Gian Maria Volonté

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Male

Birthday 1933-04-09

Deathday 1994-12-06 (61 years old)

Place of Birth Milano, Lombardia, Italy

Also Known As Johnny Wels, Gian-Maria Volonte, Джан Мария Волонте

Gian Maria Volonté

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

Actor

2024
Volonté: The Man of a Thousand Faces

as Self (archive footage)

2022
2021
We Are Cinema

as Self (archive footage)

2019
Zénon the Rebel

as Self (archive footage)

2017
Forgotten Activism

as Self (archive footage)

2015
Spanish Western

as The Indian (archive footage)

2005
Un attore contro - Gian Maria Volonté

as Self (archive footage)

2005
Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker

as Self (archive footage)

2004
1993
Banderas, the Tyrant

as Tirano Banderas

1993
Funes, a Great Love

as El tano Bérgami

1991
A Simple Story

as Carmelo Franzò

1990
Open Doors

as Giudice Vito Di Francesco

1990
Tre colonne in cronaca

as Alberto Landolfi

1989
Pestalozzi's Mountain

as Pestalozzi

1988
The Abyss

as Zenone

1987
1987
Chronicle of a Death Foretold

as Dr. Cristo Bedoya

1986
Il caso Moro

as Aldo Moro

1983
The Death of Mario Ricci

as Bernard Fontana

1982
1981
1980
Stark System

as Stark

1979
Operation Ogre

as Izarra

1979
1978
Reflections on a Political Cinema

as Self - Interviewee

1977
I Am Afraid

as Brigadiere Ludovico Graziano

1975
1975
The Suspect

as Emilio

1974
1973
Giordano Bruno

as Giordano Bruno

1973
Lucky Luciano

as Charles 'Lucky' Luciano

1972
Slap the Monster on Page One

as The Managing Editor of 'Il Giornale'

1972
1972
La tenda in piazza

as Self (voice) (uncredited)

1972
The Mattei Affair

as Enrico Mattei

1971
Sacco & Vanzetti

as Bartolomeo Vanzetti

1970
1970
Many Wars Ago

as Lt. Ottolenghi

1970
Wind from the East

as Le Ranger Nordiste (uncredited)

1970
Documenti su Giuseppe Pinelli

as Self / Reenactor (uncredited)

1969
Apollon: una fabbrica occupata

as Narrator (voice)

1969
The Bandit

as Gramigna

1968
Summit

as Paolo

1968
The Violent Four

as Piero Cavallero

1968
1967
Face to Face

as Professor Brett Fletcher

1967
Caravaggio

as Caravaggio

1967
We Still Kill the Old Way

as Professore Paolo Laurana

1967
A Bullet for the General

as Chuncho Munos / 'El Chuncho'

1967
1966
Gangster Girl

as Jascha Freud

1966
The Witch

as Fabrizio

1966
For Love and Gold

as Teofilatto dei Leonzi

1966
Wake Up and Die

as Inspector Moroni

1966
Seasons of Our Love

as Leonardo Varzi

1965
1965
1964
1964
A Fistful of Dollars

as Ramón Rojo

1964
Vita di Michelangelo

as Michelangelo

1963
The Terrorist

as Renato Braschi , l'ingeniere

1963
1963
Summer Night

as Alberto

1962
A Man for Burning

as Salvatore

1961
1961
1961
Girl with a Suitcase

as Piero Benotti

1960
Under Ten Flags

as Samuel Braunstein

1959
Saul

as David

1959
The Idiot

as Parfen Rogozin

1957
Fedra

as Ippolito

Director

1972
La tenda in piazza

as Director

1972
Reggio Calabria

as Director

Writer

1980
Stark System

as Writer

Crew

1995
Ulysses' Gaze

as In Memory Of