Gian Maria Volonté

from Milano, Lombardia, Italy

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Biography

Gian Maria Volonté (9 April 1933 – 6 December 1994) was an Italian actor. He is perhaps most famous outside of Italy for his roles as the main villain in Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars (credited in the USA as "Johnny Wels") and For a Few Dollars More.

In Italy and much of Europe, he was notable for his roles in high-profile social dramas depicting the political and social stirrings of Italian and European society in the 1960s and 1970s, including four films directed by Elio Petri - We Still Kill the Old Way (1967), Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1971), The Working Class Goes to Heaven (1971) and Todo modo (1976). He is also recognized for his performances in Jean-Pierre Melville's Le Cercle Rouge (1970) and Giuliano Montaldo's Sacco & Vanzetti (1971).

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Timeline

2024Aged 91

  • Poster for Volonté: The Man of a Thousand Faces

    Self (archive footage)

2022Aged 89

  • Poster for Rosi About Eboli

    Self

2021Aged 88

  • Poster for We Are Cinema

    Self (archive footage)

2019Aged 86

  • Poster for Zénon the Rebel

    Self (archive footage)

2017Aged 84

  • Poster for Forgotten Activism

    Self (archive footage)

2015Aged 82

  • Poster for Spanish Western

    The Indian (archive footage)

2005Aged 72

  • Poster for Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker

    Self (archive footage)

  • Poster for Un attore contro - Gian Maria Volonté

    Self (archive footage)

2004Aged 71

  • Poster for Investigation of a Citizen Named Volonté

    Self (archive footage)

2002Aged 69

  • Poster for The Bankers Of God: The Calvi Affair

    Thanks

1995Aged 62

  • Poster for Ulysses' Gaze

    In Memory Of

1993Aged 60

  • Poster for Funes, a Great Love

    El tano Bérgami

  • Poster for Banderas, the Tyrant

    Tirano Banderas

1991Aged 58

  • Poster for A Simple Story

    Carmelo Franzò

1990Aged 57

  • Poster for Tre colonne in cronaca

    Alberto Landolfi

  • Poster for Open Doors

    Giudice Vito Di Francesco

1989Aged 56

  • Poster for Pestalozzi's Mountain

    Pestalozzi

1988Aged 55

  • Poster for The Abyss

    Zenone

1987Aged 54

  • Poster for Chronicle of a Death Foretold

    Dr. Cristo Bedoya

  • Poster for A Boy from Calabria

    Felice

1986Aged 53

  • Poster for The Moro Affair

    Aldo Moro

1983Aged 50

  • Poster for The Death of Mario Ricci

    Bernard Fontana

1981Aged 48

  • Poster for Lady of the Camelias

    Plessis

1980Aged 47

  • Poster for Stark System

    Stark

1979Aged 46

  • Poster for Christ Stopped at Eboli

    Carlo Levi

  • Poster for Operation Ogre

    Izarra

1978Aged 45

  • Poster for Reflections on a Political Cinema

    Self - Interviewee

1977Aged 44

  • Poster for I Am Afraid

    Brigadiere Ludovico Graziano

1976Aged 43

  • Poster for One Way or Another

    M.

1975Aged 42

  • Poster for The Suspect

    Emilio

  • Poster for Letters from Marusia

    Gregorio

1973Aged 40

  • Poster for Festival dell’Unità 1972

    self

  • Poster for Lucky Luciano

    Charles 'Lucky' Luciano

  • Poster for Giordano Bruno

    Giordano Bruno

1972Aged 39

1971Aged 38

  • Poster for Sacco & Vanzetti

    Bartolomeo Vanzetti

  • Poster for The Working Class Goes to Heaven

    Lulù Massa

1970Aged 37

1969Aged 36

  • Poster for The Bandit

    Gramigna

  • Poster for Under the Sign of Scorpio

    Renno

  • Poster for Apollon: una fabbrica occupata

    Narrator (voice)

1968Aged 35

  • Poster for The Seven Cervi Brothers

    Aldo Cervi

  • Poster for The Violent Four

    Piero Cavallero

  • Poster for Summit

    Paolo

1967Aged 34

  • Poster for A Bullet for the General

    Chuncho Munos / 'El Chuncho'

  • Poster for We Still Kill the Old Way

    Professore Paolo Laurana

  • Poster for Caravaggio

    Caravaggio

  • Poster for Face to Face

    Professor Brett Fletcher

1966Aged 33

  • Poster for Seasons of Our Love

    Leonardo Varzi

  • Poster for Wake Up and Die

    Inspector Moroni

  • Poster for For Love and Gold

    Teofilatto dei Leonzi

  • Poster for The Witch

    Fabrizio

  • Poster for A Gangstergirl

    Jascha Freud

1965Aged 32

  • Poster for La strada più lunga

    Michele

  • Poster for For a Few Dollars More

    El Indio

1964Aged 31

  • Poster for A Fistful of Dollars

    Ramón Rojo

  • Poster for The Magnificent Cuckold

    Assessore

1963Aged 30

  • Poster for Summer Night

    Alberto

  • Poster for The Felling of the Forest

    Guglielmo

  • Poster for The Terrorist

    Renato Braschi , l'ingeniere

1962Aged 29

  • Poster for A Man for Burning

    Salvatore

  • Poster for The Four Days of Naples

    Stimolo

1961Aged 28

  • Poster for Girl with a Suitcase

    Piero Benotti

  • Poster for Journey Beneath the Desert

    Tarath

  • Poster for Hercules and the Captive Women

    Re di Sparta

  • Poster for On the Tiger's Back

    Papaleo

1960Aged 27

  • Poster for Under Ten Flags

    Samuel Braunstein

1959Aged 26

  • Poster for La foresta pietrificata

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for Saul

    David

1957Aged 24

  • Poster for Phaedra

    Ippolito

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