03/17/1925
Rome, Italy:
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Gabriele Ferzetti, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Diciotto anni dopo (2010) as Enrico |
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Io sono l'amore (2010) as Edoardo Recchi Senior |
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1612: Хроники смутного времени (2007) as |
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Papa Luciani - Il sorriso di Dio (2006) as Card. Giuseppe Siri |
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Callas e Onassis (2005) as Livanos |
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Concorso di colpa (2005) as Vito Santamaria |
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The Wages of Sin (2003) as Self - Actor |
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Something to Do with Death (2003) as Self - Actor |
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An Opera of Violence (2003) as Self - Actor |
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Perduto amor (2003) as Tommaso Pasini |
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L'avvocato de Gregorio (2003) as Alfonso |
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Le ragazze di Miss Italia (2002) as professor De Lollis |
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Porzûs (1997) as Strono vecchio |
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Con rabbia e con amore (1997) as Leone |
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Othello (1995) as The Duke of Venice |
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Nero come il cuore (1994) as Signor Noé Alga Croce |
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Weihnachtsfest mit Hindernissen (1994) as Vittorio |
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Il burattinaio (1994) as Ben Costa |
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Die Ringe des Saturn (1993) as |
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Caldo soffocante (1991) as Gaetano Castelli |
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Una fredda mattina di maggio (1990) as Signor Mantoni |
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Gli angeli del potere (1990) as Dr. Donhal |
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Voyage of Terror: The Achille Lauro Affair (1990) as |
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Computron 22 (1988) as Il Nonno |
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Giulia e Giulia (1988) as Alfredo |
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Ritorno a Lisca Bianca (1983) as Sandro (voice) (archive footage) |
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Il quartetto Basileus (1983) as Mario Cantone |
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Grog (1982) as Alberto |
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Morte in Vaticano (1982) as Cardinale Ixaguirre |
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Quasi quasi mi sposo (1982) as Ingegnere |
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La mano indemoniata (1981) as Maestro Gomin |
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Inchon (1981) as Turkish Brigadier |
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Incontro con gli umanoidi (L'ultimo s.o.s.) (Uragano sulle Bermude) (1979) as Miles |
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Gli anni struggenti (1979) as Padre di Saverio |
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Porci con la P.38 (1978) as Max Astarita |
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Mon Premier Amour (1978) as Georges |
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L'Ordre et la sécurité du monde (1978) as Herzog |
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Der Richter und sein Henker (1978) as Dr. Lutz |
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Suggestionata (1978) as Gregorio |
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Sette note in nero (1977) as Emilio Rospini |
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Oedipus orca (1977) as Valerio |
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A Matter of Time (1976) as Antonio Vicari |
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Gli amici di Nick Hezard (1976) as Maurice |
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La orca (1976) as Valerio |
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Le Guêpier (1976) as Gaspard |
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Lezioni di violoncello con toccata e fuga (1976) as Il padre di Stella |
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...a tutte le auto della polizia... (1975) as Professor Andrea Icardi |
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Un uomo curioso (1975) as Moriondo |
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Corruzione al palazzo di giustizia (1975) as Prandó |
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La prova d'amore (1974) as Angela Father |
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Fatevi vivi, la polizia non interverrà (1974) as Don Francesco Salvatore |
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Processo per direttissima (1974) as L'avvocato Finaldi |
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Appassionata (1974) as Dr. Emilio Rutelli |
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Il portiere di notte (1974) as Hans |
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Bisturi - La mafia bianca (1973) as Prof. Daniele Vallotti |
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Hitler: The Last Ten Days (1973) as Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm Keitel |
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Trois Milliards Sans Ascenseur (1972) as Raphaël |
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Mendiants et Orgueilleux (1972) as |
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Alta tensión (1972) as Pablo Moncada |
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Un uomo dalla pelle dura (1972) as Nick La Caterina / Tony La Monica |
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Un'anguilla da 300 milioni (1971) as Vasco |
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Cannabis (1970) as Inspector Bardeche |
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L'Aveu (1970) as Kohoutek |
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L'amica (1969) as Paolo Marchesi |
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On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) as Marc Ange Draco |
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Un bellissimo novembre (1969) as Biagio |
