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 ...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Archaeology of a Set: Return to Lisca Bianca
2017
as Sandro (archive footage) (uncredited)

18 Years Later
2010
as Enrico
Mirko and Genziano are two 35-year-old brothers who have not seen each other since their mother died in a freak accident in which they were involved—e...

I Am Love
2010
as Edoardo Recchi Senior
Emma has left Russia to live with her husband in Italy. Now a member of a powerful industrial family, she is the respected mother of three, but feels ...

1612: Chronicles of the Dark Time
2007
The czar of Russia has died and a power vacuum has developed. This period in the late 16th and early 17th century has been called "The Time of Trouble...

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

Callas & Onassis
2005
as Livanos
Maria Callas, one of the most talented opera singers of her time, seemed to have it all. Coming from humble origins, she always felt slighted by her m...

Concorso di colpa
2005
as Vito Santamaria
The chief commissioner of the homicide squad, with an anti-globalization activist for a son, investigates the suicide of a trade unionist that may be ...

An Opera of Violence
2003
as Self - Actor
First part of a three-part documentary series on the making of Once Upon a Time in the West, Italian filmmaker Sergio Leone's masterpiece, released in...

The Wages of Sin
2003
as Self - Actor
Second part of a three-part documentary series on the making of Once Upon a Time in the West, Italian filmmaker Sergio Leone's masterpiece, released i...

Something to Do with Death
2003
as Self - Actor
Third part of a three-part documentary series on the making of Once Upon a Time in the West, Italian filmmaker Sergio Leone's masterpiece, released in...

Lost Love
2003
as Tommaso Pasini
Ettore, a young boy in Sicily in the 50's, is surrounded by women and is always surprised by what is happening around him. In Milan a few years later ...

L'avvocato de Gregorio
2003
as Alfonso
Best Ever Bond
2002
as Draco (archive footage) (uncredited)
Roger Moore presents the ten best sequences ever to have appeared in the James Bond series, and cast members recall their favourite moments.
Le ragazze di Miss Italia
2002
as professor De Lollis
A story set behind the scenes of the annual Miss Italia pageant, with its load of young girls and recognizable characters.

Porzûs
1997
as Strono vecchio
In 1945, at the huts above Porzûs, a hundred partisans from the Garibaldi Brigade and the Gap massacred about twenty partisans from Osoppo. They were ...
Con rabbia e con amore
1997
At a bus stop they meet Francesca, an eighteen year old who is collaborating in a veterinary office, and Claudio, a university student. The two begin ...

Black as the Heart
1994
as Signor Noé Alga Croce
Lawyer Valentino Bruio goes to the "Sun City" bar for a meeting and on leaving the club he meets Ray who submits to him the case of his son who myster...
Weihnachtsfest mit Hindernissen
1994
as Vittorio

First Action Hero
1994
as Ben Costa
A maverick cop takes on the seedy criminal underbelly of Miami singlehanded.
Die Ringe des Saturn
1993

Suffocating Heat
1991
as Gaetano Castelli
On June 30, 1990, in Rome, Marie Christine is getting ready to take her son Pietro and Paolo to their father for the weekend. As the Football World Cu...

Una fredda mattina di maggio
1990
as Signor Mantoni
Gli angeli del potere
1990
as Dr. Donhal

Voyage of Terror: The Achille Lauro Affair
1990
The story of the hijacking of the Italian luxury liner Achille Lauro by four Palestinians.

Computron 22
1988
as Il Nonno
Luca, a young boy of eleven, lives with his grandfather in a majestic house in Rome. Learning that his mother, whom he believed to be dead, now lives ...

Julia and Julia
1988
as Alfredo
Giulia, an American woman living in Italy, becomes depressed and traumatized after her husband Paolo is killed in a car accident on their wedding day....

Return to Lisca Bianca Island
1983
as Sandro (voice) (archive footage)
Twenty-three years after L'Avventura (1960), Michelangelo Antonioni returns to Lisca Bianca Island. The rarefied atmosphere of Anna's (Lea Massari's) ...

The Basileus Quartet
1983
as Mario Cantone
The lives of the surviving members of the Basileus Quartet, a chamber group that has been playing successfully around the world for more than 30 years...

Grog
1982
as Alberto
Two convicts escape from prison and evade the law by taking hostage the middle-class family of a doctor. One of the jailbirds calls the local televisi...

