) is an Italian

Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

 actor. He has more than 160 credits to his name across film, television and stage. His career was at its peak in the 1950s and 1960s.

A prominent figure in Italian cinema since the 1950s, Ferzetti's first leading role came in 1950 in the film Lo Zappatore

Lo Zappatore

Lo Zappatore is a 1950 Italian film directed by Rate Furlan.-Cast:*Clara Auteri Pepe*Angelo Dessy*Gabriele Ferzetti*Vera Furlan*Clelia Genovese*Nino Marchesini ... Padre Di Carlo*Marisa Merlini*Nico Pepe*Enzo Romagnoli*Silvio Rossi...

. He portrayed Puccini twice in 1953 and 1954 in the films Puccini

Puccini (film)

Puccini is a 1953 Italian film. It stars actor Gabriele Ferzetti....

and Casa Ricordi

Casa Ricordi

Casa Ricordi is a classical music publishing company founded in 1808 as G. Ricordi & Co. by violinist Giovanni Ricordi in Milan, Italy...

respectively. Ferzetti made his international breakthrough in 1960 in his most acclaimed role as an oversexed, restless playboy in Michelangelo Antonioni

Michelangelo Antonioni

Michelangelo Antonioni, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI was an Italian modernist film director, screenwriter, editor and short story writer.- Personal life :...

's controversial L'avventura

L'avventura

L'Avventura is a 1960 Italian film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni and developed from a story he created. Monica Vitti and Gabriele Ferzetti star. It is noted for its careful pacing, which puts a focus on visual composition and character development, as well as for its unusual narrative structure...

. After a series of romantic performances, he acquired a reputation in Italy as an elegant, debonair and a somewhat aristocrat-looking leading man.

In 1966, Ferzetti starred as Lot in John Huston

John Huston

John Marcellus Huston was an American film director, screenwriter and actor. He wrote most of the 37 feature films he directed, many of which are today considered classics: The Maltese Falcon , The Treasure of the Sierra Madre , Key Largo , The Asphalt Jungle , The African Queen , Moulin Rouge...

's biblical epic, The Bible: In the Beginning

The Bible: In The Beginning

The Bible: In the Beginning is a 1966 Biblical epic film recounting the first 22 chapters of the Book of Genesis. It was a joint American/Italian production conceived by Dino De Laurentiis and directed by John Huston. The music score is by Toshirô Mayuzumi. The production was photographed by...

. In 1968, he played railroad baron Morton in Sergio Leone

Sergio Leone

Sergio Leone was an Italian film director, producer and screenwriter most associated with the "Spaghetti Western" genre.Leone's film-making style includes juxtaposing extreme close-up shots with lengthy long shots...

's celebrated Once Upon a Time in the West

Once Upon a Time in the West

Once Upon a Time in the West is a 1968 Italian epic spaghetti western film directed by Sergio Leone for Paramount Pictures. It stars Henry Fonda cast against type as the villain, Charles Bronson as his nemesis, Jason Robards as a bandit, and Claudia Cardinale as a newly widowed homesteader with a...

. A year later, he appeared in the James Bond

James Bond

James Bond, code name 007, is a fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short story collections. There have been a six other authors who wrote authorised Bond novels or novelizations after Fleming's death in 1964: Kingsley Amis,...

 movie On Her Majesty's Secret Service

On Her Majesty's Secret Service (film)

On Her Majesty's Secret Service is the sixth spy film in the James Bond series, based on the 1963 novel of the same name by Ian Fleming. Following the decision of Sean Connery to retire from the role after You Only Live Twice, Eon Productions selected an unknown actor and model, George Lazenby...

as Marc Ange Draco, perhaps his best known role internationally, though his voice was dubbed by British actor David de Keyser

David de Keyser

David de Keyser is a British actor. He is the father of Alexei de Keyser, Pia de Keyser and Thomas de Keyser.In the mid-sixties de Keyser worked twice with the writer, actor and director Jane Arden. Their first collaboration, The Logic Game, was the first BBC drama to be shot on film; it was...

. He is well- known to non-mainstream audiences for the role that he played as the psychiatrist, Hans, in Liliana Cavani

Liliana Cavani

Liliana Cavani is an Italian film director and screenwriter. She belongs to a generation of Italian filmmakers that came into prominence in the 1970s and includes Bernardo Bertolucci, Pier Paolo Pasolini and Marco Bellochio. Cavani became internationally known after the success of her 1974 feature...

's arthouse classic The Night Porter

The Night Porter

The Night Porter is a controversial 1974 film by Italian director Liliana Cavani, starring Dirk Bogarde and Charlotte Rampling.- Synopsis :...

(1974). In the 1970s he appeared in a significant number of crime films, often as an Inspector. He also appeared in Julia and Julia

Julia and Julia

Julia and Julia is a 1987 Italian drama film directed by Peter Del Monte. The screenplay by Silvia Napolitano, Sandro Petraglia, Joseph Minion, and Del Monte is based on a story by Napolitano.-Plot synopsis:...

, opposite Sir Laurence Olivier in Inchon

Inchon (film)

Inchon is a 1982 war film about the Battle of Inchon, considered to be the turning point of the Korean War. The film was directed by Terence Young and financed by Unification Church founder Sun Myung Moon. It stars Laurence Olivier as General Douglas MacArthur, who led the United States surprise...

(1982) and the cult film First Action Hero

First Action Hero

First Action Hero is a cult 1994 film starring Fabio Testi as Tony Fierro with Ron Nummi as Hoagy and directed by Nini Grassia. It has the alternative Italian name Il Burattinaio. It has been cited as a key influence behind the video-game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, developed by Rockstar Games.-...

.
More recently he played the role of Nono in the TV series Une famille formidable

Une famille formidable

Une famille formidable is a French Romantic comedy television series broadcast since September 17, 1992. It details the goings on of a family, and follows them as they grow up. As of 2008, the cast is the same as the 1992 cast, an unusual feat for a program with a run of this length.-External links:...

and appeared in Luca Guadagnino

Luca Guadagnino

Luca Guadagnino is an Italian film director. He rose to notability with the 2005 film Melissa P., and he is a frequent collaborator with Tilda Swinton, including the 2010 film I Am Love.-Life and career:...

's 2009 film I Am Love

I Am Love (film)

I Am Love is a 2009 Italian film directed by Luca Guadagnino set around 2000 in Milan. The film follows a haute bourgeoisie family through changing times and fortunes, and its disruption by the force of passion. The cast is led by Tilda Swinton as Emma Recchi...

.

Early life

Ferzetti was born Pasquale Ferzetti in Rome

Rome

Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...

, Italy

Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

 on March 17, 1925. He studied at the Accademia d'Arte Drammatica in Rome but was expelled.

1940s

Ferzetti made his screen debut in Via delle Cinque Lune

Via delle Cinque Lune

Via delle Cinque Lune is a 1942 Italian romantic drama film directed by Luigi Chiarini. It marked the debut of actor Gabriele Ferzetti.-Cast:*Luisella Beghi - Ines*Olga Solbelli -Sora Teta*Andrea Checchi - Checco*Gildo Bocci - Federico, padre di Ines...

under the directorship of Luigi Chiarini in 1942 at the age of 17, featuring actors such as Luisella Beghi , Olga Solbelli

Olga Solbelli

Olga Solbelli was an Italian film actress. She appeared in 81 films between 1939 and 1967.She was born in Verghereto and died in Bologna.-Selected filmography:* Schoolgirl Diary * The Last Wagon...

, Andrea Checchi

Andrea Checchi

Andrea Checchi was a prolific Italian film actor.Born in Florence, Checchi appeared in over 150 films in his lengthy career, which spanned from 1934 to his death in 1974...

 and Gildo Bocci

Gildo Bocci

Gildo Bocci was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 60 films between 1913 and 1959.He was born and died in Rome, Italy.-Selected filmography:* The Last Days of Pompeii...

. Uncredited for his next role in Bengasi

Bengasi (film)

Bengasi is a 1942 Italian film. It stars actor Gabriele Ferzetti....

, later in 1942 he appeared in Flavio Calzavara

Flavio Calzavara

Flavio Calzavara was an Italian film director and screenwriter. He directed 21 films between 1939 and 1956.-Filmography:* Canzone proibita * Gli occhi senza luce * Napoli piange e ride...

's La contessa Castiglione

La contessa Castiglione

La contessa Castiglione is a 1942 Italian film. It stars actor Gabriele Ferzetti....

. He then took a break from film acting and made a succession of theatrical appearances until 1948, when he had a small uncredited role in Riccardo Freda

Riccardo Freda

Riccardo Freda was an Egyptian-born Italian film director. Best known for his horror and thriller movies, Freda had no great love for the horror films he was assigned, but rather favored the epic sword and sandal pictures...

's I miserabili, non accreditato. After a small role as a pilot in Rondini in volo and a role in Vespro siciliano

Vespro siciliano (film)

Vespro siciliano is a 1949 Italian film. It stars actor Gabriele Ferzetti....

, a historic film set in 1282 during the War of the Sicilian Vespers

War of the Sicilian Vespers

The War of the ' Vespers started with the insurrection of the Sicilian Vespers against Charles of Anjou in 1282 and finally ended with the peace of Caltabellotta in 1302...

, later that year he appeared alongside Elli Parvo

Elli Parvo

Elli Parvo was an Italian film actress, born in Milan as Elvira Gobbo. She appeared in 51 films between 1934 and 1960.-Selected filmography:...

, Silvana Resplanton, Piero Lulli

Piero Lulli

Piero Lulli was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 111 films between 1942 and 1977. He was the brother of actor Folco Lulli.-Selected filmography:* Love Story * Vertigine d'amore...

 and Marcello Mastroianni

Marcello Mastroianni

Marcello Vincenzo Domenico Mastroianni, Knight Grand Cross was an Italian film actor. His honours included British Film Academy Awards, Best Actor awards at the Cannes Film Festival and two Golden Globe Awards.- Personal life :...

 in Luigi Capuano

Luigi Capuano

Luigi Capuano was an Italian film director and screenwriter.Born at Naples, directed 43 films between 1947 and 1971.-Selected filmography:* Vertigine d'amore * Gli amanti di Ravello * The Adventurer of Tortuga...

's Vertigine d'amore

Vertigine d'amore

Vertigine d'amore is a 1949 Italian-French film directed by Luigi Capuano.-Cast:* Gabriele Ferzetti* Gabrielle Fontan* Folco Lulli - Luca / France: Romain Toucas* Piero Lulli - Olivero / France: Ollivier Desmichels* Marcello Mastroianni...

. He next appeared in the film Fabiola

Fabiola (film)

Fabiola is a 1949 Italian language motion picture historical drama directed by Alessandro Blasetti, very loosely based on the 1854 novel of the same name by Nicholas Patrick Wiseman. The film stars Michèle Morgan, Henri Vidal and Michel Simon...

(1949) as Claudio. The antiquity drama, set in Rome, was warmly received.

1950s

In 1950 he had a supporting role in Flavio Calzavara

Flavio Calzavara

Flavio Calzavara was an Italian film director and screenwriter. He directed 21 films between 1939 and 1956.-Filmography:* Canzone proibita * Gli occhi senza luce * Napoli piange e ride...

's Sigillo rosso

Sigillo rosso

Sigillo rosso is a 1950 Italian film directed by Flavio Calzavara.-Cast:*Gino Cervi*Carla Del Poggio*Adriano Rimoldi*Linda Sini*Giovanna Scotto*Miranda Campa*Fulvia Mammi*Gabriele Ferzetti*Lia Corelli...

alongside Gino Cervi

Gino Cervi

Gino Cervi was an Italian actor of international fame.Cervi was born in Bologna. His father was the theatre critic Antonio Cervi.In 1928, he married Nini Gordini and they had a son, Tonino Cervi...

 and Carla Del Poggio

Carla Del Poggio

Carla Del Poggio was an Italian cinema, theatre, and television actress.-Early and Personal Lives:Born Maria Luisa Attanasio in Naples, she was the wife of Italian director Alberto Lattuada for 60 years, from 2 April 1945 until his death 3 July 2005. She died on 14 October 2010.-Filmography :* ...

, but his first leading role came later that year in the film Lo Zappatore

Lo Zappatore

Lo Zappatore is a 1950 Italian film directed by Rate Furlan.-Cast:*Clara Auteri Pepe*Angelo Dessy*Gabriele Ferzetti*Vera Furlan*Clelia Genovese*Nino Marchesini ... Padre Di Carlo*Marisa Merlini*Nico Pepe*Enzo Romagnoli*Silvio Rossi...

, a film which focused on the life of peasants and farm workers during the interwar and great depression period. Roles now came in abundance for Ferzetti. He began starring in films in quick succession, from the crime comedy Benvenuto, reverendo! (1950) alongside Aldo Fabrizi

Aldo Fabrizi

Aldo Fabrizi was an Italian actor and cinema and theatre director.-Actor Filmography:* Avanti, c'è posto... by Mario Bonnard...

, Massimo Girotti

Massimo Girotti

Massimo Girotti was an Italian film actor whose career spanned seven decades.Born in Mogliano, in the province of Macerata, Girotti developed his athletic physique by swimming and polo...

 and Lianella Carell

Lianella Carell

Lianella Carell was an Italian film actress and screenwriter. She appeared in 18 films between 1948 and 1958...

, to Luis Trenker

Luis Trenker

Luis Trenker was a German-language South Tyrolian film director, architect, and actor.-Biography:...

's war film Barriera a Settentrione (1950), to Guido Brignone

Guido Brignone

Guido Brignone was an Italian film director. He was the father of actress Lilla Brignone.Brignone was born in Milan, Italy...

's Core 'ngrato (1951) and Inganno

Inganno

Inganno is a 1952 Italian film directed by Guido Brignone. It stars Gabriele Ferzetti and Nadia Gray....

(1952), to Curzio Malaparte

Curzio Malaparte

Curzio Malaparte , born Kurt Erich Suckert, was an Italian journalist, dramatist, short-story writer, novelist and diplomat...

's drama Il Cristo proibito (1951), to Antonio Pietrangeli

Antonio Pietrangeli

Antonio Pietrangeli was an Italian film director and screenwriter. Pietrangeli was a major practitioner of the Commedia all'italiana genre.-Biography:...

's Il sole negli occhi

Il sole negli occhi

Il sole negli occhi is a 1953 Italian film. It stars actor Gabriele Ferzetti....

(1953). Later in 1953 starred in the successful biopic of composer Puccini under Carmine Gallone

Carmine Gallone

Carmine Gallone was an early acclaimed Italian film director, screenwriter, and film producer. Considered one of Italian cinema's top early directors, he directed over 120 films in his fifty year career between 1913 and 1963.-Filmography:*Il bacio di Cirano *La donna nuda *Senza colpa! *Fior di...

