Gian Maria Volonté
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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Gian Maria Volonté, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
A Fistful of Dollars
as Ramón RojoThe Man With No Name enters the Mexican village of San Miguel in the midst of a power struggle...
Movie page
For a Few Dollars More
as El IndioTwo bounty hunters both pursue a brutal and sadistic bandit El Indio who has a massive bounty on...
Movie page
Le Cercle Rouge
as VogelWhen French criminal Corey gets released from prison, he resolves to never return. He is quickly...
Movie page
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
as DottoreRome, Italy. After committing a heinous crime, a senior police officer exposes evidence...
Movie page
A Bullet for the General
as Chuncho Munos / 'El Chuncho'El Chuncho's bandits rob arms from a train, intending to sell the weapons to Elias'...
Movie page
For Love and Gold
as Teofilatto dei LeonziA group of rogues steal a scroll granting its bearer the property of the land of Aurocastro in...
Movie page
The Working Class Goes to Heaven
as Lulù MassaAfter losing a finger in a work accident, an Italian worker becomes increasingly involved in...
Movie page
Face to Face
as Professor Brett FletcherHistory Professor Brad Fletcher heads west for his health, but falls in with Soloman Bennett's...
Movie page
Many Wars Ago
as Lt. OttolenghiTime after time, soldiers of the Italian Army are forced to leave their mountain trenches in...
Movie page
Girl with a Suitcase
as Piero BenottiLorenzo, who's 16 and born to a wealthy family in Parma, tries to make things right toward a...
Movie page
One Way or Another
as M.Set during a retreat of Christian Democrat politicians who practice spiritual exercises...
Movie page
Sacco & Vanzetti
as Bartolomeo VanzettiBoston, 1920. Italian immigrants Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are charged and unfairly...
Movie page
Slap the Monster on Page One
as BizantiDays before the general election, after a girl from a rich family is murdered in an attempted...
Movie page
We Still Kill the Old Way
as Professore Paolo LauranaA leftist professor wants the truth about two men killed during a hunting party; but the mafia,...
Movie page
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
as Dr. Cristo BedoyaThis suspenseful Italian crime drama is set in a Colombian river town and chronicles the series...
Movie page
Christ Stopped at Eboli
as Carlo LeviIn the fascist Italy of 1935, a painter trained as a doctor is exiled to a remote region near...
Movie page
The Magnificent Cuckold
as AssessoreAndrea Artusi is a successful businessman with a beautiful wife, Maria, and a happy marriage -...
Movie page
Lucky Luciano
as Charles 'Lucky' LucianoLucky Luciano is one of the bosses of the Mafia. He orders the slaughter of 40 other...
Movie page
Lady of the Camelias
as PlessisA young girl from the provinces, comes to Paris with one goal: to become a part of the rich...
Movie page
Operation Ogre
as IzarraSpain, 1973. Dictator Francisco Franco has ruled the country since 1939 with an iron fist; but...
Movie page
The Four Days of Naples
as StimoloSeptember 1943. After Italy surrenders to the Allies, people in Naples believe the war is...
Movie page
The Mattei Affair
as Enrico MatteiEnrico Mattei helped change Italy’s future, first as freedom-fighter against the Nazis, then as...
Movie page
The Assassination
as SadielDarien, a left-wing police informant, is forced to lure his old friend Sadiel to Paris,...
Movie page
Il caso Moro
as Aldo MoroOn March 16, 1978, far-left terrorists of the Red Brigades kidnap Aldo Moro, leader of the...
Movie page
The Seven Cervi Brothers
as Aldo CerviThe story of the Cervi family. Rural farmers brought up to be idealogically opposed to fascism...
Movie page
The Abyss
as ZenoneThe Inquisition is in full swing in 16th century Flanders. Wanted for his dissident writings,...
Movie page
Hercules and the Captive Women
as Re di SpartaKing Androcles of Thebes commands a ship in search of a threat to Greece, predicted by an...
Movie page
Giordano Bruno
as Giordano BrunoFleeing from his enemies in the Catholic Church, the free thinking philosopher, poet and...
Movie page
Letters from Marusia
as GregorioChronicle of the repression that a foreign company exerts on the miners of a small nitrate town...
Movie page
Spanish Western
as The Indian (archive footage)A vindication of the role of the technicians and artists who made spaghetti western genre...
Movie page
Under Ten Flags
as Samuel Braunstein"Under Ten Flags" is a WWII movie loosely based on the true story of the German navy commerce...
Movie page
On the Tiger's Back
as PapaleoGiacinto Rossi, a poor driver up to his neck in debt, is imprisoned for simulated crime. He...
Movie page
The Violent Four
as Piero CavalleroA detective is assigned to head a manhunt for four violent bank robbers.
Movie page
I Am Afraid
as Brigadiere Ludovico GrazianoDuring a wave of political violence in Italy, a policeman who's already survived an...
Movie page
Open Doors
as Giudice Vito Di FrancescoTommaso Scalia is a man who commits three murders: he kills his superior who sacked him, the man...
Movie page
The Witch
as FabrizioA historian goes to a castle library to translate some ancient erotic literature. While there he...