Death in the Vatican
1982
as Cardinale Ixaguirre
A hermit who has had contact with terrorists is planning to kill the Pope by poisoning.

The Possessed Hand
1981
as Maestro Gomin
To win a duel, a merchant makes a dangerous pact with an inscrutable spellcaster.

Inchon
1981
as Turkish Brigadier
Gen. Douglas MacArthur leads a Korean War campaign, and the war tests a married couple's relationship.

Encounters in the Deep
1979
as Miles
An oceanographer diving in the Bermuda Triangle discovers an undersea world.

The Burning Years
1979
as Padre di Saverio

Pigs with a P.38
1978
as Max Astarita
After an elderly crime boss retires from business, his three lieutenants each inherit a piece of his empire: Max is given the kidnapping ring, while t...

Last In, First Out
1978
as Herzog
A woman on a train becomes the center of attention when she is mistaken for a spy by opposing factions who are traveling on the same line.
Mon premier amour
1978
as Georges
This sentimental drama is the story of the relationship between a lovely mother and her 20-year-old son who never really knew her. When he learns that...

End of the Game
1978
as Dr. Lutz
Hans Baerlach is a Swiss police detective who has dedicated much of his career to pursuing powerful and allegedly murderous businessman Richard Gastma...

Suggestionata
1978
as Gregorio
An engineer and former fascist comes back to Italy to resume possession of his own lands. A widower with his sons and daughter befriends a girl who ha...

The Psychic
1977
as Emilio Rospini
A woman with psychic powers has a vision of a murder that took place in a house owned by her husband.

Oedipus Orca
1977
as Valerio
Sequel to "La Orca" which follows the life of the kidnapped girl after she returns home to her boyfriend and family. After her kidnap ordeal Alice tri...

A Matter of Time
1976
as Antonio Vicari
During a press conference, international star Nina remembers simpler times, flashing back to her days as a maid in a run-down Italian hotel. As a youn...

Nick the Sting
1976
as Maurice
Nick Hezard, a young con man, wants to avenge the death of a friend of his and organizes a swindle trying to cheat Robert Turner, an American business...

La Orca
1976
as Valerio
A teenage girl is kidnapped by 3 guys and taken to an abandoned house in the country, where she is made to write her own ransom letter. She soon disco...

The Hornet's Nest
1976
as Gaspard
A compulsive gambler must steal a suitcase full of money, which is also coveted by Melba, a cabaret singer. A getaway ensues.

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

Calling All Police Cars
1975
as Professor Andrea Icardi
Story about a young girl, the daughter a prominent doctor. When the girl goes missing her father gets the police to jump into action because of his cl...

A Curious Man
1975
as Moriondo
Moriondo, a bachelor in his mid-forties, has spent half his life on billiard tables around the world and returns to his home town after fifteen years....

Smiling Maniacs
1975
as Prandó
During an inquest, an ambitious judge finds out that a lot of high-rank politicians are corrupt to the core.

Kidnap
1974
as Don Francesco Salvatore
This crime drama follows an Italian police commissioner as he races to rescue the 6-year-old daughter of an important businessman. Also hoping to save...

Quick Trial
1974
as L'avvocato Finaldi
After a terrorist attack against a train, the police arrest the young laborer Stefano Baldini, member of a group of militant leftists. Entrusted for i...

Appassionata
1974
as Dr. Emilio Rutelli
Two teenage friends conspire to find out how much their youthful sensuality can disrupt one of their households, headed by a dentist and his mentally-...

The Night Porter
1974
as Hans
A concentration camp survivor discovers her former torturer and lover working as a porter at a hotel in postwar Vienna. When the couple attempt to re-...

La prova d'amore
1974
as Angela Father

Hospitals: The White Mafia
1973
as Prof. Daniele Vallotti
A famous surgeon earns enormous amounts of money by speculating on patients, although he is generally considered a great man and an excellent doctor. ...

Hitler: The Last Ten Days
1973
as Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm Keitel
Hitler: The Last Ten Days takes us into the depths of der Furher’s Berlin bunker during his final days. Based on the book by Gerhard Boldt, it provide...

3000 Million Without an Elevator
1972
as Raphaël
Seven small rogues dream of stealing the beautiful jewels which are in Paris for an exhibition.

