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