Acting
Gianni Garko
IT, ES, EN, FR cinema · 82 credits
Born
15 July 1935 (age 91)
Birthplace
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, 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
Filmography
Heads or Tails?
as Mr. Rupè
Dead Souls
Writer
Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema
as Self - Actor
Tower of the First Born
as Commander
Body Puzzle
as Capo della polizia
In nome del popolo sovrano
as Nicolas Charles Victor Oudinot
Skipper
Actor
Gila and Rik
as Giovanni
Monster Shark
as Sheriff Gordon
Hercules
as Valcheus
Amok
as Le journaliste Breyten
Star Odyssey
as Dirk
Dracula Blows His Cool
as Stan / Count Stanislaus
The New Godfathers
as Capitano Ivano Radovich
Summer Night Fever
as Jacky / Playboy
The Psychic
as Francesco Ducci
Three Swedish Girls in Upper Bavaria
as Otto Gruber
Joy of Flying
as Jörg Bronner
Maldoror
1977
Maldoror
as Il regista
Seven Jackals
as Luis
The Boss
as Police Commissioner Torri
Those Dirty Dogs!
as Korano
The Heroes
as Schreiber
The Flower with Petals of Steel
as Dr. Andrea Valenti
The Night of the Devils
as Nicola
His Name Was Holy Ghost
as Holy Ghost
The Price of Death
as Silver
Bad Man's River
as Ed Pace
Cold Eyes of Fear
as Peter Flower
They Call Him Cemetery
as Camposanto / 'The Stranger'
The Cop
as Dan Rover
Sartana Kills Them All
as Santana
Waterloo
as Drouot
Tulips of Haarlem
as Bernardo
Five for Hell
as Lt. Glenn Hoffmann
Thunder from the West
as Riccardo Cloro
Taste of Vengeance
as Bryan Clarke
Red Roses for the Fuhrer
as Alex Rostov / il tenente Mann
Lucrezia
as Fabrizio Aldobrandi
$10,000 for a Massacre
as Django
Vengeance Is Mine
as John Forest
$1,000 on the Black
as Sartana Liston
Almost a Man
as Michele's Brother
Don Camillo in Moscow
as Scamoggia
Saul and David
as David
The Shortest Day
as Uomo alla stazione (uncredited)
The Avenger
as Turno, King of the Rusalie
Pontius Pilate
as Jonathan
Eighteen in the Sun
as Nicola Molino
Crazy Desire
as Piero
The Mongols
as Henry de Valois
Mole Men Against the Son of Hercules
as Kathar - Kahab's Son
One Night at the Beach
as Heinrich
Kapo
as Karl
Cannon Serenade
as Un altro ufficiale