Gian Maria Volonté
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).
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 4.957 |
| Birthday | 1933-04-09 |
| Place of Birth | Milano, Lombardia, Italy |
| Also Known As | Johnny Wels, Gian-Maria Volonte, Джан Мария Волонте, |
1965
For a Few Dollars More
8.018/3897
Two bounty hunters are in pursuit of "El Indio," one of the most wanted fugitives in the western territories, and his gang.
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For a Few Dollars More
1961
Journey Beneath the Desert
2.4/4
A helicopter crashes in the desert, and the crew winds up in the underground city of Atlantis and get mixed up in a slave revolt.
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Journey Beneath the Desert
1970
Le Cercle Rouge
7.63/621
When French criminal Corey gets released from prison, he resolves to never return. He is quickly pulled back into the underworld, however, after a cha...
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Le Cercle Rouge
1970
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
8.181/761
Rome, Italy. After committing a heinous crime, a senior police officer exposes evidence incriminating him because his moral commitment prevents him fr...
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Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
2022
Rosi About Eboli
10/1
An exceptional documentary filmed in 1978 by Swedish directors Björn Blixt and Peter Englesson showing the behind-the-scenes of the film Christ Stoppe...
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Rosi About Eboli
1979
Christ Stopped at Eboli
7.1/75
In the fascist Italy of 1935, a painter trained as a doctor is exiled to a remote region near Eboli. Over time, he learns to appreciate the beauty and...
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Christ Stopped at Eboli
1961
Hercules and the Captive Women
4.383/30
King Androcles of Thebes commands a ship in search of a threat to Greece, predicted by an atmospheric oracle. Hercules is part of the crew, but the st...
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Hercules and the Captive Women
1990
Open Doors
7.194/31
Tommaso Scalia is a man who commits three murders: he kills his superior who sacked him, the man who replaced him and his wife. He wants a quick trial...
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Open Doors
1967
A Bullet for the General
6.5/115
El Chuncho's bandits rob arms from a train, intending to sell the weapons to Elias' revolutionaries. They are helped by one of the passengers, Bill Ta...
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A Bullet for the General
1966
The Witch
6.45/20
A historian goes to a castle library to translate some ancient erotic literature. While there he discovers what he believes to be supernatural forces...
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The Witch
1972
The Mattei Affair
7.5/97
Enrico Mattei helped change Italy’s future, first as freedom-fighter against the Nazis, then as an investor in methane gas through a public company, A...
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The Mattei Affair
1986
Il caso Moro
6.5/46
On March 16, 1978, far-left terrorists of the Red Brigades kidnap Aldo Moro, leader of the Christian Democracy, the ruling party in Italy since the en...
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Il caso Moro
1967
Face to Face
7/95
History Professor Brad Fletcher heads west for his health, but falls in with Soloman Bennett's outlaw gang. Fascinated by their way of life, Fletcher...
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Face to Face
1988
The Abyss
5.4/16
The Inquisition is in full swing in 16th century Flanders. Wanted for his dissident writings, the alchemist doctor Zeno has been wandering Europe unde...
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The Abyss
1979
Operation Ogre
6.833/39
Spain, 1973. Dictator Francisco Franco has ruled the country since 1939 with an iron fist; but he is now a very old and sick man. The future of the we...
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Operation Ogre
1973
Giordano Bruno
6.427/48
Fleeing from his enemies in the Catholic Church, the free thinking philosopher, poet and scientist Giordano Bruno has found some protection in Venice....
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Giordano Bruno
1962
The Four Days of Naples
7.558/43
September 1943. After Italy surrenders to the Allies, most people in Naples believe the war is finally over, but soon realize Germans are still in con...
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The Four Days of Naples
1971
Sacco & Vanzetti
7.6/186
Boston, 1920. Italian immigrants Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are charged and unfairly tried for murder on the basis of their anarchist politi...
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Sacco & Vanzetti
1972
Slap the Monster on Page One
7.566/160
1972, Milan. Just a few days before the general elections, a young girl from an esteemed family is raped and murdered. Bizanti, editor-in-chief of a c...
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Slap the Monster on Page One
1976
One Way or Another
7.653/144
Set during a retreat of Christian Democrat politicians who practice spiritual exercises together, it is an allegory of corrupted power. Disturbing, cl...
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One Way or Another
1981
Lady of the Camelias
6.2/24
A young girl from the provinces, comes to Paris with one goal: to become a part of the rich bourgeoisie. To achieve this she will use her unique beaut...
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Lady of the Camelias
1961
Girl with a Suitcase
7.233/92
Lorenzo, who's 16 and born to a wealthy family in Parma, tries to make things right toward a showgirl, Aida, whom his older brother has mistreated. In...
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Girl with a Suitcase
1967
We Still Kill the Old Way
6.671/114
A leftist professor wants the truth about two men killed during a hunting party; but the mafia, the Church and corrupt politicians don't want him to l...