Beggars and Proud Ones
1972
Hadjis, a philosophy professor in his thirties, put his spiritual concepts into practice when he left Europe to settle in a working-class district of ...

High Voltage
1972
as Pablo Moncada
José, a young mechanic, arrives in Madrid to make it big. After being conned he loses his savings, and is taken in by Elisa, a photographer. She intro...

The Boxer
1972
as Nick La Caterina / Tony La Monica
Boxer Teddy Wilcox leaves his manager and relocates. He finds Nick, a manager/trainer. Before Wilcox's first fight, Nick receives a threat-- Wilcox lo...

Million Dollar Eel
1971
as Vasco
An heiress (Piccolo) fakes her own kidnapping in order to get money from her parents and hides in the river Po's delta among eel fisherman and is help...

Cannabis
1970
as Inspector Bardeche
Serge Morgan is a killer working for the American Mafia. After performing a contract in New York for his employers, he takes the plane back to Paris a...

The Confession
1970
as Kohoutek
The vice-minister of Foreign Affairs of Czechoslovakia, knowing he's being watched and followed, is one day arrested and put into solitary confinement...

L'amica
1969
as Paolo Marchesi
The beautiful but neglected wife of a brilliant architect from Milan, betrayed by her husband and mocked by her friend who manages the amorous adventu...

On Her Majesty's Secret Service
1969
as Marc Ange Draco
James Bond tracks his archnemesis, Ernst Blofeld, to a mountaintop retreat in the Swiss alps where he is training an army of beautiful, lethal women. ...

That Splendid November
1969
as Biagio
In the most traditional Sicilian, a 18 year old is in full arousal. His relationship with breathtaking mature woman will create a great controversy in...

Machine Gun McCain
1969
as Don Francesco DeMarco
After serving 12 years behind bars for armed robbery, tough guy Hank McCain finds himself the pawn of a ruthless mob runt's rebellion against a high l...

Once Upon a Time in the West
1968
as Morton
As the railroad builders advance unstoppably through the Arizona desert on their way to the sea, Jill arrives in the small town of Flagstone with the ...

Bandits in Rome
1968
as Commissioner
After professional stickup man Mario Corda is jailed, his young, ambitious partner -- who covets both Corda's life and his wife -- cuts loose, leaving...

Love Problems
1968
as Guido
Italian drama.

Better a Widow
1968
as Don Calogero Minniti
Tom Proby is a representative from a British engineering firm sent to Sicily to convince the landowners (all in the Mafia) to allow his company to bui...

The Protagonists
1968
as Il Commissario
An enterprising reporter takes along four willing adventurers to interview and photograph a young Sardinian criminal in hiding. Under intermittent gun...

Come Play With Me
1968
as Stefano
Young Alvise's body is paralyzed, or at least he thinks so. He is infatuated by his beautiful aunt Lea. What starts as innocent therapy and care soon ...

Escalation
1968
as Augusto Lambertinghi
1968, London. Luca is living his 'swinging' years away from duties, while his father wants him to take the reins of the family business. He plots to h...

A Devil Under the Pillow
1968
as Anselmo
Anselmo is a young anthropologist who is tormented by jealousy, and although his wife Camilla does not give reasons, keeps a close eye on her. After c...

We Still Kill the Old Way
1967
as Avvocato Rosello
A leftist professor wants the truth about two men killed during a hunting party; but the mafia, the Church and corrupt politicians don't want him to l...

The Devil in Love
1966
as Lorenzo de' Medici
Two devils from Hell are sent to Earth to cause trouble. Belfagor and his faithful sidekick Adramalek must start a war between Rome and Florence in 14...

The Bible: In the Beginning...
1966
as Lot
Covering only the first 22 chapters of the Book of Genesis, vignettes include: Adam and Eve frolicking in the Garden of Eden until their indulgence in...

Three Rooms in Manhattan
1965
as le comte Larsi
When his wife leaves him, a young French actor, François Combe, moves to New York to work for a television company. One evening, he meets an attractiv...

Crime on a Summer Morning
1965
as Victor Dermott
An ill-assorted group of international criminals executes a tightly-planned ransom sting in Spain. Things go along swimmingly until various tensions w...

