Know For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1935-07-15 (90 years old)
Place of Birth
Zara, Dalmatia, Italy [now Zadar, Croatia]
Also known As
John Garko
Gary Hudson
Giovanni Garcovich
Johnny Garko
Gianni Garco
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, ...
2002
1983
as Valcheus
1977
as Francesco Ducci
1972
as Nicola
1984
as Sheriff Gordon
2008
1992
as Police Chief
1965
as Scamoggia
1960
as Karl
1969
as Sartana
1968
as Sartana
1970
as Sartana
1970
1969
as Lt. Glenn Hoffmann
1971
as Silver
1979
as Dirk
1970
as Dan Rover
1973
as Police Commissioner Torri
1970
as Santana
1967
as Django
1971
as Ed Pace
1964
as David
1971
as Peter Flower
1973
as Korano
1966
as Sartana Liston
1972
as Spirito Santo / Holy Ghost
1967
as John Forest
2005
as Himself
1971
as Camposanto / 'The Stranger'
1968
as Bryan Clarke
1962
as Turno, King of the Rusalie
1962
as Jonathan
1962
as Nicola Molino
1977
as Otto Gruber
1979
1987
1979
as Mike
1974
as Luis
1979
as Stan / Count Stanislaus
2014
as Lui-même
1970
as Drouot
1962
as Piero
1979
as Capitano Ivano Radovich
1977
as Jörg Bronner
1973
as Schreiber
1970
as Bernardo
1961
as Henry de Valois
1977
as Il regista
1969
as Riccardo Cloro
1983
as Le journaliste Breyten
1958
as Un altro ufficiale
1978
as Jacky / Playboy
1968
as Alex Rostov / il tenente Mann
1966
as Michele's Brother
1968
as Fabrizio Aldobrandi
1986
1990
as Nicolas Charles Victor Oudinot
1961
as Kathar - Kahab's Son
1961
as Heinrich
2019
1987
as Giovanni
1968
1973
as Dr. Andrea Valenti
2001
as Self - Actor
2006
as Self
1960
as Aldo
1963
as Uomo alla stazione (uncredited)
1985
as Fabo
2025
as Mr. Rupè
2010
as self
1983
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as Self
1982
as Harry
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as Writer
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