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Gianni Garko
Zara, Dalmatia, Italy [now Zadar, Croatia]
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…
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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
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2025
Vamos a Matar - Storia e storie del western mediterraneo
Movie Sé stesso
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2025
Aquel último tiburón
Movie Self
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2025
Dead Souls
Movie Writer
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2025
Heads or Tails?
Movie Mr. Rupè
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2019
George Hilton - The World Belongs to the Daring
Movie Himself
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2016
Maggie & Bianca Fashion Friends
TV show Tancredi Lombardi
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2014
Django, Sartana, Trinita' et les autres…
Movie Lui-même
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2010
Giallo Western
Movie self
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2008
Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1
Movie Self
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2006
Do You Remember Lucio Fulci?
Movie Self
- 2006
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2005
Mondo Garko
Movie Himself
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2004
Western all'italiana
Movie
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2002
Family Flaw
Movie
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2001
Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema
Movie Self - Actor
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1999
Vivere
TV show Pierfrancesco Moretti
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1998
Tower of the First Born
Movie Commander
- 1998
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1997
Mio padre è innocente
Movie Luigi Ammannati
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1997
Con rabbia e con amore
Movie
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1996
Uno di noi
TV show
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1994
Italian Restaurant
TV show Henken
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1992
Body Puzzle
Movie Capo della polizia
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1991
Una prova d'innocenza
Movie Cremonese
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1990
In nome del popolo sovrano
Movie Nicolas Charles Victor Oudinot
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1989
I promessi sposi
TV show fratello gentiluomo
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1987
Skipper
Movie
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1987
Gila and Rik
Movie Giovanni
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1986
Black Tunnel
Movie
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1985
Drei und eine halbe Portion
Movie Fabo
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1984
Monster Shark
Movie Sheriff Gordon
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1983
Hercules
Movie Valcheus
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1983
Il passo falso
Movie
- 1983
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1983
Amok
Movie Le journaliste Breyten
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1982
L'occhio di Giuda
Movie Harry
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1979
Star Odyssey
Movie Dirk
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1979
Dracula Blows His Cool
Movie Stan / Count Stanislaus
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1979
Lo scugnizzo
Movie
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1979
Morte a passo di valzer
TV show Jack Cheviot
