Gabriele Ferzetti

Known for ActingBorn 1925-03-17Died 2015-12-02Rome, Italy

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Con rabbia e con amore

Red Lips

Parola di ladro

Clothing the Naked

Inganno

Gli amanti di Ravello

Black as the Heart

Una fredda mattina di maggio

Grog

I Vecchi E I Giovani

Angel in a Taxi

Defend My Love

Adriana Lecouvreur

Lo zappatore

Sigillo rosso

Private Crimes

Édouard et ses filles

Le ragazze di Miss Italia

Once Upon a Time in the West

Suffocating Heat

Die goldenen Schuhe

The Boxer

Mon Premier Amour

Lezioni di violoncello con toccata e fuga

The Proof of love

Beggars and Proud Ones

So Much Love Lost

Il prezzo della gloria

Un po' di cielo

The Wages of Sin

La contessa Castiglione

Computron 22

Callas & Onassis

L'Avventura

The Confession

Callas & Onassis

100 Years of Love

L'avvocato de Gregorio

18 Years Later

Mountain Smugglers

The Bible: In the Beginning...

Rencontres

Weihnachtsfest mit Hindernissen

Die Ringe des Saturn

Gli angeli del potere

I Am Love

The Burning Years

An Opera of Violence