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We Still Kill the Old Way
1971
The Working Class Goes to Heaven
7.816/334
After losing a finger in a work accident, an Italian worker becomes increasingly involved in political and revolutionary groups.
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The Working Class Goes to Heaven
1968
The Violent Four
6.5/31
A detective is assigned to head a manhunt for four violent bank robbers.
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The Violent Four
1977
I Am Afraid
7/15
During a wave of political violence in Italy, a policeman who's already survived an assassination is assigned to act as a bodyguard to a morally uprig...
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I Am Afraid
1987
A Boy from Calabria
6.478/23
Set in 1960, the year of the Rome Olympics, a 13 year-old boy with aspirations to become an athlete befriends an ageing, disabled bus driver who under...
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A Boy from Calabria
1970
Many Wars Ago
7.319/130
Time after time, soldiers of the Italian Army are forced to leave their mountain trenches in attempts to storm an enemy fortress, always with the same...
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Many Wars Ago
1973
Lucky Luciano
6.3/64
Lucky Luciano is one of the bosses of the Mafia. He orders the slaughter of 40 other responsibles, therefore becoming the only boss. But a few years l...
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Lucky Luciano
1961
On the Tiger's Back
7.2/20
Giacinto Rossi, a poor driver up to his neck in debt, is imprisoned for simulated crime. He finds himself in a cell with Tagliabue, an unscrupulous mu...
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On the Tiger's Back
1991
A Simple Story
6.8/25
After many years, a retired diplomat returns to his native Sicily to visit an abandoned property and delve into family correspondence. But is it worth...
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A Simple Story
1975
The Suspect
6.3/12
Fascism has forced the leadership of the Italian Communist Party to settle in Paris. In Italy arrests of militants are decimating the organization, so...
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The Suspect
1966
Wake Up and Die
5.8/6
A petty hoodlum pulls jewellery store heists in broad daylight. The cop on his tail knows he has accomplices and focuses on the gangster's girl friend...
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Wake Up and Die
1966
Seasons of Our Love
5.5/8
Vittorio is a 40-year-old journalist who reaches a mid-life crisis. His wife nags him constantly for ignoring her and their child. After his mistress...
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Seasons of Our Love
1972
The Assassination
6.6/33
Darien, a left-wing police informant, is forced to lure his old friend Sadiel to Paris, allegedly to film a television special about the Third World....
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The Assassination
1983
The Death of Mario Ricci
5.958/12
A TV reporter and his assisstant go to a small Swiss village to do a programme with a reclusive scientist, an expert on world food shortages. During t...
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The Death of Mario Ricci
1969
The Bandit
5.9/5
Sicily, 1865. Two peasants, Gramigna and his father are tricked by Baron Nardò and robbed of their field, which then the baron lets to Assunta, her da...
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The Bandit
1987
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
7.338/74
This suspenseful Italian crime drama is set in a Colombian river town and chronicles the series of events that led up to murder. Based on a novel by d...
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Chronicle of a Death Foretold
1964
The Magnificent Cuckold
6.643/42
Andrea Artusi is a successful businessman with a beautiful wife, Maria, and a happy marriage - until he has an affair. After his own cheating, he star...
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The Magnificent Cuckold
1968
The Seven Cervi Brothers
6.9/15
The story of the Cervi family. Rural farmers brought up to be idealogically opposed to fascism during the era of Mussolini's rule of Italy and World W...
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The Seven Cervi Brothers
1963
The Terrorist
6.682/11
In Venice in 1943, a group of partisans led by Renato Braschi organize a series of autonomous terrorist attacks against the fascists while the Nationa...
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The Terrorist
1993
Banderas, the Tyrant
5.1/11
In Santa Fe de Tierra Firme, an imaginary Latin American country, the indigenous dictator Santos Banderas rules with an iron fist. A group of rebels t...
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Banderas, the Tyrant
1962
A Man for Burning
5.2/8
Political activist Salvatore returns to his native Sicily and stirs up trouble among the peasants, urging them to confront the Mafia and demand the ri...
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A Man for Burning
1989
Pestalozzi's Mountain
6.3/3
In the 1770s, Swiss farmer Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi established a school for poor orphaned children in the Aargau. Up to total exhaustion he sacrifi...
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Pestalozzi's Mountain
1969
Apollon: una fabbrica occupata
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The film documents the trade union battle of the workers of the Apollon printing house in Rome, occupied for a few months after the management decided...
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Apollon: una fabbrica occupata
1972
La tenda in piazza
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The film recounts the struggle of the factory workers of five Italian factories, Cagli, Coca Cola, Filodont, Luciani and Metalfer. A montage of interv...
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La tenda in piazza
1970
Documenti su Giuseppe Pinelli
7.7/3
The film examines the death of the anarchist Giuseppe Pinelli, who fell from the fourth floor of the police headquarters in Milan December 15, 1969, a...
