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).
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Cannes Film Festival
Best Actor
Known For
For a Few Dollars More
(1965)
El Indio
A Fistful of Dollars
(1964)
Ramón Rojo
Le Cercle Rouge
(1970)
Vogel
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
(1970)
Dottore
A Bullet for the General
(1967)
Chuncho Munos / 'El Chuncho'
The Working Class Goes to Heaven
(1971)
Lulù Massa
For Love and Gold
(1966)
Teofilatto dei Leonzi
Girl with a Suitcase
(1961)
Piero Benotti
Full Filmography
Acting
Fedra
(1957)
Ippolito
Under Ten Flags
(1960)
Samuel Braunstein
Journey Beneath the Desert
(1961)
Tarath
Hercules and the Captive Women
(1961)
Re di Sparta
On the Tiger's Back
(1961)
Papaleo
Girl with a Suitcase
(1961)
Piero Benotti
A Man for Burning
(1962)
Salvatore
The Four Days of Naples
(1962)
Stimolo
The Terrorist
(1963)
Renato Braschi , l'ingeniere
The Felling of the Forest
(1963)
Guglielmo
Summer Night
(1963)
Alberto
The Magnificent Cuckold
(1964)
Assessore
A Fistful of Dollars
(1964)
Ramón Rojo
For a Few Dollars More
(1965)
El Indio
La strada più lunga
(1965)
Michele
The Witch
(1966)
Fabrizio
Seasons of Our Love
(1966)
Leonardo Varzi
Wake Up and Die
(1966)
Inspector Moroni
Gangster Girl
(1966)
Jascha Freud
For Love and Gold
(1966)
Teofilatto dei Leonzi
A Bullet for the General
(1967)
Chuncho Munos / 'El Chuncho'
Face to Face
(1967)
Professor Brett Fletcher
We Still Kill the Old Way
(1967)
Professore Paolo Laurana
Caravaggio
(1967)
Caravaggio
The Seven Cervi Brothers
(1968)
Aldo Cervi
The Violent Four
(1968)
Piero Cavallero
Summit
(1968)
The Bandit
(1969)
Gramigna
Apollon: una fabbrica occupata
(1969)
Narrator (voice)
Under the Sign of Scorpio
(1969)
Renno
Le Cercle Rouge
(1970)
Vogel
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
(1970)
Dottore
Many Wars Ago
(1970)
Lt. Ottolenghi
Wind from the East
(1970)
Le ranger nordiste
Documenti su Giuseppe Pinelli
(1970)
Self / Reenactor (uncredited)
Ipotesi sulla morte di G. Pinelli
(1970)
Sacco & Vanzetti
(1971)
Bartolomeo Vanzetti
The Working Class Goes to Heaven
(1971)
Lulù Massa
The Mattei Affair
(1972)
Enrico Mattei
Slap the Monster on Page One
(1972)
The Managing Editor of 'Il Giornale'
The Assassination
(1972)
Sadiel
La tenda in piazza
(1972)
Self (voice) (uncredited)
Giordano Bruno
(1973)
Giordano Bruno
Lucky Luciano
(1973)
Charles 'Lucky' Luciano
The Suspect
(1975)
Emilio
Letters from Marusia
(1975)
Gregorio
One Way or Another
(1976)
M.
I Am Afraid
(1977)
Brigadiere Ludovico Graziano
Reflections on a Political Cinema
(1978)
Self - Interviewee
Christ Stopped at Eboli
(1979)
Carlo Levi
Operation Ogre
(1979)
Izarra
Stark System
(1980)
Stark
Lady of the Camelias
(1981)
Plessis
The Death of Mario Ricci
(1983)
Bernard Fontana
Il caso Moro
(1986)
Aldo Moro
A Boy from Calabria
(1987)
Felice
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
(1987)
Dr. Cristo Bedoya
The Abyss
(1988)
Zenone
Pestalozzi's Mountain
(1989)
Pestalozzi
Open Doors
(1990)
Giudice Vito Di Francesco
Tre colonne in cronaca
(1990)
Alberto Landolfi
A Simple Story
(1991)
Carmelo Franzò
Funes, a Great Love
(1993)
El tano Bérgami
Banderas, the Tyrant
(1993)
Tirano Banderas
Investigation of a Citizen Named Volonté
(2004)
Self (archive footage)
Un attore contro - Gian Maria Volonté
(2005)
Self (archive footage)
Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker
(2005)
Self (archive footage)
Spanish Western
(2015)
The Indian (archive footage)
Forgotten Activism
(2017)
Self (archive footage)
Zénon the Rebel
(2019)
Self (archive footage)
We Are Cinema
(2021)
Self (archive footage)
Rosi About Eboli
(2022)
Self
Directing
Writing
Crew