Gianni Garko

Actor

July 15, 1935 (90 years)

Zara, Dalmatia, Italy [now Zadar, Croatia]

Biography

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…

Filmography

7.1

Space: 1999

Tony Cellini

The crew of Moonbase Alpha must struggle to survive when a massive explosion throws the Moon from orbit into deep space.

7.5

Maggie & Bianca Fashion Friends

Tancredi Lombardi

Originally polar opposites, an American fashion student and the daughter of an industry mogul form an everlasting bond and start a rock band in Milan, Italy.

7.1

I promessi sposi

fratello gentiluomo

Set between 1629 and 1631. Renzo Tramaglino and Lucia Mondella are Lombard peasants forced to separate and endure a thousand vicissitudes because of the bullying of the squire Don Rodrigo. However, during their journey they will find various people willing to help them, from Friar Cristoforo to the Innominato, from Federigo Borromeo to Donna Prassede.

7.0

the famous escapes

Benvenuto Cellini

From Bonaparte to Casanova, history is cast in the light of famous escapes from various European countries.

7.1

Waterloo

Drouot

After defeating France and imprisoning Napoleon on Elba, ending two decades of war, Europe is shocked to find Napoleon has escaped and has caused the French Army to defect from the King back to him. The best of the British generals, the Duke of Wellington, beat Napolean's best generals in Spain and Portugal, but now must beat Napoleon himself with an Anglo Allied army.

3.3

Summer Night Fever

Jacky / Playboy

Two buddies head off for a summer holiday, but one of them has to take his sister along. She cramps their style when it comes to picking up chicks. However, they manage to have some fun.

9.0

L'isola del tesoro

Harry

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4.9

Hercules

Valcheus

Hercules, a semi-divine being, squares off against King Minos, who is attempting to use science to gain power and take over the world. With the help of a benevolent sorceress, Circe, Hercules tries to save his beloved Cassiopeia from being sacrificed by Minos, and struggles against laser-breathing creatures and an evil sorceress.

9.3

Italian Restaurant

Henken

No description available

5.6

Three Swedish Girls in Upper Bavaria

Otto Gruber

Otto runs a hotel for tourists in Tyrol but has troubles both with the economy and with his wife Olga. After a trip to Stockholm he imports three Swedish blondes who eventually save Otto from disaster, both marital and financial.

7.0

The Psychic

Francesco Ducci

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

4.0

Joy of Flying

Jörg Bronner

The young wife Silvia is neglected by her husband Kurt. She dreams during the flight to a psychoanalyst Congress similarly Jong's heroine Isadora while reading a novel called emancipatory joy of flying in a world of its own. Then she has an affair with the businessman Jörg. It recognizes that the total of all sexual acting out day and night dreams anyone yet alone makes to a free people.

6.2

The Shortest Day

Uomo alla stazione (uncredited)

Two jerks are enlisted in the Italian army during W.W.1 and by pure luck manage to help win an important battle.

6.6

Crazy Desire

Piero

A middle-aged businessman meets a band of rowdy youths and is smitten by one, named Francesca.

4.6

Bad Man's River

Ed Pace

Robber Roy King loses his wife, Alicia, to revolutionary Montero. Despite their rivalry they collaborate in an attempt to rob the Mexican government of one million dollars.

5.2

The Mongols

Henry de Valois

During the Mongol invasion of Poland, a conflict between Mongol Emperor Genghis Khan and his oldest son Ogotai ensues when the former aims for peace and the latter itches for war and conquest.

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Vivere

Pierfrancesco Moretti

No description available

3.3

Devil Fish

Sheriff Gordon

A marine biologist, a dolphin trainer, a research scientist, and a local sheriff try to hunt down a large sea monster, a shark/octopus hybrid, that is devouring swimmers and fishermen off a south Florida coast.

3.4

Dracula Blows His Cool

Stan / Count Stanislaus

An ancestor of the famous vampire gets a job as a photographer shooting beautiful fashion models at the family estate.

5.7

The Heroes

Schreiber

Four soldiers and a beautiful Greek nurse, thrown together in North Africa during World War II, team up to pull off a heist of two-million pounds in boxes marked "plasma."