Gian Maria Volonté
Known for: Acting
Born: April 9, 1933
Died: December 6, 1994
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…
Known for
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
1970
Rosi About Eboli
2022
Christ Stopped at Eboli
1979
Open Doors
1990
A Bullet for the General
1967
The Mattei Affair
1972
The Moro Affair
1986
Face to Face
1967
The Abyss
1988
Operation Ogre
1979
Giordano Bruno
1973
Sacco & Vanzetti
1971
Slap the Monster on Page One
1972
One Way or Another
1976
We Still Kill the Old Way
1967
The Working Class Goes to Heaven
1971
The Violent Four
1968
I Am Afraid
1977
A Boy from Calabria
1987
Lucky Luciano
1973
A Simple Story
1991
The Suspect
1975
The Death of Mario Ricci
1983
The Bandit
1969
The Terrorist
1963
The Seven Cervi Brothers
1968
Banderas, the Tyrant
1993
A Man for Burning
1962
Pestalozzi's Mountain
1989
Documents on Giuseppe Pinelli
1970
Apollon: una fabbrica occupata
1969
Summit
1968
La tenda in piazza
1972
Stark System
1980
The Felling of the Forest
1963
Wind from the East
1970
Letters from Marusia
1975
Tre colonne in cronaca
1990
Forgotten Activism
2017
Under the Sign of Scorpio
1969
Investigation of a Citizen Named Volonté
2004
Un attore contro - Gian Maria Volonté
2005
Caravaggio
1967
La strada più lunga
1965
Volonté: The Man of a Thousand Faces
2024
The Four Days of Naples
1962
Lady of the Camelias
1981
Funes, a Great Love
1993
Saul
1959
For a Few Dollars More
1965
Le Cercle Rouge
1970
The Witch
1966
Many Wars Ago
1970
Wake Up and Die
1966
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
1987
Phaedra
1957
A Gangstergirl
1966
A Fistful of Dollars
1964
Reflections on a Political Cinema
1978
Festival dell’Unità 1972
1973
On the Tiger's Back
1961
The Assassination
1972
For Love and Gold
1966
Ipotesi sulla morte di G. Pinelli
1970
Zénon the Rebel
2019
Seasons of Our Love
1966
Summer Night
1963
La foresta pietrificata
1959
The Magnificent Cuckold
1964
Journey Beneath the Desert
1961
Girl with a Suitcase
1961
Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker
2005
Hercules and the Captive Women
1961
Under Ten Flags
1960
Spanish Western
2015
We Are Cinema
2021
The Charterhouse of Parma
1982
Vita di Michelangelo
1964
Spécial cinéma
1974
La Storia Vera Della Signora Dalle Camelie
1981
The Idiot
1959
Le inchieste del commissario Maigret
1964
Diamoci del tu
1967
Cristo si è fermato a Eboli
1980
Una vita in gioco
1965