Gian Maria Volonté
Personal Info
Know For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1933-04-09 (61 years old)
Deathday
1994-12-06
Place of Birth
Milano, Lombardia, Italy
Also known As
Johnny Wels
Gian-Maria Volonte
Джан Мария Волонте
Gian Maria Volonté
Biography
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...
Acting
1965
as El Indio
1961
as Tarath
1970
as Vogel
1970
2022
as Self
1979
as Carlo Levi
1961
as Re di Sparta
1990
as Giudice Vito Di Francesco
1967
as Chuncho Munos / 'El Chuncho'
1966
as Fabrizio
1972
as Enrico Mattei
1986
as Aldo Moro
1967
as Professor Brett Fletcher
1988
as Zenone
1979
as Izarra
1973
as Giordano Bruno
1962
as Stimolo
1971
as Bartolomeo Vanzetti
1972
as Bizanti
1976
as M.
1981
as Plessis
1961
as Piero Benotti
1967
as Professore Paolo Laurana
1971
as Lulù Massa
1968
as Piero Cavallero
1977
as Brigadiere Ludovico Graziano
1987
as Felice
1970
as Lt. Ottolenghi
1973
as Charles 'Lucky' Luciano
1961
as Papaleo
1991
as Carmelo Franzò
1975
as Emilio
1966
as Inspector Moroni
1966
as Leonardo Varzi
1972
as Sadiel
1983
as Bernard Fontana
1969
as Gramigna
1987
as Dr. Cristo Bedoya
1964
as Assessore
1968
as Aldo Cervi
1963
as Renato Braschi , l'ingeniere
1993
as Tirano Banderas
1962
as Salvatore
1989
as Pestalozzi
1969
as Narrator (voice)
1972
as Self (voice) (uncredited)
1970
as Self / Reenactor (uncredited)
1968
as Paolo
1980
as Stark
1963
as Guglielmo
1957
as Ippolito
1963
as Alberto
1970
as The Soldier
2005
as Self (archive footage)
1966
as Jascha Freud
1975
as Gregorio
2021
as Self (archive footage)
1990
as Alberto Landolfi
2017
as Self (archive footage)
1969
as Renno
1993
as El tano Bérgami
1960
as Samuel Braunstein
2004
as Self (archive footage)
2005
as Self (archive footage)
1967
as Caravaggio
1964
as Ramón Rojo
1966
as Teofilatto dei Leonzi
2019
as Self (archive footage)
1965
as Michele
2015
as The Indian (archive footage)
1978
as Self - Interviewee
1970
2024
as Self (archive footage)
1959
as David
Production
1972
as Director
1980
as Writer
1972
as Director
1995
as In Memory Of
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