Fabio Testi
Acting • Born 1941-08-02
Biography
Fabio Testi (born 2 August 1941) is an Italian film actor, notable as the star of, among many other films, First Action Hero. Born in Peschiera del Garda, Italy, the 1.84m tall actor started his film career as a stuntman in his college years. His most famous job as a stuntman was in Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West, where he fell from a rooftop and hit the ground on his shoulder. Testi married only once, in 1979, to Lola Navarro, with whom he fathered three children. He skirted international stardom through a series of unusual role choices and a firm decision to remain in Italy. He chose to work with people like Miles Deem, known as the "Ed Wood of Spaghetti Westerns" when better roles were available. Testi was cast by director Andrzej Żuławski in L'important c'est d'aimer (1975), opposite Romy Schneider, Klaus Kinski, Jacques Dutronc and Claude Dauphin. Description above from the Wikipedia article Fabio Testi, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
93 credits
That Most Important Thing: Love
Movie • 1975
Servais Mont
The Nada Gang
Movie • 1974
Buenaventura Diaz
Revolver
Movie • 1973
Milo Ruiz
Blood Brothers
Movie • 1974
Don Gaetano Fungillo
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
Movie • 1970
Bruno
Killer
Movie • 1972
Georges Gasset
China 9, Liberty 37
Movie • 1978
Clayton Drumm
Morbida - Gier auf Lust
Movie • 1983
Road to Nowhere
Movie • 2010
Nestor Duran
The Hawk and the Dove
Movie • 1981
Michele Alemani
Four of the Apocalypse
Movie • 1975
Stubby Preston
Contraband
Movie • 1980
Luca Di Angelo
The Heroin Busters
Movie • 1977
Fabio
At the End of the Rainbow
Movie • 1971
Roy Greenford
Madman at War
Movie • 1985
Boda
Red Coat
Movie • 1975
Bill Cormack
Very Valentine
Movie • 2019
Domenico Vechiarelli
Speed Driver
Movie • 1980
Rudi
The Inheritance
Movie • 1976
Mario Ferramonti
Bilbao Blues
Movie • 1986
Lucas Iturriaga
Death Knocks Twice
Movie • 1969
Francesco di Villaverde
And Now... Make Your Peace with God
Movie • 1968
Steve Cooper
Make the Sign of the Cross, Stranger!
Movie • 1968
Donovan henchman
The Avenger, Zorro
Movie • 1969
Zorro / Don Diego
'Tis Pity She's a Whore
Movie • 1971
Soranzo
One Damned Day at Dawn... Django Meets Sartana!
Movie • 1970
Sheriff Jack Ronson / Sartana
Blood River
Movie • 1974
Ringo
Ragazzi della notte
Movie • 1995
Schizzo's father
Manaos
Movie • 1979
Arquimedes
Gun Shy Piluk
Movie • 1968
Bit part (uncredited)
King of the Sands
Movie • 2013
Abdulaziz Al Saud (Ibn Saud)
800 giorni
Movie • 2023
Annarè
Movie • 1998
Fausto D'Alessio
Go Gorilla, Go!
Movie • 1975
Marco Sartori
Iguana
Movie • 1988
Gamboa
The Ambassador
Movie • 1985
Mustapha Hashimi
I due Crociati
Movie • 1968
Warrior enlisting Franco and Ciccio
The Final Contract
Movie • 1993
Commissario Luca Calarno
Summer Games
Movie • 1984
Roberto Ripa
S+H+E: Security Hazards Expert
Movie • 1980
Rudolf Caserta
The Uranium Conspiracy
Movie • 1978
Renzo
Skipper
Movie • 1987
Alex Grimaldi
Speed Cross
Movie • 1980
Paolo
Il tempo delle mimose
Movie • 2013
The Battle of the Damned
Movie • 1969
Pvt. Terry Wilson
Camorra
Movie • 1972
Tonino Russo
Stateline Motel
Movie • 1973
Floyd
Two Eyes to Kill
Movie • 1968
Jean
Romy Schneider: A Woman in Three Notes
Movie • 2008
Self
The Black Hand
Movie • 1980
Fabio Testi
Desert of Fire
Movie • 1997
Daniel Diderot
The Garden That Doesn't Exist
Movie • 2022
Self (archive footage)
A Place In Hell
Movie • 1969
Ross
Zingara
Movie • 1969
(uncredited)
Top Kids
Movie • 1987
Giovanni Agnelli
Reflection in a Dead Diamond
Movie • 2025
John Diman (Old)
Barbarella
Movie • 1968
Tall Man at Party (uncredited)
A Gun for a Cop
Movie • 1981
Francesco Palumbo
El sueño de Tánger
Movie • 1991
Carlos
Vento di primavera
Movie • 2001
Dr. Leonardis
Love Strikes
Movie • 2010
Pietro
First Action Hero
Movie • 1994
Mark Fierro
Cemetery Without Crosses
Movie • 1969
Rogers' Man (uncredited)
Un amore così fragile, così violento
Movie • 1973
Gerolamo Poliziani - detto 'Gepo'
Torrente 3: The Protector
Movie • 2005
Montellini Roures
Crime of Passion
Movie • 1994
Peter
What Have You Done to Solange?
Movie • 1972
Enrico Rosseni
Deceptions
Movie • 1985
Carlo Ferraro
Rings of Fear
Movie • 1978
Inspector Gianni Di Salvo
Letters to Juliet
Movie • 2010
Count Lorenzo
Curse of the Blind Dead
Movie • 2019
Jailer
Once Upon a Time in the West
Movie • 1968
Frank's Gunman (uncredited)
Only One Survived
Movie • 1990
Sergio Dinardo
Il burattinaio
Movie
Mark Fierro
Solo per Dirti Addio
Movie • 1992
The Run
Movie • 2025
Oil Miller
Pasquale Squitieri: il vizio della libertà
Movie • 2025
Himself
The Big Racket
Movie • 1976
Nicola Palmieri
Julia Forever
TV • 1989
Ermes Corsini
La dottoressa Giò
TV • 1997
Armando Colucci
Le Gorille
TV • 1990
René Faragi
Manuela
TV • 1991
Carlo
Deceptions
TV • 1985
Carlo Ferraro
The Return of Sandokan
TV • 1996
Janez De Gomera
Il falco e la colomba
TV • 1981
Michele Alemani
Il falco e la colomba
TV • 2009
Savelli
Father Matteo
TV • 2000
Dottor Ruggeri
Ciao Darwin
TV • 1998
Capitano Padania
Al di la del lago
TV • 2010
Luciano Serramonti
Desert of Fire
TV • 1997
Daniel Diderot
La donna che ritorna
TV • 2011
Bruno Gedda
Mussolini and I
TV • 1985
Lorenzo
Piazza di Spagna
TV • 1992
Claudio