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Gabriele Ferzetti
Rome, Italy
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 i…
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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 romantic performances, he acquired a reputation in Italy as an elegant, debonair, and somewhat aristocratic looking leading man. Ferzetti starred as Lot in John Huston's biblical epic, The Bible: In the Beginning... (1966), and played railroad baron Morton in Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West (1968). Perhaps his best known role, internationally, was in the James Bond movie On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) as Marc Ange Draco, although his voice was dubbed by British actor David de Keyser. He was perhaps best known to non-mainstream audiences for his role as the psychiatrist, Hans, in Liliana Cavani's The Night Porter (1974). In the 1970s, he appeared in a significant number of crime films, often as an inspector. He appeared in Julia and Julia, opposite Laurence Olivier in Inchon (1982), and the cult film, First Action Hero. Later in his career, he played the role of Nono in the TV series Une famille formidable, while also appearing in Luca Guadagnino's 2009 film I Am Love. Ferzetti died on 2 December 2015, aged 90. Description above from the Wikipedia article Gabriele Ferzetti, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
Movies and shows, newest first
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2010
18 Years Later
Movie Enrico
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2010
I Am Love
Movie Edoardo Recchi Senior
- 2007
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2006
Pope John Paul I: The Smile of God
Movie Card. Giuseppe Siri
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2006
Pope John Paul I: The Smile of God
TV show Card. Giuseppe Siri
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2005
Callas & Onassis
Movie Livanos
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2005
Callas & Onassis
TV show Livanos
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2005
Concorso di colpa
Movie Vito Santamaria
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2003
The Wages of Sin
Movie Self - Actor
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2003
An Opera of Violence
Movie Self - Actor
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2003
Something to Do with Death
Movie Self - Actor
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2003
Lost Love
Movie Tommaso Pasini
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2003
L'avvocato de Gregorio
Movie Alfonso
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2002
Le ragazze di Miss Italia
Movie professor De Lollis
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1998
Tower of the First Born
Movie Father Jacob
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1997
Porzûs
Movie Strono vecchio
More credits
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1997
Con rabbia e con amore
Movie Leone
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1995
Othello
Movie The Duke of Venice
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1994
Black as the Heart
Movie Signor Noé Alga Croce
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1994
First Action Hero
Movie Ben Costa
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1994
Weihnachtsfest mit Hindernissen
Movie Vittorio
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1993
Die Ringe des Saturn
Movie
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1993
Private Crimes
TV show Dr. Guido Braschi
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1991
Suffocating Heat
Movie Gaetano Castelli
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1990
Édouard et ses filles
TV show Antoine di Marco
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1990
Una fredda mattina di maggio
Movie Signor Mantoni
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1990
Gli angeli del potere
Movie Dr. Donhal
- 1990
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1989
Around the World in 80 Days
TV show Italian Chief of Police
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1988
Computron 22
Movie Il Nonno
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1988
Julia and Julia
Movie Alfredo
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1987
La voglia di vincere
TV show Professor Besson
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1985
Quo Vadis?
TV show Pisone
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1983
Die goldenen Schuhe
TV show Marquesade Buenaventa
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1983
Return to Lisca Bianca Island
Movie Sandro (voice) (archive footage)
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1983
Delitto e castigo
TV show Svidrigajlov
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1983
The Basileus Quartet
Movie Mario Cantone
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1982
Grog
Movie Alberto
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1982
Death in the Vatican
Movie Cardinale Ixaguirre
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1982
Quasi quasi mi sposo
Movie Ingegnere
