Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
7/15/1935
Place of Birth
Zara, Dalmatia, Italy [now Zadar, Croatia]
Also Known As
John GarkoGary HudsonGiovanni Garcovich
Gianni Garko
Biography
Born in Zadar, Dalmatia (then Italy, now part of Croatia), he moved to Trieste in 1948 to attend the acting school of the Piccolo Teatro di Trieste, and then to Rome to enter the Accademia nazionale d'arte drammatica. Garko began his career in the 1950s playing roles of various genres, especially in westerns and Italian-style comedies; in his later years he devoted himself to films for RAI television. He gave life to the character of Sartana (together with directors Gianfranco Parolini and later Giuliano Carnimeo), the protagonist of numerous spaghetti-westerns. In the film Il compagno don Cam...
Known For
Light the Fuse… Sartana Is Coming
as Sartana
Death of a Friend
as Aldo
Kapo
as Karl
Waterloo
as Drouot
George Hilton - The World Belongs to the Daring
as Himself
Black Tunnel
Unknown Role
The Boss
as Police Commissioner Torri
Body Puzzle
as Police Chief
Amok
as Le journaliste Breyten
The Mongols
as Henry de Valois
If You Meet Sartana Pray for Your Death
as Sartana
Lucrezia
as Fabrizio Aldobrandi
Bad Man's River
as Ed Pace
Don Camillo in Moscow
as Scamoggia
Three Swedish Girls in Upper Bavaria
as Otto Gruber
The Psychic
as Francesco Ducci
Five for Hell
as Lt. Glenn Hoffmann
Sartana Kills Them All
as Santana
Joy of Flying
as Jörg Bronner
The Shortest Day
as Uomo alla stazione (uncredited)