Gianni Garko
Acting • Born 1935-07-15
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
Filmography
91 credits
Family Flaw
Movie • 2002
Hercules
Movie • 1983
Valcheus
The Psychic
Movie • 1977
Francesco Ducci
The Night of the Devils
Movie • 1972
Nicola
Babystrich im Sperrbezirk
Movie • 1983
Devil Fish
Movie • 1984
Sheriff Gordon
Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1
Movie • 2008
Self
Body Puzzle
Movie • 1992
Police Chief
Don Camillo in Moscow
Movie • 1965
Scamoggia
Kapo
Movie • 1960
Karl
I Am Sartana Your Angel of Death
Movie • 1969
Sartana
If You Meet Sartana Pray for Your Death
Movie • 1968
Sartana
Light the Fuse… Sartana Is Coming
Movie • 1970
Sartana
Have a Good Funeral, My Friend… Sartana Will Pay
Movie • 1970
Sartana
Five for Hell
Movie • 1969
Lt. Glenn Hoffmann
The Price of Death
Movie • 1971
Silver
Star Odyssey
Movie • 1979
Dirk
The Cop
Movie • 1970
Dan Rover
The Boss
Movie • 1973
Police Commissioner Torri
Sartana Kills Them All
Movie • 1970
Santana
$10,000 for a Massacre
Movie • 1967
Django
Bad Man's River
Movie • 1971
Ed Pace
Saul and David
Movie • 1964
David
Cold Eyes of Fear
Movie • 1971
Peter Flower
Those Dirty Dogs!
Movie • 1973
Korano
$1,000 on the Black
Movie • 1966
Sartana Liston
His Name Was Holy Ghost
Movie • 1972
Holy Ghost
Vengeance Is Mine
Movie • 1967
John Forest
Mondo Garko
Movie • 2005
Himself
They Call Him Cemetery
Movie • 1971
Camposanto / 'The Stranger'
Taste of Vengeance
Movie • 1968
Bryan Clarke
The Avenger
Movie • 1962
Turno, King of the Rusalie
Pontius Pilate
Movie • 1962
Jonathan
Eighteen in the Sun
Movie • 1962
Nicola Molino
Three Swedish Girls in Upper Bavaria
Movie • 1977
Otto Gruber
Lo scugnizzo
Movie • 1979
Skipper
Movie • 1987
Encounters in the Deep
Movie • 1979
Mike
Seven Jackals
Movie • 1974
Luis
Dracula Blows His Cool
Movie • 1979
Stan / Count Stanislaus
Django, Sartana, Trinita' et les autres…
Movie • 2014
Lui-même
Waterloo
Movie • 1970
Drouot
Crazy Desire
Movie • 1962
Piero
The New Godfathers
Movie • 1979
Capitano Ivano Radovich
Con rabbia e con amore
Movie • 1997
Joy of Flying
Movie • 1977
Jörg Bronner
The Heroes
Movie • 1973
Schreiber
Tulips of Haarlem
Movie • 1970
Bernardo
The Mongols
Movie • 1961
Henry de Valois
Maldoror
Movie • 1977
Il regista
Denn sie kennen kein Erbarmen - Der Italowestern
Movie • 2006
Self
Thunder from the West
Movie • 1969
Riccardo Cloro
Amok
Movie • 1983
Le journaliste Breyten
Cannon Serenade
Movie • 1958
Un altro ufficiale
Summer Night Fever
Movie • 1978
Jacky / Playboy
Red Roses for the Fuhrer
Movie • 1968
Alex Rostov / il tenente Mann
Almost a Man
Movie • 1966
Michele's Brother
Lucrezia
Movie • 1968
Fabrizio Aldobrandi
Black Tunnel
Movie • 1986
In nome del popolo sovrano
Movie • 1990
Nicolas Charles Victor Oudinot
Mole Men Against the Son of Hercules
Movie • 1961
Kathar - Kahab's Son
One Night at the Beach
Movie • 1961
Heinrich
George Hilton - The World Belongs to the Daring
Movie • 2019
Himself
Gila and Rik
Movie • 1987
Giovanni
Bloody Days
Movie • 1968
The Flower with Petals of Steel
Movie • 1973
Dr. Andrea Valenti
Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema
Movie • 2001
Self - Actor
Do You Remember Lucio Fulci?
Movie • 2006
Self
Death of a Friend
Movie • 1960
Aldo
The Shortest Day
Movie • 1963
Uomo alla stazione (uncredited)
Drei und eine halbe Portion
Movie • 1985
Fabo
Western all'italiana
Movie • 2004
Heads or Tails?
Movie • 2025
Mr. Rupè
Giallo Western
Movie • 2010
self
Hello, Hello Baby! (Rains)
Movie • 1959
Il passo falso
Movie • 1983
Aquel último tiburón
Movie • 2025
Self
L'Occhio di Giuda
Movie • 1982
Harry
Una prova d'innocenza
Movie • 1991
Cremonese
Vamos a Matar - Storia e storie del western mediterraneo
Movie • 2025
Sé stesso
Mio padre è innocente
Movie • 1997
Luigi Ammannati
Maggie & Bianca Fashion Friends
TV • 2016
Tancredi Lombardi
Uno di noi
TV • 1996
I promessi sposi
TV • 1989
fratello gentiluomo
the famous escapes
TV • 1972
Benvenuto Cellini
Italian Restaurant
TV • 1994
Henken
Vivere
TV • 1999
Pierfrancesco Moretti
Italian Restaurant
TV • 1994
L'isola del tesoro
TV • 1959
Harry
Morte a passo di valzer
TV • 1979
Jack Cheviot
Space: 1999
TV • 1975
Tony Cellini