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Biography
Gianni Garko (born Giovanni Garcovich 15 July 1935), often billed as John Garko and occasionally Gary Hudson, is an Italian actor who found fame as a leading man in 1960s Spaghetti Westerns. He is perhaps best known for his lead role as Sartana, starting with the first official film If You Meet Sartana Pray for Your Death and starring in four sequels as this character.
Career
Garko was born in Zara, he moved from Zara to Trieste, and later Rome to attend University and Drama School. His first prominent film role was a small but important part in the Oscar nominated Kapò (1959). He continued to play parts in several Italian productions including sword and sandal epics such as The Mongols (1961) and Mole Men Against the Son of Hercules (1961). His big break came when he had a role in Il Compagno Don Camillo (1965).
Early Life
Garko was born in Zara, he moved from Zara to Trieste, and later Rome to attend University and Drama School. His first prominent film role was a small but important part in the Oscar nominated Kapò (1959). He continued to play parts in several Italian productions including sword and sandal epics such as The Mongols (1961) and Mole Men Against the Son of Hercules (1961). His big break came when he had a role in Il Compagno Don Camillo (1965).
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2019.
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2019
The life of one of the most famous leading-men of Italian popular cinema.
2008.
1 Movie
Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1
2008
This documentary examines the life and legacy of controversial Italian filmmaker Lucio Fulci through interviews with his colleagues, each of whom answers the question, "What is your fondest memory of ...
2006.
2 Movies
Do You Remember Lucio Fulci?
2006
Documentary in which Lucio Fulci's friends and collaborators remember him in a wide range of aspects, from the personal to the professional.
Denn sie kennen kein Erbarmen: Der Italowestern
2006
The beginnings, development and decline of so-called spaghetti-western genre; with clips, interviews and opinions of producers, actors and directors. A nostalgic look at those movies that are still in...
2001.
1 Movie
Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema
2001
The life and work of one of the great masters of Italian cinema, Sergio Leone (1929-89); a rich and fascinating portrait through unpublished testimonies of collaborators, actors, directors and critics...
1992.
1 Movie
Body Puzzle
7.5
1992
The brutal murders committed by a mysterious serial killer he's after have something to do with the late husband of a beautiful widow.
1990.
1 Movie
In nome del popolo sovrano
1990
1849 - Ciceruacchio declares the Independent Republic of Rome, but the French and the Austrians try to bring back the Pope to Rome.
1986.
1 Movie
Black Tunnel
1986
The attempt to kill a guy connected to the mob fails when he and his assassins get trapped in a mountain tunnel.
1984.
1 Movie
Devilfish
1984
A marine biologist, a dolphin trainer, a research scientist, and a local sheriff are trying to hunt down a large sea monster, a shark/octopus hybrid, that is consuming swimmers and fishermen off of a ...
1983.
2 Movies
Amok
1983
Amok deals with the apartheid system in South Africa. It sheds light on the terror, misery, theft, drug addiction, and violent death common under apartheid. (MUBI)
Hercules
1983
The film is an odd retelling of the story of Hercules battling the wizard Minos, who uses "science" in an attempt to take over the world. Hercules must stop him and rescue his princess love in the pro...
1979.
5 Movies
Lo scugnizzo
1979
The New Godfathers
1979
An alliance of crime families is set on getting heroin to the US after a revolution in Iran halted a shipment. An international anti-narcotics agent rushes to shut down their operation after they deci...
Encounters in the Deep
1979
An oceanographer diving in the Bermuda Triangle discovers an undersea world.
Dracula Blows His Cool
1979
An ancestor of the famous vampire gets a job as a photographer shooting beautiful fashion models at the family estate.
1978.
1 Movie
Summer Night Fever
1978
Two buddies head off for a summer holiday, but one of them has to take his sister along. She cramps their style when it comes to picking up chicks. However, they manage to have some fun.
1977.
4 Movies
Joy of Flying
1977
The young wife Silvia is neglected by her husband Kurt. She dreams during the flight to a psychoanalyst Congress similarly Jong's heroine Isadora while reading a novel called emancipatory joy of flyin...