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Documenti su Giuseppe Pinelli
1968
Summit
6/1
Paolo, a special guest of an Italian newspaper, leaves for Paris to attend an international conference, a summit meeting, the 'summit' of hope. He sub...
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Summit
1980
Stark System
10/1
Armenia Balducci's film, featuring Gian Maria Volontè as Stark, a cop-movie actor that falls prey to paranoia because he fears his latest movie will b...
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Stark System
1963
The Felling of the Forest
7/6
In the forested slopes surrounding the rural Tuscan village of Tirli, a group of lumberjacks work long hours felling trees in the hopes of making an a...
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The Felling of the Forest
1957
Fedra
0/0
Theatre play adaptation of Jean Racine's Phaedra filmed for TV.
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Fedra
1963
Summer Night
5.857/7
Barcelona in the early sixties: black and white chronicle of the ups and downs in the relationship of several young couples of the Catalan bourgeoisie...
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Summer Night
1970
Wind from the East
6.8/23
A politically oriented film in which images suggestive of a mock western are accompanied by an attack on all cinematic conventions to date and a debat...
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Wind from the East
2005
Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker
6.7/9
A documentary on the director’s career, featuring interviews with friends, collaborators, and filmmakers.
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Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker
1966
Gangster Girl
5/3
A successful young writer is in search of his true destiny. Is it the life with his wife and typewriter in Amsterdam or the offers to go to the dreamw...
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Gangster Girl
1975
Letters from Marusia
5.3/13
Chronicle of the repression that a foreign company exerts on the miners of a small nitrate town in Chile, whose workers decide to claim their most ess...
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Letters from Marusia
2021
We Are Cinema
9.5/1
An Italian documentary about Italian cinema.
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We Are Cinema
1990
Tre colonne in cronaca
5.9/6
Chronicle of the dark maneuvers put into practice by a politician to seize an opposition newspaper. A Lebanese terrorist receives the order to kill a...
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Tre colonne in cronaca
2017
Forgotten Activism
8/1
Volonté, the militant. How many people know this singular and important aspect of the great Milanese actor's life? "Forgotten Activism" attempts to re...
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Forgotten Activism
1969
Under the Sign of Scorpio
5.4/9
An island has been decimated by a volcanic eruption and the few survivors escape to a nearby island. Led by Rutolo, they know that their new home is e...
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Under the Sign of Scorpio
1993
Funes, a Great Love
5/7
A group of musicians, prostitutes, gamblers, and laborers, react to the arrival of a tango pianist at a saloon.
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Funes, a Great Love
1960
Under Ten Flags
5.4/16
"Under Ten Flags" is a WWII movie loosely based on the true story of the German navy commerce raider Atlantis, a converted Auxilliary Cruiser, and he...
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Under Ten Flags
2004
Investigation of a Citizen Named Volonté
6.5/2
Documentary on actor Gian Maria Volonté
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Investigation of a Citizen Named Volonté
2005
Un attore contro - Gian Maria Volonté
5.167/3
A portrait of the famous italian actor and political activist Gian Maria Volonté.
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Un attore contro - Gian Maria Volonté
1967
Caravaggio
0/0
A miniseries about Caravaggio's life.
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Caravaggio
1964
A Fistful of Dollars
7.841/4152
The Man With No Name enters the Mexican village of San Miguel in the midst of a power struggle among the three Rojo brothers and sheriff John Baxter....
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A Fistful of Dollars
1966
For Love and Gold
7.7/355
A group of rogues steal a scroll granting its bearer the property of the land of Aurocastro in Apulia, a province in the south of Italy. They elect a...
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For Love and Gold
2019
Zénon the Rebel
0/0
Zénon is the hero of “The Abyss”, the famous novel by Marguerite Yourcenar published in 1968. He is also the main character in André Delvaux’s film, p...
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Zénon the Rebel
1965
La strada più lunga
6/1
Michele, a bourgeois intellectual, adhered to fascism for years. After fighting abroad, he returns home in 1943, but is now tired and refuses to join...
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La strada più lunga
2015
Spanish Western
5.7/13
A vindication of the role of the technicians and artists who made spaghetti western genre possible, and a walk through the landscapes that made it pos...
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Spanish Western
1978
Reflections on a Political Cinema
8/1
This documentary addresses the challenges facing the Italian film industry in 1978 by focusing on the television productions of Francesco Rosi's CHRIS...
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Reflections on a Political Cinema
1970
Ipotesi sulla morte di G. Pinelli
6.833/3
After a wave of arrests in 1969, Italian anarchist Giuseppe Pinelli allegedly falls out of a police building window while being interrogated. The circ...
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Ipotesi sulla morte di G. Pinelli
2024
Volonté: The Man of a Thousand Faces
7.5/2
A documentary exploring the life and legacy of renowned Italian actor Gian Maria Volonté, featuring insights from his colleagues, family, and never-be...
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Volonté: The Man of a Thousand Faces
1959
Saul
0/0
Television play adaptation of Vittorio Alfieri's tragedy Saul (1782).
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