Gabriele Ferzetti

Acting · Born 1925-03-17 in Rome, Italy

Biography

Gabriele Ferzetti (born Pasquale Ferzetti; 17 March 1925 – 2 December 2015) was an Italian actor with more than 160 credits across film, television, and stage. His career was at its peak in the 1950s and 1960s. Ferzetti's first leading role was in the film Lo Zappatore (1950). He portrayed Puccini twice in the films Puccini (1953) and Casa Ricordi (1954). He made his international breakthrough in Michelangelo Antonioni's controversial L'Avventura (1960) as a restless playboy. After a series of romantic performances, he acquired a reputation in Italy as an elegant, debonair, and somewhat aristocratic looking leading man. Ferzetti starred as Lot in John Huston's biblical epic, The Bible: In the Beginning... (1966), and played railroad baron Morton in Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the…

Filmography

• The Bible: In the Beginning... as Lot
• L'Avventura as Sandro
• The Psychic as Emilio Rospini
• Once Upon a Time in the West as Morton
• On Her Majesty's Secret Service as Marc Ange Draco
• High Voltage as Pablo Moncada
• House of Ricordi as Giacomo Puccini
• The Night Porter as Hans
• I Am Love as Edoardo Recchi Senior
• The Confession as Kohoutek

TV

• Quo Vadis? as Pisone
• The Devil's Game as Master Gomin
• Private Crimes as Dr. Guido Braschi
• Around the World in 80 Days as Italian Chief of Police
• Pope John Paul I: The Smile of God as Card. Giuseppe Siri
• Édouard et ses filles as Antoine di Marco
• Divorce His, Divorce Hers as Turi Livicci