, Puccini

Puccini (film)

Puccini is a 1953 Italian film. It stars actor Gabriele Ferzetti....

, released in the United States a year later. Ferzetti reprise his role as Puccini in Casa Ricordi

Casa Ricordi

Casa Ricordi is a classical music publishing company founded in 1808 as G. Ricordi & Co. by violinist Giovanni Ricordi in Milan, Italy...

in 1954 alongside Roland Alexandre as Gioacchino Rossini

Gioacchino Rossini

Gioachino Antonio Rossini was an Italian composer who wrote 39 operas as well as sacred music, chamber music, songs, and some instrumental and piano pieces...

. In 1953, Ferzetti starred in Mario Soldati

Mario Soldati

Mario Soldati was an Italian writer and film director.-Biography:Soldati studied Humanities in his native city, Turin, and History of Art in Rome. He started publishing novels in 1929 although his fame came with America primo amore, published in 1935, a diary about the time he spent teaching at...

's La Provinciale

La provinciale

La provinciale can refer to:* La provinciale , a 1953 Italian film * La provinciale , a 1981 French-Swiss film...

, a Cannes Film Festival

Cannes Film Festival

The Cannes International Film Festival , is an annual film festival held in Cannes, France, which previews new films of all genres including documentaries from around the world. Founded in 1946, it is among the world's most prestigious and publicized film festivals...

 nominee for best film which saw him play the role of a professor who falls in love with a glamorous star (Gina Lollobrigida

Gina Lollobrigida

Gina Lollobrigida is an Italian actress, photojournalist and sculptress. She was one of the most popular European actresses of the 1950s and early 1960s. She was also an iconic sex symbol of the 1950s. Today, she remains an active supporter of Italian and Italian American causes, particularly the...

). This comedy drama involves the story of a Romanian countess who forces "Gemma" to become a prostitute. Ferzetti's performance garnered him an award from the Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists and cemented his status as a leading actor in Italy by appearing alongside Lollobrigida. In 1954, Ferzetti appeared in Marcello Pagliero

Marcello Pagliero

Marcello Pagliero was an Italian film director, actor, and screenwriter.Pagliero was born in London and died in Paris...

's comedy dramabased on the 1922 opera Vestire gli ignudi

Vestire gli ignudi

Vestire gli ignudi is a 1953 Italian film. It stars actor Gabriele Ferzetti....

, playing the character of Ludovico Nota alongside Pierre Brasseur

Pierre Brasseur

Pierre Brasseur , born Pierre-Albert Espinasse, was a French actor.He was the son of actor Georges Espinasse and actress Germaine Brasseur while the latter was married to Albert Brasseur. His grandfather, Jules Brasseur, was an actor as well...

, Manlio Busoni and Paolo Ferrara and in Camilla under the directorship of Luciano Emmer

Luciano Emmer

Luciano Emmer was an Italian film director. He was born in Milan. He won a Golden Globe in 1951 for Pictura...

.

In 1955, Ferzetti starred as a downbeat, struggling artist named Lorenzo alongside Eleonora Rossi Drago

Eleonora Rossi Drago

Eleonora Rossi Drago, born Palmira Omiccioli, was an Italian film actress. She was born in Quinto al Mare, Genoa, Italy....

, Franco Fabrizi

Franco Fabrizi

Franco Fabrizi was an Italian actor.Son of a barber and a cinema cashier, he was a soap opera photo actor, for example, the fotoromanzo Arizona Kid, in the newspaper Avventuroso Film...

 and Valentina Cortese in Michelangelo Antonioni

Michelangelo Antonioni

Michelangelo Antonioni, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI was an Italian modernist film director, screenwriter, editor and short story writer.- Personal life :...

's Le amiche

Le amiche

Le Amiche is a 1955 Italian black-and-white drama film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni. It is adapted from Cesare Pavese's 1949 novella Tra donne sole and centers on Roman couturier Clelia , who leaves Rome to work at a boutique in Torino.-Production:The script for Le Amiche is adapted from a...

. The film, shot on location in Turin

Turin

Turin is a city and major business and cultural centre in northern Italy, capital of the Piedmont region, located mainly on the left bank of the Po River and surrounded by the Alpine arch. The population of the city proper is 909,193 while the population of the urban area is estimated by Eurostat...

 is adapted from Cesare Pavese

Cesare Pavese

Cesare Pavese was an Italian poet, novelist, literary critic and translator; he is widely considered among the major authors of the 20th century in his home country.- Early life and education :...

's 1949 novella

Novella

A novella is a written, fictional, prose narrative usually longer than a novelette but shorter than a novel. The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Nebula Awards for science fiction define the novella as having a word count between 17,500 and 40,000...

 Tra donne sole. Later in 1955 he starred in Un po' di cielo

Un po' di cielo

Un po' di cielo is a 1955 Italian film. It stars actor Gabriele Ferzetti....

, directed by Giorgio Moser

Giorgio Moser

Giorgio Moser was an Italian film director and screenwriter. He directed seven films between 1954 and 1996.-External links:...

. His major film of 1956 was Donatella opposite Elsa Martinelli

Elsa Martinelli

Elsa Martinelli is an Italian actress and former fashion model.Born Elisa Tia in Grosseto, Tuscany, she moved to Rome with her family and in 1953 was discovered by Roberto Capucci who introduced her to the world of fashion. She became a model and began playing small roles in films...

, under director Mario Monicelli

Mario Monicelli

Mario Monicelli was an Italian director and screenwriter and one of the masters of the Commedia all'Italiana , three times nominated for Oscar.-Biography:...

. The film screened at the 6th Berlin International Film Festival

6th Berlin International Film Festival

-Jury:* Marcel Carné* Bill Luckwell* Giuseppe Vittorio Sampieri* Koichi Kawakita* Leo J. Horster* Ilse Urbach* Ludwig Berger-Films in competition:* ...erwachsen sein dagegen sehr by Wolf Hart* Autumn Leaves by Robert Aldrich...

. Im 1957, Ferzetti appeared in the crime film Parola di ladro

Parola di ladro

Parola di ladro is a 1957 Italian film. It stars actor Gabriele Ferzetti....

under directors Nanni Loy

Nanni Loy

Nanni Loy was an Italian film, theatre and TV director.Loy was born in Cagliari, Sardinia...

 and Gianni Puccini

Gianni Puccini

Gianni Puccini was an Italian screenwriter and film director. He wrote for 32 films between 1940 and 1967...

 opposite Abbe Lane

Abbe Lane

-Biography:Born Abigail Francine Lassman in a Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York, Lane began her career as a child actress on radio, and from there she progressed to singing and dancing on Broadway....

, Nadia Gray

Nadia Gray

Nadia Gray was a Romanian-born film actress.Born Nadia Kujnir-Herescu in Bucharest, she left Romania for Paris in the late 1940s to escape the Communist takeover after World War II. Her film debut was in L'Inconnu d'un soirin 1949...

 and Andrea Checchi

Andrea Checchi

Andrea Checchi was a prolific Italian film actor.Born in Florence, Checchi appeared in over 150 films in his lengthy career, which spanned from 1934 to his death in 1974...

. He later appeared in Antonio Pietrangeli

Antonio Pietrangeli

Antonio Pietrangeli was an Italian film director and screenwriter. Pietrangeli was a major practitioner of the Commedia all'italiana genre.-Biography:...

's Souvenir d'Italie

Souvenir d'Italie

Souvenir d'Italie is a 1957 Italian film. It stars actor Gabriele Ferzetti....

, a romantic comedy which saw him feature alongside June Laverick

June Laverick

June Laverick was an English film, television and stage actress.She was once described as "a popular lightweight leading actress of the day" and is probably best remembered as the wife of Dickie Henderson in The Dickie Henderson Show.- Personal :Before June was born her parents ran a public house...

, Isabelle Corey

Isabelle Corey

Isabelle Corey is a French film actress appearing in French and Italian films in the 1950s and early 1960s.She was discovered by Jean-Pierre Melville, walking the streets of Montmartre.-Filmography:-External links:*...

 and Ingeborg Schöner

Ingeborg Schöner

-Selected filmography:* Season in Salzburg * Waldrausch * When the Grapevines Bloom on the Danube * Legacy of the Incas * Das Vermächtnis des Inka * Kidnapped to Mystery Island...

. In 1958, Ferzetti appeared in Ballerina e Buon Dio

Ballerina e Buon Dio

Ballerina e Buon Dio is a 1958 Italian film. It stars actor Gabriele Ferzetti....

, directed by Antonio Leonviola, followed by Racconti d'estate

Racconti d'estate

Girls for the Summer is a 1958 Italian romantic comedy drama film directed by Gianni Franciolini, based on story by Alberto Moravia. The film stars Alberto Sordi, Michèle Morgan, Marcello Mastroianni, Sylva Koscina, Gabriele Ferzetti, Dorian Gray, Franca Marzi, Franco Fabrizi and Jorge Mistral.It...

, under the directorship of Gianni Franciolini

Gianni Franciolini

Gianni Franciolini was an Italian film director and screenwriter. He directed 19 films between 1939 and 1959.-Filmography:* Ferdinando I...

, based on story by Alberto Moravia

Alberto Moravia

Alberto Moravia, born Alberto Pincherle was an Italian novelist and journalist. His novels explored matters of modern sexuality, social alienation, and existentialism....

. Ferzetti was cast in this romantic comedy set in the Tigullio Gulf alongside Alberto Sordi

Alberto Sordi

Alberto Sordi, also known as Albertone, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI was an Italian actor. He was also a film director and the dubbing voice of Oliver Hardy in the Italian version of the Laurel & Hardy films....

, Michèle Morgan

Michèle Morgan

Michèle Morgan is a French film actress, who was a leading lady for three decades.- Career :Morgan was born Simone Renée Roussel in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, a western suburb of Paris....

, Marcello Mastroianni

Marcello Mastroianni

Marcello Vincenzo Domenico Mastroianni, Knight Grand Cross was an Italian film actor. His honours included British Film Academy Awards, Best Actor awards at the Cannes Film Festival and two Golden Globe Awards.- Personal life :...

, Sylva Koscina

Sylva Koscina

Sylva Koscina was an Italian actress.-Biography:...

, Dorian Gray

Dorian Gray

Dorian Gray is the main character of Oscar Wilde's novel The Picture of Dorian Gray.It may also refer to:* Dorian Gray , an Italian film starring Helmut Berger...

, Franca Marzi

Franca Marzi

Franca Marzi was an Italian film actress. She appeared in 80 films between 1943 and 1977.She was born in Rome, Italy and died in Cinisello Balsamo, Italy.-Selected filmography:* The Lovers...

, Franco Fabrizi

Franco Fabrizi

Franco Fabrizi was an Italian actor.Son of a barber and a cinema cashier, he was a soap opera photo actor, for example, the fotoromanzo Arizona Kid, in the newspaper Avventuroso Film...

 and Jorge Mistral

Jorge Mistral

Jorge Mistral born Modesto Llosas Rosell was a Spanish film actor. His father was from Puerto Rico and his mother from Catalonia. During the 40s, he became a star in films produced by CIFESA. In the 50s, he lived and worked in México and appeared in Luis Buñuel's Abismos de pasión...

. In 1959, Ferzetti starred alongside Andrée Debar and Isa Miranda as Bernard Turquet de Mayenne in the French historical comedy Le secret du Chevalier d'Éon

Le secret du Chevalier d'Éon

Le secret du Chevalier d'Éon is a 1959 Italian film. It stars actor Gabriele Ferzetti....

. Directed by Jacqueline Audry

Jacqueline Audry

Jacqueline Audry was a French film director who started making films in post-World War II France and specialised in literary adaptations. She was the first commercially successful woman director of post-war France....

, the film is set in Burgundy in 1728. He later appeared in Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia

Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia

Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia was an Italian film director whose career spanned from the 1930s to the mid 1960s. He mainly directed adventure pictures and popular comedies, including some starring Totò...

's Annibale

Annibale (film)

Annibale is a 1959 Italian film. It stars actor Gabriele Ferzetti....

alongside Victor Mature

Victor Mature

Victor John Mature was an American stage, film and television actor.-Early life:Mature was born in Louisville, Kentucky to an Italian-speaking father from the town Pinzolo, in the Italian part of the former County of Tyrol , Marcello Gelindo Maturi, later Marcellus George Mature, a cutler,...

, Rita Gam

Rita Gam

Rita Gam is an American film and television actress and documentary film maker. She was nominated for a Golden Globe and won the Silver Bear for Best Actress.-Career:...

, Milly Vitale

Milly Vitale

Camilla "Milly" Vitale , daughter of conductor Riccardo Vitale and choreographer Natasha Shidlowski, was an Italian actress....

 and Rik Battaglia

Rik Battaglia

Rik Battaglia is a retired Italian film actor. He was born at Corbola, near Rovigo, Veneto....

. The film is set during the Roman Empire

Roman Empire

The Roman Empire was the post-Republican period of the ancient Roman civilization, characterised by an autocratic form of government and large territorial holdings in Europe and around the Mediterranean....

; Ferzetti played Fabius Maximus

Fabius Maximus

Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus Cunctator was a Roman politician and general, born in Rome around 280 BC and died in Rome in 203 BC. He was Roman Consul five times and was twice Dictator in 221 and again in 217 BC. He reached the office of Roman Censor in 230 BC...

.

1960s

In 1960, Ferzetti starred in Gianni Puccini

Gianni Puccini

Gianni Puccini was an Italian screenwriter and film director. He wrote for 32 films between 1940 and 1967...

's Il carro armato dell'8 settembre

Il carro armato dell'8 settembre

Il carro armato dell'8 settembre is a 1960 Italian film. It stars actor Gabriele Ferzetti....

followed by Florestano Vancini

Florestano Vancini

Florestano Vancini was an award-winning Italian film director and screenwriter.He directed over 20 movies since 1960...

's La lunga notte del '43. The film was set during the Allied invasion of Italy

Allied invasion of Italy

The Allied invasion of Italy was the Allied landing on mainland Italy on September 3, 1943, by General Harold Alexander's 15th Army Group during the Second World War. The operation followed the successful invasion of Sicily during the Italian Campaign...

 in 1943 during the Second World War and saw Ferzetti feature alongside Belinda Lee

Belinda Lee

Belinda Lee was an English actress.Born in Budleigh Salterton, England, Lee was signed to a film contract in 1954 by the Rank Studios after being seen performing as a student of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art...

 and Enrico Maria Salerno. It was a considerable success at the Venice Film Festival

Venice Film Festival

The Venice International Film Festival is the oldest international film festival in the world. Founded by Count Giuseppe Volpi in 1932 as the "Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica", the festival has since taken place every year in late August or early September on the island of the...

 and was nominated for a Goldon Lion Award. Later in 1960, Ferzetti made his international breakthrough as an oversexed, restless playboy Sandro in Michelangelo Antonioni

Michelangelo Antonioni

Michelangelo Antonioni, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI was an Italian modernist film director, screenwriter, editor and short story writer.- Personal life :...