Crucero de verano
1964
as Carlos Brul y Betancourt
Patricia is guide of a travel agency. One night, when accompanying a group of tourists through the old Madrid, she meets Carlos and falls for him. Da...

Desideri d'estate
1964

La calda vita
1964
as Guido
Attractive teenager Sergia usually hangs out with her older sister and her circle of mature friends. For a change, she is convinced by two teenage mal...

Death, Where Is Your Victory?
1964
as Max
Feeling complicit in a heinous act of her husband, a woman sinks into decay, then recovers and becomes a nun

A Sentimental Attempt
1963
as Giulio
Carla and Dino, both in a matrimonail crisis, fall in love. But life will not help this love story.

Torpedo Bay
1963
as Leonardi
An Italian submarine captain tries to navigate his sub through enemy waters while being stalked by a British warship. They both make it to the neutral...

The Shortest Day
1963
as Tenente in trincea
Two jerks are enlisted in the Italian army during W.W.1 and by pure luck manage to help win an important battle.

Imperial Venus
1962
as Freron
The romanticized gallant adventures of Pauline Bonaparte, Napoleon's sister. First "engaged" to the Conventionnel Fréron, then separated from him by h...

Beach Casanova
1962
as Avvocato Leblanc
Mr. Edmond is a middle-aged playboy, living by his wits on the Riviera. Among the women with whom Edmond dallies are three gorgeous ladies.

Cross of the Living
1962
as L'abbé Delcourt
Yan, who has just been acquitted of a crime he has not committed, returns to his Flemish village, where he meets hostility, particularly from Franz, t...

The Nun of Monza
1962
as Gian Paolo Osio
Virginia de Leyva, daughter of a Spanish Lord, becomes a nun in Monza, in 1600s. She becomes very strict with herself and the students until she's una...

Jessica
1962
as Edmondo Raumo
When the men of a Sicilian village start obsessing over ravishing blonde midwife Jessica, angry females revolt by refusing to have sex with their husb...

Eruption
1962
as Roberto Santi
In Congo during the revolution, an Italian journalist is in love with the wife of a Belgian businessman.

Rencontres
1962
as Ralph Scaffari
Bella Krastner is sunbathing on a beach on the Côte d'Azur when she attracts the attention of an attractive younger man, Ralph Scaffari. It is the sta...

Love, the Italian Way
1960
as Alberto Bressan
A group of passengers traveling around the Mediterranean on a luxury liner enjoy various adventures and become romantically involved with each other.

Il carro armato dell'8 settembre
1960
as Tommaso
Italy signed the armistice and in the general confusion a corporal decides to bring the tank back from the coast to the barracks.

Long Night in '43
1960
as Franco Villani
1943. The affair between Anna, unhappily married to wheelchair-bound Pino, and deserter Franco unfolds in foggy Ferrara, intertwining with the power s...

L'Avventura
1960
as Sandro
Claudia and Anna join Anna's lover, Sandro, on a boat trip to a remote volcanic island. When Anna goes missing, a search is launched. In the meantime,...

Red Lips
1960
as Avvocato Paolo Martini
A lawyer heads out on the road in an attempt to find his daughter who has been missing for quite some time. To help him navigate the secret world his ...

Hannibal
1959
as Senator Quintus Fabius
A Carthaginian general attempts to cross the Alps with an army of elephants in order to conquer Rome.

The Great Deception
1959
as Bernard Turquet de Mayenne
Burgundy 1728. Old count Antoine d'Eon is overjoyed. His daughter-in-law has finally given birth to a boy and he will at long last be able to transmit...

Everyone's in Love
1959
as Arturo
Giovanni is a young widower with a son who is attracted to the charming teen Allegra.

Love on the Riviera
1958
as Giulio Ferrari
It is Summer. It is the right time for love, especially in a most romantic place as Golfo del Tigullio. Different stories: Dorina looking for a rich l...

So Much Love Lost
1958
as Frédéric Solingen
Here's a railway station. Next to it, there's generally a town; and in a town,there is love! The train arrives. Mr. Andrieu is expecting his sardines ...

Angel in a Taxi
1958
as Andrea
Marietto is a very lively and creative orphaned child, housed in a boarding school of nuns. One day, while browsing a newspaper, he sees a photo of a ...

March's Child
1958
as Sandro
Francesca and Sandro meet, falls for each other and get married. But the differences between them are too many and the separation is around the corner...