The Psychic
1977
A woman with psychic powers has a vision of a murder that took place in a house owned by her husband.
Three Swedish Girls in Upper Bavaria
1977
Otto runs a hotel for tourists in Tyrol but has troubles both with the economy and with his wife Olga. After a trip to Stockholm he imports three Swedish blondes who eventually save Otto from disaster...
Maldoror
1977
The inspiration, as the title tells, was Les Chants de Maldoror (The Songs of Maldoror). Cavallone followed only loosely the poem, interpolating some of its most outrageous content within the story of...
1975.
1 TV show
TV
Space: 1999
6
1975
When the Moon is thrown into deep space by an explosion, the crew of Moonbase Alpha will have a hard time surviving.
1973.
4 Movies
The Heroes
1973
Four soldiers and a beautiful Greek nurse, thrown together in North Africa during World War II, team up to pull off a heist of two-million pounds in boxes marked "plasma."
The Flower with Petals of Steel
1973
A doctor accidentally kills his girlfriend, when he causes her to fall onto an ornamental flower which has metal spikes. He disposes of her by chopping up and then dissolving her corpse. The woman's...
The Boss
6
1973
The fellows of Attardi's clan were killed in a bomb attack in a cinema in Palermo. He knows that the author of the bomb attack is a member of the Don Corrasco's clan. Cocchi is determined to avenge so...
Charge!
1973
Captain Chadwell, Lieutenant Junger and Sergeant Smith are sent by Washington to help their colleagues of Fort Apache to recover stolen arms. A bounty hunter accompanies them.
1972.
2 Movies
Night of the Devils
1972
Night of the Devils is an Italian vampire thriller with a remarkably good pedigree. The script is based on The Wurdalak, a short story by A.K. Tolstoy. The central character is the patriarch of a weal...
His Name Was Holy Ghost
1972
The Holy Ghost is a supernatural gunfighter who is dressed in white and has a dove on his shoulder. The Holy Ghost rescued some farmers from the fortified prison of the evil General Ubarte, and then r...
1971.
4 Movies
Bad Man's River
1971
Robber Roy King loses his wife, Alicia, to revolutionary Montero. Despite their rivalry they collaborate in an attempt to rob the Mexican government of one million dollars.
A Bullet for a Stranger
1971
John and George McIntire are a couple of naive brothers who travel to a lawless western town to see their father. The bumbling siblings get themselves into big trouble after they beat up a member of a...
Cold Eyes of Fear
1971
Against a backdrop of Swingin' 60s London, a young playboy type "steals" a beautiful Italian girl from her elderly date and suggests she comes back to his place for some good times. His place is owned...
The Price of Death
1971
Four people are killed in a saloon hold-up. The townspeople pin the murders on local no-count black sheep Chester Conway. Lawyer Jeff Plummer and prostitute Polly Winters don't believe that Chester is...
1970.
5 Movies
Light the Fuse… Sartana Is Coming
1970
Wily roving gunslinger Sartana arrives in a small town and tries to find a hidden fortune of half a million dollars in gold and two million dollars in counterfeit money. Naturally, a bunch of other tr...
The Cop
1970
A crackdown on drugs leads a burned out cop (Michel Bouquet) to take the law into his own hands and seek revenge against villainous drug dealers. Word comes down from above that the United States feel...
Sartana Kills Them All
1970
A pair of outlaws are looking for some loot that is missing from a previous robbery. Outsmarting and murdering people who try to stop their plans.
Waterloo
1970
After defeating France and imprisoning Napoleon on Elba, ending two decades of war, Europe is shocked to find Napoleon has escaped and has caused the French Army to defect from the King back to him. T...
Have a Good Funeral, My Friend… Sartana Will Pay
2
1970
After witnessing a brutal massacre, the legendary hero Sartana is ready to do some investigating. Almost everyone in the tiny town of Indian Creek seems eager to buy up the property left behind by the...
