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Acting
Birthday:
March 17, 1925
Place of Birth:
Rome, Italy
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Gabriele Ferzetti
Biography
Gabriele Ferzetti (born Pasquale Ferzetti; 17 March 1925 – 2 December 2015) was an Italian actor with more than 160 credits across film, television, and stage. His career was at its peak in the 1950s and 1960s.
Ferzetti's first leading role was in the film Lo Zappatore (1950). He portrayed Puccini twice in the films Puccini (1953) and Casa Ricordi (1954). He made his international breakthrough in Michelangelo Antonioni's controversial L'Avventura (1960) as a restless playboy. After a series of romantic performances, he acquired a reputation in Italy as an elegant, debonair, and somewhat aristocratic looking leading man.
Ferzetti starred as Lot in John Huston's biblical epic, The Bible: In the Beginning... (1966), and played railroad baron Morton in Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West (1968). Perhaps his best known role, internationally, was in the James Bond movie On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) as Marc Ange Draco, although his voice was dubbed by British actor David de Keyser. He was perhaps best known to non-mainstream audiences for his role as the psychiatrist, Hans, in Liliana Cavani's The Night Porter (1974). In the 1970s, he appeared in a significant number of crime films, often as an inspector.
He appeared in Julia and Julia, opposite Laurence Olivier in Inchon (1982), and the cult film, First Action Hero. Later in his career, he played the role of Nono in the TV series Une famille formidable, while also appearing in Luca Guadagnino's 2009 film I Am Love.
Ferzetti died on 2 December 2015, aged 90.
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Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Archaeology of a Set: Return to Lisca Bianca | Sandro (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 2010 | I Am Love | Edoardo Recchi Senior |
| 2010 | 18 Years Later | Enrico |
| 2007 | 1612: Chronicles of the Dark Time | |
| 2006 | Pope John Paul I: The Smile of God | Card. Giuseppe Siri |
| 2005 | Concorso di colpa | Vito Santamaria |
| 2005 | Callas & Onassis | Livanos |
| 2003 | An Opera of Violence | Self - Actor |
| 2003 | Lost Love | Tommaso Pasini |
| 2003 | The Wages of Sin | Self - Actor |
| 2003 | Something to Do with Death | Self - Actor |
| 2003 | L'avvocato de Gregorio | Alfonso |
| 2002 | Le ragazze di Miss Italia | professor De Lollis |
| 2002 | Best Ever Bond | Draco (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 1997 | Porzûs | Strono vecchio |
| 1997 | Con rabbia e con amore | |
| 1994 | Weihnachtsfest mit Hindernissen | Vittorio |
| 1994 | First Action Hero | Ben Costa |
| 1994 | Black as the Heart | Signor Noé Alga Croce |
| 1993 | Die Ringe des Saturn | |
| 1991 | Suffocating Heat | Gaetano Castelli |
| 1990 | Una fredda mattina di maggio | Signor Mantoni |
| 1990 | Voyage of Terror: The Achille Lauro Affair | |
| 1990 | Gli angeli del potere | Dr. Donhal |
| 1988 | Julia and Julia | Alfredo |
| 1988 | Computron 22 | Il Nonno |
| 1983 | The Basileus Quartet | Mario Cantone |
| 1983 | Return to Lisca Bianca Island | Sandro (voice) (archive footage) |
| 1982 | Grog | Alberto |
| 1982 | Death in the Vatican | Cardinale Ixaguirre |
| 1981 | Inchon | Turkish Brigadier |
| 1981 | The Possessed Hand | Maestro Gomin |
| 1979 | The Burning Years | Padre di Saverio |
| 1979 | Encounters in the Deep | Miles |
| 1978 | End of the Game | Dr. Lutz |
| 1978 | Pigs with a P.38 | Max Astarita |
| 1978 | Last In, First Out | Herzog |
| 1978 | Suggestionata | Gregorio |
| 1978 | Mon premier amour | Georges |
| 1977 | The Psychic | Emilio Rospini |
| 1977 | Oedipus Orca | Valerio |
| 1976 | La Orca | Valerio |
| 1976 | A Matter of Time | Antonio Vicari |
| 1976 | The Hornet's Nest | Gaspard |
| 1976 | Lezioni di violoncello con toccata e fuga | Il padre di Stella |
| 1976 | Nick the Sting | Maurice |
| 1975 | A Curious Man | Moriondo |
| 1975 | Smiling Maniacs | Prandó |
| 1975 | Calling All Police Cars | Professor Andrea Icardi |
| 1974 | The Night Porter | Hans |
| 1974 | Appassionata | Dr. Emilio Rutelli |
| 1974 | Kidnap | Don Francesco Salvatore |
