Fabio Testi

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1941-08-02 (84 years old)

Place of Birth

Peschiera del Garda, Verona, Italy

Fabio Testi

Biography

Fabio Testi (born 2 August 1941) is an Italian film actor, notable as the star of, among many other films, First Action Hero. Born in Peschiera del Garda, Italy, the 1.84m tall actor started his film career as a stuntman in his college years. His most famous job as a stuntman was in Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West, where he fell from a rooftop and hit the ground on his shoulder. Testi married only once, in 1979, to Lola Navarro, with whom he fathered three children. He skirted international stardom through a series of unusual role choices and a firm decision to remain in Italy. He chose to work with people like Miles Deem, know...

Acting

1973

Revolver

as Milo Ruiz

1974

The Nada Gang

as Buenaventura Diaz

1974

Blood Brothers

as Don Gaetano Fungillo

1972

Killer

as Georges Gasset

1978

China 9, Liberty 37

as Clayton Drumm

2010

Road to Nowhere

as Nestor Duran

1981

The Hawk and the Dove

as Michele Alemani

1975

Four of the Apocalypse

as Stubby Preston

1976

The Big Racket

as Inspector Nico Palmieri

1980

Contraband

as Luca Di Angelo

1977

1971

1985

1975

Red Coat

as Bill Cormack

2019

Very Valentine

as Domenico Vechiarelli

1980

1976

The Inheritance

as Mario Ferramonti

1986

Bilbao Blues

as Lucas Iturriaga

1969

Death Knocks Twice

as Francesco di Villaverde

1969

The Avenger, Zorro

as Zorro / Don Diego

1970

One Damned Day at Dawn... Django Meets Sartana!

as Sheriff Jack Ronson / Sartana

1974

Blood River

as Ringo

1995

Ragazzi della notte

as Schizzo's father

1979

Manaos

as Arquimedes

1968

Gun Shy Piluk

as Bit part (uncredited)

2013

King of the Sands

as Abdulaziz Al Saud (Ibn Saud)

1998

Annarè

as Fausto D'Alessio

1975

The Hired Gun

as Marco Sartori

1988

Iguana

as Gamboa

1985

The Ambassador

as Mustapha Hashimi

1968

I due Crociati

as Warrior enlisting Franco and Ciccio

1993

The Final Contract

as Commissario Luca Calarno

1984

Summer Games

as Roberto Ripa

1980

1987

Skipper

as Alex Grimaldi

1980

Speed Cross

as Paolo

1969

The Battle of the Damned

as Pvt. Terry Wilson

1972

Camorra

as Tonino Russo

1973

1968

1980

The Black Hand

as Fabio Testi

1997

Desert of Fire

as Daniel Diderot

2022

The Garden That Doesn't Exist

as Self (archive footage)

1969

1969

Zingara

as (uncredited)

1987

Top Kids

as Giovanni Agnelli

2025

Reflection in a Dead Diamond

as John Diman (Old)

1968

Barbarella

as Tall Man at Party (uncredited)

1981

A Gun for a Cop

as Francesco Palumbo

2001

Vento di primavera

as Dr. Leonardis

2010

Love Strikes

as Pietro

1994

First Action Hero

as Mark Fierro

1969

Cemetery Without Crosses

as Rogers' Man (uncredited)

1973

Un amore così fragile, così violento

as Gerolamo Poliziani - detto 'Gepo'

2005

Torrente 3: The Protector

as Montellini Roures

1994

1972

1985

Deceptions

as Carlo Ferraro

1978

Rings of Fear

as Inspector Gianni Di Salvo

2010

Letters to Juliet

as Count Lorenzo

1968

Once Upon a Time in the West

as Frank's Gunman (uncredited)

1990

Only One Survived

as Sergio Dinardo

-

Il burattinaio

as Mark Fierro

Production

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