Gianni Garko
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.…
Filmography
Thunder from the West
1969 · 10.0
Con rabbia e con amore
1997 · 10.0
Italian Restaurant
1994 · 9.3
L'isola del tesoro
1959 · 9.0
Maldoror
1977 · 8.0
Django, Sartana, Trinita' et les autres…
2014 · 8.0
Amok
1983 · 8.0
Bloody Days
1968 · 8.0
Skipper
1987 · 7.8
Maggie & Bianca Fashion Friends
2016 · 7.5
Space: 1999
1975 · 7.1
Waterloo
1970 · 7.1
I promessi sposi
1989 · 7.1
Don Camillo in Moscow
1965 · 7.1
The Psychic
1977 · 7.0
the famous escapes
1972 · 7.0
Uno di noi
1996 · 7.0
Cannon Serenade
1958 · 7.0
Seven Jackals
1974 · 7.0
Black Tunnel
1986 · 7.0
Kapo
1960 · 6.9
The New Godfathers
1979 · 6.9
Lo scugnizzo
1979 · 6.8
The Boss
1973 · 6.8
Vengeance Is Mine
1967 · 6.8
Saul and David
1964 · 6.7
Pontius Pilate
1962 · 6.7
Crazy Desire
1962 · 6.6
Taste of Vengeance
1968 · 6.6
Death of a Friend
1960 · 6.6
Those Dirty Dogs!
1973 · 6.5
In nome del popolo sovrano
1990 · 6.5
Almost a Man
1966 · 6.5
Red Roses for the Fuhrer
1968 · 6.5
Have a Good Funeral, My Friend… Sartana Will Pay
1970 · 6.5
I Am Sartana Your Angel of Death
1969 · 6.4
The Shortest Day
1963 · 6.4
Light the Fuse… Sartana Is Coming
1970 · 6.3
The Night of the Devils
1972 · 6.3
The Avenger
1962 · 6.3
They Call Him Cemetery
1971 · 6.3
The Cop
1970 · 6.3
His Name Was Holy Ghost
1972 · 6.1
Heads or Tails?
2025 · 6.1
If You Meet Sartana Pray for Your Death
1968 · 6.0
Tulips of Haarlem
1970 · 6.0
The Price of Death
1971 · 6.0
Family Flaw
2002 · 6.0
One Night at the Beach
1961 · 5.8
The Heroes
1973 · 5.7
Three Swedish Girls in Upper Bavaria
1977 · 5.6
$10,000 for a Massacre
1967 · 5.4
Mole Men Against the Son of Hercules
1961 · 5.4
The Flower with Petals of Steel
1973 · 5.4
Sartana Kills Them All
1970 · 5.2
The Mongols
1961 · 5.2
Body Puzzle
1992 · 5.2
$1,000 on the Black
1966 · 5.2
Eighteen in the Sun
1962 · 5.1
Tower of the First Born
1998 · 5.0
Hercules
1983 · 5.0
Babystrich im Sperrbezirk
1983 · 5.0
Five for Hell
1969 · 4.9
Bad Man's River
1971 · 4.8
Cold Eyes of Fear
1971 · 4.8
Drei und eine halbe Portion
1985 · 4.7
Joy of Flying
1977 · 4.0
Western all'italiana
2004 · 4.0
Encounters in the Deep
1979 · 3.8
Lucrezia
1968 · 3.7
Monster Shark
1984 · 3.3
Summer Night Fever
1978 · 3.3
Dracula Blows His Cool
1979 · 3.1
Hello, Hello Baby! (Rains)
1959 · 3.0
Star Odyssey
1979 · 2.9
Mio padre è innocente
1997 · 0.0
Morte a passo di valzer
1979 · 0.0
Vamos a Matar - Storia e storie del western mediterraneo
2025 · 0.0
Gila and Rik
1987 · 0.0
Vivere
1999 · 0.0
Una prova d'innocenza
1991 · 0.0
Entscheidung für die Liebe
1998 · 0.0
L'occhio di Giuda
1982 · 0.0