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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.
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Filmography
all 142
Movies 131
TV Shows 11
self 5
All About Yves Montand (2021)
18 Years Later (2010)
I Am Love (2009)
1612: Chronicles of the Dark Time (2007)
Pope John Paul I: The Smile of God (2006)
Papa Luciani - il sorriso di Dio (2006)
Callas & Onassis (2005)
Concorso di colpa (2005)
Something to Do with Death (2003)
The Wages of Sin (2003)
An Opera of Violence (2003)
Lost Love (2003)
L'avvocato de Gregorio (2003)
Best Ever Bond (2002)
Le ragazze di Miss Italia (2002)
Con rabbia e con amore (1997)
Porzus (1997)
Black as the Heart (1994)
Weihnachtsfest mit Hindernissen (1994)
First Action Hero (1994)
Private Crimes (1993)
Die Ringe des Saturn (1992)
Suffocating Heat (1991)
Édouard et ses filles (1990)
Una fredda mattina di maggio (1990)
Voyage of Terror: The Achille Lauro Affair (1990)
Around the World in 80 Days (1989)
Computron 22 (1988)
Julia and Julia (1988)
La voglia di vincere (1987)
Quo Vadis? (1985)
Die goldenen Schuhe (1983)
Ritorno a Lisca Bianca (1983)
Delitto e castigo (1983)
The Basileus Quartet (1983)
Grog (1982)
Death in the Vatican (1982)
The Possessed Hand (1981)
The Devil's Game (1981)
Inchon (1981)
I Vecchi E I Giovani (1979)
Encounters in the Deep (1979)
The Burning Years (1979)
Pigs with a P.38 (1978)
Mon premier amour (1978)
Last In, First Out (1978)
Suggestionata (1978)
The Psychic (1977)
Oedipus Orca (1977)
A Matter of Time (1976)
Nick the Sting (1976)
Quick Trial (1976)
La Orca (1976)
The Hornet's Nest (1976)
End of the Game (1975)
Calling All Police Cars (1975)
A Curious Man (1975)
Smiling Maniacs (1975)
Appassionata (1974)
The Night Porter (1974)
Kidnap (1974)
La prova d'amore (1974)
Hospitals: The White Mafia (1973)
Hitler: The Last Ten Days (1973)
Divorce His, Divorce Hers (1973)
Beggars and Proud Ones (1972)
High Voltage (1972)
The Boxer (1972)
Million Dollar Eel (1971)
Cannabis (1970)
The Confession (1970)
L'amica (1969)
On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)
That Splendid November (1969)
Machine Gun McCain (1969)
Swiss Movement (1969)
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
Bandits in Rome (1968)
Love Problems (1968)
Better a Widow (1968)
The Protagonists (1968)
Come Play With Me (1968)
Escalation (1968)
A Devil Under the Pillow (1968)
We Still Kill the Old Way (1967)
The Devil in Love (1966)
The Bible: In the Beginning... (1966)
Three Rooms in Manhattan (1965)
Crime on a Summer Morning (1965)
Crucero de verano (1964)
Desideri d'estate (1964)
La calda vita (1964)
Death, Where Is Your Victory? (1964)
A Sentimental Attempt (1963)
Torpedo Bay (1963)
The Shortest Day (1963)
Beach Casanova (1962)
Imperial Venus (1962)
La Croix des vivants (1962)
The Nun of Monza (1962)
Jessica (1962)
Eruption (1962)
Rencontres (1962)
Love, the Italian Way (1960)
Il carro armato dell'8 settembre (1960)
It Happened in '43 (1960)
L'Avventura (1960)
Red Lips (1960)
Hannibal (1959)
The Great Deception (1959)
Everyone's in Love (1959)
Love on the Riviera (1958)
So Much Love Lost (1958)
Angel in a Taxi (1958)
March's Child (1958)
It Happened in Rome (1957)
Parola di ladro (1957)
Il prezzo della gloria (1956)
Donatella (1956)
Defend My Love (1956)
Le Amiche (1955)
Adriana Lecouvreur (1955)
Sins of Casanova (1954)
House of Ricordi (1954)
Camilla (1954)
Modern Virgin (1954)
Clothing the Naked (1954)
100 Years of Love (1954)
Empty Eyes (1953)
Puccini (1953)
The Wayward Wife (1953)
Three Forbidden Stories (1952)
Inganno (1952)
The Naked and the Wicked (1951)
The Counterfeiters (1951)
The Forbidden Christ (1951)
Gli amanti di Ravello (1951)
Lo zappatore (1950)
Welcome Reverend! (1950)
William Tell (1948)
Les Misérables - Manhunt (1948)
La contessa Castiglione (1942)
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Known ForActing
GenderMale
Birthday1925-03-17
Deathday2015-12-02 (90 years old)
Birth NamePasquale Ferzetti
Birth PlaceRome, Italy
ChildrenAnna Ferzetti
CitizenshipsKingdom of Italy, Italy
Also Known AsPasquale Ferzetti, Gabriel Ferzetti, Gaetano Ferzetti, Габриэле Ферцетти, Габриеле Ферцетти
AwardsNastro d'Argento for Best Supporting Actor, Nastro d'Argento
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