Gabriele Ferzetti
Birthday: 1925-03-17
Place of Birth: Rome, Italy
Biography: Gabriele Ferzetti (born Pasquale Ferzetti; 17 March 1925 – 2 December 2015) was an Italian actor with more than 160 credits across film, television, and stage. His career was at its peak in the 1950s and 1960s. Ferzetti's first leading role was in the film Lo Zappatore (1950). He portrayed Puccini twice in the films Puccini (1953) and Casa Ricordi (1954). He made his international breakthrough in Michelangelo Antonioni's controversial L'Avventura (1960) as a restless playboy. After a series of romantic performances, he acquired a reputation in Italy as an elegant, debonair, and somewhat aristocratic looking leading man. Ferzetti starred as Lot in John Huston's biblical epic, The Bible: In the Beginning... (1966), and played railroad baron Morton in Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West (1968). Perhaps his best known role, internationally, was in the James Bond movie On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) as Marc Ange Draco, although his voice was dubbed by British actor David de Keyser. He was perhaps best known to non-mainstream audiences for his role as the psychiatrist, Hans, in Liliana Cavani's The Night Porter (1974). In the 1970s, he appeared in a significant number of crime films, often as an inspector. He appeared in Julia and Julia, opposite Laurence Olivier in Inchon (1982), and the cult film, First Action Hero. Later in his career, he played the role of Nono in the TV series Une famille formidable, while also appearing in Luca Guadagnino's 2009 film I Am Love. Ferzetti died on 2 December 2015, aged 90. Description above from the Wikipedia article Gabriele Ferzetti, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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On Her Majesty's Secret Service
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High Voltage
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The Bible: In the Beginning...
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House of Ricordi
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L'Avventura
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Le ragazze di Miss Italia
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The Night Porter
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I Am Love
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The Confession
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Long Night in '43
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Hospitals: The White Mafia
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Appassionata
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End of the Game
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La Orca
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An Opera of Violence
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Empty Eyes
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Kidnap
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100 Years of Love
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L'amica
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A Sentimental Attempt
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Pigs with a P.38
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Donatella
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Encounters in the Deep
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The Boxer
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A Curious Man
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Oedipus Orca
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Imperial Venus
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The Protagonists
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Escalation
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Love, the Italian Way
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Suggestionata
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Defend My Love
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Beach Casanova
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Nick the Sting
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Torpedo Bay
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The Forbidden Christ
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Rencontres
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Return to Lisca Bianca Island
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Concorso di colpa
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Lost Love
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Il carro armato dell'8 settembre
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Welcome Reverend!
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Eruption
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First Action Hero
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Mon premier amour
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Clothing the Naked
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Black as the Heart
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Computron 22
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Il prezzo della gloria
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Hannibal
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Everyone's in Love
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The Wages of Sin
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Three Forbidden Stories
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Voyage of Terror: The Achille Lauro Affair
The story of the hijacking of the Italian luxury liner Achille Lauro by four Palestinians....
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Death in the Vatican
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Lo zappatore
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Calling All Police Cars
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Modern Virgin
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Callas & Onassis
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Once Upon a Time in the West
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Cross of the Living
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The Devil in Love
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The Shortest Day
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Something to Do with Death
Third part of a three-part documentary series on the making of Once Upon a Time in the West, Italian...
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The Counterfeiters
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Death, Where Is Your Victory?
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Les Misérables
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3000 Million Without an Elevator
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Fabiola
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