CINEFILER

Gabriele Ferzetti

Born
March 17, 1925
Died
December 2, 2015
Gabriele Ferzetti (born Pasquale Ferzetti; 17 March 1925 – 2 December 2015) was an Italian actor with more than 160 credits across film, television, and stage. His career was at its peak in the 1950s and 1960s. Ferzetti's first leading role was in the film Lo Zappatore (1950). He portrayed Puccini twice in the films Puccini (1953) and Casa Ricordi (1954). He made his international breakthrough in Michelangelo Antonioni's controversial L'Avventura (1960) as a restless playboy. After a series of romantic performances, he acquired a reputation in Italy as an elegant, debonair, and somewhat aristocratic looking leading man. Ferzetti starred as Lot in John Huston's biblical epic, The Bible: In the Beginning... (1966), and played railroad baron Morton in Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West (1968). Perhaps his best known role, internationally, was in the James Bond movie On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) as Marc Ange Draco, although his voice was dubbed by British actor David de Keyser. He was perhaps best known to non-mainstream audiences for his role as the psychiatrist, Hans, in Liliana Cavani's The Night Porter (1974). In the 1970s, he appeared in a significant number of crime films, often as an inspector. He appeared in Julia and Julia, opposite Laurence Olivier in Inchon (1982), and the cult film, First Action Hero. Later in his career, he played the role of Nono in the TV series Une famille formidable, while also appearing in Luca Guadagnino's 2009 film I Am Love. Ferzetti died on 2 December 2015, aged 90. Description above from the Wikipedia article Gabriele Ferzetti, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Once Upon a Time in the West
(1968)
Morton
Appassionata
(1974)
Dr. Emilio Rutelli
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
(1969)
Marc Ange Draco
The Bible: In the Beginning...
(1966)
Lot
The Night Porter
(1974)
Hans
La Orca
(1976)
Valerio
I Am Love
(2010)
Edoardo Recchi Senior
Machine Gun McCain
(1969)
Don Francesco DeMarco
The Confession
(1970)
Kohoutek
Hannibal
(1959)
Senator Quintus Fabius
Hitler: The Last Ten Days
(1973)
Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm Keitel
Le Amiche
(1955)
Lorenzo
L'Avventura
(1960)
Sandro
The Psychic
(1977)
Emilio Rospini
Lost Love
(2003)
Tommaso Pasini
Jessica
(1962)
Edmondo Raumo
Full Filmography
Acting
La contessa Castiglione
(1942)
(uncredited)
Les Misérables - Manhunt
(1948)
(uncredited)
William Tell
(1948)
Lo zappatore
(1950)
Welcome Reverend!
(1950)
The veteran
The Counterfeiters
(1951)
Dario
Gli amanti di Ravello
(1951)
Sandro Deodata
The Forbidden Christ
(1951)
(uncredited)
Three Forbidden Stories
(1952)
Mario
Inganno
(1952)
Andrea Vannini
The Wayward Wife
(1953)
Franco Vagnuzzi
Puccini
(1953)
Giacomo Puccini
Empty Eyes
(1953)
Fernando Maestrelli
Modern Virgin
(1954)
Gabriele Demico
Clothing the Naked
(1954)
Ludovico Nota
House of Ricordi
(1954)
Giacomo Puccini
Camilla
(1954)
Dott. Mario Rossetti
Sins of Casanova
(1954)
Casanova
100 Years of Love
(1954)
Carlo, the Political Prisoner (segm. "Gli ultimi dieci Minuti")
Le Amiche
(1955)
Lorenzo
Adriana Lecouvreur
(1955)
Maurizio di Sassonia
Defend My Love
(1956)
Pietro Leonardi
Il prezzo della gloria
(1956)
Comandante Alberto Bruni
Donatella
(1956)
Maurizio
Parola di ladro
(1957)
Desiderio
It Happened in Rome
(1957)
Lawyer Alberto Cortini
So Much Love Lost
(1958)
Frédéric Solingen
Angel in a Taxi
(1958)
Andrea
March's Child
(1958)
Sandro
Love on the Riviera
(1958)
Giulio Ferrari
Everyone's in Love
(1959)
Arturo
The Great Deception
(1959)
Bernard Turquet de Mayenne
Hannibal
(1959)
Senator Quintus Fabius
Il carro armato dell'8 settembre
(1960)
Tommaso
It Happened in '43
(1960)
Franco Villani
L'Avventura
(1960)
Sandro
Love, the Italian Way
(1960)
Alberto Bressan
Red Lips
(1960)
Avvocato Paolo Martini
Beach Casanova
(1962)
Avvocato Leblanc
Jessica
(1962)
Edmondo Raumo
Cross of the Living
(1962)
L'abbé Delcourt
The Nun of Monza
(1962)
Gian Paolo Osio
Eruption
(1962)
Roberto Santi
Rencontres
(1962)
Ralph Scaffari
Imperial Venus
(1962)
Freron
A Sentimental Attempt
(1963)
Giulio
Torpedo Bay
(1963)
Leonardi
The Shortest Day
(1963)
Tenente in trincea
La calda vita
(1964)
Guido
Crucero de verano
(1964)
Carlos Brul y Betancourt
Death, Where Is Your Victory?
