Cast & creator
Gian Maria Volonté
Best known for Spécial cinéma, Ciné regards, A Fistful of Dollars
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. In Italy and much of Europe, he was notable for his roles in high-profile social dramas depicting the political and social stirrings of Italian and European society in the 1960s and 1970s, including four films directed by Elio Petri - We Still Kill the Old Way (1967), Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1971), The Working Class Goes to Heaven (1971) and Todo modo (1976). He is also recognized for his performances in Jean-Pierre Melville's Le Cercle Rouge (1970) and Giuliano Montaldo's Sacco & Vanzetti (1971). Description above from the Wikipedia article Gian Maria Volonté, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Also known as: Johnny Wels, Gian-Maria Volonte, Джан Мария Волонте
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television credits
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1957–2024 · acting roles
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Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (91)
Showing 91 of 91 credits
Spécial cinéma
Self
1974
Ciné regards
Self
1978
A Fistful of Dollars
Ramón Rojo
1964
For a Few Dollars More
El Indio
1965
Le inchieste del commissario Maigret
Radek
1964
Ulysses' Gaze
In Memory Of
1995
Le Cercle Rouge
Vogel
1970
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
Dottore
1970
The Charterhouse of Parma
Count Mosca
1982
Operation Ogre
Izarra
1979
The Assassination
Sadiel
1972
Diamoci del tu
Self
1967
The Working Class Goes to Heaven
Lulù Massa
1971
Girl with a Suitcase
Piero Benotti
1961
Sacco & Vanzetti
Bartolomeo Vanzetti
1971
The Magnificent Cuckold
Assessore
1964
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Dr. Cristo Bedoya
1987
A Bullet for the General
Chuncho Munos / 'El Chuncho'
1967
The Abyss
Zenone
1988
For Love and Gold
Teofilatto dei Leonzi
1966
We Are Cinema
Self (archive footage)
2021
Open Doors
Giudice Vito Di Francesco
1990
We Still Kill the Old Way
Professore Paolo Laurana
1967
Lady of the Camelias
Plessis
1981
The Four Days of Naples
Stimolo
1962
Hercules and the Captive Women
Re di Sparta
1961
Face to Face
Professor Brett Fletcher
1967
Slap the Monster on Page One
Bizanti
1972
Wind from the East
The Northern Ranger
1970
Giordano Bruno
Giordano Bruno
1973
La Storia Vera Della Signora Dalle Camelie
Plessis
1981
Una vita in gioco
Radek
1965
The Witch
Fabrizio
1966
Lucky Luciano
Charles 'Lucky' Luciano
1973
Wake Up and Die
Inspector Moroni
1966
The Mattei Affair
Enrico Mattei
1972
Christ Stopped at Eboli
Carlo Levi
1979
Spanish Western
The Indian (archive footage)
2015
The Death of Mario Ricci
Bernard Fontana
1983
The Bandit
Gramigna
1969
Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker
Self (archive footage)
2005
Journey Beneath the Desert
Tarath
1961
On the Tiger's Back
Papaleo
1961
Vita di Michelangelo
Michelangelo
1964
Tre colonne in cronaca
Alberto Landolfi
1990
The Seven Cervi Brothers
Aldo Cervi
1968
I Am Afraid
Brigadiere Ludovico Graziano
1977
Zénon the Rebel
Self (archive footage)
2019
The Bankers of God: The Calvi Affair
Thanks
2002
The Idiot
Parfen Rogozin
1959
Cristo si è fermato a Eboli
Carlo Levi
1980
A Man for Burning
Salvatore
1962
One Way or Another
M.
1976
Summer Night
Alberto
1963
Letters from Marusia
Gregorio
1975
Under Ten Flags
Samuel Braunstein
1960
Many Wars Ago
Lt. Ottolenghi
1970
A Boy from Calabria
Felice
1987
Reflections on a Political Cinema
Self - Interviewee
1978
Under the Sign of Scorpio
Renno
1969
The Violent Four
Piero Cavallero
1968
Forgotten Activism
Self (archive footage)
2017Documents on Giuseppe Pinelli
Self / Reenactor (uncredited)
1970
Phaedra
Ippolito
1957
Investigation of a Citizen Named Volonté
Self (archive footage)
2004
Seasons of Our Love
Leonardo Varzi
1966
Volonté: The Man of a Thousand Faces
Self (archive footage)
2024
Reggio Calabria
Director
1972
The Moro Affair
Aldo Moro
1986
La strada più lunga
Michele
1965
The Terrorist
Renato Braschi , l'ingeniere
1963
Un attore contro - Gian Maria Volonté
Self (archive footage)
2005
Funes, a Great Love
El tano Bérgami
1993
The Suspect
Emilio
1975
The Felling of the Forest
Guglielmo
1963Ipotesi sulla morte di G. Pinelli
Self
1970
Banderas, the Tyrant
Tirano Banderas
1993
Apollon: una fabbrica occupata
Narrator (voice)
1969La tenda in piazza
Self (voice) (uncredited)
1972La tenda in piazza
Director
1972
La foresta pietrificata
1959
Festival dell’Unità 1972
self
1973
A Simple Story
Carmelo Franzò
1991
Summit
Paolo
1968
Stark System
Stark
1980Stark System
Writer
1980
Caravaggio
Caravaggio
1967
A Gangstergirl
Jascha Freud
1966
Saul
David
1959
Pestalozzi's Mountain
Pestalozzi
1989
Rosi About Eboli
Self
2022