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Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
April 9, 1933
Place of Birth:
Milano, Lombardia, Italy
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Gian Maria Volonté
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).
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Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Volonté: The Man of a Thousand Faces | Self (archive footage) |
| 2022 | Rosi About Eboli | Self |
| 2021 | We Are Cinema | Self (archive footage) |
| 2019 | Zénon the Rebel | Self (archive footage) |
| 2017 | Forgotten Activism | Self (archive footage) |
| 2015 | Spanish Western | The Indian (archive footage) |
| 2005 | Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker | Self (archive footage) |
| 2005 | Un attore contro - Gian Maria Volonté | Self (archive footage) |
| 2004 | Investigation of a Citizen Named Volonté | Self (archive footage) |
| 1993 | Banderas, the Tyrant | Tirano Banderas |
| 1993 | Funes, a Great Love | El tano Bérgami |
| 1991 | A Simple Story | Carmelo Franzò |
| 1990 | Open Doors | Giudice Vito Di Francesco |
| 1990 | Tre colonne in cronaca | Alberto Landolfi |
| 1989 | Pestalozzi's Mountain | Pestalozzi |
| 1988 | The Abyss | Zenone |
| 1987 | A Boy from Calabria | Felice |
| 1987 | Chronicle of a Death Foretold | Dr. Cristo Bedoya |
| 1986 | The Moro Affair | Aldo Moro |
| 1983 | The Death of Mario Ricci | Bernard Fontana |
| 1981 | Lady of the Camelias | Plessis |
| 1980 | Stark System | Stark |
| 1979 | Christ Stopped at Eboli | Carlo Levi |
| 1979 | Operation Ogre | Izarra |
| 1978 | Reflections on a Political Cinema | Self - Interviewee |
| 1977 | I Am Afraid | Brigadiere Ludovico Graziano |
| 1976 | One Way or Another | M. |
| 1975 | The Suspect | Emilio |
| 1975 | Letters from Marusia | Gregorio |
| 1973 | Giordano Bruno | Giordano Bruno |
| 1973 | Lucky Luciano | Charles 'Lucky' Luciano |
| 1972 | The Mattei Affair | Enrico Mattei |
| 1972 | Slap the Monster on Page One | Bizanti |
| 1972 | The Assassination | Sadiel |
| 1972 | La tenda in piazza | Self (voice) (uncredited) |
| 1971 | Sacco & Vanzetti | Bartolomeo Vanzetti |
| 1971 | The Working Class Goes to Heaven | Lulù Massa |
| 1970 | Le Cercle Rouge | Vogel |
| 1970 | Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion | Dottore |
| 1970 | Many Wars Ago | Lt. Ottolenghi |
| 1970 | Documenti su Giuseppe Pinelli | Self / Reenactor (uncredited) |
| 1970 | Wind from the East | The Soldier |
| 1970 | Ipotesi sulla morte di G. Pinelli | Self |
| 1969 | The Bandit | Gramigna |
| 1969 | Apollon: una fabbrica occupata | Narrator (voice) |
| 1969 | Under the Sign of Scorpio | Renno |
| 1968 | The Violent Four | Piero Cavallero |
| 1968 | The Seven Cervi Brothers | Aldo Cervi |
| 1968 | Summit | Paolo |
| 1967 | A Bullet for the General | Chuncho Munos / 'El Chuncho' |
| 1967 | Face to Face | Professor Brett Fletcher |
| 1967 | We Still Kill the Old Way | Professore Paolo Laurana |
| 1967 | Caravaggio | Caravaggio |
| 1966 | The Witch | Fabrizio |
| 1966 | Wake Up and Die | Inspector Moroni |
| 1966 | Seasons of Our Love | Leonardo Varzi |
| 1966 | A Gangstergirl | Jascha Freud |
| 1966 | For Love and Gold | Teofilatto dei Leonzi |
| 1965 | For a Few Dollars More | El Indio |
| 1965 | La strada più lunga | Michele |
| 1964 | The Magnificent Cuckold | Assessore |
| 1964 | A Fistful of Dollars | Ramón Rojo |
| 1963 | The Terrorist | Renato Braschi , l'ingeniere |
| 1963 | The Felling of the Forest | Guglielmo |
| 1963 | Summer Night | Alberto |
| 1962 | The Four Days of Naples | Stimolo |
| 1962 | A Man for Burning | Salvatore |
| 1961 | Journey Beneath the Desert | Tarath |
| 1961 | Hercules and the Captive Women | Re di Sparta |
| 1961 | Girl with a Suitcase | Piero Benotti |
| 1961 | On the Tiger's Back | Papaleo |
| 1960 | Under Ten Flags | Samuel Braunstein |
| 1959 | Saul | David |
| 1957 | Phaedra | Ippolito |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1982 | The Charterhouse of Parma | Count Mosca |
| 1981 | La Storia Vera Della Signora Dalle Camelie | Plessis |
| 1980 | Cristo si è fermato a Eboli | Carlo Levi |
| 1974 | Spécial cinéma | Self |
| 1967 | Diamoci del tu | Self |
| 1964 | Vita di Michelangelo | Michelangelo |
| 1964 | Le inchieste del commissario Maigret | Radek |
| 1959 | The Idiot | Parfen Rogozin |