Gianni Garko
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
Family Flaw
Hercules
(Valcheus)
The Psychic
(Francesco Ducci)
Night of the Devils
(Nicola)
Babystrich im Sperrbezirk
Devil Fish
(Sheriff Gordon)
Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1
(Self)
Body Puzzle
(Police Chief)
Don Camillo in Moscow
(Scamoggia)
Kapo
(Karl)
I Am Sartana Your Angel of Death
(Sartana)
If You Meet Sartana Pray for Your Death
(Sartana)
Light the Fuse… Sartana Is Coming
(Sartana)
Have a Good Funeral, My Friend… Sartana Will Pay
(Sartana)
Five for Hell
(Lt. Glenn Hoffmann)
The Price of Death
(Silver)
Star Odyssey
(Dirk)
The Cop
(Dan Rover)
The Boss
(Police Commissioner Torri)
Sartana Kills Them All
(Santana)
$10,000 for a Massacre
(Django)
Bad Man's River
(Ed Pace)
Saul and David
(David)
Cold Eyes of Fear
(Peter Flower)
Those Dirty Dogs!
(Korano)
$1,000 on the Black
(Sartana Liston)
His Name Was Holy Ghost
(Spirito Santo / Holy Ghost)
Vengeance Is Mine
(John Forest)
Mondo Garko
(Himself)
They Call Him Cemetery
(Camposanto / 'The Stranger')
Taste of Vengeance
(Bryan Clarke)
The Avenger
(Turno, King of the Rusalie)
Pontius Pilate
(Jonathan)
Eighteen in the Sun
(Nicola Molino)
Three Swedish Girls in Upper Bavaria
(Otto Gruber)
Lo scugnizzo
Skipper
Encounters in the Deep
(Mike)
Seven Jackals
(Luis)
Dracula Blows His Cool
(Stan / Count Stanislaus)
Django, Sartana, Trinita' et les autres…
(Lui-même)
Waterloo
(Drouot)
Crazy Desire
(Piero)
The New Godfathers
(Capitano Ivano Radovich)
Con rabbia e con amore
Joy of Flying
(Jörg Bronner)
The Heroes
(Schreiber)
Tulips of Haarlem
(Bernardo)
The Mongols
(Henry de Valois)
Maldoror
(Il regista)
Denn sie kennen kein Erbarmen - Der Italowestern
(Self)
Thunder from the West
(Riccardo Cloro)
Amok
(Le journaliste Breyten)
Cannon Serenade
(Un altro ufficiale)
Summer Night Fever
(Jacky / Playboy)
Red Roses for the Fuhrer
(Alex Rostov / il tenente Mann)
Almost a Man
(Michele's Brother)
Lucrezia
(Fabrizio Aldobrandi)
Black Tunnel
In nome del popolo sovrano
(Nicolas Charles Victor Oudinot)
Mole Men Against the Son of Hercules
(Kathar - Kahab's Son)
One Night at the Beach
(Heinrich)
George Hilton - The World Belongs to the Daring
(Himself)
Gila and Rik
(Giovanni)
Bloody Days
The Flower with Petals of Steel
(Dr. Andrea Valenti)
Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema
(Self - Actor)
Do You Remember Lucio Fulci?
(Self)
Death of a Friend
(Aldo)
The Shortest Day
(Uomo alla stazione (uncredited))
Drei und eine halbe Portion
(Fabo)
Western all'italiana
Heads or Tails?
Giallo Western
(self)
Hello, Hello Baby! (Rains)
Il passo falso
Aquel último tiburón
(Self)
Maggie & Bianca Fashion Friends
(Tancredi Lombardi)
Uno di noi
I promessi sposi
(fratello gentiluomo)
the famous escapes
(Benvenuto Cellini)
Italian Restaurant
(Henken)
Vivere
(Pierfrancesco Moretti)
Italian Restaurant
L'isola del tesoro
(Harry)
Morte a passo di valzer
(Jack Cheviot)
Space: 1999
(Tony Cellini)