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Gli intoccabili (1969) as Don Francesco DeMarco |
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C'era una volta il West (1968) as Morton |
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Roma come Chicago (1968) as Commissioner |
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L'età del malessere (1968) as Guido |
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Meglio Vedova (1968) as Don Calogero Minniti |
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I protagonisti (1968) as Il Commissario |
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Grazie, zia (1968) as Stefano |
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Escalation (1968) as Augusto Lambertinghi |
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Un diablo bajo la almohada (1968) as Anselmo |
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A ciascuno il suo (1967) as Avvocato Rosello |
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L'arcidiavolo (1966) as Lorenzo de' Medici |
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The Bible: In the Beginning... (1966) as Lot |
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Trois chambres à Manhattan (1965) as le comte Larsi |
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Par un beau matin d'été (1965) as Victor Dermott |
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Crucero de verano (1964) as Carlos Brul y Betancourt |
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Desideri d'estate (1964) as |
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La calda vita (1964) as Guido |
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Mort, où est ta victoire ? (1964) as Max |
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Un tentativo sentimentale (1963) as Giulio |
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Beta Som (1963) as Leonardi |
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Il giorno più corto (1963) as Tenente in trincea |
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Venere imperiale (1962) as Freron |
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I don Giovanni della Costa Azzurra (1962) as Avvocato Leblanc |
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La Croix des vivants (1962) as Abbot Delcourt |
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La monaca di Monza (1962) as Gian Paolo Osio |
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Jessica (1962) as Edmondo Raumo |
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Congo vivo (1962) as Roberto Santi |
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Rencontres (1962) as Ralph Scaffari |
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Femmine di lusso (1960) as Alberto Bressan |
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Il carro armato dell'8 settembre (1960) as Tommaso |
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La lunga notte del '43 (1960) as Franco Villani |
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L'avventura (1960) as Sandro |
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Labbra rosse (1960) as Avvocato Paolo Martini |
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Annibale (1959) as Senator Quintus Fabius |
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Le Secret du chevalier d'Éon (1959) as Bernard Turquet de Mayenne |
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Tutti Innamorati (1959) as Arturo |
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Racconti d'estate (1958) as Giulio Ferrari |
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Tant d'amour perdu (1958) as Frédéric Solingen |
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Ballerina e Buon Dio (1958) as Andrea |
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Nata di marzo (1958) as Sandro |
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Souvenir d'Italie (1957) as Lawyer Alberto Cortini |
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Parola di ladro (1957) as Desiderio |
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Il prezzo della gloria (1956) as Comandante Alberto Bruni |
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Donatella (1956) as Maurizio |
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Difendo il mio amore (1956) as Pietro Leonardi |
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Un po' di cielo (1955) as Frank Lo Giudice |
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Le amiche (1955) as Lorenzo |
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Adriana Lecouvreur (1955) as Maurizio di Sassonia |
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Le avventure di Giacomo Casanova (1954) as Casanova |
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Casa Ricordi (1954) as Giacomo Puccini |
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Camilla (1954) as Dott. Mario Rossetti |
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Vergine moderna (1954) as Gabriele Demico |
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Vestire gli ignudi (1954) as Ludovico Nota |
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Cento anni d'amore (1954) as Carlo, the Political Prisoner (segm. "Gli ultimi dieci Minuti") |
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Il sole negli occhi (1953) as Fernando Maestrelli |
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Puccini (1953) as Giacomo Puccini |
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La provinciale (1953) as Professor Franco Vagnuzzi |
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Tre storie proibite (1952) as Mario |
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Inganno (1952) as Andrea Vannini |
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I falsari (1951) as Dario |
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Il Cristo proibito (1951) as (uncredited) |
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Gli amanti di Ravello (1951) as Sandro Deodata |
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Lo zappatore (1950) as |
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Barriera a Settentrione (1950) as Leutnant Berti |
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Benvenuto reverendo! (1950) as The veteran |
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Fabiola (1949) as Claudio |
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Guglielmo Tell (1948) as |
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I miserabili: Caccia all'uomo (1948) as (uncredited) |
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Vertigine d'amore (1948) as |
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La contessa Castiglione (1942) as (uncredited) |