It Happened in Rome
1957
as Lawyer Alberto Cortini
Three girls are on a hitchhiking trip through northern Italy, the riviera, Venice, Pisa and Rome.

Parola di ladro
1957
as Desiderio
Desiderio is a gentleman thief who steals jewelry. Without him knowing, he is hired as a manager in the jewelry store of Gabriele Bertinori, and with ...

Il prezzo della gloria
1956
as Comandante Alberto Bruni
A destroyer departs from the port of Taranto with orders to take a load of petrol to Tobruk at all costs.

Donatella
1956
as Maurizio
Donatella is a simple and honest roman girl, daughter of a bookbinder and girlfriend of Guido, a gas station owner. One day she finds a woman's handba...

Defend My Love
1956
as Pietro Leonardi
As part of a story, a reporter goes to meet Elisa, a young woman he met a few years ago on a trial on which she was finally exonerated.

Un po' di cielo
1955
as Frank Lo Giudice

Le Amiche
1955
as Lorenzo
Clelia, a self-made woman coming from humble means, travels back to Turin, her hometown, to scout locations for the successful Roman atelier she works...

Adriana Lecouvreur
1955
as Maurizio di Sassonia

Sins of Casanova
1954
as Casanova
1760 Spain provides the setting for Giacomo Casanova's romantic escapades, every woman he encounters unable to resist his disarming charm, be they sin...

House of Ricordi
1954
as Giacomo Puccini
The film covers a hundred years in the lives of the Ricordi family, the Milan publishing house of the title, and the various composers and other histo...

Camilla
1954
as Dott. Mario Rossetti
Camilla, a middle-aged Venetian widow, arrives in Rome to take up service as a maid for the Rossetti family, who are not prosperous. With her discreet...

Modern Virgin
1954
as Gabriele Demico
The young Claudia wants to escape from the gray life of the province and aims rich men but each time with unhappy results. Only the brother will event...

100 Years of Love
1954
as Carlo, the Political Prisoner (segm. "Gli ultimi dieci Minuti")
Six episodes (adapted from as many short stories: Gozzano, D'Annunzio, Guido Rocca, Marino Moretti, Alba de Céspedes and Oreste Biancoli), six love st...

Clothing the Naked
1954
as Ludovico Nota
Ersilia Drei, after a suicide attempt recounts her vicissitudes: hired as governess to the daughter of Consul Grotti she is wooed by Franco but soon a...

Empty Eyes
1953
as Fernando Maestrelli
A young and shy girl Celestina arrives from her small home village to Rome to become a housemaid. Her inexperience and naivety causes her to change he...

Puccini
1953
as Giacomo Puccini
Produced in Italy in breathtaking Technicolor, this biographical story of Puccini (played by L'avventura's Gabriele Ferzetti) spans his creative life ...

The Wayward Wife
1953
as Professor Franco Vagnuzzi
Gemma, caught between her desires and reality, struggles to navigate her marriage and personal ambitions.

Three Forbidden Stories
1952
as Mario
While recuperating from their injuries in a hospital, three young women flash back to the events leading up to the catastrophe. Remata (Lia Amando) ha...

Inganno
1952
as Andrea Vannini

The Counterfeiters
1951
as Dario
Producers of phony currency become the object of a crackdown by law enforcement agencies.

The Forbidden Christ
1951
as (uncredited)
Freshly released from a Russian POW camp, Italian soldier Raf Vallone tries to discover who betrayed his brother to the Nazis.

Gli amanti di Ravello
1951
as Sandro Deodata

Lo zappatore
1950
A poor farmer who has struggled to advance his son's career as a lawyer is spurned by the ungrateful offspring when he visits him in the big city, to ...

Welcome Reverend!
1950
as The veteran
A disguised thief talks himself into a countryside class fight immediately after WWII.

Fabiola
1949
as Claudio
In ancient Rome a love story blossoms between Fabiola, daughter of a senator, and Rhual, a Gallic gladiator. After Fabiola's father is killed, the Rom...

William Tell
1948

Les Misérables
1948
as (uncredited)
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both me...

Vertigine d'amore
1948
Italian movie inspired by "Le pain des pauvres".

La contessa Castiglione
1942
as (uncredited)
Il burattinaio
N/A
as Ben Costa