Breyten
- 1958 Cannon Serenade as Un altro ufficiale
- 1978 Summer Night Fever as Jacky / Playboy
- 1968 Red Roses for the Fuhrer as Alex Rostov / il tenente Mann
- 1966 Almost a Man as Michele's Brother
- 1968 Lucrezia as Fabrizio Aldobrandi
- 1986 Black Tunnel
- 1990 In nome del popolo sovrano as Nicolas Charles Victor Oudinot
- 1961 Mole Men Against the Son of Hercules as Kathar - Kahab's Son
- 1961 One Night at the Beach as Heinrich
- 2019 George Hilton - The World Belongs to the Daring as Himself
- 1987 Gila and Rik as Giovanni
- 1968 Bloody Days
- 1973 The Flower with Petals of Steel as Dr. Andrea Valenti
- 2001 Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema as Self - Actor
- 2006 Do You Remember Lucio Fulci? as Self
- 1960 Death of a Friend as Aldo
- 1963 The Shortest Day as Uomo alla stazione (uncredited)
- 1985 Drei und eine halbe Portion as Fabo
- 2004 Western all'italiana
- 2025 Heads or Tails? as Mr. Rupè
- 2010 Giallo Western as self
- 1959 Hello, Hello Baby! (Rains)
- 1983 Il passo falso
- 2025 Aquel último tiburón as Self
- 1982 L'occhio di Giuda as Harry
- 1991 Una prova d'innocenza as Cremonese
- 2025 Vamos a Matar - Storia e storie del western mediterraneo as Sé stesso
- 1997 Mio padre è innocente as Luigi Ammannati
- 1998 Tower of the First Born as Commander
- 2016 Maggie & Bianca Fashion Friends ( 3 episodes ) as Tancredi Lombardi
- 1996 Uno di noi ( 1 episode )
- 1989 I promessi sposi ( 5 episodes ) as fratello gentiluomo
- 1972 the famous escapes ( 1 episode ) as Benvenuto Cellini
- 1994 Italian Restaurant ( 8 episodes ) as Henken
- 1999 Vivere ( 1 episode ) as Pierfrancesco Moretti
- 1994 Italian Restaurant ( 1 episode )
- 1959 L'isola del tesoro ( 2 episodes ) as Harry
- 1979 Morte a passo di valzer ( 3 episodes ) as Jack Cheviot
- 1975 Space: 1999 ( 1 episode ) as Tony Cellini
