Gianni Garko

Also Known As: John Garko, Gary Hudson, Giovanni Garcovich, Johnny Garko, Gianni Garco

Biography: 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

Department: Acting

Place of Birth: Zara, Dalmatia, Italy [now Zadar, Croatia]

Adult: No

Birthday: July 15, 1935

Age: 89 years old

Gender: Male

Popularity:

1.34%

Known For:

Family Flaw
Hercules
The Psychic
Night of the Devils
Babystrich im Sperrbezirk
Devil Fish
Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1
Body Puzzle
Don Camillo in Moscow
Kapo
I Am Sartana Your Angel of Death
If You Meet Sartana Pray for Your Death
Light the Fuse… Sartana Is Coming
Have a Good Funeral, My Friend… Sartana Will Pay
Five for Hell
The Price of Death
Star Odyssey
The Cop
The Boss
Sartana Kills Them All
$10,000 for a Massacre
Bad Man's River
Saul and David
Cold Eyes of Fear
Those Dirty Dogs!
$1,000 on the Black
His Name Was Holy Ghost
Vengeance Is Mine
Mondo Garko
They Call Him Cemetery
Taste of Vengeance
The Avenger
Pontius Pilate
Eighteen in the Sun
Three Swedish Girls in Upper Bavaria
Lo scugnizzo
Skipper
Encounters in the Deep
Seven Jackals
Dracula Blows His Cool
Django, Sartana, Trinita' et les autres…
Waterloo
Crazy Desire
The New Godfathers
Con rabbia e con amore
Joy of Flying
The Heroes
Tulips of Haarlem
The Mongols
Maldoror
Denn sie kennen kein Erbarmen - Der Italowestern
Thunder from the West
Amok
Cannon Serenade
Summer Night Fever
Red Roses for the Fuhrer
Almost a Man
Lucrezia
Black Tunnel
In nome del popolo sovrano
Mole Men Against the Son of Hercules
One Night at the Beach
George Hilton - The World Belongs to the Daring
Gila and Rik
Bloody Days
The Flower with Petals of Steel
Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema
Do You Remember Lucio Fulci?
Death of a Friend
The Shortest Day
Drei und eine halbe Portion
Western all'italiana
Heads or Tails?
Giallo Western
Hello, Hello Baby! (Rains)
Il passo falso
Aquel último tiburón
L'Occhio di Giuda