Gian Maria Volonté
- Acting
- April 9, 1933 · Milano, Lombardia, Italy
- December 6, 1994
Biography
Gian Maria Volonté (9 April 1933 – 6 December 1994) was an Italian actor. He is perhaps most famous outside of Italy for his roles as the main villain in Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars (credited in the USA as "Johnny Wels") and For a Few Dollars More. In Italy and much of Europe, he was notable for his roles in high-profile social dramas depicting the political and social stirrings of Italian and European society in the 1960s and 1970s, including four films directed by Elio Petri - We Still Kill the Old Way (1967), Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1971), The Working Class Goes to Heaven (1971) and Todo modo (1976). He is also recognized for his performances in Jean-Pierre Melville's Le Cercle Rouge (1970) and Giuliano Montaldo's Sacco & Vanzetti (1971). Description above from the Wikipedia article Gian Maria Volonté, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
Filmography
- Volonté: The Man of a Thousand Faces · Self
- Rosi About Eboli · Self
- We Are Cinema · Self
- Zénon the Rebel · Self
- Forgotten Activism · Self
- Spanish Western · The Indian (archive footage)
- Un attore contro - Gian Maria Volonté · Self
- Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker · Self
- Investigation of a Citizen Named Volonté · Self
- The Bankers of God: The Calvi Affair · Thanks
- Ulysses' Gaze · In Memory Of
- Banderas, the Tyrant · Tirano Banderas
- Funes, a Great Love · El tano Bérgami
- A Simple Story · Carmelo Franzò
- Open Doors · Giudice Vito Di Francesco
- Tre colonne in cronaca · Alberto Landolfi
- Pestalozzi's Mountain · Pestalozzi
- The Abyss · Zenone
- A Boy from Calabria · Felice
- Chronicle of a Death Foretold · Dr. Cristo Bedoya
- The Moro Affair · Aldo Moro
- The Death of Mario Ricci · Bernard Fontana
- The Charterhouse of Parma · Count Mosca
- Lady of the Camelias · Plessis
- La Storia Vera Della Signora Dalle Camelie · Plessis
- Cristo si è fermato a Eboli · Carlo Levi
- Stark System · Stark, Writer
- Operation Ogre · Izarra
- Christ Stopped at Eboli · Carlo Levi
- Reflections on a Political Cinema · Self
- Ciné regards · Self
- I Am Afraid · Brigadiere Ludovico Graziano
- One Way or Another · M.
- Letters from Marusia · Gregorio
- The Suspect · Emilio
- Spécial cinéma · Self
- Giordano Bruno · Giordano Bruno
- Lucky Luciano · Charles 'Lucky' Luciano
- Festival dell’Unità 1972 · Self
- Reggio Calabria · Director
- Slap the Monster on Page One · Bizanti
- The Assassination · Sadiel
- La tenda in piazza · Self, Director
- The Mattei Affair · Enrico Mattei
- The Working Class Goes to Heaven · Lulù Massa
- Sacco & Vanzetti · Bartolomeo Vanzetti
- Documents on Giuseppe Pinelli · Self / Reenactor (uncredited)
- Le Cercle Rouge · Vogel
- Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion · Dottore
- Many Wars Ago · Lt. Ottolenghi
- Wind from the East · The Northern Ranger
- Ipotesi sulla morte di G. Pinelli · Self
- Apollon: una fabbrica occupata · Narrator (Voice)
- Under the Sign of Scorpio · Renno
- The Bandit · Gramigna
- Summit · Paolo
- The Violent Four · Piero Cavallero
- The Seven Cervi Brothers · Aldo Cervi
- Face to Face · Professor Brett Fletcher
- Caravaggio · Caravaggio
- Diamoci del tu · Self
- We Still Kill the Old Way · Professore Paolo Laurana
- A Bullet for the General · Chuncho Munos / 'El Chuncho'
- A Gangstergirl · Jascha Freud
- The Witch · Fabrizio
- For Love and Gold · Teofilatto dei Leonzi
- Wake Up and Die · Inspector Moroni
- Seasons of Our Love · Leonardo Varzi
- For a Few Dollars More · El Indio
- La strada più lunga · Michele
- Una vita in gioco · Radek
- Le inchieste del commissario Maigret · Radek
- Vita di Michelangelo · Michelangelo
- The Magnificent Cuckold · Assessore
- A Fistful of Dollars · Ramón Rojo
- The Terrorist · Renato Braschi , l'ingeniere
- The Felling of the Forest · Guglielmo
- Summer Night · Alberto
- The Four Days of Naples · Stimolo
- A Man for Burning · Salvatore