's controversial L'avventura

L'avventura

L'Avventura is a 1960 Italian film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni and developed from a story he created. Monica Vitti and Gabriele Ferzetti star. It is noted for its careful pacing, which puts a focus on visual composition and character development, as well as for its unusual narrative structure...

. Starring alongside Lea Massari

Lea Massari

Anna Maria Massetani better known as Lea Massari is an Italian actress.She was born Anna Maria Massetani in Rome, but when she was 22, she changed her name to Lea Massari after the death of her fiancé Leo...

 and Monica Vitti

Monica Vitti

Monica Vitti is an Italian actress best known for her starring roles in films directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, her lover at that time, during the early 1960s...

 romantically, his role was critically acclaimed and was a role he is most associated with in publications on cinema. Liz-Anne Bawden of The Oxford Companion to Film said, "The acting is excellent. Gabriele Ferzetti repeats and develops his role from Le amiche of the inadequate male/artist".

In 1962, Ferzetti had one of the busy years of his career, featuring in 7 films. Notably he featured in Il giorno più corto

Il giorno più corto

Il giorno più corto is a 1962 Italian Comedy film. It is a parody of the war movie The Longest Day and stars the popular duo Ciccio Ingrassia and Franco Franchi in the leading roles...

, directed by Sergio Corbucci

Sergio Corbucci

Sergio Corbucci was an Italian film director. He is best known for his very violent yet intelligent spaghetti westerns...

, in Giuseppe Bennati

Giuseppe Bennati

Giuseppe Bennati was an Italian film director and writer.He directed Il microfono e' vostro , Musoduro , L'amico del giaguaro , Labbra Rosse , Congo vivo and L'assassino ha riservato nove poltrone , his last movie...

's Congo vivo

Congo vivo

Congo vivo is a 1962 Italian film. It stars actor Gabriele Ferzetti....

alongside Jean Seberg

Jean Seberg

Jean Dorothy Seberg was an American actress. She starred in 37 films in Hollywood and in France, including Breathless , the musical Paint Your Wagon and the disaster film Airport ....

, in Jean Negulesco

Jean Negulesco

Jean Negulesco was a Romanian-born American film director and screenwriter....

's American picture Jessica

Jessica (film)

Jessica is a 1962 film directed by Jean Negulesco. It stars Maurice Chevalier and Angie Dickinson.-Cast:*Maurice Chevalier as Father Antonio*Angie Dickinson as Jessica*Noël-Noël as Old Crupi*Gabriele Ferzetti as Edmondo Raumo...

opposite Maurice Chevalier

Maurice Chevalier

Maurice Auguste Chevalier was a French actor, singer, entertainer and a noted Sprechgesang performer. He is perhaps best known for his signature songs, including Louise, Mimi, Valentine, and Thank Heaven for Little Girls and for his films including The Love Parade and The Big Pond...

, Angie Dickinson

Angie Dickinson

Angie Dickinson is an American actress. She has appeared in more than fifty films, including Rio Bravo, Ocean's Eleven, Dressed to Kill and Pay It Forward, and starred on television as Sergeant Suzanne "Pepper" Anderson on the 1970s crime series Police Woman.-Early life:Dickinson, the second of...

 and Noël-Noël

Noël-Noël

Noël-Noël was a French actor and screenwriter. He appeared in 45 films between 1931 and 1966.-Selected filmography:* A Cage of Nightingales * Mr. Orchid * Return to Life...

 in Il delitto non paga

Il delitto non paga

Il delitto non paga is a 1962 Italian film. It stars actor Gabriele Ferzetti....

under director Gérard Oury

Gérard Oury

Gérard Oury was a French film director, actor and writer. His real name was Max-Gérard Houry Tannenbaum.- A commercially successful French filmmaker :...

. In 1963, Ferzetti he had a role in a large ensemble cast in Jean Delannoy

Jean Delannoy

Jean Delannoy was a French actor, film editor, screenwriter and film director.Although Delannoy was born in a Paris suburb, his family is from Haute-Normandie in the north of France...

's Venere imperiale

Venere Imperiale

Venere Imperiale is a 1962 French-Italian historical film directed by Jean Delannoy and starring Gina Lollobrigida, Stephen Boyd and Raymond Pellegrin...

and played the charatcer of Leonardi in Charles Frend

Charles Frend

Charles Frend was an English film director.Charles Frend started his career at British International Pictures in 1931 and after editing Hitchcock's Waltzes from Vienna moved to Gaumont British Pictures in 1933 where he worked as an editor on Alfred Hitchcock's movies Secret Agent , Sabotage and...

 and Bruno Vailati's war drama Beta Som alongside Lilli Palmer

Lilli Palmer

Lilli Palmer , born Lilli Marie Peiser, was a German actress. She won the Volpi Cup, the Deutscher Filmpreis three times, and was nominated twice for a Golden Globe Award.-Life and career:...

, James Mason

James Mason

James Neville Mason was an English actor who attained stardom in both British and American films. Mason remained a powerful figure in the industry throughout his career and was nominated for three Academy Awards as well as three Golden Globes .- Early life :Mason was born in Huddersfield, in the...

 and Alberto Lupo

Alberto Lupo

Alberto Lupo was an Italian film and television actor best known for his roles in swash-buckling and actions films of the 1960s....

. In 1964, his only notable performance was in
Luis Lucia

Luis Lucia

Luis Lucia Mingarro was a Spanish film director and screenwriter.He studied Law and was the attorney of CIFESA film studios....

's musical comedy Crucero de verano

Crucero de verano

Crucero de verano is a 1964 Italian film. It stars actor Gabriele Ferzetti....

alongside Carmen Sevilla

Carmen Sevilla

Carmen Sevilla is a popular Spanish actress, singer and TV presenter. She made her film debut in 1948 in Jalisco Canta en Sevilla. Other roles include Academy Award nominee La venganza, Buscando a Mónica and the 1956 French film Don Juan.She played Mary Magdalene in Nicholas Ray's King of Kings...

, Marisa Merlini

Marisa Merlini

Marisa Merlini was an Italian character actress active in Italy's post-World War II cinema. Merlini appreared in over fifty films during her career, which spanned from World War II to 2005...

 and José Alfayate. In 1965, Ferzetti starred in Lo scippo

Lo scippo

Lo scippo is a 1965 Italian film directed by Nando Cicero.-Cast:*Paolo Ferrari*Gabriele Ferzetti*Fiorenzo Fiorentini*Margaret Lee*Didi Perego*Mario Pisu*Maria Laura Rocca*Enrico Maria Salerno*Vinicio Sofia*Annette Vadim*Valeria Valeri...

, alongside Paolo Ferrari

Paolo Ferrari

Paolo Ferrari , Italian dramatist, was born at Modena. His numerous works, chiefly comedies, and all marked by a fresh and piquant style, are the finest product of the modern Italian drama. After producing some minor pieces, in 1852 he made his reputation as a playwright with Goldoni e le sue...

 and played the role of Vic Dermatt in Jacques Deray

Jacques Deray

Jacques Deray was a French film director and screenwriter. Deray is prominently known for directing many crime and thriller films.-Biography:...

's French crime drama Par un beau matin d'été alongside Jean-Paul Belmondo

Jean-Paul Belmondo

Jean-Paul Belmondo is a French actor initially associated with the New Wave of the 1960s.-Career:Born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, west of Paris, Belmondo did not perform well in school, but developed a passion for boxing and football."Did you box professionally very long?" "Not very long...

, Sophie Daumier

Sophie Daumier

Sophie Daumier was a French film actress. She appeared in 28 films between 1956 and 1979.She was born as Elisabeth Hugon in Boulogne-sur-Mer, Pas-de-Calais, the daughter of composer Georges Hugon...

 and Geraldine Chaplin

Geraldine Chaplin

Geraldine Leigh Chaplin is an English-American actress and the daughter of Charlie Chaplin.Chaplin first came to prominence for her Golden Globe-nominated role of Tonya in David Lean's Doctor Zhivago . She received her second Golden Globe nomination for Robert Altman's Nashville...

. He also had a role in Marcel Carné

Marcel Carné

-Biography:Born in Paris, France, the son of a cabinet maker whose wife died when their son was five, Carné began his career as a film critic, becoming editor of the weekly publication, Hebdo-Films, and working for Cinémagazine and Cinémonde between 1929 and 1933. In the same period he worked in...

's Three Rooms in Manhattan

Three Rooms in Manhattan

Three Rooms in Manhattan is a 1965 French drama film filmed in New York City.-Cast:* Annie Girardot as Kay Larsi* Maurice Ronet as Francois Comte* O.E...

, a film which incidentally featured a young Robert De Niro

Robert De Niro

Robert De Niro, Jr. is an American actor, director and producer. His first major film roles were in Bang the Drum Slowly and Mean Streets, both in 1973...

 in an uncredited role.

1966 was a particularly important year for Ferzetti in the American market. He starred as Lot in John Huston

John Huston

John Marcellus Huston was an American film director, screenwriter and actor. He wrote most of the 37 feature films he directed, many of which are today considered classics: The Maltese Falcon , The Treasure of the Sierra Madre , Key Largo , The Asphalt Jungle , The African Queen , Moulin Rouge...

's biblical epic The Bible: In the Beginning

The Bible: In The Beginning

The Bible: In the Beginning is a 1966 Biblical epic film recounting the first 22 chapters of the Book of Genesis. It was a joint American/Italian production conceived by Dino De Laurentiis and directed by John Huston. The music score is by Toshirô Mayuzumi. The production was photographed by...

, based on the book of Book of Genesis opposite Michael Parks

Michael Parks

Michael Parks is an American actor and singer. He has appeared in almost fifty films and has made frequent TV appearances, but is probably best known for his work in recent years with Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez, and Kevin Smith as well as the 1969 television series Then Came...

 (Adam

Adam and Eve

Adam and Eve were, according to the Genesis creation narratives, the first human couple to inhabit Earth, created by YHWH, the God of the ancient Hebrews...

), Ulla Bergryd (Eve

Adam and Eve

Adam and Eve were, according to the Genesis creation narratives, the first human couple to inhabit Earth, created by YHWH, the God of the ancient Hebrews...

), Richard Harris (Cain), Franco Nero

Franco Nero

Franco Nero is an Italian actor.-Early life:Nero was born Francesco Sparanero in San Prospero Parmense , the son of a sergeant in the...

 (Abel) and Huston himself as Noah

Noah

Noah was, according to the Hebrew Bible, the tenth and last of the antediluvian Patriarchs. The biblical story of Noah is contained in chapters 6–9 of the book of Genesis, where he saves his family and representatives of all animals from the flood by constructing an ark...

, the narrator, the serpent, and God

God

God is the English name given to a singular being in theistic and deistic religions who is either the sole deity in monotheism, or a single deity in polytheism....

. He also made his television debut by appearing in two episodes of the spy series I Spy. In 1967, Ferzetti starred in We Still Kill the Old Way

We Still Kill the Old Way

We Still Kill the Old Way is a 1967 Italian crime film directed by Elio Petri. It was entered into the 1967 Cannes Film Festival where it won the award for Best Screenplay. It is based on the novel To Each His Own by Leonardo Sciascia.-Cast:...

under director Elio Petri and the TV series Dossier Mata Hari. In 1968, Ferzetti experienced the most prolific year in his career, featuring in a total of 8 films. These include Marcello Fondato

Marcello Fondato

Marcello Fondato was an Italian screenwriter and film director. He wrote for 46 films between 1958 and 1986. He also directed nine films between 1968 and 1986...

's I protagonisti, Salvatore Samperi

Salvatore Samperi

Salvatore Samperi was an Italian film director. His 1973 film Malicious was entered into the 23rd Berlin International Film Festival and his 1979 film Ernesto was entered into the 29th Berlin International Film Festival.-Selected filmography:* Come Play with Me * Malicious * Ernesto...

's Grazie zia, José María Forqué

José María Forqué

José María Forqué was a Spanish screenwriter and film director.-Filmography:* 1947 : Juventudes de España, bajo una Patria hermosa* 1951 : María Morena* 1951 : Niebla y sol...

's Un diablo bajo la almohada, Roberto Faenza

Roberto Faenza

Roberto Faenza is an Italian film director.Born in Turin in 1943, Roberto Faenza received a degree in Political Science and a diploma at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia....

's Escalation

Escalation

Escalation is the phenomenon of something getting more intense step by step, for example a quarrel, or, notably, a war between states possessing weapons of mass destruction. Compare to escalator, a device that lifts something to a higher level...

, Alberto De Martino

Alberto De Martino

Alberto De Martino is an Italian film director and screenwriter. He directed 28 films between 1962 and 1985. He also wrote for 23 films between 1959 and 1985.He was born in Rome, Italy.-Selected filmography:...

's Roma come Chicago

Roma come Chicago

Roma come Chicago is a 1968 Italian film. It stars actor Gabriele Ferzetti....

and Sergio Leone

Sergio Leone

Sergio Leone was an Italian film director, producer and screenwriter most associated with the "Spaghetti Western" genre.Leone's film-making style includes juxtaposing extreme close-up shots with lengthy long shots...

's western epic Once Upon a Time in the West

Once Upon a Time in the West

Once Upon a Time in the West is a 1968 Italian epic spaghetti western film directed by Sergio Leone for Paramount Pictures. It stars Henry Fonda cast against type as the villain, Charles Bronson as his nemesis, Jason Robards as a bandit, and Claudia Cardinale as a newly widowed homesteader with a...

in which he played Morton, the railroad baron, opposite acclaimed actors Henry Fonda

Henry Fonda

Henry Jaynes Fonda was an American film and stage actor.Fonda made his mark early as a Broadway actor. He also appeared in 1938 in plays performed in White Plains, New York, with Joan Tompkins...

 and Charles Bronson

Charles Bronson

Charles Bronson , born Charles Dennis Buchinsky was an American actor, best-known for such films as Once Upon a Time in the West, The Magnificent Seven, The Dirty Dozen, The Great Escape, Rider on the Rain, The Mechanic, and the popular Death Wish series...

.
In 1969, Ferzetti starred in Giuliano Montaldo

Giuliano Montaldo

Giuliano Montaldo is an Italian film director.While he was still a young student, Montaldo was recruited by the director Carlo Lizzani for the role of leading actor in the film Achtung! Banditi!...

's crime film Gli intoccabili. He starred opposite John Cassavetes

John Cassavetes

John Nicholas Cassavetes was an American actor, screenwriter and filmmaker. He acted in many Hollywood films, notably Rosemary's Baby and The Dirty Dozen...