| 1974 | Quick Trial | L'avvocato Finaldi |
| 1974 | La prova d'amore | Angela Father |
| 1973 | Hospitals: The White Mafia | Prof. Daniele Vallotti |
| 1973 | Hitler: The Last Ten Days | Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm Keitel |
| 1972 | High Voltage | Pablo Moncada |
| 1972 | The Boxer | Nick La Caterina / Tony La Monica |
| 1972 | Beggars and Proud Ones | |
| 1972 | 3000 Million Without an Elevator | Raphaël |
| 1971 | Million Dollar Eel | Vasco |
| 1970 | The Confession | Kohoutek |
| 1970 | Cannabis | Inspector Bardeche |
| 1969 | On Her Majesty's Secret Service | Marc Ange Draco |
| 1969 | Machine Gun McCain | Don Francesco DeMarco |
| 1969 | That Splendid November | Biagio |
| 1969 | L'amica | Paolo Marchesi |
| 1968 | Come Play With Me | Stefano |
| 1968 | A Devil Under the Pillow | Anselmo |
| 1968 | Bandits in Rome | Commissioner |
| 1968 | The Protagonists | Il Commissario |
| 1968 | Escalation | Augusto Lambertinghi |
| 1968 | Better a Widow | Don Calogero Minniti |
| 1968 | Love Problems | Guido |
| 1968 | Once Upon a Time in the West | Morton |
| 1967 | We Still Kill the Old Way | Avvocato Rosello |
| 1966 | The Bible: In the Beginning... | Lot |
| 1966 | The Devil in Love | Lorenzo de' Medici |
| 1965 | Crime on a Summer Morning | Victor Dermott |
| 1965 | Three Rooms in Manhattan | le comte Larsi |
| 1964 | Crucero de verano | Carlos Brul y Betancourt |
| 1964 | La calda vita | Guido |
| 1964 | Desideri d'estate | |
| 1964 | Death, Where Is Your Victory? | Max |
| 1963 | A Sentimental Attempt | Giulio |
| 1963 | Torpedo Bay | Leonardi |
| 1963 | The Shortest Day | Tenente in trincea |
| 1962 | Jessica | Edmondo Raumo |
| 1962 | Imperial Venus | Freron |
| 1962 | The Nun of Monza | Gian Paolo Osio |
| 1962 | Beach Casanova | Avvocato Leblanc |
| 1962 | Rencontres | Ralph Scaffari |
| 1962 | Eruption | Roberto Santi |
| 1962 | Cross of the Living | L'abbé Delcourt |
| 1960 | L'Avventura | Sandro |
| 1960 | Long Night in '43 | Franco Villani |
| 1960 | Love, the Italian Way | Alberto Bressan |
| 1960 | Red Lips | Avvocato Paolo Martini |
| 1960 | Il carro armato dell'8 settembre | Tommaso |
| 1959 | The Great Deception | Bernard Turquet de Mayenne |
| 1959 | Hannibal | Senator Quintus Fabius |
| 1959 | Everyone's in Love | Arturo |
| 1958 | March's Child | Sandro |
| 1958 | Love on the Riviera | Giulio Ferrari |
| 1958 | Angel in a Taxi | Andrea |
| 1958 | So Much Love Lost | Frédéric Solingen |
| 1957 | It Happened in Rome | Lawyer Alberto Cortini |
| 1957 | Parola di ladro | Desiderio |
| 1956 | Donatella | Maurizio |
| 1956 | Defend My Love | Pietro Leonardi |
| 1956 | Il prezzo della gloria | Comandante Alberto Bruni |
| 1955 | Le Amiche | Lorenzo |
| 1955 | Adriana Lecouvreur | Maurizio di Sassonia |
| 1955 | Un po' di cielo | Frank Lo Giudice |
| 1954 | House of Ricordi | Giacomo Puccini |
| 1954 | 100 Years of Love | Carlo, the Political Prisoner (segm. "Gli ultimi dieci Minuti") |
| 1954 | Camilla | Dott. Mario Rossetti |
| 1954 | Sins of Casanova | Casanova |
| 1954 | Clothing the Naked | Ludovico Nota |
| 1954 | Modern Virgin | Gabriele Demico |
| 1953 | Empty Eyes | Fernando Maestrelli |
| 1953 | Puccini | Giacomo Puccini |
| 1953 | The Wayward Wife | Professor Franco Vagnuzzi |
| 1952 | Inganno | Andrea Vannini |
| 1952 | Three Forbidden Stories | Mario |
| 1951 | Gli amanti di Ravello | Sandro Deodata |
| 1951 | The Forbidden Christ | (uncredited) |
| 1951 | The Counterfeiters | Dario |
| 1950 | Welcome Reverend! | The veteran |
| 1950 | Lo zappatore | |
| 1949 | Fabiola | Claudio |
| 1948 | William Tell | |
| 1948 | Les Misérables | (uncredited) |
| 1948 | Vertigine d'amore | |
| 1942 | La contessa Castiglione | (uncredited) |
| Il burattinaio | Ben Costa |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Papa Luciani - il sorriso di Dio | Card. Giuseppe Siri |
| 1993 | Private Crimes | Dottor Guido Braschi |
| 1990 | Édouard et ses filles | Antoine di Marco |
| 1989 | Around the World in 80 Days | Italian Chief of Police |
| 1987 | La voglia di vincere | Professor Besson |
| 1985 | Quo Vadis? | Pisone |
| 1983 | Delitto e castigo | Svidrigajlov |
| 1983 | Die goldenen Schuhe | Marquesade Buenaventa |
| 1981 | The Devil's Game | Master Gomin |
| 1973 | Divorce His, Divorce Hers | Turi Livicci |