Gianni Garko

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1935-07-15 (90 years old)

Place of Birth

Zara, Dalmatia, Italy [now Zadar, Croatia]

Gianni Garko

Biography

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, ...

Acting

1983

Hercules

as Valcheus

1977

The Psychic

as Francesco Ducci

1972

1984

Devil Fish

as Sheriff Gordon

1992

Body Puzzle

as Police Chief

1965

1960

Kapo

as Karl

1969

Five for Hell

as Lt. Glenn Hoffmann

1971

1979

1970

The Cop

as Dan Rover

1973

The Boss

as Police Commissioner Torri

1971

Bad Man's River

as Ed Pace

1964

1971

Cold Eyes of Fear

as Peter Flower

1973

1966

$1,000 on the Black

as Sartana Liston

1972

His Name Was Holy Ghost

as Spirito Santo / Holy Ghost

1967

Vengeance Is Mine

as John Forest

2005

Mondo Garko

as Himself

1971

They Call Him Cemetery

as Camposanto / 'The Stranger'

1968

Taste of Vengeance

as Bryan Clarke

1962

The Avenger

as Turno, King of the Rusalie

1962

Pontius Pilate

as Jonathan

1962

Eighteen in the Sun

as Nicola Molino

1974

1979

Dracula Blows His Cool

as Stan / Count Stanislaus

1970

Waterloo

as Drouot

1962

Crazy Desire

as Piero

1979

The New Godfathers

as Capitano Ivano Radovich

1977

Joy of Flying

as Jörg Bronner

1973

The Heroes

as Schreiber

1970

1961

The Mongols

as Henry de Valois

1977

Maldoror

as Il regista

1969

Thunder from the West

as Riccardo Cloro

1983

Amok

as Le journaliste Breyten

1958

Cannon Serenade

as Un altro ufficiale

1978

Summer Night Fever

as Jacky / Playboy

1968

Red Roses for the Fuhrer

as Alex Rostov / il tenente Mann

1966

Almost a Man

as Michele's Brother

1968

Lucrezia

as Fabrizio Aldobrandi

1990

In nome del popolo sovrano

as Nicolas Charles Victor Oudinot

1961

1961

1987

Gila and Rik

as Giovanni

1973

The Flower with Petals of Steel

as Dr. Andrea Valenti

2001

1963

The Shortest Day

as Uomo alla stazione (uncredited)

2025

Heads or Tails?

as Mr. Rupè

2010

1982

Production

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Dead Souls

as Writer

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