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
90 acting credits
Acting · 90
Space: 1999
1975
L'isola del tesoro
1959
I promessi sposi
1989
the famous escapes
1972
Maggie & Bianca Fashion Friends
2016
Waterloo
1970
Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema
2001
Light the Fuse… Sartana Is Coming
1970
The Shortest Day
1963
If You Meet Sartana Pray for Your Death
1968
Hercules
1983
Uno di noi
1996
I Am Sartana Your Angel of Death
1969
Denn sie kennen kein Erbarmen - Der Italowestern
2006
Italian Restaurant
1994
Bad Man's River
1971
Vivere
1999
Western all'italiana
2004
Three Swedish Girls in Upper Bavaria
1977
Kapo
1960
The Boss
1973
His Name Was Holy Ghost
1972
Have a Good Funeral, My Friend… Sartana Will Pay
1970
$10,000 for a Massacre
1967
Pontius Pilate
1962
The Psychic
1977
They Call Him Cemetery
1971
Devil Fish
1984
Morte a passo di valzer
1979
Vamos a Matar - Storia e storie del western mediterraneo
2025
The Heroes
1973
Don Camillo in Moscow
1965
Body Puzzle
1992
Cold Eyes of Fear
1971
The Mongols
1961
Vengeance Is Mine
1967
The Cop
1970
Heads or Tails?
2025
Joy of Flying
1977
Saul and David
1964
Dracula Blows His Cool
1979
Skipper
1987
Django, Sartana, Trinita' et les autres…
2014
Mole Men Against the Son of Hercules
1961
Taste of Vengeance
1968
Star Odyssey
1979
Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1
2008
The Night of the Devils
1972
In nome del popolo sovrano
1990
Crazy Desire
1962
Five for Hell
1969
The New Godfathers
1979
One Night at the Beach
1961
Thunder from the West
1969
Eighteen in the Sun
1962
Sartana Kills Them All
1970
$1,000 on the Black
1966
The Avenger
1962
Summer Night Fever
1978
Red Roses for the Fuhrer
1968
Tulips of Haarlem
1970
The Flower with Petals of Steel
1973
Seven Jackals
1974
Gila and Rik
1987
Cannon Serenade
1958
George Hilton - The World Belongs to the Daring
2019
Con rabbia e con amore
1997
Death of a Friend
1960
The Price of Death
1971
Lo scugnizzo
1979
Family Flaw
2002
Babystrich im Sperrbezirk
1983
Encounters in the Deep
1979
Amok
1983
Almost a Man
1966
Drei und eine halbe Portion
1985
Mio padre è innocente
1997
Maldoror
1977
Those Dirty Dogs!
1973
Aquel último tiburón
2025
Black Tunnel
1986
Lucrezia
1968
Giallo Western
2010
Do You Remember Lucio Fulci?
2006
Hello, Hello Baby! (Rains)
1959
Una prova d'innocenza
1991
Bloody Days
1968
L'occhio di Giuda
1982
Il passo falso
1983
Mondo Garko
2005