Gianni Garko
Known for: Acting
Born: July 15, 1935
Place of birth: Zara, Dalmatia, Italy [now Zadar, Croatia]
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
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Filmography
84 movies · 9 TV shows, newest first
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Vamos a Matar - Storia e storie del western mediterraneo
2025
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Aquel último tiburón
2025
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Dead Souls
2025
6.1
Heads or Tails?
2025
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George Hilton - The World Belongs to the Daring
2019
7.5
Maggie & Bianca Fashion Friends
2016
8.0
Django, Sartana, Trinita' et les autres…
20147.0
Giallo Western
2010
6.0
Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1
2008
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Do You Remember Lucio Fulci?
2006
6.5
Denn sie kennen kein Erbarmen - Der Italowestern
2006NR
Mondo Garko
20054.0
Western all'italiana
2004
6.0
Family Flaw
2002
6.4
Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema
2001
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Vivere
1999
5.0
Tower of the First Born
1998NR
Entscheidung für die Liebe
19988.0
Mio padre è innocente
1997
10.0
Con rabbia e con amore
19977.0
Uno di noi
1996
9.3
Italian Restaurant
1994
5.3
Body Puzzle
1992
4.0
Una prova d'innocenza
1991
6.5
In nome del popolo sovrano
1990
7.1
I promessi sposi
1989
7.8
Skipper
1987
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Gila and Rik
1987
7.0
Black Tunnel
1986
4.7
Drei und eine halbe Portion
1985
3.3
Monster Shark
1984
4.9
Hercules
1983NR
Il passo falso
1983
5.0
Babystrich im Sperrbezirk
1983
8.0
Amok
1983
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L'occhio di Giuda
1982
2.9
Star Odyssey
1979
3.3
Dracula Blows His Cool
1979
6.8
Lo scugnizzo
1979
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Morte a passo di valzer
1979
6.9
The New Godfathers
1979
3.8
Encounters in the Deep
1979
3.3
Summer Night Fever
19788.0
Maldoror
1977
5.6
Three Swedish Girls in Upper Bavaria
1977
3.9
Joy of Flying
1977
7.0
The Psychic
1977
7.1
Space: 1999
1975
7.0
Seven Jackals
1974
5.4
The Flower with Petals of Steel
1973
6.5
Those Dirty Dogs!
1973
5.7
The Heroes
1973
6.8
The Boss
1973
6.3
The Night of the Devils
1972
6.2
His Name Was Holy Ghost
1972
7.0
the famous escapes
1972
5.0
Bad Man's River
1971
6.3
They Call Him Cemetery
1971
6.0
The Price of Death
1971
4.8
Cold Eyes of Fear
1971
6.3
Light the Fuse… Sartana Is Coming
1970
7.1
Waterloo
1970
6.5
Have a Good Funeral, My Friend… Sartana Will Pay
1970
6.3
The Cop
1970
5.2
Sartana Kills Them All
1970
6.0
Tulips of Haarlem
1970
6.4
I Am Sartana Your Angel of Death
1969
10.0
Thunder from the West
1969
4.9
Five for Hell
1969
6.0
If You Meet Sartana Pray for Your Death
1968
3.7
Lucrezia
1968
6.5
Red Roses for the Fuhrer
1968
8.0
Bloody Days
1968
6.6
Taste of Vengeance
1968
6.8
Vengeance Is Mine
1967
5.4
$10,000 for a Massacre
1967
5.1
$1,000 on the Black
1966
6.5
Almost a Man
1966
7.1
Don Camillo in Moscow
1965
6.7
Saul and David
1964
6.4
The Shortest Day
1963
6.3
The Avenger
1962
5.1
Eighteen in the Sun
1962
6.6
Crazy Desire
1962
6.7
Pontius Pilate
1962
5.5
Mole Men Against the Son of Hercules
1961
5.2
The Mongols
1961
5.8
One Night at the Beach
1961
6.9
Kapo
1960
6.6
Death of a Friend
1960
3.0
Hello, Hello Baby! (Rains)
1959
9.0
L'isola del tesoro
1959
7.0
Cannon Serenade
1958