Gabriele Ferzetti
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
147
Gender
Male
Birthday
1925-03-17
Day of death
2015-12-02 (90 years old)
Place of Birth
Rome, Italy
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
Escalation
Cannabis
The Protagonists
Once Upon a Time in the West
Lost Love
Donatella
Porzûs
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
It Happened in Rome
Come Play With Me
Imperial Venus
Parola di ladro
Adriana Lecouvreur
The Counterfeiters
William Tell
The Basileus Quartet
Suffocating Heat
Julia and Julia
Clothing the Naked
Three Forbidden Stories
Rencontres
Camilla
High Voltage
The Confession
Better a Widow
18 Years Later
Vertigine d'amore
Jessica
Fabiola
The Devil in Love
Machine Gun McCain
Inchon
Suggestionata
Oedipus Orca
Divorce His, Divorce Hers
Callas & Onassis
Puccini
1612: Chronicles of the Dark Time
Return to Lisca Bianca Island
Love on the Riviera
Love, the Italian Way
Inganno
Eruption
Appassionata
La contessa Castiglione
3000 Million Without an Elevator
Red Lips
Hannibal
Welcome Reverend!
Around the World in 80 Days
The Night Porter
Mountain Smugglers
The Bible: In the Beginning...
L'amica
The Forbidden Christ
The Burning Years
Weihnachtsfest mit Hindernissen
March's Child
L'Avventura
Quick Trial
The Hornet's Nest
The Psychic
The Devil's Game
That Splendid November
La voglia di vincere
Private Crimes
We Still Kill the Old Way
La Orca
The Shortest Day
I Am Love
Quo Vadis?
Delitto e castigo
Hitler: The Last Ten Days
Édouard et ses filles
Death, Where Is Your Victory?
Die goldenen Schuhe
So Much Love Lost
Lo zappatore
Crime on a Summer Morning
Hospitals: The White Mafia
Le Amiche
Sins of Casanova
House of Ricordi
Voyage of Terror: The Achille Lauro Affair
Callas & Onassis
Last In, First Out
The Wayward Wife
Three Rooms in Manhattan
The Nun of Monza
The Boxer
A Matter of Time
End of the Game
Beach Casanova
Smiling Maniacs
Calling All Police Cars
Desideri d'estate
La calda vita
Long Night in '43
Modern Virgin
100 Years of Love
Pope John Paul I: The Smile of God
Defend My Love
Everyone's in Love
Love Problems
Something to Do with Death
The Possessed Hand
Encounters in the Deep
Grog
Bandits in Rome
Angel in a Taxi
La prova d'amore
Torpedo Bay
L'avvocato de Gregorio
An Opera of Violence
A Devil Under the Pillow
Concorso di colpa
First Action Hero
Il prezzo della gloria
I Vecchi E I Giovani
Pope John Paul I: The Smile of God
Il carro armato dell'8 settembre
Million Dollar Eel
Empty Eyes
Una fredda mattina di maggio
Gli angeli del potere
Pigs with a P.38
Il burattinaio
Beggars and Proud Ones
The Great Deception
Nick the Sting
The Wages of Sin
Death in the Vatican
A Sentimental Attempt
Crucero de verano
Lezioni di violoncello con toccata e fuga
Mon premier amour
Un po' di cielo
Black as the Heart
Le ragazze di Miss Italia
A Curious Man
Les Misérables
Cross of the Living
Computron 22
Gli amanti di Ravello
Kidnap
Die Ringe des Saturn
Con rabbia e con amore
