Gian Maria Volonté
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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.
Known for
Credits
For a Few Dollars More (1965)
as El Indio
A Fistful of Dollars (1964)
as Ramón Rojo
Operation Ogre (1979)
as Izarra
Le Cercle Rouge (1970)
as Vogel
The Assassination (1972)
as Sadiel
For Love and Gold (1966)
as Teofilatto dei Leonzi
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970)
as Dottore
Open Doors (1990)
as Giudice Vito Di Francesco
Face to Face (1967)
as Professor Brett Fletcher
Under Ten Flags (1960)
as Samuel Braunstein
Phaedra (1957)
as Ippolito
Wake Up and Die (1966)
as Inspector Moroni
La foresta pietrificata (1959)
Actor
Festival dell’Unità 1972 (1973)
as self
The Abyss (1988)
as Zenone
Girl with a Suitcase (1961)
as Piero Benotti
Forgotten Activism (2017)
as Self (archive footage)
Zénon the Rebel (2019)
as Self (archive footage)
Un attore contro - Gian Maria Volonté (2005)
as Self (archive footage)
Reflections on a Political Cinema (1978)
as Self - Interviewee
Summer Night (1963)
as Alberto
A Bullet for the General (1967)
as Chuncho Munos / 'El Chuncho'
Slap the Monster on Page One (1972)
as Bizanti
Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1987)
as Dr. Cristo Bedoya
Wind from the East (1970)
as The Northern Ranger
Hercules and the Captive Women (1961)
as Re di Sparta
The Working Class Goes to Heaven (1971)
as Lulù Massa
Apollon: una fabbrica occupata (1969)
as Narrator (voice)
Sacco & Vanzetti (1971)
as Bartolomeo Vanzetti
The Mattei Affair (1972)
as Enrico Mattei
Lady of the Camelias (1981)
as Plessis
The Witch (1966)
as Fabrizio
The Four Days of Naples (1962)
as Stimolo
Christ Stopped at Eboli (1979)
as Carlo Levi
The Violent Four (1968)
as Piero Cavallero
The Magnificent Cuckold (1964)
as Assessore
We Still Kill the Old Way (1967)
as Professore Paolo Laurana
Many Wars Ago (1970)
as Lt. Ottolenghi
I Am Afraid (1977)
as Brigadiere Ludovico Graziano
One Way or Another (1976)
as M.
The Moro Affair (1986)
as Aldo Moro
Banderas, the Tyrant (1993)
as Tirano Banderas
Lucky Luciano (1973)
as Charles 'Lucky' Luciano
On the Tiger's Back (1961)
as Papaleo
Giordano Bruno (1973)
as Giordano Bruno
Seasons of Our Love (1966)
as Leonardo Varzi
Journey Beneath the Desert (1961)
as Tarath
The Felling of the Forest (1963)
as Guglielmo
Under the Sign of Scorpio (1969)
as Renno
Letters from Marusia (1975)
as Gregorio
The Death of Mario Ricci (1983)
as Bernard Fontana
Tre colonne in cronaca (1990)
as Alberto Landolfi
We Are Cinema (2021)
as Self (archive footage)
A Man for Burning (1962)
as Salvatore
The Bandit (1969)
as Gramigna
Funes, a Great Love (1993)
as El tano Bérgami
Volonté: The Man of a Thousand Faces (2024)
as Self (archive footage)
The Seven Cervi Brothers (1968)
as Aldo Cervi
A Boy from Calabria (1987)
as Felice
Investigation of a Citizen Named Volonté (2004)
as Self (archive footage)
Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker (2005)
as Self (archive footage)
Spanish Western (2015)
as The Indian (archive footage)
Summit (1968)
as Paolo
La strada più lunga (1965)
as Michele
The Terrorist (1963)
as Renato Braschi , l'ingeniere
Documents on Giuseppe Pinelli (1970)
as Self / Reenactor (uncredited)
The Suspect (1975)
as Emilio
Pestalozzi's Mountain (1989)
as Pestalozzi
A Simple Story (1991)
as Carmelo Franzò
La tenda in piazza (1972)
as Self (voice) (uncredited)
Stark System (1980)
as Stark
Hypotheses About Pinelli's Death (1970)
as Self
A Gangstergirl (1966)
as Jascha Freud
Caravaggio (1967)
as Caravaggio
Saul (1959)
as David
Rosi About Eboli (2022)
as Self