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