Movie page
Journey Beneath the Desert
as TarathA helicopter crashes in the desert, and the crew winds up in the underground city of Atlantis...
Movie page
The Bandit
as GramignaSicily, 1865. Two peasants, Gramigna and his father are tricked by Baron Nardò and robbed of...
Movie page
A Boy from Calabria
as FeliceSet in 1960, the year of the Rome Olympics, a 13 year-old boy with aspirations to become an...
Movie page
We Are Cinema
as Self (archive footage)An Italian documentary about Italian cinema.
Movie page
Banderas, the Tyrant
as Tirano BanderasIn Santa Fe de Tierra Firme, an imaginary Latin American country, the indigenous dictator Santos...
Movie page
Summer Night
as AlbertoBarcelona in the early sixties: black and white chronicle of the ups and downs in the...
Movie page
Wind from the East
as Le Ranger Nordiste (uncredited)A politically oriented film in which images suggestive of a mock western are accompanied by an...
Movie page
A Simple Story
as Carmelo FranzòAfter many years, a retired diplomat returns to his native Sicily to visit an abandoned property...
Movie page
Wake Up and Die
as Inspector MoroniA petty hoodlum pulls jewellery store heists in broad daylight. The cop on his tail knows he has...
Movie page
The Suspect
as EmilioFascism has forced the leadership of the Italian Communist Party to settle in Paris. In Italy...
Movie page
Volonté: The Man of a Thousand Faces
as Self (archive footage)A documentary exploring the life and legacy of renowned Italian actor Gian Maria Volonté,...
Movie page
Pestalozzi's Mountain
as PestalozziIn the 1770s, Swiss farmer Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi established a school for poor orphaned...
Movie page
The Death of Mario Ricci
as Bernard FontanaA TV reporter and his assisstant go to a small Swiss village to do a programme with a reclusive...
Movie page
Tre colonne in cronaca
as Alberto LandolfiChronicle of the dark maneuvers put into practice by a politician to seize an opposition...
Movie page
Funes, a Great Love
as El tano BérgamiA group of musicians, prostitutes, gamblers, and laborers, react to the arrival of a tango...
Movie page
Seasons of Our Love
as Leonardo VarziVittorio is a 40-year-old journalist who reaches a mid-life crisis. His wife nags him constantly...
Movie page
Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker
as Self (archive footage)A documentary on the director’s career, featuring interviews with friends, collaborators, and...
Movie page
The Terrorist
as Renato Braschi , l'ingeniereIn Venice in 1943, a group of partisans led by Renato Braschi organize a series of autonomous...
Movie page
Reflections on a Political Cinema
as Self - IntervieweeThis documentary addresses the challenges facing the Italian film industry in 1978 by focusing...
Movie page
Under the Sign of Scorpio
as RennoAn island has been decimated by a volcanic eruption and the few survivors escape to a nearby...
Movie page
Stark System
as StarkArmenia Balducci's film, featuring Gian Maria Volontè as Stark, a cop-movie actor that falls...
Movie page
La strada più lunga
as MicheleMichele, a bourgeois intellectual, adhered to fascism for years. After fighting abroad, he...
Movie page
Summit
as PaoloPaolo, a special guest of an Italian newspaper, leaves for Paris to attend an international...
Movie page
Un attore contro - Gian Maria Volonté
as Self (archive footage)A portrait of the famous italian actor and political activist Gian Maria Volonté.
Movie page
Zénon the Rebel
as Self (archive footage)Zénon is the hero of “The Abyss”, the famous novel by Marguerite Yourcenar published in 1968. He...
Movie page
A Man for Burning
as SalvatorePolitical activist Salvatore returns to his native Sicily and stirs up trouble among the...
Movie page
Investigation of a Citizen Named Volonté
as Self (archive footage)Documentary on actor Gian Maria Volonté
Movie page
Fedra
as IppolitoTheatre play adaptation of Jean Racine's Phaedra filmed for TV.
Movie page
Gangster Girl
as Jascha FreudA successful young writer is in search of his true destiny. Is it the life with his wife and...
Movie page
Forgotten Activism
as Self (archive footage)Volonté, the militant. How many people know this singular and important aspect of the great...
Movie page
The Felling of the Forest
as GuglielmoIn the forested slopes surrounding the rural Tuscan village of Tirli, a group of lumberjacks...
Movie page
Apollon: una fabbrica occupata
as Narrator (voice)The film documents the trade union battle of the workers of the Apollon printing house in Rome,...
Movie page
Rosi About Eboli
as SelfAn exceptional documentary filmed in 1978 by Swedish directors Björn Blixt and Peter Englesson...
Movie page
Saul
as DavidTelevision play adaptation of Vittorio Alfieri's tragedy Saul (1782).
Movie page
Vita di Michelangelo
as MichelangeloA mini series about the great artist's life.
TV Show page
The Charterhouse of Parma
as Count MoscaStendhal's epic tale of a young French officer in the Napoleonic wars, and his aunt - a duchess...
TV Show page
The Idiot
as Parfen RogozinItalian televison adaptation of Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel of the same name. Although it is to...
TV Show page
