Known For
Acting
Born
Jul 15, 1935
Place of Birth
Zara, Dalmatia, Italy [now Zadar, Croatia]
Credits
91 titles
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, 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
Vamos a Matar - Storia e storie del western mediterraneo
Sé stesso
Aquel último tiburón
Self
Dead Souls
Writer
Heads or Tails?
Mr. Rupè
George Hilton - The World Belongs to the Daring
Himself
Maggie & Bianca Fashion Friends
Tancredi Lombardi
Django, Sartana, Trinita' et les autres…
Lui-même
Giallo Western
self
Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1
Self
Do You Remember Lucio Fulci?
Self
Denn sie kennen kein Erbarmen - Der Italowestern
Self
Mondo Garko
Himself
Western all'italiana
Family Flaw
Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema
Self - Actor
Vivere
Pierfrancesco Moretti
Mio padre è innocente
Luigi Ammannati
Con rabbia e con amore
Uno di noi
Italian Restaurant
Henken
Body Puzzle
Police Chief
Una prova d'innocenza
Cremonese
In nome del popolo sovrano
Nicolas Charles Victor Oudinot
I promessi sposi
fratello gentiluomo
Skipper
Gila and Rik
Giovanni
Black Tunnel
Drei und eine halbe Portion
Fabo
Devil Fish
Sheriff Gordon
Hercules
Valcheus
Il passo falso
Babystrich im Sperrbezirk
Amok
Le journaliste Breyten
L'occhio di Giuda
Harry
Star Odyssey
Dirk
Dracula Blows His Cool
Stan / Count Stanislaus
Lo scugnizzo
Morte a passo di valzer
Jack Cheviot
The New Godfathers
Capitano Ivano Radovich
Encounters in the Deep
Mike
Summer Night Fever
Jacky / Playboy
Maldoror
Il regista
Three Swedish Girls in Upper Bavaria
Otto Gruber
Joy of Flying
Jörg Bronner
The Psychic
Francesco Ducci
Space: 1999
Tony Cellini
Seven Jackals
Luis
The Flower with Petals of Steel
Dr. Andrea Valenti
Those Dirty Dogs!
Korano
The Heroes
Schreiber