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
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Films (82)
Vamos a Matar - Storia e storie del western mediterraneo
2025 · Sé stesso
Aquel último tiburón
2025 · Self
Dead Souls
2025 · Writer
Heads or Tails?
2025 · Mr. Rupè
George Hilton - The World Belongs to the Daring
2019 · Himself
Django, Sartana, Trinita' et les autres…
2014 · Lui-même
Giallo Western
2010 · self
Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1
2008 · Self
Do You Remember Lucio Fulci?
2006 · Self
Car ils sont sans pitié
2006 · Self
Mondo Garko
2005 · Himself
Western all'italiana
2004
Family Flaw
2002
Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema
2001 · Self - Actor
Tower of the First Born
1998 · Commander
Entscheidung für die Liebe
1998
Con rabbia e con amore
1997
Body Puzzle
1992 · Capo della polizia
In nome del popolo sovrano
1990 · Nicolas Charles Victor Oudinot
Skipper
1987
Gila and Rik
1987 · Giovanni
Black Tunnel
1986
Drei und eine halbe Portion
1985 · Fabo
Monster Shark
1984 · Sheriff Gordon
Hercules
1983 · Valcheus
Il passo falso
1983
Babystrich im Sperrbezirk
1983
Amok
1983 · Le journaliste Breyten
L'occhio di Giuda
1982 · Harry
Star Odyssey
1979 · Dirk
Dracula Blows His Cool
1979 · Stan / Count Stanislaus
Lo scugnizzo
1979
The New Godfathers
1979 · Capitano Ivano Radovich
Encounters in the Deep
1979 · Mike
Summer Night Fever
1978 · Jacky / Playboy
Maldoror
1977 · Il regista
Three Swedish Girls in Upper Bavaria
1977 · Otto Gruber
Joy of Flying
1977 · Jörg Bronner
The Psychic
1977 · Francesco Ducci
Seven Jackals
1974 · Luis
The Flower with Petals of Steel
1973 · Dr. Andrea Valenti
Those Dirty Dogs!
1973 · Korano
The Heroes
1973 · Schreiber
The Boss
1973 · Police Commissioner Torri
The Night of the Devils
1972 · Nicola
His Name Was Holy Ghost
1972 · Holy Ghost
Bad Man's River
1971 · Ed Pace
They Call Him Cemetery
1971 · Camposanto / 'The Stranger'
The Price of Death
1971 · Silver
Cold Eyes of Fear
1971 · Peter Flower
Light the Fuse… Sartana Is Coming
1970 · Sartana
Waterloo
1970 · Drouot
Have a Good Funeral, My Friend… Sartana Will Pay
1970 · Sartana
The Cop
1970 · Dan Rover
Sartana Kills Them All
1970 · Santana
Tulips of Haarlem
1970 · Bernardo
I Am Sartana Your Angel of Death
1969 · Sartana
Thunder from the West
1969 · Riccardo Cloro
Five for Hell
1969 · Lt. Glenn Hoffmann
If You Meet Sartana Pray for Your Death
1968 · Sartana
Lucrezia
1968 · Fabrizio Aldobrandi
Red Roses for the Fuhrer
1968 · Alex Rostov / il tenente Mann
Bloody Days
1968
Taste of Vengeance
1968 · Bryan Clarke
Vengeance Is Mine
1967 · John Forest
$10,000 for a Massacre
1967 · Django
$1,000 on the Black
1966 · Sartana Liston
Almost a Man
1966 · Michele's Brother
Don Camillo in Moscow
1965 · Scamoggia
Saul and David
1964 · David
The Shortest Day
1963 · Uomo alla stazione (uncredited)
The Avenger
1962 · Turno, King of the Rusalie
Eighteen in the Sun
1962 · Nicola Molino
Crazy Desire
1962 · Piero
Pontius Pilate
1962 · Jonathan
Mole Men Against the Son of Hercules
1961 · Kathar - Kahab's Son
The Mongols
1961 · Henry de Valois
One Night at the Beach
1961 · Heinrich
Kapo
1960 · Karl
Death of a Friend
1960 · Aldo
Hello, Hello Baby! (Rains)
1959
Cannon Serenade
1958 · Un altro ufficiale
Séries (11)
Maggie & Bianca Fashion Friends
2016 · Tancredi Lombardi
Vivere
1999 · Pierfrancesco Moretti
Mio padre è innocente
1997 · Luigi Ammannati
Uno di noi
1996
Italian Restaurant
1994 · Henken
Una prova d'innocenza
1991 · Cremonese
I promessi sposi
1989 · fratello gentiluomo
Morte a passo di valzer
1979 · Jack Cheviot
Space: 1999
1975 · Tony Cellini
the famous escapes
1972 · Benvenuto Cellini
L'isola del tesoro
1959 · Harry