Gabriele Ferzetti
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1925-03-17
Day of Death
2015-12-02 (90 years old)
Place of Birth
Rome, Italy
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.
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Known For
Acting
Il burattinaio
as Ben Costa
(2017)
Archaeology of a Set: Return to Lisca Bianca
as Sandro (archive footage) (uncredited)
(2010)
I Am Love
as Edoardo Recchi Senior
(2010)
18 Years Later
as Enrico
(2007)
(2006)
Pope John Paul I: The Smile of God
as Card. Giuseppe Siri
(2005)
Callas & Onassis
as Livanos
(2005)
Concorso di colpa
as Vito Santamaria
(2003)
The Wages of Sin
as Self - Actor
(2003)
An Opera of Violence
as Self - Actor
(2003)
Something to Do with Death
as Self - Actor
(2003)
Lost Love
as Tommaso Pasini
(2003)
L'avvocato de Gregorio
as Alfonso
(2002)
Best Ever Bond
as Draco (archive footage) (uncredited)
(2002)
Le ragazze di Miss Italia
as professor De Lollis
(1997)
Porzûs
as Strono vecchio
(1997)
(1994)
Black as the Heart
as Signor Noé Alga Croce
(1994)
First Action Hero
as Ben Costa
(1994)
Weihnachtsfest mit Hindernissen
as Vittorio
(1993)
(1991)
Suffocating Heat
as Gaetano Castelli
(1990)
(1990)
Gli angeli del potere
as Dr. Donhal
(1990)
Una fredda mattina di maggio
as Signor Mantoni
(1988)
Julia and Julia
as Alfredo
(1988)
Computron 22
as Il Nonno
(1983)
The Basileus Quartet
as Mario Cantone
(1983)
Return to Lisca Bianca Island
as Sandro (voice) (archive footage)
(1982)
Grog
as Alberto
(1982)
Death in the Vatican
as Cardinale Ixaguirre
(1981)
Inchon
as Turkish Brigadier
(1981)
The Possessed Hand
as Maestro Gomin
(1979)
The Burning Years
as Padre di Saverio
(1979)
Encounters in the Deep
as Miles
(1978)
End of the Game
as Dr. Lutz
(1978)
Last In, First Out
as Herzog
(1978)
Pigs with a P.38
as Max Astarita
(1978)
Mon premier amour
as Georges
(1978)
Suggestionata
as Gregorio
(1977)
The Psychic
as Emilio Rospini
(1977)
Oedipus Orca
as Valerio
(1976)
La Orca
as Valerio
(1976)
A Matter of Time
as Antonio Vicari
(1976)
Nick the Sting
as Maurice
(1976)
The Hornet's Nest
as Gaspard
(1976)
Lezioni di violoncello con toccata e fuga
as Il padre di Stella
(1975)
Smiling Maniacs
as Prandó
(1975)
Calling All Police Cars
as Professor Andrea Icardi
(1975)
A Curious Man
as Moriondo
(1974)
The Night Porter
as Hans
(1974)
Appassionata
as Dr. Emilio Rutelli
(1974)
Kidnap
as Don Francesco Salvatore
(1974)
La prova d'amore
as Angela Father
(1974)
Quick Trial
as L'avvocato Finaldi
(1973)
Hitler: The Last Ten Days
as Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm Keitel
(1973)
Hospitals: The White Mafia
as Prof. Daniele Vallotti
(1972)
The Boxer
as Nick La Caterina / Tony La Monica
(1972)
3000 Million Without an Elevator
as Raphaël
(1972)
High Voltage
as Pablo Moncada
(1972)
(1971)
Million Dollar Eel
as Vasco
(1970)
The Confession
as Kohoutek
(1970)
Cannabis
as Inspector Bardeche
(1969)
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
as Marc Ange Draco
(1969)
That Splendid November
as Biagio
(1969)
Machine Gun McCain
as Don Francesco DeMarco
(1969)
L'amica
as Paolo Marchesi
(1968)
Once Upon a Time in the West
as Morton
(1968)
Come Play With Me
as Stefano
(1968)
A Devil Under the Pillow
as Anselmo
(1968)
Escalation
as Augusto Lambertinghi
(1968)
The Protagonists
as Il Commissario
(1968)
Bandits in Rome
as Commissioner
(1968)
Better a Widow
as Don Calogero Minniti
(1968)
Love Problems
as Guido
(1967)
We Still Kill the Old Way
as Avvocato Rosello
(1966)
(1966)
The Devil in Love
as Lorenzo de' Medici
(1965)
Three Rooms in Manhattan
as le comte Larsi
(1965)
Crime on a Summer Morning
as Victor Dermott
(1964)
(1964)
(1964)
La calda vita
as Guido
(1964)
Crucero de verano
as Carlos Brul y Betancourt
(1963)
The Shortest Day
as Tenente in trincea
(1963)
Torpedo Bay
as Leonardi
(1963)
A Sentimental Attempt
as Giulio
(1962)
Jessica
as Edmondo Raumo
(1962)
Imperial Venus
as Freron
(1962)
The Nun of Monza
as Gian Paolo Osio
(1962)
Beach Casanova
as Avvocato Leblanc
(1962)
Cross of the Living
as L'abbé Delcourt
(1962)
Eruption
as Roberto Santi
(1962)
Rencontres
as Ralph Scaffari
(1960)
L'Avventura
as Sandro
(1960)
Long Night in '43
as Franco Villani
(1960)
Love, the Italian Way
as Alberto Bressan
(1960)
Il carro armato dell'8 settembre
as Tommaso
(1960)
Red Lips
as Avvocato Paolo Martini
(1959)
Hannibal
as Senator Quintus Fabius
(1959)
The Great Deception
as Bernard Turquet de Mayenne
(1959)
Everyone's in Love
as Arturo
(1958)
Love on the Riviera
as Giulio Ferrari
(1958)
March's Child
as Sandro
(1958)
Angel in a Taxi
as Andrea
(1958)
So Much Love Lost
as Frédéric Solingen
(1957)
It Happened in Rome
as Lawyer Alberto Cortini
(1957)
Parola di ladro
as Desiderio
(1956)
Donatella
as Maurizio
(1956)
Defend My Love
as Pietro Leonardi
(1956)
Il prezzo della gloria
as Comandante Alberto Bruni
(1955)
Le Amiche
as Lorenzo
(1955)
Adriana Lecouvreur
as Maurizio di Sassonia
(1955)
Un po' di cielo
as Frank Lo Giudice
(1954)
House of Ricordi
as Giacomo Puccini
(1954)
Sins of Casanova
as Casanova
(1954)
100 Years of Love
as Carlo, the Political Prisoner (segm. "Gli ultimi dieci Minuti")
(1954)
Camilla
as Dott. Mario Rossetti
(1954)
Modern Virgin
as Gabriele Demico
(1954)
Clothing the Naked
as Ludovico Nota
(1953)
The Wayward Wife
as Professor Franco Vagnuzzi
(1953)
Puccini
as Giacomo Puccini
(1953)
Empty Eyes
as Fernando Maestrelli
(1952)
Inganno
as Andrea Vannini
(1952)
Three Forbidden Stories
as Mario
(1951)
The Forbidden Christ
as (uncredited)
(1951)
Gli amanti di Ravello
as Sandro Deodata
(1951)
The Counterfeiters
as Dario
(1950)
Welcome Reverend!
as The veteran
(1950)
(1949)
Fabiola
as Claudio
(1948)
Les Misérables
as (uncredited)
(1948)
(1948)
(1942)
La contessa Castiglione
as (uncredited)