Gabriele Ferzetti
Biography
Gabriele Ferzetti (born Pasquale Ferzetti; 17 March 1925 – 2 December 2015) was an Italian actor with more than 160 credits across film, television, and stage. His career was at its peak in the 1950s and 1960s. Ferzetti's first leading role was in the film Lo Zappatore (1950). He portrayed Puccini twice in the films Puccini (1953) and Casa Ricordi (1954). He made his international breakthrough in Michelangelo Antonioni's controversial L'Avventura (1960) as a restless playboy. After a series of romantic performances, he acquired a reputation in Italy as an elegant, debonair, and somewhat aristocratic looking leading man. Ferzetti starred as Lot in John Huston's biblical epic, The Bible: In the Beginning... (1966), and played railroad baron Morton in Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West (1968). Perhaps his best known role, internationally, was in the James Bond movie On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) as Marc Ange Draco, although his voice was dubbed by British actor David de Keyser. He was perhaps best known to non-mainstream audiences for his role as the psychiatrist, Hans, in Liliana Cavani's The Night Porter (1974). In the 1970s, he appeared in a significant number of crime films, often as an inspector. He appeared in Julia and Julia, opposite Laurence Olivier in Inchon (1982), and the cult film, First Action Hero. Later in his career, he played the role of Nono in the TV series Une famille formidable, while also appearing in Luca Guadagnino's 2009 film I Am Love. Ferzetti died on 2 December 2015, aged 90. Description above from the Wikipedia article Gabriele Ferzetti, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Once Upon a Time in the West
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Appassionata
Around the World in 80 Days
The Night Porter
The Bible: In the Beginning...
Hospitals: The White Mafia
Quo Vadis?
All Movies (139)
- 18 Years Later2010 · as Enrico
- I Am Love2010 · as Edoardo Recchi Senior
- 1612: Chronicles of the Dark Time2007
- Pope John Paul I: The Smile of God2006 · as Card. Giuseppe Siri
- Callas & Onassis2005 · as Livanos
- Concorso di colpa2005 · as Vito Santamaria
- An Opera of Violence2003 · as Self - Actor
- The Wages of Sin2003 · as Self - Actor
- Something to Do with Death2003 · as Self - Actor
- Lost Love2003 · as Tommaso Pasini
- L'avvocato de Gregorio2003 · as Alfonso
- Le ragazze di Miss Italia2002 · as professor De Lollis
- Porzûs1997 · as Strono vecchio
- Con rabbia e con amore1997 · as Leone
- Othello1995 · as The Duke of Venice
- Black as the Heart1994 · as Signor Noé Alga Croce
- Weihnachtsfest mit Hindernissen1994 · as Vittorio
- First Action Hero1994 · as Ben Costa
- Die Ringe des Saturn1993
- Suffocating Heat1991 · as Gaetano Castelli
- Una fredda mattina di maggio1990 · as Signor Mantoni
- Gli angeli del potere1990 · as Dr. Donhal
- Voyage of Terror: The Achille Lauro Affair1990
- Computron 221988 · as Il Nonno
- Julia and Julia1988 · as Alfredo
- Return to Lisca Bianca Island1983 · as Sandro (voice) (archive footage)
- The Basileus Quartet1983 · as Mario Cantone
- Grog1982 · as Alberto
- Death in the Vatican1982 · as Cardinale Ixaguirre
- Quasi quasi mi sposo1982 · as Ingegnere
- The Possessed Hand1981 · as Maestro Gomin
- Inchon1981 · as Turkish Brigadier
- Encounters in the Deep1979 · as Miles
- The Burning Years1979 · as Padre di Saverio
- Pigs with a P.381978 · as Max Astarita
- Last In, First Out1978 · as Herzog
- Mon Premier Amour1978 · as Georges
- End of the Game1978 · as Dr. Lutz
- Suggestionata1978 · as Gregorio
- The Psychic1977 · as Emilio Rospini
- Oedipus Orca1977 · as Valerio
- A Matter of Time1976 · as Antonio Vicari
- Nick the Sting1976 · as Maurice
- La Orca1976 · as Valerio
- The Hornet's Nest1976 · as Gaspard
- Lezioni di violoncello con toccata e fuga1976 · as Il padre di Stella
- Calling All Police Cars1975 · as Professor Andrea Icardi
- A Curious Man1975 · as Moriondo
- Smiling Maniacs1975 · as Prandó
- The Proof of love1974 · as Angela Father
- Kidnap1974 · as Don Francesco Salvatore
- Quick Trial1974 · as L'avvocato Finaldi
- Appassionata1974 · as Dr. Emilio Rutelli
