Gianni Garko
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1935-07-15 (89 years old)
Place of Birth
Zara, Dalmatia, Italy [now Zadar, Croatia]
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
Acting
Aquel último tiburón
as Self
(2025)
Heads or Tails?
as Mr. Rupè
(2019)
(2014)
Django, Sartana, Trinita' et les autres…
as Lui-même
(2010)
Giallo Western
as self
(2008)
(2006)
(2006)
Do You Remember Lucio Fulci?
as Self
(2005)
Mondo Garko
as Himself
(2004)
(2002)
(2001)
Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema
as Self - Actor
(1997)
(1992)
Body Puzzle
as Police Chief
(1990)
In nome del popolo sovrano
as Nicolas Charles Victor Oudinot
(1987)
(1987)
Gila and Rik
as Giovanni
(1986)
(1985)
Drei und eine halbe Portion
as Fabo
(1984)
Devil Fish
as Sheriff Gordon
(1983)
Hercules
as Valcheus
(1983)
Amok
as Le journaliste Breyten
(1983)
(1983)
(1979)
Star Odyssey
as Dirk
(1979)
Dracula Blows His Cool
as Stan / Count Stanislaus
(1979)
The New Godfathers
as Capitano Ivano Radovich
(1979)
(1979)
Encounters in the Deep
as Mike
(1978)
Summer Night Fever
as Jacky / Playboy
(1977)
Three Swedish Girls in Upper Bavaria
as Otto Gruber
(1977)
The Psychic
as Francesco Ducci
(1977)
Joy of Flying
as Jörg Bronner
(1977)
Maldoror
as Il regista
(1974)
Seven Jackals
as Luis
(1973)
The Boss
as Police Commissioner Torri
(1973)
Those Dirty Dogs!
as Korano
(1973)
The Heroes
as Schreiber
(1973)
The Flower with Petals of Steel
as Dr. Andrea Valenti
(1972)
Night of the Devils
as Nicola
(1972)
His Name Was Holy Ghost
as Spirito Santo / Holy Ghost
(1971)
Bad Man's River
as Ed Pace
(1971)
They Call Him Cemetery
as Camposanto / 'The Stranger'
(1971)
Cold Eyes of Fear
as Peter Flower
(1971)
The Price of Death
as Silver
(1970)
Waterloo
as Drouot
(1970)
Light the Fuse… Sartana Is Coming
as Sartana
(1970)
The Cop
as Dan Rover
(1970)
(1970)
Sartana Kills Them All
as Santana
(1970)
Tulips of Haarlem
as Bernardo
(1969)
I Am Sartana Your Angel of Death
as Sartana
(1969)
Five for Hell
as Lt. Glenn Hoffmann
(1969)
Thunder from the West
as Riccardo Cloro
(1968)
If You Meet Sartana Pray for Your Death
as Sartana
(1968)
Taste of Vengeance
as Bryan Clarke
(1968)
Lucrezia
as Fabrizio Aldobrandi
(1968)
Red Roses for the Fuhrer
as Alex Rostov / il tenente Mann
(1968)
(1967)
$10,000 for a Massacre
as Django
(1967)
Vengeance Is Mine
as John Forest
(1966)
$1,000 on the Black
as Sartana Liston
(1966)
Almost a Man
as Michele's Brother
(1965)
Don Camillo in Moscow
as Scamoggia
(1964)
Saul and David
as David
(1963)
The Shortest Day
as Uomo alla stazione (uncredited)
(1962)
Crazy Desire
as Piero
(1962)
Pontius Pilate
as Jonathan
(1962)
The Avenger
as Turno, King of the Rusalie
(1962)
Eighteen in the Sun
as Nicola Molino
(1961)
The Mongols
as Henry de Valois
(1961)
Mole Men Against the Son of Hercules
as Kathar - Kahab's Son
(1961)
One Night at the Beach
as Heinrich
(1960)
Kapo
as Karl
(1960)
Death of a Friend
as Aldo
(1959)
(1958)
Cannon Serenade
as Un altro ufficiale