Gianni Garko
Acting
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
Acting90
movieHeads or Tails?
2025
Mr. Rupè
tvMaggie & Bianca Fashion Friends
2016
Tancredi Lombardi
movieSergio Leone: cinema, cinema
2001
Self - Actor
tvVivere
1999
Pierfrancesco Moretti
Mio padre è innocente
1997
Luigi Ammannati
tvItalian Restaurant
1994
Henken
movieBody Puzzle
1992
Police Chief
movieUna prova d'innocenza
1991
Cremonese
movieIn nome del popolo sovrano
1990
Nicolas Charles Victor Oudinot
tvI promessi sposi
1989
fratello gentiluomo
movieGila and Rik
1987
Giovanni
movieDevil Fish
1984
Sheriff Gordon
movieHercules
1983
Valcheus
movieAmok
1983
Le journaliste Breyten
movieDracula Blows His Cool
1979
Stan / Count Stanislaus
tvMorte a passo di valzer
1979
Jack Cheviot
movieThe New Godfathers
1979
Capitano Ivano Radovich
movieSummer Night Fever
1978
Jacky / Playboy
Maldoror
1977
Il regista
movieJoy of Flying
1977
Jörg Bronner
movieThe Psychic
1977
Francesco Ducci
tvSpace: 1999
1975
Tony Cellini
movieThe Flower with Petals of Steel
1973
Dr. Andrea Valenti
movieThe Heroes
1973
Schreiber
movieThe Boss
1973
Police Commissioner Torri
movieHis Name Was Holy Ghost
1972
Holy Ghost
tvthe famous escapes
1972
Benvenuto Cellini
movieBad Man's River
1971
Ed Pace
movieThey Call Him Cemetery
1971
Camposanto / 'The Stranger'
movieCold Eyes of Fear
1971
Peter Flower
movieWaterloo
1970
Drouot
movieThe Cop
1970
Dan Rover
movieTulips of Haarlem
1970
Bernardo
movieThunder from the West
1969
Riccardo Cloro
movieFive for Hell
1969
Lt. Glenn Hoffmann
movieLucrezia
1968
Fabrizio Aldobrandi
movieRed Roses for the Fuhrer
1968
Alex Rostov / il tenente Mann
movieTaste of Vengeance
1968
Bryan Clarke
movieVengeance Is Mine
1967
John Forest
movie$1,000 on the Black
1966
Sartana Liston
movieAlmost a Man
1966
Michele's Brother
movieDon Camillo in Moscow
1965
Scamoggia
movieThe Shortest Day
1963
Uomo alla stazione (uncredited)
movieThe Avenger
1962
Turno, King of the Rusalie
movieEighteen in the Sun
1962
Nicola Molino
moviePontius Pilate
1962
Jonathan
movieMole Men Against the Son of Hercules
1961
Kathar - Kahab's Son
movieThe Mongols
1961
Henry de Valois
movieOne Night at the Beach
1961
Heinrich
movieKapo
1960
Karl
movieCannon Serenade
1958
Un altro ufficiale
Writing1
movieDead Souls
2025
Writer