(1964)
Max
Desideri d'estate
(1964)
Three Rooms in Manhattan
(1965)
le comte Larsi
Crime on a Summer Morning
(1965)
Victor Dermott
The Bible: In the Beginning...
(1966)
Lot
The Devil in Love
(1966)
Lorenzo de' Medici
We Still Kill the Old Way
(1967)
Avvocato Rosello
Escalation
(1968)
Augusto Lambertinghi
Once Upon a Time in the West
(1968)
Morton
Better a Widow
(1968)
Don Calogero Minniti
A Devil Under the Pillow
(1968)
Anselmo
Love Problems
(1968)
Guido
Come Play With Me
(1968)
Stefano
Bandits in Rome
(1968)
Commissioner
The Protagonists
(1968)
Il Commissario
L'amica
(1969)
Paolo Marchesi
That Splendid November
(1969)
Biagio
Machine Gun McCain
(1969)
Don Francesco DeMarco
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
(1969)
Marc Ange Draco
Cannabis
(1970)
Inspector Bardeche
The Confession
(1970)
Kohoutek
Million Dollar Eel
(1971)
Vasco
The Boxer
(1972)
Nick La Caterina / Tony La Monica
Beggars and Proud Ones
(1972)
High Voltage
(1972)
Pablo Moncada
Hospitals: The White Mafia
(1973)
Prof. Daniele Vallotti
Hitler: The Last Ten Days
(1973)
Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm Keitel
La prova d'amore
(1974)
Angela Father
Appassionata
(1974)
Dr. Emilio Rutelli
The Night Porter
(1974)
Hans
Kidnap
(1974)
Don Francesco Salvatore
Smiling Maniacs
(1975)
Prandó
Calling All Police Cars
(1975)
Professor Andrea Icardi
End of the Game
(1975)
Dr. Lutz
A Curious Man
(1975)
Moriondo
The Hornet's Nest
(1976)
Gaspard
Lezioni di violoncello con toccata e fuga
(1976)
Il padre di Stella
Quick Trial
(1976)
L'avvocato Finaldi
La Orca
(1976)
Valerio
A Matter of Time
(1976)
Antonio Vicari
Nick the Sting
(1976)
Maurice
Oedipus Orca
(1977)
Valerio
The Psychic
(1977)
Emilio Rospini
Suggestionata
(1978)
Gregorio
Last In, First Out
(1978)
Herzog
Pigs with a P.38
(1978)
Max Astarita
Mon premier amour
(1978)
Georges
Encounters in the Deep
(1979)
Miles
The Burning Years
(1979)
Padre di Saverio
Inchon
(1981)
Turkish Brigadier
The Possessed Hand
(1981)
Maestro Gomin
Grog
(1982)
Alberto
Death in the Vatican
(1982)
Cardinale Ixaguirre
The Basileus Quartet
(1983)
Mario Cantone
Ritorno a Lisca Bianca
(1983)
Sandro (voice) (archive footage)
Julia and Julia
(1988)
Alfredo
Computron 22
(1988)
Il Nonno
Voyage of Terror: The Achille Lauro Affair
(1990)
Una fredda mattina di maggio
(1990)
Signor Mantoni
Suffocating Heat
(1991)
Gaetano Castelli
Die Ringe des Saturn
(1992)
First Action Hero
(1994)
Ben Costa
Black as the Heart
(1994)
Signor Noé Alga Croce
Weihnachtsfest mit Hindernissen
(1994)
Vittorio
Con rabbia e con amore
(1997)
Porzus
(1997)
Strono vecchio
Best Ever Bond
(2002)
Draco (archive footage) (uncredited)
Le ragazze di Miss Italia
(2002)
professor De Lollis
The Wages of Sin
(2003)
Self - Actor
Lost Love
(2003)
Tommaso Pasini
An Opera of Violence
(2003)
Self - Actor
Something to Do with Death
(2003)
Self - Actor
Callas & Onassis
(2005)
Livanos
Concorso di colpa
(2005)
Vito Santamaria
Pope John Paul I: The Smile of God
(2006)
Card. Giuseppe Siri
1612: Chronicles of the Dark Time
(2007)
18 Years Later
(2010)
Enrico
I Am Love
(2010)
Edoardo Recchi Senior
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