Gianni Garko
Birthday: 1935-07-15
Place of Birth: Zara, Dalmatia, Italy [now Zadar, Croatia]
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
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Family Flaw
A runaway coffin, a conservative wedding, an eccentric older man, two transsexuals, the police and a...
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Hercules
Hercules, a semi-divine being, squares off against King Minos, who is attempting to use science to g...
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The Psychic
A woman with psychic powers has a vision of a murder that took place in a house owned by her husband...
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The Night of the Devils
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Babystrich im Sperrbezirk
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Devil Fish
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Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1
This documentary examines the life and legacy of controversial Italian filmmaker Lucio Fulci through...
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Body Puzzle
A homicide detective realizes that the brutal murders committed by a mysterious serial killer he's a...
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Don Camillo in Moscow
Priest Don Camillo blackmails his friendly rival Peppone into letting him join a Communist delegatio...
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Kapo
Determined to survive at any price, Edith, a young Jewish woman deported to an extermination camp, m...
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I Am Sartana Your Angel of Death
Sartana is falsely accused of robbing a bank, and must find the real robbers and clear his name....
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If You Meet Sartana Pray for Your Death
After a stagecoach is robbed and the passengers murdered, a long and tangled series of surprise atta...
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Light the Fuse… Sartana Is Coming
Wily roving gunslinger Sartana arrives in a small town and tries to find a hidden fortune of half a ...
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Have a Good Funeral, My Friend… Sartana Will Pay
After witnessing a brutal massacre, the legendary hero Sartana is ready to do some investigating. Al...
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Five for Hell
Lt. Glenn Hoffmann is the the fun-loving leader of a bunch of oddball, acrobatic G.I.s whose mission...
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The Price of Death
Four people are killed in a saloon hold-up. The townspeople pin the murders on local no-count black ...
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Star Odyssey
Earth is attacked by an intergalactic villain and his army of robotic androids....
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The Cop
A crackdown on drugs leads a burned out cop to take the law into his own hands and seek revenge agai...
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The Boss
A hitman finds himself embroiled in the middle of a Mafia war between the Sicilians and the Calabria...
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Sartana Kills Them All
A pair of outlaws are on the hunt for some loot they know is missing from a robbery. Outsmarting and...
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$10,000 for a Massacre
After being hired to free a landowner's kidnapped daughter, a bounty hunter double-crosses his emplo...
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Bad Man's River
Robber Roy King loses his wife, Alicia, to revolutionary Montero. Despite their rivalry they collabo...
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Cold Eyes of Fear
Against a backdrop of Swingin' 60s London a young playboy type "steals" a beautiful Italian girl fro...
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Those Dirty Dogs!
Captain Chadwell, Lieutenant Junger and Sergeant Smith are sent by Washington to help their colleagu...
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$1,000 on the Black
Johnny Liston has just been released from prison where he has wrongly served twelve years for a murd...
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His Name Was Holy Ghost
The Holy Ghost is a supernatural gunfighter dressed in white and with a dove sitting on his shoulder...
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Vengeance Is Mine
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They Call Him Cemetery
John and George McIntire are a couple of naive brothers who travel to a lawless western town to see ...
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Taste of Vengeance
A group of Northern vigilantes, roaming the post Civil War south, attack and kill the fiancee of war...
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The Avenger
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Pontius Pilate
The events that culminated with the Passion of Christ seen from the perspective of Pontius Pilate, t...
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Eighteen in the Sun
An Italian variation on the Frankie & Annette-Gidget beach party movies that were all the rage in No...
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Three Swedish Girls in Upper Bavaria
Otto runs a hotel for tourists in Tyrol but has troubles both with the economy and with his wife Olg...
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Lo scugnizzo
Gennarino is a Neapolitan orphan boy. He lives with Angela, his adoptive mother, a former famous sin...
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Encounters in the Deep
An oceanographer diving in the Bermuda Triangle discovers an undersea world....
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Dracula Blows His Cool
An ancestor of the famous vampire gets a job as a photographer shooting beautiful fashion models at ...
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Django, Sartana, Trinita' et les autres…
French documentary on the Spaghetti Western genre, with numerous interviews....
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Waterloo
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Crazy Desire
A middle-aged businessman meets a band of rowdy youths and is smitten by one, named Francesca....
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The New Godfathers
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Con rabbia e con amore
At a bus stop they meet Francesca, an eighteen year old who is collaborating in a veterinary office,...
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Joy of Flying
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The Heroes
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Tulips of Haarlem
Two teenagers looking for love find each other in this tragic and cruel story of romance, co-depende...
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The Mongols
During the Mongol invasion of Poland, a conflict between Mongol Emperor Genghis Khan and his oldest ...
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Maldoror
The inspiration, as the title tells, was Les Chants de Maldoror (The Songs of Maldoror). Cavallone f...
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Denn sie kennen kein Erbarmen - Der Italowestern
The beginnings, development and decline of so-called spaghetti-western genre; with clips, interviews...
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Thunder from the West
During World War II an Italian secret agent is sent undercover to kill the head of the resistance in...
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Summer Night Fever
Two buddies head off for a summer holiday, but one of them has to take his sister along. She cramps ...
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Red Roses for the Fuhrer
James Daly is an American special soldier who goes behind enemy territory during WWII. His Objective...
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Almost a Man
A young writer descends into madness. Alienated, neurotic, and plagued by guilt, Michele retreats fr...
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Lucrezia
Fabrizio finds refuge from thugs in a convent, and passion in the arms of Lucrezia Borgia....
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Black Tunnel
The attempt to kill a guy connected to the mob fails when he and his assassins get trapped in a moun...
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In nome del popolo sovrano
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Mole Men Against the Son of Hercules
Maciste arranges for himself and his new friend Bangor to be captured by a mysterious band of white-...
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One Night at the Beach
Un soir sur la plage is relatively interesting; the cast includes highly talented Jean Dessailly, Ma...
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George Hilton - The World Belongs to the Daring
The life of one of the most famous leading-men of Italian popular cinema....
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Gila and Rik
The film tells the birth of a love story and its evolution between the vicissitudes, the frenzies an...
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The Flower with Petals of Steel
A doctor kills his girlfriend when he accidentally causes her to fall onto an ornamental flower whic...
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Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema
The life and work of one of the great masters of Italian cinema, Sergio Leone (1929-89); a rich and ...
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Do You Remember Lucio Fulci?
Documentary in which Lucio Fulci's friends and collaborators remember him in a wide range of aspects...
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The Shortest Day
Two jerks are enlisted in the Italian army during W.W.1 and by pure luck manage to help win an impor...
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Western all'italiana
"Western all'italiana" is a documentary produced and broadcast by the satellite broadcaster Studio U...
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Heads or Tails?
When cowboy Billi and his sweetheart Rosa run away together, he is accused of her husband's death an...
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Giallo Western
Documentary about the connection between the three Giallo-esque Spaghetti Western films "KIller Cali...
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Aquel último tiburón
There was a time when the Italian film industry copied American models and reaped huge profits. In 1...
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L'Occhio di Giuda
The plot revolves around a mysterious murder that occurs during a storm, with the victim found in a ...
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Una prova d'innocenza
A priest hears the last words of a dying man who confesses to a crime for which someone else has lon...
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