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