Gabriele Ferzetti profile
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Gabriele Ferzetti

17th March 1925 Rome, Italy Acting

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.

138 Movies 10 TV Shows 153 Credits
Filmography

Movies & TV Shows

I Am Love poster
I Am Love 19th March 2010 as Edoardo Recchi Senior
Porzûs poster
Porzûs 12th September 1997 as Strono vecchio
Othello poster
Othello 15th December 1995 as The Duke of Venice
Grog poster
Grog 3rd September 1982 as Alberto
Inchon poster
Inchon 4th May 1981 as Turkish Brigadier
Kidnap poster
Kidnap 13th August 1974 as Don Francesco Salvatore
The Boxer poster
The Boxer 2nd February 1972 as Nick La Caterina / Tony La Monica
Cannabis poster
Cannabis 2nd September 1970 as Inspector Bardeche
L'amica poster
L'amica 23rd December 1969 as Paolo Marchesi
Escalation poster
Escalation 29th February 1968 as Augusto Lambertinghi
Jessica poster
Jessica 19th April 1962 as Edmondo Raumo
Red Lips poster
Red Lips 14th May 1960 as Avvocato Paolo Martini
Hannibal poster
Hannibal 21st December 1959 as Senator Quintus Fabius
Camilla poster
Camilla 24th November 1954 as Dott. Mario Rossetti
100 Years of Love poster
100 Years of Love 25th February 1954 as Carlo, the Political Prisoner (segm. "Gli ultimi dieci Minuti")
Empty Eyes poster
Empty Eyes 18th September 1953 as Fernando Maestrelli
Puccini poster
Puccini 29th April 1953 as Giacomo Puccini
Inganno poster
Inganno 18th September 1952 as Andrea Vannini