Place of Birth: Milano, Lombardia, Italy
Gian Maria Volonté
Gian Maria Volonté (9 April 1933 – 6 December 1994) was an Italian actor. He is perhaps most famous outside of Italy for his roles as the main villain in Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars (credited in the USA as "Johnny Wels") and For a Few Dollars More. In Italy and much of Europe, he was notable for his roles in high-profile social dramas depicting the political and social stirrings of Italian and European society in the 1960s and 1970s, including four films directed by Elio Petri - We Still Kill the Old Way (1967), Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1971), The Working Class Goes to Heaven (1971) and Todo modo (1976). He is also recognized for his performances in Jean-Pierre Melville's Le Cercle Rouge (1970) and Giuliano Montaldo's Sacco & Vanzetti (1971). Description above from the Wikipedia article Gian Maria Volonté, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
| Movie | Cast | Year |
|---|---|---|
| For a Few Dollars More | El Indio | 1965 |
| Journey Beneath the Desert | Tarath | 1961 |
| Le Cercle Rouge | Vogel | 1970 |
| Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion | Dottore | 1970 |
| Rosi About Eboli | Self | 2022 |
| Christ Stopped at Eboli | Carlo Levi | 1979 |
| Hercules and the Captive Women | Re di Sparta | 1961 |
| Open Doors | Giudice Vito Di Francesco | 1990 |
| A Bullet for the General | Chuncho Munos / 'El Chuncho' | 1967 |
| The Witch | Fabrizio | 1966 |
| The Mattei Affair | Enrico Mattei | 1972 |
| Il caso Moro | Aldo Moro | 1986 |
| Face to Face | Professor Brett Fletcher | 1967 |
| The Abyss | Zenone | 1988 |
| Operation Ogre | Izarra | 1979 |
| Giordano Bruno | Giordano Bruno | 1973 |
| The Four Days of Naples | Stimolo | 1962 |
| Sacco & Vanzetti | Bartolomeo Vanzetti | 1971 |
| Slap the Monster on Page One | Bizanti | 1972 |
| One Way or Another | M. | 1976 |
| Lady of the Camelias | Plessis | 1981 |
| Girl with a Suitcase | Piero Benotti | 1961 |
| We Still Kill the Old Way | Professore Paolo Laurana | 1967 |
| The Working Class Goes to Heaven | Lulù Massa | 1971 |
| The Violent Four | Piero Cavallero | 1968 |
| I Am Afraid | Brigadiere Ludovico Graziano | 1977 |
| A Boy from Calabria | Felice | 1987 |
| Many Wars Ago | Lt. Ottolenghi | 1970 |
| Lucky Luciano | Charles 'Lucky' Luciano | 1973 |
| On the Tiger's Back | Papaleo | 1961 |
| A Simple Story | Carmelo Franzò | 1991 |
| The Suspect | Emilio | 1975 |
| Wake Up and Die | Inspector Moroni | 1966 |
| Seasons of Our Love | Leonardo Varzi | 1966 |
| The Assassination | Sadiel | 1972 |
| The Death of Mario Ricci | Bernard Fontana | 1983 |
| The Bandit | Gramigna | 1969 |
| Chronicle of a Death Foretold | Dr. Cristo Bedoya | 1987 |
| The Magnificent Cuckold | Assessore | 1964 |
| The Seven Cervi Brothers | Aldo Cervi | 1968 |
| The Terrorist | Renato Braschi , l'ingeniere | 1963 |
| Banderas, the Tyrant | Tirano Banderas | 1993 |
| A Man for Burning | Salvatore | 1962 |
| Pestalozzi's Mountain | Pestalozzi | 1989 |
| Apollon: una fabbrica occupata | Narrator (voice) | 1969 |
| La tenda in piazza | Self (voice) (uncredited) | 1972 |
| Documenti su Giuseppe Pinelli | Self / Reenactor (uncredited) | 1970 |
| Summit | Paolo | 1968 |
| Stark System | Stark | 1980 |
| The Felling of the Forest | Guglielmo | 1963 |
| Fedra | Ippolito | 1957 |
| Summer Night | Alberto | 1963 |
| Wind from the East | Le Ranger Nordiste (uncredited) | 1970 |
| Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker | Self (archive footage) | 2005 |
| Gangster Girl | Jascha Freud | 1966 |
| Letters from Marusia | Gregorio | 1975 |
| We Are Cinema | Self (archive footage) | 2021 |
| Tre colonne in cronaca | Alberto Landolfi | 1990 |
| Forgotten Activism | Self (archive footage) | 2017 |
| Under the Sign of Scorpio | Renno | 1969 |
| Funes, a Great Love | El tano Bérgami | 1993 |
| Under Ten Flags | Samuel Braunstein | 1960 |
| Investigation of a Citizen Named Volonté | Self (archive footage) | 2004 |
| Un attore contro - Gian Maria Volonté | Self (archive footage) | 2005 |
| Caravaggio | Caravaggio | 1967 |
| A Fistful of Dollars | Ramón Rojo | 1964 |
| For Love and Gold | Teofilatto dei Leonzi | 1966 |
| Zénon the Rebel | Self (archive footage) | 2019 |
| La strada più lunga | Michele | 1965 |
| Spanish Western | The Indian (archive footage) | 2015 |
| Reflections on a Political Cinema | Self - Interviewee | 1978 |
| Ipotesi sulla morte di G. Pinelli | Self | 1970 |
| Volonté: The Man of a Thousand Faces | Self (archive footage) | 2024 |
| Saul | David | 1959 | Series | Cast | Year |
| The Charterhouse of Parma | Count Mosca | 1982 |
| Vita di Michelangelo | Michelangelo | 1964 |
| Spécial cinéma | Self | 1974 |
| La Storia Vera Della Signora Dalle Camelie | Plessis | 1981 |
| The Idiot | Parfen Rogozin | 1959 |
| Le inchieste del commissario Maigret | Radek | 1964 |
| Diamoci del tu | Self | 1967 |
| Cristo si è fermato a Eboli | Carlo Levi | 1980 |
