Gian Maria Volonté
Born in Milano, Lombardia, Italy — Apr 09 1933• Died Dec 06 1994
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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…
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A Fistful of Dollars
Ramón Rojo
For a Few Dollars More
El Indio
Le Cercle Rouge
Vogel
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
Dottore
The Assassination
Sadiel
Ulysses' Gaze
Crew
Le inchieste del commissario Maigret
Radek
The Charterhouse of Parma
Count Mosca
Face to Face
Professor Brett Fletcher
Diamoci del tu
Self
We Are Cinema
Self (archive footage)
Lady of the Camelias
Plessis
Under Ten Flags
Samuel Braunstein
Lucky Luciano
Charles 'Lucky' Luciano
The Abyss
Zenone
Sacco & Vanzetti
Bartolomeo Vanzetti
For Love and Gold
Teofilatto dei Leonzi
La Storia Vera Della Signora Dalle Camelie
Plessis
I Am Afraid
Brigadiere Ludovico Graziano
The Moro Affair
Aldo Moro
Slap the Monster on Page One
Bizanti
Vita di Michelangelo
Michelangelo
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Dr. Cristo Bedoya
One Way or Another
M.
Christ Stopped at Eboli
Carlo Levi
The Violent Four
Piero Cavallero
Spanish Western
The Indian (archive footage)
Wind from the East
The Northern Ranger
Open Doors
Giudice Vito Di Francesco
We Still Kill the Old Way
Professore Paolo Laurana
A Bullet for the General
Chuncho Munos / 'El Chuncho'
Many Wars Ago
Lt. Ottolenghi
Hercules and the Captive Women
Re di Sparta
Operation Ogre
Izarra
The Terrorist
Renato Braschi , l'ingeniere
On the Tiger's Back
Papaleo
The Magnificent Cuckold
Assessore
The Working Class Goes to Heaven
Lulù Massa
Wake Up and Die
Inspector Moroni
Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker
Self (archive footage)
The Suspect
Emilio
Tre colonne in cronaca
Alberto Landolfi
The Witch
Fabrizio
The Four Days of Naples
Stimolo
The Seven Cervi Brothers
Aldo Cervi
Pestalozzi's Mountain
Pestalozzi
A Man for Burning
Salvatore
The Bankers Of God: The Calvi Affair
Crew
Caravaggio
Caravaggio
The Death of Mario Ricci
Bernard Fontana
The Mattei Affair
Enrico Mattei
The Idiot
Parfen Rogozin
Girl with a Suitcase
Piero Benotti
Una vita in gioco
Radek
Journey Beneath the Desert
Tarath
A Boy from Calabria
Felice
Seasons of Our Love
Leonardo Varzi
The Bandit
Gramigna
A Gangstergirl
Jascha Freud
Summer Night
Alberto
Giordano Bruno
Giordano Bruno
Volonté: The Man of a Thousand Faces
Self (archive footage)
A Simple Story
Carmelo Franzò
Under the Sign of Scorpio
Renno
Letters from Marusia
Gregorio
Banderas, the Tyrant
Tirano Banderas
Funes, a Great Love
El tano Bérgami
Summit
Paolo
Documenti su Giuseppe Pinelli
Self / Reenactor (uncredited)
Zénon the Rebel
Self (archive footage)
The Felling of the Forest
Guglielmo
Saul
David
Ipotesi sulla morte di G. Pinelli
Self
La foresta pietrificata
Investigation of a Citizen Named Volonté
Self (archive footage)
Reflections on a Political Cinema
Self - Interviewee
Phaedra
Ippolito
Stark System
Stark
La strada più lunga
Michele
Cristo si è fermato a Eboli
Carlo Levi
La tenda in piazza
Self (voice) (uncredited)
Reggio Calabria
Directing
Forgotten Activism
Self (archive footage)
Rosi About Eboli
Self
Un attore contro - Gian Maria Volonté
Self (archive footage)
Apollon: una fabbrica occupata
Narrator (voice)