, Britt Ekland

Britt Ekland

Britt-Marie Ekland is a Swedish actress and singer, and a long time resident of the United Kingdom. She is best known for her roles as a Bond girl in The Man with the Golden Gun, and in the British cult horror film The Wicker Man, as well as her marriage to actor Peter Sellers, and her...

 and Peter Falk

Peter Falk

Peter Michael Falk was an American actor, best known for his role as Lieutenant Columbo in the television series Columbo...

 and the film was entered into the 1969 Cannes Film Festival

1969 Cannes Film Festival

The 22nd Cannes Film Festival was held on May 8 - 23, 1969. At this festival a new non-competitive section called "Directors' Fortnight" is added, in response to the cancellation of the 1968 festival.-Jury:*Luchino Visconti...

. He next starred in Un bellissimo novembre

Un bellissimo novembre

Un bellissimo novembre is a 1969 Italian film. It stars actors Gabriele Ferzetti and Gina Lollobrigida....

, directed by Mauro Bolognini

Mauro Bolognini

Mauro Bolognini was an Italian film director of literate sensibility, known for masterful handling of period subject matter.-Biography:Mauro Bolognini was born in Pistoia, Tuscany....

. The film, based on a novel by , united Ferzetti and Gina Lollobrigida once again in the leading roles. Ferzetti's most important performance in 1969, and arguably the role he is most associated with internationally throughout his career was his role as distinguished organized crime boss Marc-Ange Draco in the 1969 James Bond

James Bond

James Bond, code name 007, is a fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short story collections. There have been a six other authors who wrote authorised Bond novels or novelizations after Fleming's death in 1964: Kingsley Amis,...

 feature On Her Majesty's Secret Service

On Her Majesty's Secret Service (film)

On Her Majesty's Secret Service is the sixth spy film in the James Bond series, based on the 1963 novel of the same name by Ian Fleming. Following the decision of Sean Connery to retire from the role after You Only Live Twice, Eon Productions selected an unknown actor and model, George Lazenby...

. Directed by Peter Hunt

Peter R. Hunt

Peter R. Hunt was an English film editor, television producer and director. Hunt was known for his work on the James Bond films with his innovative editing style.-Career:...

, Ferzetti plays the father of Tracy di Vicenzo (played by English actress Diana Rigg

Diana Rigg

Dame Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg, DBE is an English actress. She is probably best known for her portrayals of Emma Peel in The Avengers and Countess Teresa di Vicenzo in the 1969 James Bond film On Her Majesty's Secret Service....

) who promises James Bond a handsome dowry for marrying her; they fall in love and marry anyway. Hunt had spotted Ferzetti in an Italian film which he and Harry Saltzman

Harry Saltzman

Harry Saltzman was a Canadian theatre and film producer best known for his mega-gamble which resulted in his co-producing the James Bond film series with Albert R...

 were supposed to be reviewing another actor in and both were immediately drawn to Ferzetti and persuaded the producers to test Ferzetti. However, despite speaking good English, his lines were dubbed due to his strong Italian accent, dubbed by British actor David de Keyser

David de Keyser

David de Keyser is a British actor. He is the father of Alexei de Keyser, Pia de Keyser and Thomas de Keyser.In the mid-sixties de Keyser worked twice with the writer, actor and director Jane Arden. Their first collaboration, The Logic Game, was the first BBC drama to be shot on film; it was...

. In the end of the film, his character Draco's resources are vital to aiding Bond to destroy Ernst Stavro Blofeld

Ernst Stavro Blofeld

Ernst Stavro Blofeld is a fictional character and a supervillain from the James Bond series of novels and films, who was created by Ian Fleming and Kevin McClory. An evil genius with aspirations of world domination, he is the archenemy of the British Secret Service agent James Bond and is arguably...

's base at Piz Gloria

Piz Gloria

Piz Gloria is the name of the revolving restaurant on the Schilthorn near Mürren in the Bernese Oberland, Switzerland. The cable car station and the restaurant were designed by the Bernese architect, Konrad Wolf...

. His final release of 1969 was L'amica

L'amica

L'amica is a 1969 Italian film. It stars actor Gabriele Ferzetti....

, directed by Alberto Lattuada

Alberto Lattuada

Alberto Lattuada was an Italian film director.Lattuada was born in Milan, the son of composer Felice Lattuada...

.

1970s

In 1970, Ferzetti starred in the political thriller The Confession

The Confession (1970 film)

The Confession is a 1970 French-Italian film directed by Costa Gavras and stars Yves Montand and Simone Signoret.It is based on the true story of the Czechoslovak communist Artur London, a defendant in the Slánský trial...

opposite Yves Montand

Yves Montand

-Early life:Montand was born Ivo Livi in Monsummano Terme, Italy, the son of poor peasants Giuseppina and Giovanni Livi, a broommaker. Montand's mother was a devout Catholic, while his father held strong Communist beliefs. Because of the Fascist regime in Italy, Montand's family left for France in...

 and Simone Signore, under director Costa-Gavras

Costa-Gavras

Costa-Gavras, is a Greek filmmaker, who lives and works in France, best known for films with overt political themes, most famously the fast-paced thriller, Z...

. The film, based on the book by Lise London, explores the mental tortures facing the vice-minister of the Foreign Affairs of Czechoslovakia when he is imprisoned. The film was ominated for a Golden Globe Award

Golden Globe Award

The Golden Globe Award is an accolade bestowed by the 93 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign...

. Ferzetti starred as an inspector in the crime picture Cannabis, directed by Pierre Koralnik

Pierre Koralnik

Pierre Koralnik is a French film director and screenwriter. He directed the 1967 film Anna, which starred Anna Karina.-External links:...

. The film involves the American mafia

American Mafia

The American Mafia , is an Italian-American criminal society. Much like the Sicilian Mafia, the American Mafia has no formal name and is a secret criminal society. Its members usually refer to it as Cosa Nostra or by its English translation "our thing"...

 and a group of French drug lords. He also had an uncredited role in Terence Young's American picture, Cold Sweat

Cold Sweat

"Cold Sweat" is a song performed by James Brown and written by his bandleader Alfred "Pee Wee" Ellis. Brown recorded it in May 1967. An edited version of "Cold Sweat" released as a two-part single on King Records was a #1 R&B hit, and reached number seven on the Pop Singles chart...

. In 1971, Ferzetti in Salvatore Samperi

Salvatore Samperi

Salvatore Samperi was an Italian film director. His 1973 film Malicious was entered into the 23rd Berlin International Film Festival and his 1979 film Ernesto was entered into the 29th Berlin International Film Festival.-Selected filmography:* Come Play with Me * Malicious * Ernesto...

's Million Dollar Eel, a comedy film about an heiress who fakes her own kidnapping and hides in the river Po's delta to obtain money from her parents. In 1972, Ferzetti starred opposite Robert Blake

Robert Blake (actor)

Robert Blake is an American actor who starred in the film In Cold Blood and the U.S. television series Baretta. In 2005, he was tried and acquitted for the 2001 murder of his wife, but on November 18, 2005, Blake was found liable in a California civil court for her wrongful death.-Early...

, Catherine Spaak

Catherine Spaak

-Biography:Spaak was born at Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine . She is the niece of Belgian politician Paul-Henri Spaak.She spent most of her career in Italy, where she became a teenage star...

 and Ernest Borgnine

Ernest Borgnine

Ernest Borgnine is an American actor of television and film. His career has spanned more than six decades. He was an unconventional lead in many films of the 1950s, including his Academy Award-winning turn in the 1955 film Marty...

 in Franco Prosperi's boxing drama, Un uomo dalla pelle dura

Un uomo dalla pelle dura

Un uomo dalla pelle dura is a 1972 Italian film. It stars actor Gabriele Ferzetti....

. A series of appearances in crime films followed, including Alta tension and Trois milliards sans ascenseur (1972) and Bisturi la mafia bianca, directed by Luigi Zampa

Luigi Zampa

Luigi Zampa was an Italian film-maker.- Biography :Son of a worker, Zampa studied film making from 1932 to 1937 at the Italian film school Centro sperimentale di cinematografia in Rome....

 (1973).
In 1973, Ferzetti appeared in the TV movie and Divorzia lui divorzia lei under Waris Hussein

Waris Hussein

Waris Hussein is a British-Indian television director and film director best known for his many productions for British television....

 and Hitler: The Last Ten Days

Hitler: The Last Ten Days

Hitler: The Last Ten Days is a 1973 film depicting the days leading up to Adolf Hitler's suicide. It stars Alec Guinness and Simon Ward. The original music score was composed by Mischa Spoliansky...

, a British-Italian produced picture directed by Ennio De Concini

Ennio de Concini

Ennio De Concini was an Italian screenwriter and film director, winning the Academy Award in 1962 for the "Best Original Screenplay" for Divorce, Italian Style.-Life and career:...

. Ferzetti played the role of Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel

Wilhelm Keitel

Wilhelm Bodewin Gustav Keitel was a German field marshal . As head of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht and de facto war minister, he was one of Germany's most senior military leaders during World War II...

 opposite Alec Guinness

Alec Guinness

Sir Alec Guinness, CH, CBE was an English actor. He was featured in several of the Ealing Comedies, including Kind Hearts and Coronets in which he played eight different characters. He later won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as Colonel Nicholson in The Bridge on the River Kwai...

 (Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party , commonly referred to as the Nazi Party). He was Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and head of state from 1934 to 1945...

), Simon Ward

Simon Ward

Simon Ward is an English stage and film actor.-Early life:Simon Ward was born in Beckenham, Kent, near London, the son of a car dealer. From an early age he wanted to be an actor. He was educated at Alleyn's School, London, the home of the National Youth Theatre, which he joined at age 13 and...

, Adolfo Celi

Adolfo Celi

Adolfo Celi was an Italian film actor and director.-Life and career:Born in Messina, Sicily, Celi appeared in nearly 100 movies, specializing in international villains. His most famous role was as Emilio Largo in the 1965 James Bond movie Thunderball...

 and Diane Cilento

Diane Cilento

Diane Cilento was an Australian theatre and film actress and author.-Biography:Cilento's parents, Sir Raphael Cilento and Lady Phyllis Cilento, were both distinguished medical practitioners....

. The following year, 1974, he again appeared in a World War II

World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

 picture, this time the controversial arthouse classic about the Holocaust, The Night Porter

The Night Porter

The Night Porter is a controversial 1974 film by Italian director Liliana Cavani, starring Dirk Bogarde and Charlotte Rampling.- Synopsis :...

, working under director Liliana Cavani

Liliana Cavani

Liliana Cavani is an Italian film director and screenwriter. She belongs to a generation of Italian filmmakers that came into prominence in the 1970s and includes Bernardo Bertolucci, Pier Paolo Pasolini and Marco Bellochio. Cavani became internationally known after the success of her 1974 feature...

. He starred alongside Dirk Bogarde

Dirk Bogarde

Sir Dirk Bogarde was an English actor and novelist. Initially a matinee idol in such films as Doctor in the House and other Rank Organisation pictures, Bogarde later acted in art-house films such as Death in Venice...

 and Charlotte Rampling

Charlotte Rampling

Charlotte Rampling, OBE is an English actress. Her career spans four decades in English-language as well as French and Italian cinema.- Early life :...

 and played Hans, a psychiatrist, one of his most notable roles. The film depicts the political continuity between wartime Nazism and post-war Europe and the psychological continuity of characters locked into compulsive repetition of the past. Given the film's dark and disturbing themes and a somewhat ambiguous moral clarification at the end, The Night Porter has tended to divide audiences and was accused of mere sensationalism. Film critic Roger Ebert

Roger Ebert

Roger Joseph Ebert is an American film critic and screenwriter. He is the first film critic to win a Pulitzer Prize for Criticism.Ebert is known for his film review column and for the television programs Sneak Previews, At the Movies with Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert, and Siskel and Ebert and The...

 said "as nasty as it is lubricious, a despicable attempt to titillate us by exploiting memories of persecution and suffering."

Ferzetti continued to appear in crime films including ...a tutte le auto della polizia

...a tutte le auto della polizia

...a tutte le auto della polizia is a 1975 Italian film. It stars actor Gabriele Ferzetti....

, directed by Mario Caiano

Mario Caiano

Mario Caiano is an Italian film director, screenwriter and second unit director.Born in Rome, he has directed for nearly 50 films since 1961 and 27 films and TV scripts since 1954....

 (1975), the German detective thriller Der Richter und sein Henker

End of the Game

End of the Game is a 1975 German thriller film directed by Maximilian Schell and starring Jon Voight, Jacqueline Bisset, Martin Ritt and Robert Shaw. Co-written by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, the film is an adaptation of his 1950 crime novella The Judge and His Hangman...

, directed by Maximilian Schell

Maximilian Schell

Maximilian Schell is an Austrian-born Swiss actor who won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in Judgment at Nuremberg in 1961...

 (1975), Eriprando Visconti

Eriprando Visconti

Eriprando Visconti di Modrone, Count of Vico Modrone was an Italian film director. He was the nephew of the more famous Luchino Visconti.He married Princess Fracesca Patrizia Ruspoli.-External links:...

's La Orca

La Orca

La Orca is a 1976 Italian film. It stars actor Gabriele Ferzetti....

(1976) and Fernando Di Leo

Fernando Di Leo

Fernando Di Leo was an Italian film director and script writer born in San Ferdinando di Puglia. During his career from 1964 to 1985, Di Leo directed 20 films and was involved in the writing process in 43...

's Gli amici di Nick Hezard

Gli amici di Nick Hezard

Gli amici di Nick Hezard is a 1976 Italian film. It stars actor Gabriele Ferzetti....

, a film about a Swiss heist. He also appeared in French director Roger Pigaut

Roger Pigaut

Roger Pigaut was a French actor and film director. He appeared in 40 films between 1943 and 1980.-Selected filmography:* Antoine and Antoinette...

's picture Le guêpier

Le guêpier

Le guêpier is a 1976 French-Italian film, directed by Roger Pigaut. It stars actor Gabriele Ferzetti.- Cast :* Claude Brasseur - Renaud* Marthe Keller - Melba* Gabriele Ferzetti - Gaspard* Vicky Messica - Vava* Vittorio Sanipoli : Fossetti...

opposite Claude Brasseur

Claude Brasseur

-Biography:He was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine as Claude Pierre Espinasse, the son of actor Pierre Brasseur and actress Odette Joyeux. He is the godson of Ernest Hemingway and the father of Alexandre Brasseur....

 and Marthe Keller

Marthe Keller

Marthe Keller is a Swiss actress and opera director. She studied ballet as a child, but stopped after a skiing accident at age 16...

 and had a small role in Vincente Minnelli

Vincente Minnelli

Vincente Minnelli was an American stage director and film director, famous for directing such classic movie musicals as Meet Me in St. Louis, The Band Wagon, and An American in Paris. In addition to having directed some of the most famous and well-remembered musicals of his time, Minnelli made...

