Gianni Garko
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
Tony Cellini
Black Tunnel
Don Camillo in Moscow
Scamoggia
Heads or Tails?
Mr. Rupè
The Boss
Police Commissioner Torri
Waterloo
Drouot
Kapo
Karl
Cannon Serenade
Un altro ufficiale
Joy of Flying
Jörg Bronner
Body Puzzle
Police Chief
Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema
Self - Actor
Mondo Garko
Himself
Western all'italiana
Devil Fish
Sheriff Gordon
Gila and Rik
Giovanni
Una prova d'innocenza
Cremonese
Saul and David
David
Eighteen in the Sun
Nicola Molino
Skipper
The Night of the Devils
Nicola
Lo scugnizzo
One Night at the Beach
Heinrich
Babystrich im Sperrbezirk
Dracula Blows His Cool
Stan / Count Stanislaus
Amok
Le journaliste Breyten
Lucrezia
Fabrizio Aldobrandi
Aquel último tiburón
Self
The New Godfathers
Capitano Ivano Radovich
Tulips of Haarlem
Bernardo
Maggie & Bianca Fashion Friends
Tancredi Lombardi
The Heroes
Schreiber
I promessi sposi
fratello gentiluomo
Morte a passo di valzer
Jack Cheviot
the famous escapes
Benvenuto Cellini
Hercules
Valcheus
Three Swedish Girls in Upper Bavaria
Otto Gruber
The Mongols
Henry de Valois
Bad Man's River
Ed Pace
Light the Fuse… Sartana Is Coming
Sartana
Have a Good Funeral, My Friend… Sartana Will Pay
Sartana
The Shortest Day
Uomo alla stazione (uncredited)
Uno di noi
Django, Sartana, Trinita' et les autres…
Lui-même
The Psychic
Francesco Ducci
Hello, Hello Baby! (Rains)
The Avenger
Turno, King of the Rusalie
L'isola del tesoro
Harry
If You Meet Sartana Pray for Your Death
Sartana
Crazy Desire
Piero
$1,000 on the Black
Sartana Liston
L'Occhio di Giuda
Harry
In nome del popolo sovrano
Nicolas Charles Victor Oudinot
Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1
Self
Italian Restaurant
Henken
Italian Restaurant
Pontius Pilate
Jonathan
Vengeance Is Mine
John Forest
Maldoror
Il regista
Star Odyssey
Dirk
The Cop
Dan Rover
They Call Him Cemetery
Camposanto / 'The Stranger'
Five for Hell
Lt. Glenn Hoffmann
$10,000 for a Massacre
Django
I Am Sartana Your Angel of Death
Sartana
His Name Was Holy Ghost
Holy Ghost
Thunder from the West
Riccardo Cloro
Red Roses for the Fuhrer
Alex Rostov / il tenente Mann
Mole Men Against the Son of Hercules
Kathar - Kahab's Son
Cold Eyes of Fear
Peter Flower
Summer Night Fever
Jacky / Playboy
Sartana Kills Them All
Santana
Taste of Vengeance
Bryan Clarke
Those Dirty Dogs!
Korano
The Flower with Petals of Steel
Dr. Andrea Valenti
The Price of Death
Silver
Vivere
Pierfrancesco Moretti
Death of a Friend
Aldo
Encounters in the Deep
Mike
Family Flaw
Seven Jackals
Luis
Do You Remember Lucio Fulci?
Self
Almost a Man
Michele's Brother
Il passo falso
Con rabbia e con amore
Bloody Days
Denn sie kennen kein Erbarmen - Der Italowestern
Self
George Hilton - The World Belongs to the Daring
Himself
Drei und eine halbe Portion
Fabo
Giallo Western
self