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Gabriele Ferzetti

Gabriele Ferzetti

Birthday: 1925-03-17 | Place of Birth: Rome, 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.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

1994
First Action Hero

as    Ben Costa

1993
Private Crimes

as    Guido Braschi

1983
The Basileus Quartet

as    Mario Cantone

1981
Inchon

as    Turkish Brigadier

1979
The Psychic

as    Emilio Rospini

1979
Encounters in the Deep

as    Miles

1976
End of the Game

as    Dr. Lutz

1976
La Orca

as    Valerio

1974
The Night Porter

as    Hans

1974
Cannabis

as    Inspector Bardeche

1973
Hitler: The Last Ten Days

as    Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm Keitel

1972
High Voltage

as    Pablo Moncada

1971
Million Dollar Eel

as    Vasco

1970
Machine Gun McCain

as    Don Francesco DeMarco

1970
The Confession

as    Kohoutek

1969
That Splendid November

as    Biagio

1969
On Her Majesty's Secret Service

as    Marc Ange Draco

1969
Once Upon a Time in the West

as    Morton

1968
Bandits in Rome

as    Commissioner

1965
Crime on a Summer Morning

as    Victor Dermott

1964
La calda vita

as    Guido

1962
Jessica

as    Edmondo Raumo

1962
Imperial Venus

as    Freron

1961
L'Avventura

as    Sandro

1960
Hannibal

as    Senator Quintus Fabius

1954
House of Ricordi

as    Giacomo Puccini