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