
Gianni Garko
Born: 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
Known For

George Hilton - The World Belongs to the Daring

Waterloo

The Boss

Drei und eine halbe Portion

Kapo

Amok

The Mongols

Almost a Man

L'Occhio di Giuda

Body Puzzle

Lucrezia

Black Tunnel

Lo scugnizzo

Five for Hell

Three Swedish Girls in Upper Bavaria

Bloody Days

The Heroes

Hello, Hello Baby! (Rains)

The Psychic

Hercules

Joy of Flying

$1,000 on the Black

Bad Man's River

The New Godfathers

Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema

In nome del popolo sovrano

Don Camillo in Moscow

Heads or Tails?

Eighteen in the Sun

I Am Sartana Your Angel of Death

Cannon Serenade

The Night of the Devils

The Avenger

The Shortest Day

Babystrich im Sperrbezirk

Crazy Desire

If You Meet Sartana Pray for Your Death

Summer Night Fever

$10,000 for a Massacre

Devil Fish

Gila and Rik

Dracula Blows His Cool

Django, Sartana, Trinita' et les autres…

Aquel último tiburón

Una prova d'innocenza

Have a Good Funeral, My Friend… Sartana Will Pay

Pontius Pilate

Sartana Kills Them All

Saul and David

The Cop

One Night at the Beach

Light the Fuse… Sartana Is Coming

Vengeance Is Mine

Star Odyssey

Tulips of Haarlem

They Call Him Cemetery

Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1

The Flower with Petals of Steel

His Name Was Holy Ghost

Those Dirty Dogs!

Cold Eyes of Fear

Encounters in the Deep

The Price of Death

Thunder from the West

Taste of Vengeance

Mole Men Against the Son of Hercules

Death of a Friend

Denn sie kennen kein Erbarmen - Der Italowestern

Family Flaw

Seven Jackals

Red Roses for the Fuhrer