's fantasy A Matter of Time

A Matter of Time (1976 film)

A Matter of Time is a 1976 American/Italian musical fantasy film directed by Vincente Minnelli. The screenplay by John Gay is based on the novel Film of Memory by Maurice Druon...

in 1976, which featured a prominent cast which included Ingrid Bergman

Ingrid Bergman

Ingrid Bergman was a Swedish actress who starred in a variety of European and American films. She won three Academy Awards, two Emmy Awards, and the Tony Award for Best Actress. She is ranked as the fourth greatest female star of American cinema of all time by the American Film Institute...

 and Liza Minelli. In 1977 he starred in Eriprando Visconti

Eriprando Visconti

Eriprando Visconti di Modrone, Count of Vico Modrone was an Italian film director. He was the nephew of the more famous Luchino Visconti.He married Princess Fracesca Patrizia Ruspoli.-External links:...

's Oedipus orca

Oedipus orca

Oedipus orca is a 1977 Italian film. It stars actor Gabriele Ferzetti....

and Lucio Fulci

Lucio Fulci

Lucio Fulci was an Italian film director, screenwriter, and actor. He is perhaps best known for his directorial work on gore films, including Zombie and The Beyond , although he made films in genres as diverse as giallo, western, and comedy...

's The Psychic, about a clairvoyant woman (Jennifer O'Neill

Jennifer O'Neill

-Early life:O'Neill was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the daughter of a famous Spanish-Irish dental supply import/export businessman, Oscar D' O'Neill and his English wife. As a teenager, O'Neill worked as a fashion model and appeared in television commercials and on magazine covers before moving...

), who after having a vision, removes a section of the wall in the home of her husband (Ferzetti) and finds a skeleton behind it. In 1978, Ferzetti appeared in French director Claude d'Anna

Claude d'Anna

Claude d'Anna is a French film director and screenwriter. He has directed 16 films since 1970. His film Salome was screened in the Un Certain Regard section the 1986 Cannes Film Festival...

's picture Concorde Affair alongside Bruno Cremer

Bruno Cremer

Bruno Jean Marie Crémer was a French actor born in Saint-Mandé, Val-de-Marne, who spent a part of his career on stage, but who also found success in the cinema and on television.- Biography :...

, Donald Pleasence

Donald Pleasence

Sir Donald Henry Pleasence, OBE, was a British actor who gained more than 200 screen credits during a career which spanned over four decades...

, Laure Dechasnel, Hélène Lehman, Dennis Hopper

Dennis Hopper

Dennis Lee Hopper was an American actor, filmmaker and artist. As a young man, Hopper became interested in acting and eventually became a student of the Actors' Studio. He made his first television appearance in 1954 and appeared in two films featuring James Dean, Rebel Without a Cause and Giant...

 and Joseph Cotten

Joseph Cotten

Joseph Cheshire Cotten was an American actor of stage and film. Cotten achieved prominence on Broadway, starring in the original productions of The Philadelphia Story and Sabrina Fair...

. He also appeared in another French picture, the romantic drama Mon premier amour

Mon premier amour

- Cast :* Anouk Aimée - Jane Romain* Richard Berry - Richard* Nathalie Baye - Fabienne* Gabriele Ferzetti - Georges* Jacques Villeret - Jacques Labrousse* Gilles Ségal - Professor* Nicole Seguin - Carole* Arlette Gordon - Sarah* Jacques Ebner - Night porter...

, directed by Elie Chouraqui

Élie Chouraqui

Élie Chouraqui is a French film director and scriptwriter of Jewish origin.-Filmography:*1978: Mon premier amour*1980: Une page d'amour*1982: Qu'est-ce qui fait courir David?*1985: Paroles et musique...

.
In 1979, Ferzetti starred in Porci con la P 38

Porci con la P 38

Porci con la P 38 is a 1979 Italian film. It stars actor Gabriele Ferzetti....

, directed by Gianfranco Pagani, Anni struggenti

Anni struggenti

Anni struggenti is a 1979 Italian film. It stars actor Gabriele Ferzetti....

, directed by Vittorio Sindoni, Encuentro en el abismo, directed by Anthony Richmond and Tonino Ricci and also had an uncredited role in Terence Young's Bloodline. He also appeared in the TV series I vecchi e i giovani.

1980s-present

In 1982, Ferzetti played a Turkish brigadier in another of Young's pictures, the historical war film Inchon

Inchon (film)

Inchon is a 1982 war film about the Battle of Inchon, considered to be the turning point of the Korean War. The film was directed by Terence Young and financed by Unification Church founder Sun Myung Moon. It stars Laurence Olivier as General Douglas MacArthur, who led the United States surprise...

. The protagonist of the film is General Douglas MacArthur

Douglas MacArthur

General of the Army Douglas MacArthur was an American general and field marshal of the Philippine Army. He was a Chief of Staff of the United States Army during the 1930s and played a prominent role in the Pacific theater during World War II. He received the Medal of Honor for his service in the...

 (Laurence Olivier

Laurence Olivier

Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, OM was an English actor, director, and producer. He was one of the most famous and revered actors of the 20th century. He married three times, to fellow actors Jill Esmond, Vivien Leigh, and Joan Plowright...

), who led the United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 surprise amphibious landing

Amphibious warfare

Amphibious warfare is the use of naval firepower, logistics and strategy to project military power ashore. In previous eras it stood as the primary method of delivering troops to non-contiguous enemy-held terrain...

 at Incheon

Incheon

The Incheon Metropolitan City is located in northwestern South Korea. The city was home to just 4,700 people when Jemulpo port was built in 1883. Today 2.76 million people live in the city, making it Korea’s third most populous city after Seoul and Busan Metropolitan City...

 in 1950. Inchon begins with a depiction of North Korea

North Korea

The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea , , is a country in East Asia, occupying the northern half of the Korean Peninsula. Its capital and largest city is Pyongyang. The Korean Demilitarized Zone serves as the buffer zone between North Korea and South Korea...

n soldiers moving past the 38th parallel north

38th parallel north

The 38th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 38 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane. It crosses Europe, the Mediterranean Sea, Asia, the Pacific Ocean, North America, and the Atlantic Ocean...

 into South Korea

South Korea

The Republic of Korea , , is a sovereign state in East Asia, located on the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula. It is neighbored by the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the east, North Korea to the north, and the East China Sea and Republic of China to the south...

 in June 1950. Inchon, financed by Unification Church

Unification Church

The Unification Church is a new religious movement founded by Korean religious leader Sun Myung Moon. In 1954, the Unification Church was formally and legally established in Seoul, South Korea, as The Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity . In 1994, Moon gave the church...

 founder Sun Myung Moon

Sun Myung Moon

Sun Myung Moon is the Korean founder and leader of the worldwide Unification Church. He is also the founder of many other organizations and projects...

, was a commercial and critical disaster, earning less than $2 million on a budget $46 million and classed by Allmovie, Newsweek

Newsweek

Newsweek is an American weekly news magazine published in New York City. It is distributed throughout the United States and internationally. It is the second-largest news weekly magazine in the U.S., having trailed Time in circulation and advertising revenue for most of its existence...

, TV Guide

TV Guide

TV Guide is a weekly American magazine with listings of TV shows.In addition to TV listings, the publication features television-related news, celebrity interviews, gossip and film reviews and crossword puzzles...

, and Canadian Press

Canadian Press

Canadian Press Enterprises Inc. is the entity which "will take over the operations of the Canadian Press" according to a November 26, 2010 article in the Toronto Star...

among the worst films of all time. Morte in Vaticano, directed by Marcello Aliprandi (1982). Ferzetti also starred alongside Franco Nero

Franco Nero

Franco Nero is an Italian actor.-Early life:Nero was born Francesco Sparanero in San Prospero Parmense , the son of a sergeant in the...

 in the crime comedy, Grog

Grog (film)

Grog is a 1982 Italian film. It stars actor Gabriele Ferzetti....

, directed by Francesco Laudadio, about two convicts who escape from prison and take hostage the family of a doctor.

In the mid 1980s, as he began to reach retirement age, Ferzetti's career in film began to decline, mainly appearing in low-budget TV movies and mini series, including an uncredited role in the TV movie The Scarlet and the Black

The Scarlet and the Black

The Scarlet and the Black is a 1983 made for TV movie starring Gregory Peck and Christopher Plummer. This production should not be confused with the 1993 British television mini series Scarlet and Black, which starred Ewan McGregor and Rachel Weisz....

under Jerry London and the mini series Quo Vadis? (1985), La voglia di vincere (1987) and Around the World in 80 Days (1989). His only other films of the 1980s were Giulia e Giulia, directed by Peter Del Monte

Peter Del Monte

Peter Del Monte is an Italian film director and screenwriter. He has directed 15 films since 1969. His 1982 film Invitation au voyage won the prize for the Best Artistic Contribution at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival.-Filmography:...

 (1987) in which he starred alongside Kathleen Turner

Kathleen Turner

Mary Kathleen Turner is an American actress. She came to fame during the 1980s, after roles in the Hollywood films Body Heat, Peggy Sue Got Married, Romancing the Stone, The War of the Roses, Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Prizzi's Honor...

, Gabriel Byrne

Gabriel Byrne

Gabriel James Byrne is an Irish actor, film director, film producer, writer, cultural ambassador and audiobook narrator. His acting career began in the Focus Theatre before he joined Londo's Royal Court Theatre in 1979. Byrne's screen debut came in the Irish soap opera The Riordans and the...

 and Sting, Computron 22, directed by Giuliano Carnimeo (1988).

In the 1990s, Ferzetti's career continued to decline mainly only appearing in minor or brief roles in TV movies such as Voyage of Terror: The Achille Lauro Affair

Voyage of Terror: The Achille Lauro Affair

----Voyage of Terror: The Achille Lauro Affair is a TV Drama/Action movie based on the Achille Lauro hijacking, starring Burt Lancaster - Eva Marie Saint and directed by Alberto Negrin-----Plot:...

(1990), Black as the Heart (1991), Die Ringe des Saturn (1992), Natale con papà (1994) and mini series such as Private Crimes (1995) in which he played Dr. Braschi. He did however appear in the film First Action Hero

First Action Hero

First Action Hero is a cult 1994 film starring Fabio Testi as Tony Fierro with Ron Nummi as Hoagy and directed by Nini Grassia. It has the alternative Italian name Il Burattinaio. It has been cited as a key influence behind the video-game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, developed by Rockstar Games.-...

in 1994 but his only role of major note in the 1990s was the Duke of Venice in Othello, directed by Oliver Parker

Oliver Parker

Oliver Parker is an English film director.-Biography:Parker was born in London, the son of Jillian, Lady Parker, a writer and GP , and Sir Peter Parker, formerly Chief executive of British Rail...

 in 1995. In 1997 he also appeared in Renzo Martinelli's Porzûs and Alfredo Angeli's Con rabbia e con amore.

In 2003, Ferzetti appeared in Perduto amor, directed by Franco Battiato

Franco Battiato

Francesco Battiato is an Italian singer-songwriter, composer, filmmaker and, under the pseudonym Süphan Barzani, also a painter. Battiato's songs contain esoteric, philosophical and religious themes...

 in Concorso di colpa, directed by Claudio Fragasso

Claudio Fragasso

Claudio Fragasso is an Italian screenwriter and film director of mostly low-budget exploitation films.- Filmmaking history :...

 (2005) and Io sono l'amore (2009), directed by Luca Guadagnino

Luca Guadagnino

Luca Guadagnino is an Italian film director. He rose to notability with the 2005 film Melissa P., and he is a frequent collaborator with Tilda Swinton, including the 2010 film I Am Love.-Life and career:...

. His most notable role since 1996 though is as Nono in the series Une famille formidable

Une famille formidable

Une famille formidable is a French Romantic comedy television series broadcast since September 17, 1992. It details the goings on of a family, and follows them as they grow up. As of 2008, the cast is the same as the 1992 cast, an unusual feat for a program with a run of this length.-External links:...

in which he appeared in 11 episodes between 1996 and 2007.
In 2010 he portrayed Enrico in Edoardo Leo's comedy picture 18 anni dopo, which featured Marco Bonini in the lead role.

Cinema

• Via delle Cinque Lune
  Via delle Cinque Lune
  Via delle Cinque Lune is a 1942 Italian romantic drama film directed by Luigi Chiarini. It marked the debut of actor Gabriele Ferzetti.-Cast:*Luisella Beghi - Ines*Olga Solbelli -Sora Teta*Andrea Checchi - Checco*Gildo Bocci - Federico, padre di Ines...
  
  , directed by Luigi Chiarini (1942)
• Bengasi
  Bengasi (film)
  Bengasi is a 1942 Italian film. It stars actor Gabriele Ferzetti....
  
  , not credited, directed by Augusto Genina
  Augusto Genina
  Augusto Genina was an Italian film pioneer. He was a movie producer and director.Born in Rome, Genina was a drama critic and wrote comedies for the Il Mondo Magazine, under advise of Aldo de Benedetti switches to movies for the "Film d'Arte Italiana", that produces his first film "La moglie di sua...
  
   (1942)
• La contessa Castiglione, directed by Flavio Calzavara
  Flavio Calzavara
  Flavio Calzavara was an Italian film director and screenwriter. He directed 21 films between 1939 and 1956.-Filmography:* Canzone proibita * Gli occhi senza luce * Napoli piange e ride...
  
   (1942)
• I miserabili, not credited, directed by Riccardo Freda
  Riccardo Freda
  Riccardo Freda was an Egyptian-born Italian film director. Best known for his horror and thriller movies, Freda had no great love for the horror films he was assigned, but rather favored the epic sword and sandal pictures...
  
   (1948)
• Rondini in volo, directed by Luigi Capuano (1949)
• Vespro siciliano
  Vespro siciliano (film)
  Vespro siciliano is a 1949 Italian film. It stars actor Gabriele Ferzetti....
  
  , directed by Giorgio Pàstina (1949)
• Vertigine d'amore
  Vertigine d'amore
  Vertigine d'amore is a 1949 Italian-French film directed by Luigi Capuano.-Cast:* Gabriele Ferzetti* Gabrielle Fontan* Folco Lulli - Luca / France: Romain Toucas* Piero Lulli - Olivero / France: Ollivier Desmichels* Marcello Mastroianni...
  
  , directed by Luigi Capuano
  Luigi Capuano
  Luigi Capuano was an Italian film director and screenwriter.Born at Naples, directed 43 films between 1947 and 1971.-Selected filmography:* Vertigine d'amore * Gli amanti di Ravello * The Adventurer of Tortuga...
  
