Gabriele Ferzetti
AKA: Pasquale Ferzetti
Birthday: 1925-03-17
Died: 2015-12-02
Birthplace: Rome, Italy
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.
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Filmography
Character: Marc Ange Draco
Character: Giacomo Puccini
Character: Emilio Rospini
Character: Edoardo Recchi Senior
Character: Carlos Brul y Betancourt
Character: Franco Villani
Character: Don Francesco DeMarco
Character: Inspector Bardeche
Character: Strono vecchio
Character: Dr. Emilio Rutelli
Character: Bernard Turquet de Mayenne
Character: Prof. Daniele Vallotti
Character: Turkish Brigadier
Character: Victor Dermott
Character: le comte Larsi
Character: Fernando Maestrelli
Character: Paolo Marchesi
Character: Gaetano Castelli
Character: Augusto Lambertinghi
Character: Nick La Caterina / Tony La Monica
Character: Antonio Vicari
Character: Giacomo Puccini
Character: L'avvocato Finaldi
Character: Il Commissario
Character: Giulio Ferrari
Character: Franco Vagnuzzi
Character: Dott. Mario Rossetti
Character: Andrea Vannini
Character: Gian Paolo Osio
Character: Lawyer Alberto Cortini
Character: Signor Mantoni
Character: Alberto Bressan
Character: Avvocato Leblanc
Character: Don Calogero Minniti
Character: Avvocato Paolo Martini
Character: Avvocato Rosello
Character: Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm Keitel
Character: Ralph Scaffari
Character: Pietro Leonardi
Character: Sandro (voice) (archive footage)
Character: Vito Santamaria
Character: Tommaso Pasini
Character: Signor Noé Alga Croce
Character: Comandante Alberto Bruni
Character: Senator Quintus Fabius
Character: Cardinale Ixaguirre
Character: Professor Andrea Icardi
Character: Gabriele Demico
Character: L'abbé Delcourt
Character: Lorenzo de' Medici
Character: Tenente in trincea
Character: Card. Giuseppe Siri
Character: professor De Lollis
Character: Padre di Saverio
Character: Don Francesco Salvatore
Character: Carlo, the Political Prisoner (segm. "Gli ultimi dieci Minuti")
Character: Sandro Deodata
Character: Draco (archive footage) (uncredited)
Character: Maurizio di Sassonia
Character: Frédéric Solingen
Character: Il padre di Stella