Gian Maria Volonté

Gian Maria Volonté

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: Acting

Born: Milano, Lombardia, Italy, 1933-04-09

Died: 1994-12-06

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1957	Phaedra	Ippolito	0
2	1959	Saul	David	0
3	1960	Under Ten Flags	Samuel Braunstein	54
4	1961	Girl with a Suitcase	Piero Benotti	72
5	1961	Journey Beneath the Desert	Tarath	24
6	1961	Hercules and the Captive Women	Re di Sparta	43
7	1961	On the Tiger's Back	Papaleo	72
8	1962	A Man for Burning	Salvatore	52
9	1962	The Four Days of Naples	Stimolo	75
10	1963	Summer Night	Alberto	59
11	1963	The Felling of the Forest	Guglielmo	70
12	1963	The Terrorist	Renato Braschi , l'ingeniere	64
13	1964	A Fistful of Dollars	Ramón Rojo	78
14	1964	The Magnificent Cuckold	Assessore	66
15	1965	La strada più lunga	Michele	60
16	1965	For a Few Dollars More	El Indio	80
17	1966	Seasons of Our Love	Leonardo Varzi	50
18	1966	Wake Up and Die	Inspector Moroni	61
19	1966	For Love and Gold	Teofilatto dei Leonzi	77
20	1966	The Witch	Fabrizio	64
21	1966	Gangster Girl	Jascha Freud	50
22	1967	A Bullet for the General	Chuncho Munos / 'El Chuncho'	66
23	1967	We Still Kill the Old Way	Professore Paolo Laurana	66
24	1967	Caravaggio	Caravaggio	0
25	1967	Face to Face	Professor Brett Fletcher	70
26	1968	The Seven Cervi Brothers	Aldo Cervi	69
27	1968	The Violent Four	Piero Cavallero	66
28	1968	Summit	Paolo	55
29	1969	The Bandit	Gramigna	59
30	1969	Under the Sign of Scorpio	Renno	54
31	1969	Apollon: una fabbrica occupata	Narrator (voice)	0
32	1970	Documenti su Giuseppe Pinelli	Self / Reenactor (uncredited)	77
33	1970	Ipotesi sulla morte di G. Pinelli	Self	68
34	1970	Wind from the East	The Soldier	68
35	1970	Many Wars Ago	Lt. Ottolenghi	73
36	1970	Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion	Dottore	82
37	1970	Le Cercle Rouge	Vogel	76
38	1971	Sacco & Vanzetti	Bartolomeo Vanzetti	76
39	1971	The Working Class Goes to Heaven	Lulù Massa	78
40	1972	The Mattei Affair	Enrico Mattei	75
41	1972	La tenda in piazza	Self (voice) (uncredited)	0
42	1972	The Assassination	Sadiel	67
43	1972	Slap the Monster on Page One	Bizanti	76
44	1973	Lucky Luciano	Charles 'Lucky' Luciano	63
45	1973	Giordano Bruno	Giordano Bruno	64
46	1975	The Suspect	Emilio	63
47	1975	Letters from Marusia	Gregorio	53
48	1976	One Way or Another	M.	76
49	1977	I Am Afraid	Brigadiere Ludovico Graziano	70
50	1978	Reflections on a Political Cinema	Self - Interviewee	80
51	1979	Christ Stopped at Eboli	Carlo Levi	71
52	1979	Operation Ogre	Izarra	69
53	1980	Stark System	Stark	100
54	1981	Lady of the Camelias	Plessis	62
55	1983	The Death of Mario Ricci	Bernard Fontana	60
56	1986	The Moro Affair	Aldo Moro	65
57	1987	Chronicle of a Death Foretold	Dr. Cristo Bedoya	74
58	1987	A Boy from Calabria	Felice	65
59	1988	The Abyss	Zenone	54
60	1989	Pestalozzi's Mountain	Pestalozzi	63
61	1990	Tre colonne in cronaca	Alberto Landolfi	59
62	1990	Open Doors	Giudice Vito Di Francesco	72
63	1991	A Simple Story	Carmelo Franzò	68
64	1993	Funes, a Great Love	El tano Bérgami	50
65	1993	Banderas, the Tyrant	Tirano Banderas	51
66	2004	Investigation of a Citizen Named Volonté	Self (archive footage)	65
67	2005	Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker	Self (archive footage)	67
68	2005	Un attore contro - Gian Maria Volonté	Self (archive footage)	52
69	2015	Spanish Western	The Indian (archive footage)	62
70	2017	Forgotten Activism	Self (archive footage)	80
71	2019	Zénon the Rebel	Self (archive footage)	0
72	2021	We Are Cinema	Self (archive footage)	95
73	2022	Rosi About Eboli	Self	100
74	2024	Volonté: The Man of a Thousand Faces	Self (archive footage)	75

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1959	The Idiot	Parfen Rogozin	65
2	1964	Vita di Michelangelo	Michelangelo	55
3	1964	Le inchieste del commissario Maigret	Radek	94
4	1967	Diamoci del tu	Self	80
5	1974	Spécial cinéma	Self	0
6	1980	Cristo si è fermato a Eboli	Carlo Levi	0
7	1981	La Storia Vera Della Signora Dalle Camelie	Plessis	40
8	1982	The Charterhouse of Parma	Count Mosca	100

Gian Maria Volonté

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