Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
3/17/1925
Place of Birth
Rome, Italy
Also Known As
Pasquale FerzettiGabriel FerzettiGaetano Ferzetti
Gabriele Ferzetti
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 arist...
Known For
Once Upon a Time in the West
as Morton
The Confession
as Kohoutek
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
as Marc Ange Draco
La Orca
as Valerio
Pope John Paul I: The Smile of God
as Card. Giuseppe Siri
L'amica
as Paolo Marchesi
Welcome Reverend!
as The veteran
High Voltage
as Pablo Moncada
Cannabis
as Inspector Bardeche
Red Lips
as Avvocato Paolo Martini
Hannibal
as Senator Quintus Fabius
The Wayward Wife
as Professor Franco Vagnuzzi
Fabiola
as Claudio
House of Ricordi
as Giacomo Puccini
Jessica
as Edmondo Raumo
Suggestionata
as Gregorio
The Counterfeiters
as Dario
Oedipus Orca
as Valerio
Puccini
as Giacomo Puccini
Come Play With Me
as Stefano