
Gabriele Ferzetti
Known for Acting · 150 credits
- Born
- 1925-03-17
- Died
- 2015-12-02
- Place of birth
- Rome, Italy
- Also known as
- Pasquale Ferzetti · Gabriel Ferzetti · Gaetano Ferzetti · Габриэле Ферцетти · Габриеле Ферцетти · 加布里埃尔·费尔泽蒂
Biography
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.
Known For

Once Upon a Time in the West
1968
as Morton

On Her Majesty's Secret Service
1969
as Marc Ange Draco

Appassionata
1974
as Dr. Emilio Rutelli

That Splendid November
1969
as Biagio
Weihnachtsfest mit Hindernissen
1994
as Vittorio

Around the World in 80 Days
1989
as Italian Chief of Police
TV Shows (12)

Around the World in 80 Days
1989
as Italian Chief of Police

Quo Vadis?
1985
as Pisone

Private Crimes
1993
as Dr. Guido Braschi

The Devil's Game
1981
as Master Gomin

Édouard et ses filles
1990
as Antoine di Marco

Divorce His, Divorce Hers
1973
as Turi Livicci

Pope John Paul I: The Smile of God
2006
as Card. Giuseppe Siri
Die goldenen Schuhe
1983
as Marquesade Buenaventa

Callas & Onassis
2005
as Livanos

Delitto e castigo
1983
as Svidrigajlov

La voglia di vincere
1987
as Professor Besson
I Vecchi E I Giovani
1979
Movies (138)

Once Upon a Time in the West
1968
as Morton

On Her Majesty's Secret Service
1969
as Marc Ange Draco

Appassionata
1974
as Dr. Emilio Rutelli

That Splendid November
1969
as Biagio
Weihnachtsfest mit Hindernissen
1994
as Vittorio

L'Avventura
1960
as Sandro

The Bible: In the Beginning...
1966
as Lot

Grog
1982
as Alberto

The Night Porter
1974
as Hans

Inchon
1981
as Turkish Brigadier

I Am Love
2010
as Edoardo Recchi Senior

Hospitals: The White Mafia
1973
as Prof. Daniele Vallotti

Everyone's in Love
1959
as Arturo

House of Ricordi
1954
as Giacomo Puccini

The Counterfeiters
1951
as Dario

Better a Widow
1968
as Don Calogero Minniti

Le Amiche
1955
as Lorenzo

Hitler: The Last Ten Days
1973
as Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm Keitel

Come Play With Me
1968
as Stefano

Machine Gun McCain
1969
as Don Francesco DeMarco

Welcome Reverend!
1950
as The veteran

Othello
1995
as The Duke of Venice

La Orca
1976
as Valerio

Julia and Julia
1988
as Alfredo

Love, the Italian Way
1960
as Alberto Bressan

First Action Hero
1994
as Ben Costa

Hannibal
1959
as Senator Quintus Fabius

Love on the Riviera
1958
as Giulio Ferrari

The Confession
1970
as Kohoutek

1612: Chronicles of the Dark Time
2007

The Psychic
1977
as Emilio Rospini

Voyage of Terror: The Achille Lauro Affair
1990

End of the Game
1978
as Dr. Lutz

The Devil in Love
1966
as Lorenzo de' Medici

An Opera of Violence
2003
as Self - Actor

Long Night in '43
1960
as Franco Villani

Jessica
1962
as Edmondo Raumo

The Shortest Day
1963
as Tenente in trincea

We Still Kill the Old Way
1967
as Avvocato Rosello

Imperial Venus
1962
as Freron

Puccini
1953
as Giacomo Puccini

Fabiola
1949
as Claudio

3000 Million Without an Elevator
1972
as Raphaël

Sins of Casanova
1954
as Casanova

A Matter of Time
1976
as Antonio Vicari

The Protagonists
1968
as Il Commissario

Kidnap
1974
as Don Francesco Salvatore

Beach Casanova
1962
as Avvocato Leblanc

Last In, First Out
1978
as Herzog

Quick Trial
1974
as L'avvocato Finaldi

Calling All Police Cars
1975
as Professor Andrea Icardi

It Happened in Rome
1957
as Lawyer Alberto Cortini

Rencontres
1962
as Ralph Scaffari

Oedipus Orca
1977
as Valerio

Callas & Onassis
2005
as Livanos

Camilla
1954
as Dott. Mario Rossetti

Les Misérables
1948
as (uncredited)

