Gianni Garko
Acting
Born July 15, 1935 · Zara, Dalmatia, Italy [now Zadar, Croatia]
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
Films (81)
Vamos a Matar - Storia e storie del western mediterraneo
2025
Aquel último tiburón
2025
Heads or Tails?
2025
George Hilton - The World Belongs to the Daring
2019
Django, Sartana, Trinita' et les autres…
2014
Giallo Western
2010
Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1
2008
Do You Remember Lucio Fulci?
2006
Denn sie kennen kein Erbarmen - Der Italowestern
2006
Mondo Garko
2005
Western all'italiana
2004
Family Flaw
2002
Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema
2001
Mio padre è innocente
1997
Con rabbia e con amore
1997
Body Puzzle
1992
Una prova d'innocenza
1991
In nome del popolo sovrano
1990
Skipper
1987
Gila and Rik
1987
Black Tunnel
1986
Drei und eine halbe Portion
1985
Devil Fish
1984
Hercules
1983
Il passo falso
1983
Babystrich im Sperrbezirk
1983
Amok
1983
L'Occhio di Giuda
1982
Star Odyssey
1979
Dracula Blows His Cool
1979
Lo scugnizzo
1979
The New Godfathers
1979
Encounters in the Deep
1979
Summer Night Fever
1978
Maldoror
1977
Three Swedish Girls in Upper Bavaria
1977
Joy of Flying
1977
The Psychic
1977
Seven Jackals
1974
The Flower with Petals of Steel
1973
Those Dirty Dogs!
1973
The Heroes
1973
The Boss
1973
The Night of the Devils
1972
His Name Was Holy Ghost
1972
Bad Man's River
1971
They Call Him Cemetery
1971
The Price of Death
1971
Cold Eyes of Fear
1971
Light the Fuse… Sartana Is Coming
1970
Waterloo
1970
Have a Good Funeral, My Friend… Sartana Will Pay
1970
The Cop
1970
Sartana Kills Them All
1970
Tulips of Haarlem
1970
I Am Sartana Your Angel of Death
1969
Thunder from the West
1969
Five for Hell
1969
If You Meet Sartana Pray for Your Death
1968
Lucrezia
1968
Red Roses for the Fuhrer
1968
Bloody Days
1968
Taste of Vengeance
1968
Vengeance Is Mine
1967
$10,000 for a Massacre
1967
$1,000 on the Black
1966
Almost a Man
1966
Don Camillo in Moscow
1965
Saul and David
1964
The Shortest Day
1963
The Avenger
1962
Eighteen in the Sun
1962
Crazy Desire
1962
Pontius Pilate
1962
Mole Men Against the Son of Hercules
1961
The Mongols
1961
One Night at the Beach
1961
Kapo
1960
Death of a Friend
1960
Hello, Hello Baby! (Rains)
1959
Cannon Serenade
1958