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