Gabriele Ferzetti
Biography
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
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
1969
Oedipus Orca
1977
Around the World in 80 Days
1989
The Bible: In the Beginning...
1966
The Night Porter
1974
Appassionata
1974
Quo Vadis?
1985
Hospitals: The White Mafia
1973
L'Avventura
1960
I Am Love
2010
Cold Sweat
1970
Filmography
Once Upon a Time in the West
as Morton · 1968
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
as Marc Ange Draco · 1969
Oedipus Orca
as Valerio · 1977
Around the World in 80 Days
as Italian Chief of Police · 1989
The Bible: In the Beginning...
as Lot · 1966
The Night Porter
as Hans · 1974
Appassionata
as Dr. Emilio Rutelli · 1974
Quo Vadis?
as Pisone · 1985
Hospitals: The White Mafia
as Prof. Daniele Vallotti · 1973
L'Avventura
as Sandro · 1960
I Am Love
as Edoardo Recchi Senior · 2010
Cold Sweat
as (uncredited) · 1970
Jessica
as Edmondo Raumo · 1962
Private Crimes
as Dr. Guido Braschi · 1993
The Psychic
as Emilio Rospini · 1977
The Devil's Game
as Master Gomin · 1981
Divorce His, Divorce Hers
as Turi Livicci · 1973
Hitler: The Last Ten Days
as Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm Keitel · 1973
Imperial Venus
as Freron · 1962
Machine Gun McCain
as Don Francesco DeMarco · 1969
Tower of the First Born
as Father Jacob · 1998
Grog
as Alberto · 1982
Othello
as The Duke of Venice · 1995
Long Night in '43
as Franco Villani · 1960
Three Rooms in Manhattan
as le comte Larsi · 1965
Le Amiche
as Lorenzo · 1955
Édouard et ses filles
as Antoine di Marco · 1990
The Shortest Day
as Tenente in trincea · 1963
Hannibal
as Senator Quintus Fabius · 1959
Callas & Onassis
as Livanos · 2005
La Orca
as Valerio · 1976
La voglia di vincere
as Professor Besson · 1987
Crime on a Summer Morning
as Victor Dermott · 1965
Pope John Paul I: The Smile of God
as Card. Giuseppe Siri · 2006
That Splendid November
as Biagio · 1969
Rencontres
as Ralph Scaffari · 1962
The Confession
as Kohoutek · 1970
Julia and Julia
as Alfredo · 1988
Voyage of Terror: The Achille Lauro Affair
· 1990
The Boxer
as Nick La Caterina / Tony La Monica · 1972
Die goldenen Schuhe
as Marquesade Buenaventa · 1983
Cannabis
as Inspector Bardeche · 1970
18 Years Later
as Enrico · 2010
Angel in a Taxi
as Andrea · 1958
End of the Game
as Dr. Lutz · 1975
Love, the Italian Way
as Alberto Bressan · 1960
Come Play With Me
as Stefano · 1968
We Still Kill the Old Way
as Avvocato Rosello · 1967
1612: Chronicles of the Dark Time
· 2007
William Tell
· 1948
100 Years of Love
as Carlo, the Political Prisoner (segm. "Gli ultimi dieci Minuti") · 1954
The Devil in Love
as Lorenzo de' Medici · 1966
Felicità perduta
· 1946
Million Dollar Eel
as Vasco · 1971
The Wages of Sin
as Self - Actor · 2003
Sins of Casanova
as Casanova · 1954
Return to Lisca Bianca Island
as Sandro (voice) (archive footage) · 1983
Inchon
as Turkish Brigadier · 1981
Something to Do with Death
as Self - Actor · 2003
Nick the Sting
as Maurice · 1976
Beach Casanova
as Avvocato Leblanc · 1962
A Sentimental Attempt
as Giulio · 1963
A Matter of Time
as Antonio Vicari · 1976
Torpedo Bay
as Leonardi · 1963
Calling All Police Cars
as Professor Andrea Icardi · 1975
Death, Where Is Your Victory?