   (1949)
• Fabiola, directed by Alessandro Blasetti
  Alessandro Blasetti
  Alessandro Blasetti was an Italian film director who influenced Italian neorealism with the film Quattro passi fra le nuvole...
  
   (1949)
• Guglielmo Tell, directed by Giorgio Pàstina (1949)
• I falsari, directed by Franco Rossi (1950)
• Sigillo rosso
  Sigillo rosso
  Sigillo rosso is a 1950 Italian film directed by Flavio Calzavara.-Cast:*Gino Cervi*Carla Del Poggio*Adriano Rimoldi*Linda Sini*Giovanna Scotto*Miranda Campa*Fulvia Mammi*Gabriele Ferzetti*Lia Corelli...
  
  , directed by Flavio Calzavara (1950)
• Lo zappatore
  Lo Zappatore
  Lo Zappatore is a 1950 Italian film directed by Rate Furlan.-Cast:*Clara Auteri Pepe*Angelo Dessy*Gabriele Ferzetti*Vera Furlan*Clelia Genovese*Nino Marchesini ... Padre Di Carlo*Marisa Merlini*Nico Pepe*Enzo Romagnoli*Silvio Rossi...
  
  , directed by Rate Furlan (1950)
• Benvenuto, reverendo!, directed by Aldo Fabrizi
  Aldo Fabrizi
  Aldo Fabrizi was an Italian actor and cinema and theatre director.-Actor Filmography:* Avanti, c'è posto... by Mario Bonnard...
  
   (1950)
• Barriera a Settentrione, directed by Luis Trenker
  Luis Trenker
  Luis Trenker was a German-language South Tyrolian film director, architect, and actor.-Biography:...
  
   (1950)
• Core 'ngrato, directed by Guido Brignone
  Guido Brignone
  Guido Brignone was an Italian film director. He was the father of actress Lilla Brignone.Brignone was born in Milan, Italy...
  
   (1951)
• Gli amanti di Ravello
  Gli Amanti di Ravello
  Gli amanti di Ravello is a 1951 Italian film directed by Luigi Capuano.-Cast:*Lída Baarová*Ivana Ferri*Gabriele Ferzetti*Carlo Ninchi*Lita Perez*Leonora Ruffo*Rino Salviati*Olga Solbelli...
  
  , directed by Francesco De Robertis (1951)
• Il Cristo proibito, directed by Curzio Malaparte
  Curzio Malaparte
  Curzio Malaparte , born Kurt Erich Suckert, was an Italian journalist, dramatist, short-story writer, novelist and diplomat...
  
   (1951)
• Inganno, directed by Guido Brignone (1952)
• Tre storie proibite, directed by Augusto Genina (1952)
• Il sole negli occhi
  Il sole negli occhi
  Il sole negli occhi is a 1953 Italian film. It stars actor Gabriele Ferzetti....
  
  , directed by Antonio Pietrangeli
  Antonio Pietrangeli
  Antonio Pietrangeli was an Italian film director and screenwriter. Pietrangeli was a major practitioner of the Commedia all'italiana genre.-Biography:...
  
   (1953)
• Vestire gli ignudi
  Vestire gli ignudi
  Vestire gli ignudi is a 1953 Italian film. It stars actor Gabriele Ferzetti....
  
  , directed by Marcello Pagliero (1953)
• La provinciale, directed by Mario Soldati
  Mario Soldati
  Mario Soldati was an Italian writer and film director.-Biography:Soldati studied Humanities in his native city, Turin, and History of Art in Rome. He started publishing novels in 1929 although his fame came with America primo amore, published in 1935, a diary about the time he spent teaching at...
  
   (1953)
• Puccini
  Puccini (film)
  Puccini is a 1953 Italian film. It stars actor Gabriele Ferzetti....
  
  , directed by Carmine Gallone
  Carmine Gallone
  Carmine Gallone was an early acclaimed Italian film director, screenwriter, and film producer. Considered one of Italian cinema's top early directors, he directed over 120 films in his fifty year career between 1913 and 1963.-Filmography:*Il bacio di Cirano *La donna nuda *Senza colpa! *Fior di...
  
   (1953)
• Vergine moderna
  Vergine moderna
  Vergine moderna is a 1954 Italian film. It stars actor Gabriele Ferzetti....
  
  , directed by Marcello Pagliero
  Marcello Pagliero
  Marcello Pagliero was an Italian film director, actor, and screenwriter.Pagliero was born in London and died in Paris...
  
   (1954)
• Camilla
  Camilla (film)
  Camilla is a 1994 film directed by Deepa Mehta and Jessica Tandy's last movie appearance.-Critical reception:Several reviewers wrote that Tandy's performance was the best aspect of the film...
  
  , directed by Luciano Emmer
  Luciano Emmer
  Luciano Emmer was an Italian film director. He was born in Milan. He won a Golden Globe in 1951 for Pictura...
  
   (1954)
• Cento anni d'amore
  Cento anni d'amore
  Cento anni d'amore is a 1954 Italian film. It stars actor Gabriele Ferzetti....
  
  , directed by Lionello De Felice (1954)
• Casa Ricordi
  Casa Ricordi (film)
  Casa Ricordi is a 1954 Italian film based on the early history of the famous Italian music publishing house Casa Ricordi. It is directed by Carmine Gallone.-Cast:* Roland Alexandre - Gioacchino Rossini* Myriam Bru - Luisa Lewis...
  
  , directed by Carmine Gallone (1954)
• Il prezzo della gloria
  Il prezzo della gloria
  Il prezzo della gloria is a 1955 Italian film. It stars actor Gabriele Ferzetti....
  
  , directed by Antonio Musu (1955)
• Le avventure di Giacomo Casanova
  Le avventure di Giacomo Casanova
  Le avventure di Giacomo Casanova is a 1955 Italian comedy film directed by Steno. It stars Gabriele Ferzetti, Corinne Calvet and Irène Galter.-Cast:*Gabriele Ferzetti ... Giacomo Casanova*Corinne Calvet ... Louse de Châtillon...
  
  , directed by Steno
  Stefano Vanzina
  Steno, the artistic name of Stefano Vanzina was an Italian film director, screenwriter and cinematographer...
  
   (1955)
• Adriana Lecouvreur
  Adriana Lecouvreur (film)
  Adriana Lecouvreur is a 1955 Italian film. It stars actor Gabriele Ferzetti....
  
  , directed by Guido Salvini
  Guido Salvini
  Guido Salvini is an Italian judge, based in Milan. He issued European arrest warrants in 2005 against approximatively 20 CIA agents accused of having taken part in the abduction of Abu Omar, the Egyptian cleric in Milan in 2003. The case is known in Italy as the Imam Rapito affair...
  
   (1955)
• Le amiche
  Le amiche
  Le Amiche is a 1955 Italian black-and-white drama film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni. It is adapted from Cesare Pavese's 1949 novella Tra donne sole and centers on Roman couturier Clelia , who leaves Rome to work at a boutique in Torino.-Production:The script for Le Amiche is adapted from a...
  
  , directed by Michelangelo Antonioni
  Michelangelo Antonioni
  Michelangelo Antonioni, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI was an Italian modernist film director, screenwriter, editor and short story writer.- Personal life :...
  
   (1955)
• Un po' di cielo
  Un po' di cielo
  Un po' di cielo is a 1955 Italian film. It stars actor Gabriele Ferzetti....
  
  , directed by Giorgio Moser
  Giorgio Moser
  Giorgio Moser was an Italian film director and screenwriter. He directed seven films between 1954 and 1996.-External links:...
  
   (1955)
• Donatella, directed by Mario Monicelli
  Mario Monicelli
  Mario Monicelli was an Italian director and screenwriter and one of the masters of the Commedia all'Italiana , three times nominated for Oscar.-Biography:...
  
   (1956)
• Parola di ladro
  Parola di ladro
  Parola di ladro is a 1957 Italian film. It stars actor Gabriele Ferzetti....
  
  , directed by Nanni Loy
  Nanni Loy
  Nanni Loy was an Italian film, theatre and TV director.Loy was born in Cagliari, Sardinia...
  
   and Gianni Puccini
  Gianni Puccini
  Gianni Puccini was an Italian screenwriter and film director. He wrote for 32 films between 1940 and 1967...
  
   (1957)
• Difendo il mio amore
  Difendo il mio amore
  Difendo il mio amore is a 1957 Italian film. It stars actor Gabriele Ferzetti....
  
  , directed by Giulio Macchi (1957)
• Souvenir d'Italie
  Souvenir d'Italie
  Souvenir d'Italie is a 1957 Italian film. It stars actor Gabriele Ferzetti....
  
  , directed by Antonio Pietrangeli (1957)
• Nata di marzo
  Nata di marzo
  Nata di marzo is a 1957 Italian film. It stars actor Gabriele Ferzetti....
  
  , directed by Antonio Pietrangeli (1957)
• Ballerina e Buon Dio
  Ballerina e Buon Dio
  Ballerina e Buon Dio is a 1958 Italian film. It stars actor Gabriele Ferzetti....
  
  , directed by Antonio Leonviola (1958)
• Racconti d'estate
  Racconti d'estate
  Girls for the Summer is a 1958 Italian romantic comedy drama film directed by Gianni Franciolini, based on story by Alberto Moravia. The film stars Alberto Sordi, Michèle Morgan, Marcello Mastroianni, Sylva Koscina, Gabriele Ferzetti, Dorian Gray, Franca Marzi, Franco Fabrizi and Jorge Mistral.It...
  
  , directed by Gianni Franciolini
  Gianni Franciolini
  Gianni Franciolini was an Italian film director and screenwriter. He directed 19 films between 1939 and 1959.-Filmography:* Ferdinando I...
  
   (1958)
• Le insaziabili
  Le insaziabili
  Le insaziabili is a 1958 Italian film. It stars actor Gabriele Ferzetti....
  
  (Tant d'amour perdu), directed by Léo Joannon
  Léo Joannon
  Léo Joannon was a French writer and film director. Born in Aix-en-Provence, Joannon was originally a law student who became a novelist and journalist before entering the film industry in the 1920s as a cameraman....
  
   (1958)
• Le secret du Chevalier d'Éon
  Le secret du Chevalier d'Éon
  Le secret du Chevalier d'Éon is a 1959 Italian film. It stars actor Gabriele Ferzetti....
  
  (Storie d'amore proibite), directed by Jacqueline Audry
  Jacqueline Audry
  Jacqueline Audry was a French film director who started making films in post-World War II France and specialised in literary adaptations. She was the first commercially successful woman director of post-war France....
  
   (1959)
• Tutti innamorati, directed by Giuseppe Orlandini
  Giuseppe Orlandini
  Giuseppe Orlandini is an Italian film director and screenwriter. He dircted ten films between 1940 and 1967.-Filmography:* Continuavano a chiamarli.....
  
   (1959)
• Annibale
  Annibale (film)
  Annibale is a 1959 Italian film. It stars actor Gabriele Ferzetti....
  
  , directed by Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia
  Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia
  Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia was an Italian film director whose career spanned from the 1930s to the mid 1960s. He mainly directed adventure pictures and popular comedies, including some starring Totò...
  
   (1959)
• Labbra rosse
  Labbra rosse
  Labbra rosse is a 1960 Italian film. It stars actor Gabriele Ferzetti....
  
  , directed by Giuseppe Bennati
  Giuseppe Bennati
  Giuseppe Bennati was an Italian film director and writer.He directed Il microfono e' vostro , Musoduro , L'amico del giaguaro , Labbra Rosse , Congo vivo and L'assassino ha riservato nove poltrone , his last movie...
  
   (1960)
• Il carro armato dell'8 settembre
  Il carro armato dell'8 settembre
  Il carro armato dell'8 settembre is a 1960 Italian film. It stars actor Gabriele Ferzetti....
  
  , directed by Gianni Puccini (1960)
• La lunga notte del '43, directed by Florestano Vancini
  Florestano Vancini
  Florestano Vancini was an award-winning Italian film director and screenwriter.He directed over 20 movies since 1960...
  
   (1960)
• L'avventura
  L'avventura
  L'Avventura is a 1960 Italian film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni and developed from a story he created. Monica Vitti and Gabriele Ferzetti star. It is noted for its careful pacing, which puts a focus on visual composition and character development, as well as for its unusual narrative structure...
  
  , directed by Michelangelo Antonioni (1960)
• Femmine di lusso
  Femmine di lusso
  Femmine di lusso is a 1960 Italian romantic comedy film directed by Giorgio Bianchi and starring Ugo Tognazzi, Elke Sommer, Walter Chiari and Sylva Koscina...
  
  , directed by Giorgio Bianchi
  Giorgio Bianchi
  Giorgio Bianchi was an Italian film director and actor.-Selected filmography:* Two Happy Hearts * Vent'anni * Hearts at Sea * L'immorale -External links:...
  
   (1960)
• Il giorno più corto
  Il giorno più corto
  Il giorno più corto is a 1962 Italian Comedy film. It is a parody of the war movie The Longest Day and stars the popular duo Ciccio Ingrassia and Franco Franchi in the leading roles...
  
  , directed by Sergio Corbucci
  Sergio Corbucci
  Sergio Corbucci was an Italian film director. He is best known for his very violent yet intelligent spaghetti westerns...
  
   (1962)
• La monaca di Monza
  La monaca di Monza
  La monaca di Monza is a 1962 Italian film directed by Carmine Gallone. It stars Gabriele Ferzetti, Giovanna Ralli and Mario Feliciani.The film is about a young nobleman who seduces a nun, leading to the death of the man and the internment of the woman....
  
  , directed by Carmine Gallone (1962)
• Poker col diavolo
  Poker col diavolo
  Poker col diavolo is a 1962 Italian film. It stars actor Gabriele Ferzetti....
  
  (Rencontres), directed by Philippe Agostini
  Philippe Agostini
  Philippe Agostini is a French cinematographer, director and screenwriter born 11 August 1910 in Paris , died 20 October 2001. He was married to Odette Joyeux until the end of her life.- Biography :...
  
   (1962)
• Congo vivo
  Congo vivo
  Congo vivo is a 1962 Italian film. It stars actor Gabriele Ferzetti....
  
  , directed by Giuseppe Bennati (1962)
• Jessica (film)
  Jessica (film)
  Jessica is a 1962 film directed by Jean Negulesco. It stars Maurice Chevalier and Angie Dickinson.-Cast:*Maurice Chevalier as Father Antonio*Angie Dickinson as Jessica*Noël-Noël as Old Crupi*Gabriele Ferzetti as Edmondo Raumo...
  
  , directed by Jean Negulesco
  Jean Negulesco
  Jean Negulesco was a Romanian-born American film director and screenwriter....
  
