Gian Maria Volonté

★ Acting #1,289

1933 - 1994 (age 61) • Acting

Born: 4/9/1933 in Milano, Lombardia, Italy

Died: 12/6/1994 (age 61)

Known for: Acting

Gian Maria Volonté

★ Acting #1,289

Gian Maria Volonté (9 April 1933 – 6 December 1994) was an Italian actor. He is perhaps most famous outside of Italy for his roles as the main villain in Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars (credited in the USA as "Johnny Wels") and For a Few Dollars More.

Known For

A Fistful of Dollars

78%

Ramón Rojo

1964

For a Few Dollars More

80%

El Indio

1965

Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion

82%

Dottore

1970

Le Cercle Rouge

76%

Vogel

1970

For Love and Gold

77%

Teofilatto dei Leonzi

1966

The Working Class Goes to Heaven

78%

Lulù Massa

1971

Sacco & Vanzetti

77%

Bartolomeo Vanzetti

1971

Slap the Monster on Page One

77%

Bizanti

1972

Volonté: The Man of a Thousand Faces

71%

Self (archive footage)

2024

Rosi About Eboli

100%

Self

2022

We Are Cinema

95%

Self (archive footage)

2021

Zénon the Rebel

Self (archive footage)

2019

Forgotten Activism

80%

Self (archive footage)

2017

Spanish Western

64%

The Indian (archive footage)

2015

Un attore contro - Gian Maria Volonté

52%

Self (archive footage)

2005

Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker

67%

Self (archive footage)

2005

Investigation of a Citizen Named Volonté

65%

Self (archive footage)

2004

The Bankers of God: The Calvi Affair

63%

Thanks

2002

Ulysses' Gaze

75%

In Memory Of

1995

Banderas, the Tyrant

54%

Tirano Banderas

1993

Funes, a Great Love

49%

El tano Bérgami

1993

A Simple Story

68%

Carmelo Franzò

1991

Open Doors

72%

Giudice Vito Di Francesco

1990

Tre colonne in cronaca

64%

Alberto Landolfi

1990

Pestalozzi's Mountain

65%

Pestalozzi

1989

The Abyss

54%

Zenone

1988

A Boy from Calabria

66%

Felice

1987

Chronicle of a Death Foretold

73%

Dr. Cristo Bedoya

1987

The Moro Affair

66%

Aldo Moro

1986

The Death of Mario Ricci

63%

Bernard Fontana

1983

The Charterhouse of Parma

85%

Count Mosca

1982

Lady of the Camelias

61%

Plessis

1981

La Storia Vera Della Signora Dalle Camelie

40%

Plessis

1981

Cristo si è fermato a Eboli

80%

Carlo Levi

1980

Stark System

85%

Stark

1980

Stark System

85%

Writer

1980