1969.
3 Movies
Sartana the Gravedigger
1.5
1969
Sartana is falsely accused of robbing a bank, and must find the real robbers and clear his name.
Five for Hell
1969
Gianni 'John' Garko stars as the fun-loving leader of a bunch of oddball, acrobatic G.I.s whose mission is to steal the German's secret attack plans from a villa behind enemy lines, where they run int...
Thunder from the West
1969
During World War II an Italian secret agent is sent undercover to kill the head of the resistance in Budapest.
1968.
5 Movies
Giorni di sangue
1968
Rose rosse per il Führer
1968
James Daly is an American special soldier who goes behind enemy territory during WWII. His Objective: to steal top secret SS document that can change the course of the war.
Taste of Vengeance
1968
A group of Northern vigilantes, roaming the post Civil War south, attack and kill the fiancee of war veteran Brian (Garko), who is rescued by his friend, Daniel (Rassimov). The two, with brother Rober...
Lucrezia
1968
Fabrizio finds refuge from thugs in a convent, and passion in the arms of Lucrezia Borgia.
If You Meet Sartana Pray for Your Death
1
1968
After a stagecoach is robbed and the passengers murdered, a long and tangled series of surprise attacks and double-crosses leaves the coach's strongbox in the hands of the killer Lasky. It is up to th...
1967.
2 Movies
Vengeance Is Mine
1967
Johnny Forest tried to fulfill his mother's dying wish by bringing Clint, his outlaw brother, to life. On the run from Jurago, a former partner he has crossed, Clint accepts Johnny's help, and agrees ...
10,000 Dollars for a Massacre
1967
Django is hunting the bandit Manuel, because there's a price on his head. But when he meets Manuel, he joins his gang instead for a robbery.
1966.
2 Movies
$1,000 on the Black
1966
Johnny Liston has just been released from prison where he has wrongly served twelve years for a murder. He returns to Campos, the village of his birth, where the whole town is terrorized by Johnny's b...
Almost a Man
1966
A young writer descends into madness. Alienated, neurotic, and plagued by guilt, Michele retreats from reality, loses interest in work, and comes to the brink of suicide before being sent to an asylum...
1965.
1 Movie
Don Camillo in Moscow
1965
The village of mayor Peppone and Don Camillo, after much dispute, gets assigned a sister village in Russia. When Peppone and his comrades decide to attend the ceremony on the other side of the iron cu...
1964.
2 Movies
Saul and David
1964
Eighteen in the Sun
1964
The beach party movies of Annette-Gidget were all the rage in North America in the early 60s. Nicole Molino and Nicola Molino are not related to each other. They don't know each other until they are a...
1962.
3 Movies
Pontius Pilate
1962
The events that culminated with the Passion of Christ seen from the perspective of Pontius Pilate, the Procurator of Judea who unwillingly condemned Christ to death. Based on the biblical Gospel of Jo...
The Avenger
1962
Aeneas leads escapees from the Trojan war to new land in Italy, and must deal with new threats to his people.
Crazy Desire
1962
A middle-aged businessman meets a band of rowdy youths and is smitten by one, named Francesca.
1961.
3 Movies
The Mongols
1961
Genghis Khan and his Mongol army invade Poland and lay siege to the city of Cracow. The Polish king tries to make peace in order to save his city, and Genghis Khan seems amenable to that. However, his...
One Night at the Beach
1961
Un soir sur la plage is relatively interesting; the cast includes highly talented Jean Dessailly, Martine Carol, a cast against type Michel Galabru as the cop.The biggest surprise is sixties starlet D...
Mole Men Against the Son of Hercules
1961
Maciste arranges for himself and his new friend Bangor to be captured by a mysterious band of white-clad marauders and taken to an underground city. There the two are forced to turn an enormous wheel ...
1960.
2 Movies
Kapo
1960
Determined to survive at any price, Edith, a young Jewish woman deported to an extermination camp, manages to survive by accepting the role of kapo, a privileged prisoner whose mission is to ruthlessl...
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