Gian Maria Volonté
Birthday
1933/04/09
Day of death
1994/12/06 (61 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Milano, Lombardia, Italy
Also know as
Johnny Wels, Gian-Maria Volonte, Джан Мария Волонте
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 Stil...Read more
Acting
(1965) For a Few Dollars More
as El Indio
(1961) Journey Beneath the Desert
as Tarath
(1970) Le Cercle Rouge
as Vogel
(1970) Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
as Dottore
(2022) Rosi About Eboli
as Self
(1979) Christ Stopped at Eboli
as Carlo Levi
(1961) Hercules and the Captive Women
as Re di Sparta
(1990) Open Doors
as Giudice Vito Di Francesco
(1967) A Bullet for the General
as Chuncho Munos / 'El Chuncho'
(1966) The Witch
as Fabrizio
(1972) The Mattei Affair
as Enrico Mattei
(1986) The Moro Affair
as Aldo Moro
(1967) Face to Face
as Professor Brett Fletcher
(1988) The Abyss
as Zenone
(1979) Operation Ogre
as Izarra
(1973) Giordano Bruno
as Giordano Bruno
(1962) The Four Days of Naples
as Stimolo
(1971) Sacco & Vanzetti
as Bartolomeo Vanzetti
(1972) Slap the Monster on Page One
as Bizanti
(1976) One Way or Another
as M.
(1981) Lady of the Camelias
as Plessis
(1961) Girl with a Suitcase
as Piero Benotti
(1967) We Still Kill the Old Way
as Professore Paolo Laurana
(1971) The Working Class Goes to Heaven
as Lulù Massa
(1968) The Violent Four
as Piero Cavallero
(1977) I Am Afraid
as Brigadiere Ludovico Graziano
(1987) A Boy from Calabria
as Felice
(1970) Many Wars Ago
as Lt. Ottolenghi
(1973) Lucky Luciano
as Charles 'Lucky' Luciano
(1961) On the Tiger's Back
as Papaleo
(1991) A Simple Story
as Carmelo Franzò
(1975) The Suspect
as Emilio
(1966) Wake Up and Die
as Inspector Moroni
(1966) Seasons of Our Love
as Leonardo Varzi
(1972) The Assassination
as Sadiel
(1983) The Death of Mario Ricci
as Bernard Fontana
(1969) The Bandit
as Gramigna
(1987) Chronicle of a Death Foretold
as Dr. Cristo Bedoya
(1964) The Magnificent Cuckold
as Assessore
(1968) The Seven Cervi Brothers
as Aldo Cervi
(1963) The Terrorist
as Renato Braschi , l'ingeniere
(1993) Banderas, the Tyrant
as Tirano Banderas
(1962) A Man for Burning
as Salvatore
(1989) Pestalozzi's Mountain
as Pestalozzi
(1969) Apollon: una fabbrica occupata
as Narrator (voice)
(1972) La tenda in piazza
as Self (voice) (uncredited)
(1968) Summit
as Paolo
(1970) Documenti su Giuseppe Pinelli
as Self / Reenactor (uncredited)
(1980) Stark System
as Stark
(1963) The Felling of the Forest
as Guglielmo
(1957) Phaedra
as Ippolito
(1963) Summer Night
as Alberto
(1970) Wind from the East
as The Soldier
(2005) Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker
as Self (archive footage)
(1966) A Gangstergirl
as Jascha Freud
(1975) Letters from Marusia
as Gregorio
(2021) We Are Cinema
as Self (archive footage)
(1990) Tre colonne in cronaca
as Alberto Landolfi
(2017) Forgotten Activism
as Self (archive footage)
(1969) Under the Sign of Scorpio
as Renno
(1993) Funes, a Great Love
as El tano Bérgami
(1960) Under Ten Flags
as Samuel Braunstein
(2004) Investigation of a Citizen Named Volonté
as Self (archive footage)
(2005) Un attore contro - Gian Maria Volonté
as Self (archive footage)
(1967) Caravaggio
as Caravaggio
(1964) A Fistful of Dollars
as Ramón Rojo
(1966) For Love and Gold
as Teofilatto dei Leonzi
(2019) Zénon the Rebel
as Self (archive footage)
(1965) La strada più lunga
as Michele
(2015) Spanish Western
as The Indian (archive footage)
(1978) Reflections on a Political Cinema
as Self - Interviewee
(1970) Ipotesi sulla morte di G. Pinelli
as Self
(2024) Volonté: The Man of a Thousand Faces
as Self (archive footage)
(1959) Saul
as David
(1982) The Charterhouse of Parma
as Count Mosca
(1964) Vita di Michelangelo
as Michelangelo
(1974) Spécial cinéma
as Self
(1981) La Storia Vera Della Signora Dalle Camelie
as Plessis
(1959) The Idiot
as Parfen Rogozin
(1964) Le inchieste del commissario Maigret
as Radek
(1967) Diamoci del tu
as Self
(1980) Cristo si è fermato a Eboli
as Carlo Levi