Gian Maria Volonté
Actor
Born April 9, 1933 in Milano, Lombardia, Italy
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).
Filmography
Volonté: The Man of a Thousand Faces
Self (archive footage)
Rosi About Eboli
Self
We Are Cinema
Self (archive footage)
Zénon the Rebel
Self (archive footage)
Forgotten Activism
Self (archive footage)
Spanish Western
The Indian (archive footage)
Un attore contro - Gian Maria Volonté
Self (archive footage)
Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker
Self (archive footage)
Investigation of a Citizen Named Volonté
Self (archive footage)
The Bankers Of God: The Calvi Affair
Ulysses' Gaze
Banderas, the Tyrant
Tirano Banderas
Funes, a Great Love
El tano Bérgami
A Simple Story
Carmelo Franzò
Open Doors
Giudice Vito Di Francesco
Tre colonne in cronaca
Alberto Landolfi
Pestalozzi's Mountain
Pestalozzi
The Abyss
Zenone
A Boy from Calabria
Felice
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Dr. Cristo Bedoya
The Moro Affair
Aldo Moro
The Death of Mario Ricci
Bernard Fontana
The Charterhouse of Parma
Count Mosca
Lady of the Camelias
Plessis
La Storia Vera Della Signora Dalle Camelie
Plessis
Cristo si è fermato a Eboli
Carlo Levi
Stark System
Stark
Operation Ogre
Izarra
Christ Stopped at Eboli
Carlo Levi
Reflections on a Political Cinema
Self - Interviewee
I Am Afraid
Brigadiere Ludovico Graziano
One Way or Another
M.
Letters from Marusia
Gregorio
The Suspect
Emilio
Spécial cinéma
Self
Giordano Bruno
Giordano Bruno
Lucky Luciano
Charles 'Lucky' Luciano
Festival dell’Unità 1972
self
Reggio Calabria
Slap the Monster on Page One
Bizanti
The Assassination
Sadiel
The Mattei Affair
Enrico Mattei
The Working Class Goes to Heaven
Lulù Massa
Sacco & Vanzetti
Bartolomeo Vanzetti
Le Cercle Rouge
Vogel
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
Dottore
Many Wars Ago
Lt. Ottolenghi
Wind from the East
The Northern Ranger
Apollon: una fabbrica occupata
Narrator (voice)
Under the Sign of Scorpio
Renno
The Bandit
Gramigna
Summit
Paolo
The Violent Four
Piero Cavallero
The Seven Cervi Brothers
Aldo Cervi
Face to Face
Professor Brett Fletcher
Caravaggio
Caravaggio
Diamoci del tu
Self
We Still Kill the Old Way
Professore Paolo Laurana
A Bullet for the General
Chuncho Munos / 'El Chuncho'
A Gangstergirl
Jascha Freud
The Witch
Fabrizio
For Love and Gold
Teofilatto dei Leonzi
Wake Up and Die
Inspector Moroni
Seasons of Our Love
Leonardo Varzi
For a Few Dollars More
El Indio
La strada più lunga
Michele
Una vita in gioco
Radek
Le inchieste del commissario Maigret
Radek
Vita di Michelangelo
Michelangelo
The Magnificent Cuckold
Assessore
A Fistful of Dollars
Ramón Rojo
The Terrorist
Renato Braschi , l'ingeniere
The Felling of the Forest
Guglielmo
Summer Night
Alberto
The Four Days of Naples
Stimolo
A Man for Burning
Salvatore
On the Tiger's Back
Papaleo
Hercules and the Captive Women
Re di Sparta
Journey Beneath the Desert
Tarath
Girl with a Suitcase
Piero Benotti
Under Ten Flags
Samuel Braunstein
Saul
David
The Idiot
Parfen Rogozin
La foresta pietrificata
Phaedra
Ippolito