
Gabriele Ferzetti
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.
Known For
Credits
- 2025 · Fragment of a Lover’s Discourse as Sandro
- 2010 · 18 Years Later as Enrico
- 2010 · I Am Love as Edoardo Recchi Senior
- 2007 · 1612: Chronicles of the Dark Time as
- 2006 · Papa Luciani - il sorriso di Dio as Card. Giuseppe Siri
- 2006 · Pope John Paul I: The Smile of God as Card. Giuseppe Siri
- 2005 · Callas & Onassis as Livanos
- 2003 · An Opera of Violence as Self - Actor
- 2003 · The Wages of Sin as Self - Actor
- 2003 · Something to Do with Death as Self - Actor
- 2003 · Lost Love as Tommaso Pasini
- 2003 · L'avvocato de Gregorio as Alfonso
- 2002 · Best Ever Bond as Draco (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 1997 · Porzûs as Strono vecchio
- 1994 · First Action Hero as Ben Costa
- 1994 · Weihnachtsfest mit Hindernissen as Vittorio
- 1993 · Die Ringe des Saturn as
- 1993 · Private Crimes as Dr. Guido Braschi
- 1991 · Suffocating Heat as Gaetano Castelli
- 1990 · Édouard et ses filles as Antoine di Marco
- 1990 · Una fredda mattina di maggio as Signor Mantoni
- 1990 · Voyage of Terror: The Achille Lauro Affair as
- 1989 · Around the World in 80 Days as Italian Chief of Police
- 1988 · Computron 22 as Il Nonno
- 1988 · Julia and Julia as Alfredo
- 1987 · La voglia di vincere as Professor Besson
- 1985 · Quo Vadis? as Pisone
- 1983 · Die goldenen Schuhe as Marquesade Buenaventa
- 1983 · Delitto e castigo as Svidrigajlov
- 1983 · The Basileus Quartet as Mario Cantone
- 1982 · Grog as Alberto
- 1982 · Death in the Vatican as Cardinale Ixaguirre
- 1981 · The Possessed Hand as Maestro Gomin
- 1981 · The Devil's Game as Master Gomin
- 1981 · Inchon as Turkish Brigadier
- 1979 · I Vecchi E I Giovani as
- 1979 · The Burning Years as Padre di Saverio
- 1978 · Last In, First Out as Herzog
- 1978 · Suggestionata as Gregorio
- 1977 · The Psychic as Emilio Rospini
- 1977 · Oedipus Orca as Valerio
- 1976 · A Matter of Time as Antonio Vicari
- 1976 · La Orca as Valerio
- 1976 · The Hornet's Nest as Gaspard
- 1976 · Lezioni di violoncello con toccata e fuga as Il padre di Stella
- 1975 · Calling All Police Cars as Professor Andrea Icardi
- 1975 · A Curious Man as Moriondo
- 1975 · Smiling Maniacs as Prandó
- 1974 · Kidnap as Don Francesco Salvatore
- 1974 · Appassionata as Dr. Emilio Rutelli
- 1974 · The Night Porter as Hans
- 1974 · La prova d'amore as Angela Father
- 1973 · Hospitals: The White Mafia as Prof. Daniele Vallotti
- 1973 · Hitler: The Last Ten Days as Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm Keitel
- 1973 · Divorce His, Divorce Hers as Turi Livicci
- 1972 · High Voltage as Pablo Moncada
- 1972 · The Boxer as Nick La Caterina / Tony La Monica
- 1971 · Million Dollar Eel as Vasco
- 1970 · Cannabis as Inspector Bardeche
- 1970 · The Confession as Kohoutek
- 1969 · On Her Majesty's Secret Service as Marc Ange Draco
- 1969 · That Splendid November as Biagio
- 1969 · Machine Gun McCain as Don Francesco DeMarco
- 1968 · Once Upon a Time in the West as Morton
- 1968 · Bandits in Rome as Commissioner
- 1968 · Love Problems as Guido
- 1968 · Better a Widow as Don Calogero Minniti
- 1968 · The Protagonists as Il Commissario
- 1968 · Come Play With Me as Stefano
- 1968 · A Devil Under the Pillow as Anselmo
- 1967 · We Still Kill the Old Way as Avvocato Rosello
- 1966 · The Devil in Love as Lorenzo de' Medici
