Gian Maria Volonté
Acting
Born: April 9, 1933 · Milano, Lombardia, Italy
Died: December 6, 1994 (aged 61)
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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 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
A Fistful of Dollars
1964
For a Few Dollars More
1965
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
1970
Le Cercle Rouge
1970
For Love and Gold
1966
The Working Class Goes to Heaven
1971
Sacco & Vanzetti
1971
Slap the Monster on Page One
1972
One Way or Another
1976
Many Wars Ago
1970
A Bullet for the General
1967
We Still Kill the Old Way
1967
Photos (8)
Movies (63)
A Fistful of Dollars
Ramón Rojo
For a Few Dollars More
El Indio
Le Cercle Rouge
Vogel
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
Dottore
Girl with a Suitcase
Piero Benotti
A Bullet for the General
Chuncho Munos / 'El Chuncho'
Sacco & Vanzetti
Bartolomeo Vanzetti
Operation Ogre
Izarra
The Four Days of Naples
Stimolo
The Working Class Goes to Heaven
Lulù Massa
The Assassination
Sadiel
For Love and Gold
Teofilatto dei Leonzi
Hercules and the Captive Women
Re di Sparta
The Abyss
Zenone
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Dr. Cristo Bedoya
Slap the Monster on Page One
Bizanti
Face to Face
Professor Brett Fletcher
We Still Kill the Old Way
Professore Paolo Laurana
Wake Up and Die
Inspector Moroni
Lady of the Camelias
Plessis
Journey Beneath the Desert
Tarath
Tre colonne in cronaca
Alberto Landolfi
Lucky Luciano
Charles 'Lucky' Luciano
One Way or Another
M.
The Mattei Affair
Enrico Mattei
Giordano Bruno
Giordano Bruno
On the Tiger's Back
Papaleo
Wind from the East
The Northern Ranger
The Magnificent Cuckold
Assessore
The Death of Mario Ricci
Bernard Fontana
The Bandit
Gramigna
Open Doors
Giudice Vito Di Francesco
Under the Sign of Scorpio
Renno
The Witch
Fabrizio
Christ Stopped at Eboli
Carlo Levi
A Boy from Calabria
Felice
Many Wars Ago
Lt. Ottolenghi
A Man for Burning
Salvatore
The Seven Cervi Brothers
Aldo Cervi
The Violent Four
Piero Cavallero
The Moro Affair
Aldo Moro
Spanish Western
The Indian (archive footage)
Seasons of Our Love
Leonardo Varzi
I Am Afraid
Brigadiere Ludovico Graziano
Letters from Marusia
Gregorio
The Terrorist
Renato Braschi , l'ingeniere
Phaedra
Ippolito
Under Ten Flags
Samuel Braunstein
Summer Night
Alberto
Funes, a Great Love
El tano Bérgami
The Suspect
Emilio
Banderas, the Tyrant
Tirano Banderas
La strada più lunga
Michele
The Felling of the Forest
Guglielmo
Summit
Paolo
A Simple Story
Carmelo Franzò
La foresta pietrificata
1959
Pestalozzi's Mountain
Pestalozzi
Apollon: una fabbrica occupata
Narrator (voice)
Stark System
Stark
Saul
David
A Gangstergirl
Jascha Freud
Caravaggio
Caravaggio
TV Shows (7)
Le inchieste del commissario Maigret
Radek · 1 eps
The Charterhouse of Parma
Count Mosca · 6 eps
La Storia Vera Della Signora Dalle Camelie
Plessis · 2 eps
Una vita in gioco
Radek · 1 eps
Vita di Michelangelo
Michelangelo · 3 eps
The Idiot
Parfen Rogozin · 6 eps
Cristo si è fermato a Eboli
Carlo Levi · 4 eps
Self / Appearances (13)
Spécial cinéma
Self · 1 eps
Ciné regards
Self · 1 eps
Diamoci del tu
Self · 1 eps
We Are Cinema
Self (archive footage)
Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker
Self (archive footage)
Volonté: The Man of a Thousand Faces
Self (archive footage)
Forgotten Activism
Self (archive footage)
Zénon the Rebel
Self (archive footage)
Reflections on a Political Cinema
Self - Interviewee
Investigation of a Citizen Named Volonté
Self (archive footage)
Festival dell’Unità 1972
self
Un attore contro - Gian Maria Volonté
Self (archive footage)
Rosi About Eboli
Self
