Gabriele Ferzetti
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
145
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
Once Upon a Time in the West
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
La Orca
Hannibal
The Bible: In the Beginning...
House of Ricordi
Una fredda mattina di maggio
Love Problems
Angel in a Taxi
Die Ringe des Saturn
Around the World in 80 Days
Torpedo Bay
The Hornet's Nest
Hospitals: The White Mafia
Voyage of Terror: The Achille Lauro Affair
Computron 22
Three Rooms in Manhattan
Desideri d'estate
Lezioni di violoncello con toccata e fuga
L'avvocato de Gregorio
Puccini
Calling All Police Cars
A Sentimental Attempt
The Counterfeiters
Suffocating Heat
Cannabis
That Splendid November
The Confession
A Curious Man
Julia and Julia
The Great Deception
The Possessed Hand
High Voltage
Suggestionata
Oedipus Orca
Grog
Appassionata
The Wages of Sin
An Opera of Violence
L'amica
1612: Chronicles of the Dark Time
Quo Vadis?
Camilla
Everyone's in Love
It Happened in Rome
A Matter of Time
Bandits in Rome
The Night Porter
Il carro armato dell'8 settembre
Kidnap
Callas & Onassis
The Forbidden Christ
The Shortest Day
Welcome Reverend!
The Devil in Love
Sins of Casanova
Édouard et ses filles
Last In, First Out
The Wayward Wife
Black as the Heart
Better a Widow
Il burattinaio
First Action Hero
Fabiola
Jessica
Three Forbidden Stories
Pigs with a P.38
La contessa Castiglione
We Still Kill the Old Way
Lost Love
The Basileus Quartet
Come Play With Me
La calda vita
Divorce His, Divorce Hers
Smiling Maniacs
I Am Love
The Devil's Game
L'Avventura
Hitler: The Last Ten Days
Empty Eyes
Red Lips
Escalation
Return to Lisca Bianca Island
The Nun of Monza
The Protagonists
Le Amiche
Porzûs
The Boxer
Machine Gun McCain
La prova d'amore
William Tell
Private Crimes
A Devil Under the Pillow
Beach Casanova
Mon premier amour
100 Years of Love
Donatella
Imperial Venus
Pope John Paul I: The Smile of God
Long Night in '43
Parola di ladro
Something to Do with Death
18 Years Later
Inchon
Die goldenen Schuhe
Adriana Lecouvreur
Million Dollar Eel
The Psychic
Inganno
Les Misérables
Clothing the Naked
Cross of the Living
La voglia di vincere
Encounters in the Deep
Love, the Italian Way
Weihnachtsfest mit Hindernissen
Love on the Riviera
Nick the Sting
Delitto e castigo
Rencontres
I Vecchi E I Giovani
Crime on a Summer Morning
Gli amanti di Ravello
Il prezzo della gloria
So Much Love Lost
Pope John Paul I: The Smile of God
Vertigine d'amore
Defend My Love
Eruption
Gli angeli del potere
March's Child
3000 Million Without an Elevator
Death in the Vatican
Con rabbia e con amore
Crucero de verano
Quick Trial
End of the Game
Death, Where Is Your Victory?
Le ragazze di Miss Italia
The Burning Years
Beggars and Proud Ones
Un po' di cielo
Concorso di colpa
Modern Virgin
Lo zappatore
