Gianni Garko
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
Known For
Space: 1999
Maggie & Bianca Fashion Friends
I promessi sposi
the famous escapes
Waterloo
Dracula Blows His Cool
L'isola del tesoro
Three Swedish Girls in Upper Bavaria
All Movies (81)
- Vamos a Matar - Storia e storie del western mediterraneo2025 · as Sé stesso
- Aquel último tiburón2025 · as Self
- Heads or Tails?2025 · as Mr. Rupè
- George Hilton - The World Belongs to the Daring2019 · as Himself
- Django, Sartana, Trinita' et les autres…2014 · as Lui-même
- Giallo Western2010 · as self
- Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 12008 · as Self
- Do You Remember Lucio Fulci?2006 · as Self
- Denn sie kennen kein Erbarmen - Der Italowestern2006 · as Self
- Mondo Garko2005 · as Himself
- Western all'italiana2004
- Family Flaw2002
- Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema2001 · as Self - Actor
- Mio padre è innocente1997 · as Luigi Ammannati
- Con rabbia e con amore1997
- Body Puzzle1992 · as Police Chief
- Una prova d'innocenza1991 · as Cremonese
- In nome del popolo sovrano1990 · as Nicolas Charles Victor Oudinot
- Skipper1987
- Gila and Rik1987 · as Giovanni
- Black Tunnel1986
- Drei und eine halbe Portion1985 · as Fabo
- Devil Fish1984 · as Sheriff Gordon
- Hercules1983 · as Valcheus
- Il passo falso1983
- Babystrich im Sperrbezirk1983
- Amok1983 · as Le journaliste Breyten
- L'occhio di Giuda1982 · as Harry
- Star Odyssey1979 · as Dirk
- Dracula Blows His Cool1979 · as Stan / Count Stanislaus
- Lo scugnizzo1979
- The New Godfathers1979 · as Capitano Ivano Radovich
- Encounters in the Deep1979 · as Mike
- Summer Night Fever1978 · as Jacky / Playboy
- Maldoror1977 · as Il regista
- Three Swedish Girls in Upper Bavaria1977 · as Otto Gruber
- Joy of Flying1977 · as Jörg Bronner
- The Psychic1977 · as Francesco Ducci
- Seven Jackals1974 · as Luis
- The Flower with Petals of Steel1973 · as Dr. Andrea Valenti
- Those Dirty Dogs!1973 · as Korano
- The Heroes1973 · as Schreiber
- The Boss1973 · as Police Commissioner Torri
- The Night of the Devils1972 · as Nicola
- His Name Was Holy Ghost1972 · as Holy Ghost
- Bad Man's River1971 · as Ed Pace
- They Call Him Cemetery1971 · as Camposanto / 'The Stranger'
- The Price of Death1971 · as Silver
- Cold Eyes of Fear1971 · as Peter Flower
- Light the Fuse… Sartana Is Coming1970 · as Sartana
- Waterloo1970 · as Drouot
- Have a Good Funeral, My Friend… Sartana Will Pay1970 · as Sartana
- The Cop1970 · as Dan Rover
- Sartana Kills Them All1970 · as Santana
- Tulips of Haarlem1970 · as Bernardo
- I Am Sartana Your Angel of Death1969 · as Sartana
- Thunder from the West1969 · as Riccardo Cloro
- Five for Hell1969 · as Lt. Glenn Hoffmann
- If You Meet Sartana Pray for Your Death1968 · as Sartana
- Lucrezia1968 · as Fabrizio Aldobrandi
- Red Roses for the Fuhrer1968 · as Alex Rostov / il tenente Mann
- Bloody Days1968
- Taste of Vengeance1968 · as Bryan Clarke
- Vengeance Is Mine1967 · as John Forest
- $10,000 for a Massacre1967 · as Django
- $1,000 on the Black1966 · as Sartana Liston
- Almost a Man1966 · as Michele's Brother
- Don Camillo in Moscow1965 · as Scamoggia
- Saul and David1964 · as David
- The Shortest Day1963 · as Uomo alla stazione (uncredited)
- The Avenger1962 · as Turno, King of the Rusalie
- Eighteen in the Sun1962 · as Nicola Molino
- Crazy Desire1962 · as Piero
- Pontius Pilate1962 · as Jonathan
- Mole Men Against the Son of Hercules1961 · as Kathar - Kahab's Son
- The Mongols1961 · as Henry de Valois
- One Night at the Beach1961 · as Heinrich
- Kapo1960 · as Karl
- Death of a Friend1960 · as Aldo
- Hello, Hello Baby! (Rains)1959
- Cannon Serenade1958 · as Un altro ufficiale
All TV Shows (10)
- Maggie & Bianca Fashion Friends2016 · as Tancredi Lombardi
- Vivere1999 · as Pierfrancesco Moretti
- Uno di noi1996
- Italian Restaurant1994 · as Henken
- Italian Restaurant1994
- I promessi sposi1989 · as fratello gentiluomo
- Morte a passo di valzer1979 · as Jack Cheviot
- Space: 19991975 · as Tony Cellini
- the famous escapes1972 · as Benvenuto Cellini
- L'isola del tesoro1959 · as Harry