as Max · 1964
House of Ricordi
as Giacomo Puccini · 1954
Eruption
as Roberto Santi · 1962
Porzûs
as Strono vecchio · 1997
High Voltage
as Pablo Moncada · 1972
La calda vita
as Guido · 1964
Smiling Maniacs
as Prandó · 1975
Love on the Riviera
as Giulio Ferrari · 1958
The Great Deception
as Bernard Turquet de Mayenne · 1959
Delitto e castigo
as Svidrigajlov · 1983
Everyone's in Love
as Arturo · 1959
So Much Love Lost
as Frédéric Solingen · 1958
It Happened in Rome
as Lawyer Alberto Cortini · 1957
Kidnap
as Don Francesco Salvatore · 1974
Empty Eyes
as Fernando Maestrelli · 1953
Fabiola
as Claudio · 1949
Callas & Onassis
as Livanos · 2005
3000 Million Without an Elevator
as Raphaël · 1972
Puccini
as Giacomo Puccini · 1953
Black as the Heart
as Signor Noé Alga Croce · 1994
Quasi quasi mi sposo
as Ingegnere · 1982
An Opera of Violence
as Self - Actor · 2003
Lost Love
as Tommaso Pasini · 2003
Lo zappatore
· 1950
Les Misérables
as (uncredited) · 1948
The Nun of Monza
as Gian Paolo Osio · 1962
The Forbidden Christ
as (uncredited) · 1951
Escalation
as Augusto Lambertinghi · 1968
Le ragazze di Miss Italia
as professor De Lollis · 2002
Cross of the Living
as Abbot Delcourt · 1962
Death in the Vatican
as Cardinale Ixaguirre · 1982
Il prezzo della gloria
as Comandante Alberto Bruni · 1956
Three Forbidden Stories
as Mario · 1952
The Burning Years
as Padre di Saverio · 1979
Defend My Love
as Pietro Leonardi · 1956
Better a Widow
as Don Calogero Minniti · 1968
Una fredda mattina di maggio
as Signor Mantoni · 1990
Last In, First Out
as Herzog · 1978
Pope John Paul I: The Smile of God
as Card. Giuseppe Siri · 2006
Beggars and Proud Ones
· 1972
March's Child
as Sandro · 1958
First Action Hero
as Ben Costa · 1994
Love Problems
as Guido · 1968
The Protagonists
as Il Commissario · 1968
Con rabbia e con amore
as Leone · 1997
A Devil Under the Pillow
as Anselmo · 1968
Il carro armato dell'8 settembre
as Tommaso · 1960
Gli amanti di Ravello
as Sandro Deodata · 1951
L'amica
as Paolo Marchesi · 1969
Vertigine d'amore
· 1948
The Basileus Quartet
as Mario Cantone · 1983
Bandits in Rome
as Commissioner · 1968
The Proof of love
as Angela Father · 1974
A Curious Man
as Moriondo · 1975
Gli angeli del potere
as Dr. Donhal · 1990
Concorso di colpa
as Vito Santamaria · 2005
Clothing the Naked
as Ludovico Nota · 1954
Encounters in the Deep
as Miles · 1979
The Wayward Wife
as Professor Franco Vagnuzzi · 1953
Suffocating Heat
as Gaetano Castelli · 1991
Donatella
as Maurizio · 1956
Pigs with a P.38
as Max Astarita · 1978
Crucero de verano
as Carlos Brul y Betancourt · 1964
Un po' di cielo
as Frank Lo Giudice · 1955
Weihnachtsfest mit Hindernissen
as Vittorio · 1994
The Possessed Hand
as Maestro Gomin · 1981
Quick Trial
as L'avvocato Finaldi · 1974
Die Ringe des Saturn
· 1993
La contessa Castiglione
as (uncredited) · 1942
Parola di ladro
as Desiderio · 1957
L'avvocato de Gregorio
as Alfonso · 2003
Rondini in volo
as Ufficiale d'aviazione · 1949
Red Lips
as Avvocato Paolo Martini · 1960
Lezioni di violoncello con toccata e fuga
as Il padre di Stella · 1976
The Counterfeiters
as Dario · 1951
I Vecchi E I Giovani
· 1979
Modern Virgin
as Gabriele Demico · 1954
Inganno
as Andrea Vannini · 1952
Welcome Reverend!
as The veteran · 1950
Sigillo rosso
· 1950
Camilla
as Dott. Mario Rossetti · 1954
Desideri d'estate
· 1964
The Hornet's Nest
as Gaspard · 1976
Mon Premier Amour
as Georges · 1978
Adriana Lecouvreur
as Maurizio di Sassonia · 1955
Suggestionata
as Gregorio · 1978
Mountain Smugglers
as Leutnant Berti · 1950
Computron 22
as Il Nonno · 1988