Gabriele Ferzetti

Actor

March 17, 1925 (90 years)

† December 2, 2015

Rome, Italy

Biography

Gabriele Ferzetti (born Pasquale Ferzetti; 17 March 1925 – 2 December 2015) was an Italian actor with more than 160 credits across film, television, and stage. His career was at its peak in the 1950s and 1960s. Ferzetti's first leading role was in the film Lo Zappatore (1950). He portrayed Puccini twice in the films Puccini (1953) and Casa Ricordi (1954). He made his international breakthrough in Michelangelo Antonioni's controversial L'Avventura (1960) as a restless playboy. After a series of …

Filmography

8.3

Once Upon a Time in the West

Morton

As the railroad builders advance unstoppably through the Arizona desert on their way to the sea, Jill arrives in the small town of Flagstone with the intention of starting a new life.

6.6

On Her Majesty's Secret Service

Marc Ange Draco

With the help of Marc-Ange Draco, head of the Unione Corse crime syndicate, and Draco's troubled daughter Tracy, James Bond tracks his archnemesis, Ernst Stravro Blofeld, to a mountaintop retreat in the Swiss Alps, where he is training an army of beautiful, lethal women.

5.6

Appassionata

Dr. Emilio Rutelli

Two teenage friends conspire to find out how much their youthful sensuality can disrupt one of their households, headed by a dentist and his mentally-ill wife.

6.7

Around the World in 80 Days

Italian Chief of Police

The plot centres around Phileas Fogg making a £20,000 wager with three members of the Reform Club that he can circumnavigate the world in 80 days. He takes with him his newly employed French valet Passepartout, and is pursued by Detective Wilbur Fix who mistakenly thinks Fogg robbed the Bank of England and is using the wager as a cover to escape capture.

7.3

The Bible: In the Beginning...

Lot

Covering only the first 22 chapters of the Book of Genesis, vignettes include: Adam and Eve frolicking in the Garden of Eden until their indulgence in the forbidden fruit sees them driven out; Cain murdering his brother Abel; Noah building an ark to preserve the animals of the world from the coming flood; and Abraham making a covenant with God.

6.8

Hospitals: The White Mafia

Prof. Daniele Vallotti

A famous surgeon earns enormous amounts of money by speculating on patients, although he is generally considered a great man and an excellent doctor. Only one of his colleagues rebels against the situation and tries to reveal the truth. But during a dramatic operation, the famous surgeon forces him to turn accomplice and the doctor must keep quiet. Not for long, however.

5.9

Quo Vadis?

Pisone

Drama about love and intrigues in ancient Rome during the times of Nero.

6.7

The Night Porter

Hans

A concentration camp survivor discovers her former torturer and lover working as a porter at a hotel in postwar Vienna. When the couple attempt to re-create their sadomasochistic relationship, his former SS comrades begin to stalk them.

7.5

L'Avventura

Sandro

Claudia and Anna join Anna's lover, Sandro, on a boat trip to a remote volcanic island. When Anna goes missing, a search is launched. In the meantime, Sandro and Claudia become involved in a romance despite Anna's disappearance, though the relationship suffers from guilt and tension.

6.7

I Am Love

Edoardo Recchi Senior

Emma has left Russia to live with her husband in Italy. Now a member of a powerful industrial family, she is the respected mother of three, but feels unfulfilled. One day, Antonio, a talented chef and her son's friend, makes her senses kindle.

8.5

Private Crimes

Dr. Guido Braschi

When a prominent businessman is found murdered, an ambitious newspaper reporter and a local police inspector will uncover a bizarre web of small-town corruption, violence and dark secrets.

5.4

That Splendid November

Biagio

In the most traditional Sicilian, a 18 year old is in full arousal. His relationship with breathtaking mature woman will create a great controversy in the retrograde Sicilian society.

5.8

The Devil's Game

Master Gomin

A story about the devil's influence on five people's lives in 20th-century Venice.

5.6

Hannibal

Senator Quintus Fabius

A Carthaginian general attempts to cross the Alps with an army of elephants in order to conquer Rome.

6.4

Othello

The Duke of Venice

The evil Iago pretends to be friend of Othello in order to manipulate him to serve his own end in the film version of this Shakespeare classic.

6.1

Three Rooms in Manhattan

le comte Larsi

When his wife leaves him, a young French actor, François Combe, moves to New York to work for a television company. One evening, he meets an attractive young woman, Kay Larsi, in a bar.

6.7

Divorce His, Divorce Hers

Turi Livicci

The dissolution of an 18-year marriage, seen first from his point-of-view and then from hers.

7.0

The Psychic

Emilio Rospini

A woman with psychic powers has a vision of a murder that took place in a house owned by her husband.

7.4

The Confession

Kohoutek

In 1950s communist Czechoslovakia, a government minister, a war veteran long a loyal party man, leads a relatively comfortable life with his wife. However, he soon finds himself under surveillance, then under arrest. Unclear what his offense is, agents for the totalitarian regime interrogate and torture him, aiming to use their unending power to gain a false confession for these supposed crimes against the state.

8.5

Édouard et ses filles

Antoine di Marco

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