- The Night Porter1974 · as Hans
- Hospitals: The White Mafia1973 · as Prof. Daniele Vallotti
- Hitler: The Last Ten Days1973 · as Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm Keitel
- 3000 Million Without an Elevator1972 · as Raphaël
- Beggars and Proud Ones1972
- High Voltage1972 · as Pablo Moncada
- The Boxer1972 · as Nick La Caterina / Tony La Monica
- Million Dollar Eel1971 · as Vasco
- Cannabis1970 · as Inspector Bardeche
- The Confession1970 · as Kohoutek
- L'amica1969 · as Paolo Marchesi
- On Her Majesty's Secret Service1969 · as Marc Ange Draco
- That Splendid November1969 · as Biagio
- Machine Gun McCain1969 · as Don Francesco DeMarco
- Once Upon a Time in the West1968 · as Morton
- Bandits in Rome1968 · as Commissioner
- Love Problems1968 · as Guido
- Better a Widow1968 · as Don Calogero Minniti
- The Protagonists1968 · as Il Commissario
- Come Play With Me1968 · as Stefano
- Escalation1968 · as Augusto Lambertinghi
- A Devil Under the Pillow1968 · as Anselmo
- We Still Kill the Old Way1967 · as Avvocato Rosello
- The Devil in Love1966 · as Lorenzo de' Medici
- The Bible: In the Beginning...1966 · as Lot
- Three Rooms in Manhattan1965 · as le comte Larsi
- Crime on a Summer Morning1965 · as Victor Dermott
- Crucero de verano1964 · as Carlos Brul y Betancourt
- Desideri d'estate1964
- La calda vita1964 · as Guido
- Death, Where Is Your Victory?1964 · as Max
- A Sentimental Attempt1963 · as Giulio
- Torpedo Bay1963 · as Leonardi
- The Shortest Day1963 · as Tenente in trincea
- Imperial Venus1962 · as Freron
- Beach Casanova1962 · as Avvocato Leblanc
- Cross of the Living1962 · as Abbot Delcourt
- The Nun of Monza1962 · as Gian Paolo Osio
- Jessica1962 · as Edmondo Raumo
- Eruption1962 · as Roberto Santi
- Rencontres1962 · as Ralph Scaffari
- Love, the Italian Way1960 · as Alberto Bressan
- Il carro armato dell'8 settembre1960 · as Tommaso
- Long Night in '431960 · as Franco Villani
- L'Avventura1960 · as Sandro
- Red Lips1960 · as Avvocato Paolo Martini
- Hannibal1959 · as Senator Quintus Fabius
- The Great Deception1959 · as Bernard Turquet de Mayenne
- Everyone's in Love1959 · as Arturo
- Love on the Riviera1958 · as Giulio Ferrari
- So Much Love Lost1958 · as Frédéric Solingen
- Angel in a Taxi1958 · as Andrea
- March's Child1958 · as Sandro
- It Happened in Rome1957 · as Lawyer Alberto Cortini
- Parola di ladro1957 · as Desiderio
- Il prezzo della gloria1956 · as Comandante Alberto Bruni
- Donatella1956 · as Maurizio
- Defend My Love1956 · as Pietro Leonardi
- Un po' di cielo1955 · as Frank Lo Giudice
- Le Amiche1955 · as Lorenzo
- Adriana Lecouvreur1955 · as Maurizio di Sassonia
- Sins of Casanova1954 · as Casanova
- House of Ricordi1954 · as Giacomo Puccini
- Camilla1954 · as Dott. Mario Rossetti
- Modern Virgin1954 · as Gabriele Demico
- 100 Years of Love1954 · as Carlo, the Political Prisoner (segm. "Gli ultimi dieci Minuti")
- Clothing the Naked1954 · as Ludovico Nota
- Empty Eyes1953 · as Fernando Maestrelli
- Puccini1953 · as Giacomo Puccini
- The Wayward Wife1953 · as Professor Franco Vagnuzzi
- Three Forbidden Stories1952 · as Mario
- Inganno1952 · as Andrea Vannini
- The Counterfeiters1951 · as Dario
- The Forbidden Christ1951 · as (uncredited)
- Gli amanti di Ravello1951 · as Sandro Deodata
- Lo zappatore1950
- Sigillo rosso1950
- Mountain Smugglers1950 · as Leutnant Berti
- Welcome Reverend!1950 · as The veteran
- Fabiola1949 · as Claudio
- Rondini in volo1949 · as Ufficiale d'aviazione
- William Tell1948
- Les Misérables1948 · as (uncredited)
- Vertigine d'amore1948
- Felicità perduta1946
- La contessa Castiglione1942 · as (uncredited)
All TV Shows (12)
- Pope John Paul I: The Smile of God2006 · as Card. Giuseppe Siri
- Callas & Onassis2005 · as Livanos
- Private Crimes1993 · as Dr. Guido Braschi
- Édouard et ses filles1990 · as Antoine di Marco
- Around the World in 80 Days1989 · as Italian Chief of Police
- La voglia di vincere1987 · as Professor Besson
- Quo Vadis?1985 · as Pisone
- Die goldenen Schuhe1983 · as Marquesade Buenaventa
- Delitto e castigo1983 · as Svidrigajlov
- The Devil's Game1981 · as Master Gomin
- I Vecchi E I Giovani1979
- Divorce His, Divorce Hers1973 · as Turi Livicci