Escalation
1968
as Augusto Lambertinghi

The Proof of love
1974
as Angela Father

Suffocating Heat
1991
as Gaetano Castelli

The Boxer
1972
as Nick La Caterina / Tony La Monica

The Wages of Sin
2003
as Self - Actor

Three Rooms in Manhattan
1965
as le comte Larsi

Bandits in Rome
1968
as Commissioner

The Nun of Monza
1962
as Gian Paolo Osio

Something to Do with Death
2003
as Self - Actor

The Possessed Hand
1981
as Maestro Gomin

The Forbidden Christ
1951
as (uncredited)

Torpedo Bay
1963
as Leonardi

Million Dollar Eel
1971
as Vasco

March's Child
1958
as Sandro

The Wayward Wife
1953
as Professor Franco Vagnuzzi

100 Years of Love
1954
as Carlo, the Political Prisoner (segm. "Gli ultimi dieci Minuti")

A Devil Under the Pillow
1968
as Anselmo

Smiling Maniacs
1975
as Prandó

Death in the Vatican
1982
as Cardinale Ixaguirre

Pope John Paul I: The Smile of God
2006
as Card. Giuseppe Siri

Cannabis
1970
as Inspector Bardeche

Donatella
1956
as Maurizio

Red Lips
1960
as Avvocato Paolo Martini

The Hornet's Nest
1976
as Gaspard

Empty Eyes
1953
as Fernando Maestrelli

Modern Virgin
1954
as Gabriele Demico

High Voltage
1972
as Pablo Moncada

Inganno
1952
as Andrea Vannini

Cross of the Living
1962
as Abbot Delcourt

The Great Deception
1959
as Bernard Turquet de Mayenne

Encounters in the Deep
1979
as Miles

Nick the Sting
1976
as Maurice

Il carro armato dell'8 settembre
1960
as Tommaso

La contessa Castiglione
1942
as (uncredited)

Concorso di colpa
2005
as Vito Santamaria

Lezioni di violoncello con toccata e fuga
1976
as Il padre di Stella

Death, Where Is Your Victory?
1964
as Max

Suggestionata
1978
as Gregorio

Angel in a Taxi
1958
as Andrea

Lo zappatore
1950

Parola di ladro
1957
as Desiderio

Crime on a Summer Morning
1965
as Victor Dermott

Three Forbidden Stories
1952
as Mario

La calda vita
1964
as Guido

The Basileus Quartet
1983
as Mario Cantone

18 Years Later
2010
as Enrico

Una fredda mattina di maggio
1990
as Signor Mantoni

Con rabbia e con amore
1997
as Leone

L'amica
1969
as Paolo Marchesi

Beggars and Proud Ones
1972

Mon Premier Amour
1978
as Georges

Defend My Love
1956
as Pietro Leonardi

Love Problems
1968
as Guido

Il prezzo della gloria
1956
as Comandante Alberto Bruni

Return to Lisca Bianca Island
1983
as Sandro (voice) (archive footage)

Porzûs
1997
as Strono vecchio

William Tell
1948

Adriana Lecouvreur
1955
as Maurizio di Sassonia

Eruption
1962
as Roberto Santi

A Sentimental Attempt
1963
as Giulio

Computron 22
1988
as Il Nonno

Lost Love
2003
as Tommaso Pasini
Gli angeli del potere
1990
as Dr. Donhal
About 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… With 150 credits spanning from 1942 to 2010, Gabriele Ferzetti has appeared in 138 films and 12 TV shows.
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- Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) — as Morton
- On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) — as Marc Ange Draco
- Appassionata (1974) — as Dr. Emilio Rutelli
- That Splendid November (1969) — as Biagio
- Weihnachtsfest mit Hindernissen (1994) — as Vittorio
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