- 1966 · The Bible: In the Beginning... as Lot
- 1965 · Three Rooms in Manhattan as le comte Larsi
- 1965 · Crime on a Summer Morning as Victor Dermott
- 1964 · La calda vita as Guido
- 1963 · A Sentimental Attempt as Giulio
- 1963 · Torpedo Bay as Leonardi
- 1963 · The Shortest Day as Tenente in trincea
- 1962 · Beach Casanova as Avvocato Leblanc
- 1962 · Imperial Venus as Freron
- 1962 · Cross of the Living as Abbot Delcourt
- 1962 · The Nun of Monza as Gian Paolo Osio
- 1962 · Jessica as Edmondo Raumo
- 1962 · Rencontres as Ralph Scaffari
- 1960 · Il carro armato dell'8 settembre as Tommaso
- 1960 · Long Night in '43 as Franco Villani
- 1960 · L'Avventura as Sandro
- 1959 · Hannibal as Senator Quintus Fabius
- 1959 · The Great Deception as Bernard Turquet de Mayenne
- 1959 · Everyone's in Love as Arturo
- 1958 · Love on the Riviera as Giulio Ferrari
- 1958 · So Much Love Lost as Frédéric Solingen
- 1958 · Angel in a Taxi as Andrea
- 1958 · March's Child as Sandro
- 1957 · It Happened in Rome as Lawyer Alberto Cortini
- 1956 · Il prezzo della gloria as Comandante Alberto Bruni
- 1956 · Donatella as Maurizio
- 1955 · Un po' di cielo as Frank Lo Giudice
- 1954 · Sins of Casanova as Casanova
- 1954 · House of Ricordi as Giacomo Puccini
- 1954 · Camilla as Dott. Mario Rossetti
- 1954 · Modern Virgin as Gabriele Demico
- 1954 · 100 Years of Love as Carlo, the Political Prisoner (segm. "Gli ultimi dieci Minuti")
- 1953 · Puccini as Giacomo Puccini
- 1953 · The Wayward Wife as Professor Franco Vagnuzzi
- 1952 · Three Forbidden Stories as Mario
- 1951 · The Counterfeiters as Dario
- 1951 · The Forbidden Christ as (uncredited)
- Future · Il burattinaio as Ben Costa
- 2017 · Archaeology of a Set: Return to Lisca Bianca as Sandro (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 2005 · Concorso di colpa as Vito Santamaria
- 2002 · Le ragazze di Miss Italia as professor De Lollis
- 1997 · Con rabbia e con amore as
- 1994 · Black as the Heart as Signor Noé Alga Croce
- 1990 · Gli angeli del potere as Dr. Donhal
- 1983 · Return to Lisca Bianca Island as Sandro (voice) (archive footage)
- 1979 · Encounters in the Deep as Miles
- 1978 · Pigs with a P.38 as Max Astarita
- 1978 · Mon premier amour as Georges
- 1978 · End of the Game as Dr. Lutz
- 1976 · Nick the Sting as Maurice
- 1974 · Quick Trial as L'avvocato Finaldi
- 1972 · 3000 Million Without an Elevator as Raphaël
- 1972 · Beggars and Proud Ones as
- 1969 · L'amica as Paolo Marchesi
- 1968 · Escalation as Augusto Lambertinghi
- 1964 · Crucero de verano as Carlos Brul y Betancourt
- 1964 · Desideri d'estate as
- 1964 · Death, Where Is Your Victory? as Max
- 1962 · Eruption as Roberto Santi
- 1960 · Love, the Italian Way as Alberto Bressan
- 1960 · Red Lips as Avvocato Paolo Martini
- 1957 · Parola di ladro as Desiderio
- 1956 · Defend My Love as Pietro Leonardi
- 1955 · Le Amiche as Lorenzo
- 1955 · Adriana Lecouvreur as Maurizio di Sassonia
- 1954 · Clothing the Naked as Ludovico Nota
- 1953 · Empty Eyes as Fernando Maestrelli
- 1952 · Inganno as Andrea Vannini
- 1951 · Gli amanti di Ravello as Sandro Deodata
- 1950 · Lo zappatore as
- 1950 · Welcome Reverend! as The veteran
- 1949 · Fabiola as Claudio
- 1948 · William Tell as
- 1948 · Les Misérables as (uncredited)
- 1948 · Vertigine d'amore as
- 1942 · La contessa Castiglione as (uncredited)