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 o
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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Born
Mar 17, 1925
Rome, Italy
Died
Dec 02, 2015
Known For
Acting
Movies
141 acting
0 crew
Popularity
1.5
Known For
Once Upon a Time in the West
1968
as Morton
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
1969
as Marc Ange Draco
The Night Porter
1974
as Hans
The Bible: In the Beginning...
1966
as Lot
L'Avventura
1960
as Sandro
I Am Love
2010
as Edoardo Recchi Senior
The Psychic
1977
as Emilio Rospini
Othello
1995
as The Duke of Venice
The Confession
1970
as Kohoutek
We Still Kill the Old Way
1967
as Avvocato Rosello
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