Gianni Garko
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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
Credits
Waterloo (1970)
as Drouot
Summer Night Fever (1978)
as Jacky / Playboy
The Heroes (1973)
as Schreiber
Crazy Desire (1962)
as Piero
Hercules (1983)
as Valcheus
Three Swedish Girls in Upper Bavaria (1977)
as Otto Gruber
Light the Fuse… Sartana Is Coming (1970)
as Sartana
The Psychic (1977)
as Francesco Ducci
I Am Sartana Your Angel of Death (1969)
as Sartana
Body Puzzle (1992)
as Police Chief
Joy of Flying (1977)
as Jörg Bronner
If You Meet Sartana Pray for Your Death (1968)
as Sartana
Devil Fish (1984)
as Sheriff Gordon
Kapo (1960)
as Karl
Taste of Vengeance (1968)
as Bryan Clarke
Don Camillo in Moscow (1965)
as Scamoggia
Bad Man's River (1971)
as Ed Pace
The New Godfathers (1979)
as Capitano Ivano Radovich
Dracula Blows His Cool (1979)
as Stan / Count Stanislaus
The Shortest Day (1963)
as Uomo alla stazione (uncredited)
The Night of the Devils (1972)
as Nicola
The Mongols (1961)
as Henry de Valois
Have a Good Funeral, My Friend… Sartana Will Pay (1970)
as Sartana
The Boss (1973)
as Police Commissioner Torri
They Call Him Cemetery (1971)
as Camposanto / 'The Stranger'
Mole Men Against the Son of Hercules (1961)
as Kathar - Kahab's Son
Five for Hell (1969)
as Lt. Glenn Hoffmann
Lucrezia (1968)
as Fabrizio Aldobrandi
The Avenger (1962)
as Turno, King of the Rusalie
His Name Was Holy Ghost (1972)
as Holy Ghost
Skipper (1987)
Actor
Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1 (2008)
as Self
The Cop (1970)
as Dan Rover
Those Dirty Dogs! (1973)
as Korano
Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema (2001)
as Self - Actor
Heads or Tails? (2025)
as Mr. Rupè
Pontius Pilate (1962)
as Jonathan
Red Roses for the Fuhrer (1968)
as Alex Rostov / il tenente Mann
Gila and Rik (1987)
as Giovanni
Vengeance Is Mine (1967)
as John Forest
Sartana Kills Them All (1970)
as Santana
In nome del popolo sovrano (1990)
as Nicolas Charles Victor Oudinot
$10,000 for a Massacre (1967)
as Django
Cold Eyes of Fear (1971)
as Peter Flower
$1,000 on the Black (1966)
as Sartana Liston
One Night at the Beach (1961)
as Heinrich
Denn sie kennen kein Erbarmen - Der Italowestern (2006)
as Self
Cannon Serenade (1958)
as Un altro ufficiale
Saul and David (1964)
as David
Maldoror (1977)
as Il regista
Lo scugnizzo (1979)
Actor
Eighteen in the Sun (1962)
as Nicola Molino
The Flower with Petals of Steel (1973)
as Dr. Andrea Valenti
Babystrich im Sperrbezirk (1983)
Actor
Star Odyssey (1979)
as Dirk
Una prova d'innocenza (1991)
as Cremonese
Almost a Man (1966)
as Michele's Brother
Thunder from the West (1969)
as Riccardo Cloro
Western all'italiana (2004)
Actor
Django, Sartana, Trinita' et les autres… (2014)
as Lui-même
Death of a Friend (1960)
as Aldo
Do You Remember Lucio Fulci? (2006)
as Self
Seven Jackals (1974)
as Luis
Mio padre è innocente (1997)
as Luigi Ammannati
The Price of Death (1971)
as Silver
Tulips of Haarlem (1970)
as Bernardo
Family Flaw (2002)
Actor
Drei und eine halbe Portion (1985)
as Fabo
Encounters in the Deep (1979)
as Mike
Amok (1983)
as Le journaliste Breyten
Vamos a Matar - Storia e storie del western mediterraneo (2025)
as Sé stesso
Con rabbia e con amore (1997)
Actor
L'occhio di Giuda (1982)
as Harry
Aquel último tiburón (2025)
as Self
George Hilton - The World Belongs to the Daring (2019)
as Himself
Il passo falso (1983)
Actor
Hello, Hello Baby! (Rains) (1959)
Actor
Bloody Days (1968)
Actor
Black Tunnel (1986)
Actor
Mondo Garko (2005)
as Himself
Giallo Western (2010)
as self