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
Saul and David (1964)
as David
If You Meet Sartana Pray for Your Death (1968)
as Sartana
Hercules (1983)
as Valcheus
The Psychic (1977)
as Francesco Ducci
Tower of the First Born (1998)
as Commander
Light the Fuse… Sartana Is Coming (1970)
as Sartana
The Boss (1973)
as Police Commissioner Torri
Three Swedish Girls in Upper Bavaria (1977)
as Otto Gruber
Bad Man's River (1971)
as Ed Pace
Skipper (1987)
Actor
Crazy Desire (1962)
as Piero
Heads or Tails? (2025)
as Mr. Rupè
Maldoror (1977)
as Il regista
The Shortest Day (1963)
as Uomo alla stazione (uncredited)
I Am Sartana Your Angel of Death (1969)
as Sartana
The Heroes (1973)
as Schreiber
His Name Was Holy Ghost (1972)
as Holy Ghost
Have a Good Funeral, My Friend… Sartana Will Pay (1970)
as Sartana
$10,000 for a Massacre (1967)
as Django
The Mongols (1961)
as Henry de Valois
They Call Him Cemetery (1971)
as Camposanto / 'The Stranger'
The Avenger (1962)
as Turno, King of the Rusalie
Joy of Flying (1977)
as Jörg Bronner
The New Godfathers (1979)
as Capitano Ivano Radovich
In nome del popolo sovrano (1990)
as Nicolas Charles Victor Oudinot
Monster Shark (1984)
as Sheriff Gordon
Five for Hell (1969)
as Lt. Glenn Hoffmann
Summer Night Fever (1978)
as Jacky / Playboy
Lo scugnizzo (1979)
Actor
Kapo (1960)
as Karl
Pontius Pilate (1962)
as Jonathan
The Night of the Devils (1972)
as Nicola
One Night at the Beach (1961)
as Heinrich
Don Camillo in Moscow (1965)
as Scamoggia
Vamos a Matar - Storia e storie del western mediterraneo (2025)
as Sé stesso
Taste of Vengeance (1968)
as Bryan Clarke
Those Dirty Dogs! (1973)
as Korano
Mole Men Against the Son of Hercules (1961)
as Kathar - Kahab's Son
The Price of Death (1971)
as Silver
Body Puzzle (1992)
as Capo della polizia
Star Odyssey (1979)
as Dirk
Cold Eyes of Fear (1971)
as Peter Flower
Vengeance Is Mine (1967)
as John Forest
Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema (2001)
as Self - Actor
Denn sie kennen kein Erbarmen - Der Italowestern (2006)
as Self
Dracula Blows His Cool (1979)
as Stan / Count Stanislaus
Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1 (2008)
as Self
Gila and Rik (1987)
as Giovanni
The Cop (1970)
as Dan Rover
Eighteen in the Sun (1962)
as Nicola Molino
Sartana Kills Them All (1970)
as Santana
Lucrezia (1968)
as Fabrizio Aldobrandi
Mio padre è innocente (1997)
as Luigi Ammannati
Cannon Serenade (1958)
as Un altro ufficiale
Almost a Man (1966)
as Michele's Brother
$1,000 on the Black (1966)
as Sartana Liston
Aquel último tiburón (2025)
as Self
Con rabbia e con amore (1997)
Actor
Western all'italiana (2004)
Actor
Tulips of Haarlem (1970)
as Bernardo
The Flower with Petals of Steel (1973)
as Dr. Andrea Valenti
Family Flaw (2002)
Actor
Black Tunnel (1986)
Actor
Una prova d'innocenza (1991)
as Cremonese
Babystrich im Sperrbezirk (1983)
Actor
Amok (1983)
as Le journaliste Breyten
Hello, Hello Baby! (Rains) (1959)
Actor
Death of a Friend (1960)
as Aldo
George Hilton - The World Belongs to the Daring (2019)
as Himself
Do You Remember Lucio Fulci? (2006)
as Self
Encounters in the Deep (1979)
as Mike
Bloody Days (1968)
Actor
Django, Sartana, Trinita' et les autres… (2014)
as Lui-même
Red Roses for the Fuhrer (1968)
as Alex Rostov / il tenente Mann
Entscheidung für die Liebe (1998)
Actor
L'occhio di Giuda (1982)
as Harry
Drei und eine halbe Portion (1985)
as Fabo
Thunder from the West (1969)
as Riccardo Cloro
Il passo falso (1983)
Actor
Seven Jackals (1974)
as Luis
Mondo Garko (2005)
as Himself
Giallo Western (2010)
as self