   (1962)
• Il delitto non paga
  Il delitto non paga
  Il delitto non paga is a 1962 Italian film. It stars actor Gabriele Ferzetti....
  
  (Le crime ne paie mas), directed by Gérard Oury
  Gérard Oury
  Gérard Oury was a French film director, actor and writer. His real name was Max-Gérard Houry Tannenbaum.- A commercially successful French filmmaker :...
  
   (1962)
• L'amore impossibilie
  L'amore impossibilie
  L'amore impossibilie is a 1962 Italian film. It stars actor Gabriele Ferzetti....
  
  (La croix des vivants), directed by Ivan Govar (1962)
• I Don Giovanni della Costa Azzurra
  I Don Giovanni della Costa Azzurra
  I Don Giovanni della Costa Azzurra is a 1962 Italian film, directed by Vittorio Sala. It stars actor Gabriele Ferzetti.- Cast :*Curd Jürgens - Mr...
  
  , directed by Vittorio Sala (1962)
• La calda vita
  La calda vita
  La calda vita is a 1963 Italian film. It stars actor Gabriele Ferzetti....
  
  , directed by Florestano Vancini (1963)
• Venere imperiale
  Venere Imperiale
  Venere Imperiale is a 1962 French-Italian historical film directed by Jean Delannoy and starring Gina Lollobrigida, Stephen Boyd and Raymond Pellegrin...
  
  , directed by Jean Delannoy
  Jean Delannoy
  Jean Delannoy was a French actor, film editor, screenwriter and film director.Although Delannoy was born in a Paris suburb, his family is from Haute-Normandie in the north of France...
  
   (1963)
• Finché dura la tempesta
  Finché dura la tempesta
  Finché dura la tempesta is a 1963 Italian film. It stars actor Gabriele Ferzetti....
  
  (Beta Som), directed by Bruno Vailati and Charles Frend
  Charles Frend
  Charles Frend was an English film director.Charles Frend started his career at British International Pictures in 1931 and after editing Hitchcock's Waltzes from Vienna moved to Gaumont British Pictures in 1933 where he worked as an editor on Alfred Hitchcock's movies Secret Agent , Sabotage and...
  
   (1963)
• Un tentativo sentimentale
  Un tentativo sentimentale
  Un tentativo sentimentale is a 1963 Italian film. It stars actor Gabriele Ferzetti....
  
  , directed by Massimo Franciosa
  Massimo Franciosa
  Massimo Franciosa was an Italian screenwriter and film director. He wrote for 72 films between 1955 and 1991. He also directed nine films between 1963 and 1971...
  
   and Pasquale Festa Campanile
  Pasquale Festa Campanile
  Pasquale Festa Campanile was an Italian screenwriter, film director and novellist. He was born at Melfi and died in Rome.- Director :* Un tentativo sentimentale * La nonna Sabella...
  
   (1963)
• Desideri d'estate
  Desideri d'estate
  Desideri d'estate is a 1964 Italian film. It stars actor Gabriele Ferzetti....
  
  , directed by Silvio Amadio
  Silvio Amadio
  Silvio Amadio was an Italian film director and screenwriter. He directed 24 films between 1957 and 1981. His film Wolves of the Deep was entered into the 9th Berlin International Film Festival.-Selected filmography:...
  
   (1964)
• Mort, où est ta victoire?
  Mort, où est ta victoire?
  Mort, où est ta victoire? is a 1964 French film. It stars actor Gabriele Ferzetti....
  
  , directed by Hervé Bromberger
  Hervé Bromberger
  Hervé Bromberger was a French film director and screenwriter. He directed 16 films between 1951 and 1982.-Selected filmography:* Paris Vice Squad * Three Fables of Love...
  
   (1964)
• Crucero de verano
  Crucero de verano
  Crucero de verano is a 1964 Italian film. It stars actor Gabriele Ferzetti....
  
  , directed by Luis Lucia
  Luis Lucia
  Luis Lucia Mingarro was a Spanish film director and screenwriter.He studied Law and was the attorney of CIFESA film studios....
  
   (1964)
• Lo scippo
  Lo scippo
  Lo scippo is a 1965 Italian film directed by Nando Cicero.-Cast:*Paolo Ferrari*Gabriele Ferzetti*Fiorenzo Fiorentini*Margaret Lee*Didi Perego*Mario Pisu*Maria Laura Rocca*Enrico Maria Salerno*Vinicio Sofia*Annette Vadim*Valeria Valeri...
  
  , directed by Nando Cicero (1965)
• Rapina al sole (Par un beau matin d'été), directed by Jacques Deray
  Jacques Deray
  Jacques Deray was a French film director and screenwriter. Deray is prominently known for directing many crime and thriller films.-Biography:...
  
   (1965)
• Three Rooms in Manhattan
  Three Rooms in Manhattan
  Three Rooms in Manhattan is a 1965 French drama film filmed in New York City.-Cast:* Annie Girardot as Kay Larsi* Maurice Ronet as Francois Comte* O.E...
  
  (Trois chambres à Manhattan), directed by Marcel Carné
  Marcel Carné
  -Biography:Born in Paris, France, the son of a cabinet maker whose wife died when their son was five, Carné began his career as a film critic, becoming editor of the weekly publication, Hebdo-Films, and working for Cinémagazine and Cinémonde between 1929 and 1933. In the same period he worked in...
  
   (1965)
• L'arcidiavolo
  L'arcidiavolo
  L'arcidiavolo is a 1966 Italian film. It stars actor Gabriele Ferzetti....
  
  , directed by Ettore Scola (1966)
• The Bible: In the Beginning
  The Bible: In The Beginning
  The Bible: In the Beginning is a 1966 Biblical epic film recounting the first 22 chapters of the Book of Genesis. It was a joint American/Italian production conceived by Dino De Laurentiis and directed by John Huston. The music score is by Toshirô Mayuzumi. The production was photographed by...
  
  , directed by John Huston
  John Huston
  John Marcellus Huston was an American film director, screenwriter and actor. He wrote most of the 37 feature films he directed, many of which are today considered classics: The Maltese Falcon , The Treasure of the Sierra Madre , Key Largo , The Asphalt Jungle , The African Queen , Moulin Rouge...
  
   (1966)
• A ciascuno il suo, directed by Elio Petri (1967)
• I protagonisti, directed by Marcello Fondato
  Marcello Fondato
  Marcello Fondato was an Italian screenwriter and film director. He wrote for 46 films between 1958 and 1986. He also directed nine films between 1968 and 1986...
  
   (1968)
• Grazie zia, directed by Salvatore Samperi
  Salvatore Samperi
  Salvatore Samperi was an Italian film director. His 1973 film Malicious was entered into the 23rd Berlin International Film Festival and his 1979 film Ernesto was entered into the 29th Berlin International Film Festival.-Selected filmography:* Come Play with Me * Malicious * Ernesto...
  
   (1968)
• Calda e... infedele
  Calda e... infedele
  Calda e... infedele is a 1968 Italian film. It stars actor Gabriele Ferzetti....
  
  (Un diablo bajo la almohada), directed by José María Forqué
  José María Forqué
  José María Forqué was a Spanish screenwriter and film director.-Filmography:* 1947 : Juventudes de España, bajo una Patria hermosa* 1951 : María Morena* 1951 : Niebla y sol...
  
   (1968)
• Escalation
  Escalation (film)
  Escalation is a 1968 Italian film written and directed by Roberto Faenza and starring actor Gabriele Ferzetti.- Cast :* Lino Capolicchio * Claudine Auger * Gabriele Ferzetti * Didi Perego * Leopoldo Trieste * Paola Corinti * Dada Gallotti...
  
  , directed by Roberto Faenza
  Roberto Faenza
  Roberto Faenza is an Italian film director.Born in Turin in 1943, Roberto Faenza received a degree in Political Science and a diploma at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia....
  
   (1968)
• Meglio vedova
  Meglio vedova
  Meglio vedova is a 1968 Italian film. It stars actor Gabriele Ferzetti....
  
  , directed by Duccio Tessari (1968)
• L'età del malessere
  L'età del malessere
  L'età del malessere is a 1968 Italian film. It stars actor Gabriele Ferzetti....
  
  , directed by Giuliano Biagetti (1968)
• Roma come Chicago
  Roma come Chicago
  Roma come Chicago is a 1968 Italian film. It stars actor Gabriele Ferzetti....
  
  , directed by Alberto De Martino
  Alberto De Martino
  Alberto De Martino is an Italian film director and screenwriter. He directed 28 films between 1962 and 1985. He also wrote for 23 films between 1959 and 1985.He was born in Rome, Italy.-Selected filmography:...
  
   (1968)
• Once Upon a Time in the West
  Once Upon a Time in the West
  Once Upon a Time in the West is a 1968 Italian epic spaghetti western film directed by Sergio Leone for Paramount Pictures. It stars Henry Fonda cast against type as the villain, Charles Bronson as his nemesis, Jason Robards as a bandit, and Claudia Cardinale as a newly widowed homesteader with a...
  
  , directed by Sergio Leone
  Sergio Leone
  Sergio Leone was an Italian film director, producer and screenwriter most associated with the "Spaghetti Western" genre.Leone's film-making style includes juxtaposing extreme close-up shots with lengthy long shots...
  
   (1968)
• Gli intoccabili, directed by Giuliano Montaldo
  Giuliano Montaldo
  Giuliano Montaldo is an Italian film director.While he was still a young student, Montaldo was recruited by the director Carlo Lizzani for the role of leading actor in the film Achtung! Banditi!...
  
   (1969)
• Un bellissimo novembre
  Un bellissimo novembre
  Un bellissimo novembre is a 1969 Italian film. It stars actors Gabriele Ferzetti and Gina Lollobrigida....
  
  , directed by Mauro Bolognini
  Mauro Bolognini
  Mauro Bolognini was an Italian film director of literate sensibility, known for masterful handling of period subject matter.-Biography:Mauro Bolognini was born in Pistoia, Tuscany....
  
   (1969)
• On Her Majesty's Secret Service
  On Her Majesty's Secret Service (film)
  On Her Majesty's Secret Service is the sixth spy film in the James Bond series, based on the 1963 novel of the same name by Ian Fleming. Following the decision of Sean Connery to retire from the role after You Only Live Twice, Eon Productions selected an unknown actor and model, George Lazenby...
  
  , directed by Peter Hunt
  Peter R. Hunt
  Peter R. Hunt was an English film editor, television producer and director. Hunt was known for his work on the James Bond films with his innovative editing style.-Career:...
  
   (1969)
• L'amica
  L'amica
  L'amica is a 1969 Italian film. It stars actor Gabriele Ferzetti....
  
  , directed by Alberto Lattuada
  Alberto Lattuada
  Alberto Lattuada was an Italian film director.Lattuada was born in Milan, the son of composer Felice Lattuada...
  
   (1969)
• La confessione (L'aveu), directed by Costa-Gavras
  Costa-Gavras
  Costa-Gavras, is a Greek filmmaker, who lives and works in France, best known for films with overt political themes, most famously the fast-paced thriller, Z...
  
   (1970)
• New York-Parigi per una condanna a morte
  New York-Parigi per una condanna a morte
  New York-Parigi per una condanna a morte is a 1970 Italian film. It stars actor Gabriele Ferzetti....
  
  (Cannabis), directed by Pierre Koralnik
  Pierre Koralnik
  Pierre Koralnik is a French film director and screenwriter. He directed the 1967 film Anna, which starred Anna Karina.-External links:...
  
   (1970)
• L'uomo dalle due ombre (De la part des copains), directed by Terence Young (1970)
• Mendiants et orgueilleux
  Mendiants et orgueilleux
  Mendiants et orgueilleux is a 1971 French film. It stars actor Gabriele Ferzetti....
  
  , directed by Jacques Poitrenaud
  Jacques Poitrenaud
  Jacques Poitrenaud, born May 22 1922, in Lille, died April 5 2005 in Paris, is a French film director and actor.- Director :* 1956 : Saint-Germain-en-Laye, cité royale * 1957 : Enfants, Touraine...
  
   (1971)
• Un'anguilla da 300 milioni
  Un'anguilla da 300 milioni
  Un'anguilla da 300 milioni is a 1971 Italian film. It stars actor Gabriele Ferzetti....
  
  , directed by Salvatore Samperi (1971)
• Un uomo dalla pelle dura
  Un uomo dalla pelle dura
  Un uomo dalla pelle dura is a 1972 Italian film. It stars actor Gabriele Ferzetti....
  
  , directed by Franco Prosperi (1972)
• Doppia coppia con Regina
  Doppia coppia con Regina
  Doppia coppia con Regina is a 1972 Italian film. It stars actor Gabriele Ferzetti....
  
  (Alta tension), directed by Julio Buchs (1972)
• Sette cervelli per un colpo perfetto
  Sette cervelli per un colpo perfetto
  Sette cervelli per un colpo perfetto is a 1972 French-Italian film, directed by Roger Pigaut. It stars actor Gabriele Ferzetti.- Cast :* Michel Bouquet - Albert* Serge Reggiani - Pierrot* Marcel Bozzuffi - Gus* Dany Carrel - Lulu...
  
  (Trois milliards sans ascenseur), directed by Roger Pigaut
  Roger Pigaut
  Roger Pigaut was a French actor and film director. He appeared in 40 films between 1943 and 1980.-Selected filmography:* Antoine and Antoinette...
  
   (1972)
• Divorzia lui, divorzia lei
  Divorzia lui, divorzia lei
  Divorzia lui, divorzia lei is a 1973 Italian film. It stars actor Gabriele Ferzetti....
  
  (Divorce His, Divorce Hers), directed by Waris Hussein
  Waris Hussein
  Waris Hussein is a British-Indian television director and film director best known for his many productions for British television....
  
   (1973)
• Gli ultimi 10 giorni di Hitler (Hitler: The Last Ten Days), directed by Ennio De Concini
  Ennio de Concini
  Ennio De Concini was an Italian screenwriter and film director, winning the Academy Award in 1962 for the "Best Original Screenplay" for Divorce, Italian Style.-Life and career:...
  
   (1973)
• Bisturi la mafia bianca, directed by Luigi Zampa
  Luigi Zampa
  Luigi Zampa was an Italian film-maker.- Biography :Son of a worker, Zampa studied film making from 1932 to 1937 at the Italian film school Centro sperimentale di cinematografia in Rome....
  
   (1973)
• Processo per direttissima
  Processo per direttissima
  Processo per direttissima is a 1974 Italian film. It stars actor Gabriele Ferzetti....
  
  , directed by Lucio De Caro (1974)
• La prova d'amore
  La prova d'amore
  La prova d'amore is a 1974 Italian film. It stars actor Gabriele Ferzetti....
  
