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