Gianni Garko
Acting
1935-07-15 · 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
Filmography
Vamos a Matar - Storia e storie del western mediterraneo
2025 · Movie
Aquel último tiburón
2025 · Movie
Dead Souls
2025 · Movie
Heads or Tails?
2025 · Movie
George Hilton - The World Belongs to the Daring
2019 · Movie
Maggie & Bianca Fashion Friends
2016 · Series
Django, Sartana, Trinita' et les autres…
2014 · Movie
Giallo Western
2010 · Movie
Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1
2008 · Movie
Do You Remember Lucio Fulci?
2006 · Movie
Denn sie kennen kein Erbarmen - Der Italowestern
2006 · Movie
Mondo Garko
2005 · Movie
Western all'italiana
2004 · Movie
Family Flaw
2002 · Movie
Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema
2001 · Movie
Vivere
1999 · Series
Tower of the First Born
1998 · Movie
Entscheidung für die Liebe
1998 · Movie
Mio padre è innocente
1997 · Movie
Con rabbia e con amore
1997 · Movie
Uno di noi
1996 · Series
Italian Restaurant
1994 · Series
Body Puzzle
1992 · Movie
Una prova d'innocenza
1991 · Movie
In nome del popolo sovrano
1990 · Movie
I promessi sposi
1989 · Series
Skipper
1987 · Movie
Gila and Rik
1987 · Movie
Black Tunnel
1986 · Movie
Drei und eine halbe Portion
1985 · Movie
Monster Shark
1984 · Movie
Hercules
1983 · Movie
Il passo falso
1983 · Movie
Babystrich im Sperrbezirk
1983 · Movie
Amok
1983 · Movie
L'occhio di Giuda
1982 · Movie
Star Odyssey
1979 · Movie
Dracula Blows His Cool
1979 · Movie
Lo scugnizzo
1979 · Movie
Morte a passo di valzer
1979 · Series
The New Godfathers
1979 · Movie
Encounters in the Deep
1979 · Movie
Summer Night Fever
1978 · Movie
Maldoror
1977 · Movie
Three Swedish Girls in Upper Bavaria
1977 · Movie
Joy of Flying
1977 · Movie
The Psychic
1977 · Movie
Space: 1999
1975 · Series
Seven Jackals
1974 · Movie
The Flower with Petals of Steel
1973 · Movie
Those Dirty Dogs!
1973 · Movie
The Heroes
1973 · Movie
The Boss
1973 · Movie
The Night of the Devils
1972 · Movie
His Name Was Holy Ghost
1972 · Movie
the famous escapes
1972 · Series
Bad Man's River
1971 · Movie
They Call Him Cemetery
1971 · Movie
The Price of Death
1971 · Movie
Cold Eyes of Fear
1971 · Movie
Light the Fuse… Sartana Is Coming
1970 · Movie
Waterloo
1970 · Movie
Have a Good Funeral, My Friend… Sartana Will Pay
1970 · Movie
The Cop
1970 · Movie
Sartana Kills Them All
1970 · Movie
Tulips of Haarlem
1970 · Movie
I Am Sartana Your Angel of Death
1969 · Movie
Thunder from the West
1969 · Movie
Five for Hell
1969 · Movie
If You Meet Sartana Pray for Your Death
1968 · Movie
Lucrezia
1968 · Movie
Red Roses for the Fuhrer
1968 · Movie
Bloody Days
1968 · Movie
Taste of Vengeance
1968 · Movie
Vengeance Is Mine
1967 · Movie
$10,000 for a Massacre
1967 · Movie
$1,000 on the Black
1966 · Movie
Almost a Man
1966 · Movie
Don Camillo in Moscow
1965 · Movie
Saul and David
1964 · Movie
The Shortest Day
1963 · Movie
The Avenger
1962 · Movie
Eighteen in the Sun
1962 · Movie
Crazy Desire
1962 · Movie
Pontius Pilate
1962 · Movie
Mole Men Against the Son of Hercules
1961 · Movie
The Mongols
1961 · Movie
One Night at the Beach
1961 · Movie
Kapo
1960 · Movie
Death of a Friend
1960 · Movie
Hello, Hello Baby! (Rains)
1959 · Movie
L'isola del tesoro
1959 · Series
Cannon Serenade
1958 · Movie