  , directed by Tiziano Longo (1974)
• Appassionata
  Appassionata (film)
  Appassionata is a 1974 Italian film. It stars actor Gabriele Ferzetti....
  
  , directed by Gianluigi Calderone (1974)
• Fatevi vivi, la polizia non interverrà
  Fatevi vivi, la polizia non interverrà
  Fatevi vivi, la polizia non interverrà is a 1974 Italian film. It stars actor Gabriele Ferzetti....
  
  , directed by Giovanni Fago (1974)
• Il portiere di notte, directed by Liliana Cavani
  Liliana Cavani
  Liliana Cavani is an Italian film director and screenwriter. She belongs to a generation of Italian filmmakers that came into prominence in the 1970s and includes Bernardo Bertolucci, Pier Paolo Pasolini and Marco Bellochio. Cavani became internationally known after the success of her 1974 feature...
  
   (1974)
• Corruzione al palazzo di giustizia
  Corruzione al palazzo di giustizia
  Corruzione al palazzo di giustizia is a 1975 Italian film. It stars actor Gabriele Ferzetti....
  
  , directed by Marcello Aliprandi (1975)
• ...a tutte le auto della polizia
  ...a tutte le auto della polizia
  ...a tutte le auto della polizia is a 1975 Italian film. It stars actor Gabriele Ferzetti....
  
  , directed by Mario Caiano
  Mario Caiano
  Mario Caiano is an Italian film director, screenwriter and second unit director.Born in Rome, he has directed for nearly 50 films since 1961 and 27 films and TV scripts since 1954....
  
   (1975)
• Der Richter und sein Henker
  Der Richter und sein Henker
  Der Richter und sein Henker is a novella by the Swiss writer Friedrich Dürrenmatt written in 1950 and first published in English in 1954, in a translation by Cyrus Brooks and later in a translation by Therese Pol. A new translation by Joel Agee appeared in 2006, published together with Suspicion ...
  
  , directed by Maximilian Schell
  Maximilian Schell
  Maximilian Schell is an Austrian-born Swiss actor who won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in Judgment at Nuremberg in 1961...
  
   (1975)
• La Orca
  La Orca
  La Orca is a 1976 Italian film. It stars actor Gabriele Ferzetti....
  
  , directed by Eriprando Visconti
  Eriprando Visconti
  Eriprando Visconti di Modrone, Count of Vico Modrone was an Italian film director. He was the nephew of the more famous Luchino Visconti.He married Princess Fracesca Patrizia Ruspoli.-External links:...
  
   (1976)
• Gli amici di Nick Hezard
  Gli amici di Nick Hezard
  Gli amici di Nick Hezard is a 1976 Italian film. It stars actor Gabriele Ferzetti....
  
  , directed by Fernando Di Leo
  Fernando Di Leo
  Fernando Di Leo was an Italian film director and script writer born in San Ferdinando di Puglia. During his career from 1964 to 1985, Di Leo directed 20 films and was involved in the writing process in 43...
  
   (1976)
• Lezioni di violoncello con toccata e fuga
  Lezioni di violoncello con toccata e fuga
  Lezioni di violoncello con toccata e fuga is a 1976 Italian film. It stars actor Gabriele Ferzetti....
  
  , directed by Davide Montemurri (1976)
• Le guêpier
  Le guêpier
  Le guêpier is a 1976 French-Italian film, directed by Roger Pigaut. It stars actor Gabriele Ferzetti.- Cast :* Claude Brasseur - Renaud* Marthe Keller - Melba* Gabriele Ferzetti - Gaspard* Vicky Messica - Vava* Vittorio Sanipoli : Fossetti...
  
  , directed by Roger Pigaut (1976)
• A Matter of Time
  A Matter of Time (1976 film)
  A Matter of Time is a 1976 American/Italian musical fantasy film directed by Vincente Minnelli. The screenplay by John Gay is based on the novel Film of Memory by Maurice Druon...
  
  , directed by Vincente Minnelli
  Vincente Minnelli
  Vincente Minnelli was an American stage director and film director, famous for directing such classic movie musicals as Meet Me in St. Louis, The Band Wagon, and An American in Paris. In addition to having directed some of the most famous and well-remembered musicals of his time, Minnelli made...
  
   (1976)
• Oedipus orca
  Oedipus orca
  Oedipus orca is a 1977 Italian film. It stars actor Gabriele Ferzetti....
  
  , directed by Eriprando Visconti
  Eriprando Visconti
  Eriprando Visconti di Modrone, Count of Vico Modrone was an Italian film director. He was the nephew of the more famous Luchino Visconti.He married Princess Fracesca Patrizia Ruspoli.-External links:...
  
   (1977)
• Sette note in nero
  Sette note in nero
  Sette note in nero is a 1977 Italian film. It stars actor Gabriele Ferzetti. It grossed 374,000,000 lire during its domestic release....
  
  , directed by Lucio Fulci
  Lucio Fulci
  Lucio Fulci was an Italian film director, screenwriter, and actor. He is perhaps best known for his directorial work on gore films, including Zombie and The Beyond , although he made films in genres as diverse as giallo, western, and comedy...
  
   (1977)
• Suggestionata
  Suggestionata
  Suggestionata is a 1978 Italian film. It stars actor Gabriele Ferzetti....
  
  , directed by Alfredo Rizzo (1978)
• CIA contro KGB
  CIA contro KGB
  CIA contro KGB is a 1978 Italian film. It stars actor Gabriele Ferzetti....
  
  (L'ordre et la sécurité du monde), directed by Claude d'Anna
  Claude d'Anna
  Claude d'Anna is a French film director and screenwriter. He has directed 16 films since 1970. His film Salome was screened in the Un Certain Regard section the 1986 Cannes Film Festival...
  
   (1978)
• Mon premier amour
  Mon premier amour
  - Cast :* Anouk Aimée - Jane Romain* Richard Berry - Richard* Nathalie Baye - Fabienne* Gabriele Ferzetti - Georges* Jacques Villeret - Jacques Labrousse* Gilles Ségal - Professor* Nicole Seguin - Carole* Arlette Gordon - Sarah* Jacques Ebner - Night porter...
  
  , directed by Elie Chouraqui
  Élie Chouraqui
  Élie Chouraqui is a French film director and scriptwriter of Jewish origin.-Filmography:*1978: Mon premier amour*1980: Une page d'amour*1982: Qu'est-ce qui fait courir David?*1985: Paroles et musique...
  
   (1978)
• Porci con la P 38
  Porci con la P 38
  Porci con la P 38 is a 1979 Italian film. It stars actor Gabriele Ferzetti....
  
  , directed by Gianfranco Pagani (1979)
• Anni struggenti
  Anni struggenti
  Anni struggenti is a 1979 Italian film. It stars actor Gabriele Ferzetti....
  
  , directed by Vittorio Sindoni (1979)
• Incontro con gli umanoidi
  Incontro con gli umanoidi
  Incontro con gli umanoidi is a 1979 Italian film. It stars actor Gabriele Ferzetti....
  
  (Encuentro en el abismo), directed by Anthony Richmond and Tonino Ricci (1979)
• Bloodline, not credited, directed by Terence Young (1979)
• Inchon
  Inchon (film)
  Inchon is a 1982 war film about the Battle of Inchon, considered to be the turning point of the Korean War. The film was directed by Terence Young and financed by Unification Church founder Sun Myung Moon. It stars Laurence Olivier as General Douglas MacArthur, who led the United States surprise...
  
  , directed by Terence Young (1981)
• Morte in Vaticano, directed by Marcello Aliprandi (1982)
• Grog
  Grog (film)
  Grog is a 1982 Italian film. It stars actor Gabriele Ferzetti....
  
  , directed by Francesco Laudadio (1982)
• Quartetto Basileus
  Quartetto Basileus
  Quartetto Basileus is a 1983 Italian film. It stars actor Gabriele Ferzetti....
  
  , directed by Fabio Carpi (1983)
• Giulia e Giulia, directed by Peter Del Monte
  Peter Del Monte
  Peter Del Monte is an Italian film director and screenwriter. He has directed 15 films since 1969. His 1982 film Invitation au voyage won the prize for the Best Artistic Contribution at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival.-Filmography:...
  
   (1987)
• Computron 22, directed by Giuliano Carnimeo (1988)
• Caldo soffocante, directed by Giovanna Gagliardo
  Giovanna Gagliardo
  Giovanna Gagliardo is an Italian film director and screenwriter. Her 1982 film Via degli specchi was entered into the 33rd Berlin International Film Festival.-Selected filmography:* The Assassin...
  
   (1991)
• Il burattinaio, directed by Nini Grassia (1994)
• Othello, directed by Oliver Parker
  Oliver Parker
  Oliver Parker is an English film director.-Biography:Parker was born in London, the son of Jillian, Lady Parker, a writer and GP , and Sir Peter Parker, formerly Chief executive of British Rail...
  
   (1995)
• Porzûs, directed by Renzo Martinelli (1997)
• Con rabbia e con amore, directed by Alfredo Angeli (1997)
• L'avvocato De Gregorio, directed by Pasquale Squitieri (2003)
• Perduto amor, directed by Franco Battiato
  Franco Battiato
  Francesco Battiato is an Italian singer-songwriter, composer, filmmaker and, under the pseudonym Süphan Barzani, also a painter. Battiato's songs contain esoteric, philosophical and religious themes...
  
   (2003)
• Concorso di colpa, directed by Claudio Fragasso
  Claudio Fragasso
  Claudio Fragasso is an Italian screenwriter and film director of mostly low-budget exploitation films.- Filmmaking history :...
  
   (2005)
• Io sono l'amore, directed by Luca Guadagnino
  Luca Guadagnino
  Luca Guadagnino is an Italian film director. He rose to notability with the 2005 film Melissa P., and he is a frequent collaborator with Tilda Swinton, including the 2010 film I Am Love.-Life and career:...
  
   (2009)
• 18 anni dopo, directed by Edoardo Leo (2010)

Television

• I Spy (2 episodes, 1966)
• Dossier Mata Hari, directed by Mario Landi (1967)
• Divorzia lui divorzia lei (Divorce His - Divorce Hers), directed by Waris Hussein
  Waris Hussein
  Waris Hussein is a British-Indian television director and film director best known for his many productions for British television....
  
   (1973)
• A torto e a ragione, directed by Edmo Fenoglio (1978)
• I vecchi e i giovani, directed by Marco Leto (1979)
• Quasi quasi mi sposo, directed by Vittorio Sindoni (1982)
• Scarlatto e nero (The Scarlet and the Black), not credited, directed by Jerry London (1983)
• Delitto e castigo, directed by Mario Missiroli (1983)
• Le ambizioni sbagliate, directed by Fabio Carpi (1983)
• Quo Vadis?, directed by Franco Rossi
  Franco Rossi
  Franco Rossi was an Italian film screenwriter and director, mainly known for having directed the six hour long Italian-German-British-Swiss TV mini-series Quo Vadis? in 1985....
  
   (1985)
• Follia amore mio, directed by Gianni Bongioanni (1986)
• La voglia di vincere, directed by Vittorio Sindoni (1987)
• Due fratelli, directed by Alberto Lattuada
  Alberto Lattuada
  Alberto Lattuada was an Italian film director.Lattuada was born in Milan, the son of composer Felice Lattuada...
  
   (1988)
• Gli angeli del potere, directed by Giorgio Albertazzi
  Giorgio Albertazzi
  Giorgio Albertazzi is an Italian actor and film director.Born in San Martino a Mensola Albertazzi joined the Italian Social Republic and reached the rank of lieutenant. After their defeat, he spent two years in prison for collaborating...
  
   (1988)
• Il giro del mondo in 80 giorni (Around the World in 80 Days), directed by Buzz Kulik
  Buzz Kulik
  Buzz Kulik was an American film director and producer. He directed 72 films and television shows, including several episodes of The Twilight Zone.-Selected filmography:* The Explosive Generation...
  
   (1989)
• Pronto soccorso, directed by Francesco Massaro (1990)
• Una fredda mattina di maggio, directed by Vittorio Sindoni (1990)
• Voyage of Terror: The Achille Lauro Affair
  Voyage of Terror: The Achille Lauro Affair
  ----Voyage of Terror: The Achille Lauro Affair is a TV Drama/Action movie based on the Achille Lauro hijacking, starring Burt Lancaster - Eva Marie Saint and directed by Alberto Negrin-----Plot:...
  
  , directed by Alberto Negrin (1990)
• Nero come il cuore, directed by Maurizio Ponzi
  Maurizio Ponzi
  Maurizio Ponzi is an Italian film director, screenwriter and cinema critic.Born in Rome, he wrote cinema reviews in several Italian magazines during the early 1960s...
  
   (1991)
• Die Ringe des Saturn, directed by Michael Kehlmann
  Michael Kehlmann
  Michael Kehlmann was an Austrian film and theatre director, screenwriter and actor. He was the father of writer Daniel Kehlmann.During 1951-1953, Kehlmann was the manager of the "Kleines Theater im Konzerthaus", Vienna...
  
   (1992)
• Delitti privati
  Delitti privati
  Private Crimes is a 1993 Italian mystery mini television series directed by Sergio Martino.-Plot:The story, set in Lucca, sees the death of a businessman, Marco Pierboni, killed in the garden of his villa outside the city, even if the body is found near the factory who ran while a young girl...
  
  , directed by Sergio Martino
  Sergio Martino
  Sergio Martino is an Italian film director and producer, notable for his contributions to the giallo genre.Martino is the brother of producer Luciano Martino. They collaborated frequently in their respective professions...
  
   (1993)
• Natale con papà, directed by Giorgio Capitani
  Giorgio Capitani
  Giorgio Capitani is an Italian film director and screenwriter. He has directed 40 films since 1954. He has also wrote for 12 films since 1949.He was born in Paris, France.-Selected filmography:* Pane, burro e marmellata...
  
   (1994)
• Il coraggio di Anna, directed by Giorgio Capitani (1994)
• Alta società, directed by Giorgio Capitani (1995)
• Un prete tra noi
  Un prete tra noi
  Un prete tra noi is an Italian television series....
  
  , directed by Giorgio Capitani and Lodovico Gasparini (1997)
• Il cielo sotto il deserto, directed by Alberto Negrin (1998)
• Le ragazze di Miss Italia, directed by Dino Risi (2002)
• Callas e Onassis, directed by Giorgio Capitani (2005)
• Papa Luciani - Il sorriso di Dio, directed by Giorgio Capitani (2006)
• Une famille formidable
  Une famille formidable
  Une famille formidable is a French Romantic comedy television series broadcast since September 17, 1992. It details the goings on of a family, and follows them as they grow up. As of 2008, the cast is the same as the 1992 cast, an unusual feat for a program with a run of this length.-External links:...
  
  (11 episodes, 1992-2007)

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• A 2009 photograph of Ferzetti