
Gian Maria Volonté
Acting • Born 1933-04-09 – Died 1994-12-06
Biography
Gian Maria Volonté (9 April 1933 – 6 December 1994) was an Italian actor. He is perhaps most famous outside of Italy for his roles as the main villain in Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars (credited in the USA as "Johnny Wels") and For a Few Dollars More. In Italy and much of Europe, he was notable for his roles in high-profile social dramas depicting the political and social stirrings of Italian and European society in the 1960s and 1970s, including four films directed by Elio Petri - We Still Kill the Old Way (1967), Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1971), The Working Class Goes to Heaven (1971) and Todo modo (1976). He is also recognized for his performances in Jean-Pierre Melville's Le Cercle Rouge (1970) and Giuliano Montaldo's Sacco & Vanzetti (1971). Description above from the Wikipedia article Gian Maria Volonté, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
85 credits
For a Few Dollars More
Movie • 1965
El Indio

Journey Beneath the Desert
Movie • 1961
Tarath

Le Cercle Rouge
Movie • 1970
Vogel

Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
Movie • 1970
Dottore

Rosi About Eboli
Movie • 2022
Self

Christ Stopped at Eboli
Movie • 1979
Carlo Levi

Hercules and the Captive Women
Movie • 1961
Re di Sparta

Open Doors
Movie • 1990
Giudice Vito Di Francesco

A Bullet for the General
Movie • 1967
Chuncho Munos / 'El Chuncho'

The Witch
Movie • 1966
Fabrizio

The Mattei Affair
Movie • 1972
Enrico Mattei

The Moro Affair
Movie • 1986
Aldo Moro

Face to Face
Movie • 1967
Professor Brett Fletcher

The Abyss
Movie • 1988
Zenone

Operation Ogre
Movie • 1979
Izarra

Giordano Bruno
Movie • 1973
Giordano Bruno

The Four Days of Naples
Movie • 1962
Stimolo

Sacco & Vanzetti
Movie • 1971
Bartolomeo Vanzetti

Slap the Monster on Page One
Movie • 1972
Bizanti

One Way or Another
Movie • 1976
M.

Lady of the Camelias
Movie • 1981
Plessis

Girl with a Suitcase
Movie • 1961
Piero Benotti

We Still Kill the Old Way
Movie • 1967
Professore Paolo Laurana

The Working Class Goes to Heaven
Movie • 1971
Lulù Massa

The Violent Four
Movie • 1968
Piero Cavallero

I Am Afraid
Movie • 1977
Brigadiere Ludovico Graziano

A Boy from Calabria
Movie • 1987
Felice

Many Wars Ago
Movie • 1970
Lt. Ottolenghi

Lucky Luciano
Movie • 1973
Charles 'Lucky' Luciano

On the Tiger's Back
Movie • 1961
Papaleo

A Simple Story
Movie • 1991
Carmelo Franzò

The Suspect
Movie • 1975
Emilio

Wake Up and Die
Movie • 1966
Inspector Moroni

Seasons of Our Love
Movie • 1966
Leonardo Varzi

The Assassination
Movie • 1972
Sadiel

The Death of Mario Ricci
Movie • 1983
Bernard Fontana

The Bandit
Movie • 1969
Gramigna

Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Movie • 1987
Dr. Cristo Bedoya

The Magnificent Cuckold
Movie • 1964
Assessore

The Terrorist
Movie • 1963
Renato Braschi , l'ingeniere

The Seven Cervi Brothers
Movie • 1968
Aldo Cervi

Banderas, the Tyrant
Movie • 1993
Tirano Banderas

A Man for Burning
Movie • 1962
Salvatore

Pestalozzi's Mountain
Movie • 1989
Pestalozzi

Documenti su Giuseppe Pinelli
Movie • 1970
Self / Reenactor (uncredited)

Apollon: una fabbrica occupata
Movie • 1969
Narrator (voice)

Summit
Movie • 1968
Paolo

La tenda in piazza
Movie • 1972
Self (voice) (uncredited)

Stark System
Movie • 1980
Stark

The Felling of the Forest
Movie • 1963
Guglielmo

Phaedra
Movie • 1957
Ippolito

Summer Night
Movie • 1963
Alberto

Wind from the East
Movie • 1970
The Northern Ranger

Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker
Movie • 2005
Self (archive footage)

A Gangstergirl
Movie • 1966
Jascha Freud

Letters from Marusia
Movie • 1975
Gregorio

We Are Cinema
Movie • 2021
Self (archive footage)

Tre colonne in cronaca
Movie • 1990
Alberto Landolfi

Forgotten Activism
Movie • 2017
Self (archive footage)

Under the Sign of Scorpio
Movie • 1969
Renno

Funes, a Great Love
Movie • 1993
El tano Bérgami

Under Ten Flags
Movie • 1960
Samuel Braunstein

Investigation of a Citizen Named Volonté
Movie • 2004
Self (archive footage)

Un attore contro - Gian Maria Volonté
Movie • 2005
Self (archive footage)

Caravaggio
Movie • 1967
Caravaggio

A Fistful of Dollars
Movie • 1964
Ramón Rojo

For Love and Gold
Movie • 1966
Teofilatto dei Leonzi

Zénon the Rebel
Movie • 2019
Self (archive footage)

La strada più lunga
Movie • 1965
Michele

Spanish Western
Movie • 2015
The Indian (archive footage)

Reflections on a Political Cinema
Movie • 1978
Self - Interviewee

Ipotesi sulla morte di G. Pinelli
Movie • 1970
Self

Volonté: The Man of a Thousand Faces
Movie • 2024
Self (archive footage)

Saul
Movie • 1959
David

La foresta pietrificata
Movie • 1959

The Charterhouse of Parma
TV • 1982
Count Mosca

Vita di Michelangelo
TV • 1964
Michelangelo

Spécial cinéma
TV • 1974
Self

La Storia Vera Della Signora Dalle Camelie
TV • 1981
Plessis

The Idiot
TV • 1959
Parfen Rogozin

Le inchieste del commissario Maigret
TV • 1964
Radek

Diamoci del tu
TV • 1967
Self

Cristo si è fermato a Eboli
TV • 1980
Carlo Levi

Diamoci del tu
TV • 1967

Una vita in gioco
TV • 1965
Radek