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, inc...
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For a Few Dollars More
As El Indio
Journey Beneath the Desert
As Tarath
Le Cercle Rouge
As Vogel
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
As Dottore
Rosi About Eboli
As Self
Christ Stopped at Eboli
As Carlo Levi
Hercules and the Captive Women
As Re di Sparta
Open Doors
As Giudice Vito Di Francesco
A Bullet for the General
As Chuncho Munos / 'El Chuncho'
The Witch
As Fabrizio
The Mattei Affair
As Enrico Mattei
Il caso Moro
As Aldo Moro
Face to Face
As Professor Brett Fletcher
The Abyss
As Zenone
Operation Ogre
As Izarra
Giordano Bruno
As Giordano Bruno
The Four Days of Naples
As Stimolo
Sacco & Vanzetti
As Bartolomeo Vanzetti
Slap the Monster on Page One
As The Managing Editor of 'Il Giornale'
One Way or Another
As M.
Lady of the Camelias
As Plessis
Girl with a Suitcase
As Piero Benotti
We Still Kill the Old Way
As Professore Paolo Laurana
The Working Class Goes to Heaven
As Lulù Massa
The Violent Four
As Piero Cavallero
I Am Afraid
As Brigadiere Ludovico Graziano
A Boy from Calabria
As Felice
Many Wars Ago
As Lt. Ottolenghi
Lucky Luciano
As Charles 'Lucky' Luciano
On the Tiger's Back
As Papaleo
A Simple Story
As Carmelo Franzò
The Suspect
As Emilio
Wake Up and Die
As Inspector Moroni
Seasons of Our Love
As Leonardo Varzi
The Assassination
As Sadiel
The Death of Mario Ricci
As Bernard Fontana
The Bandit
As Gramigna
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
As Dr. Cristo Bedoya
The Magnificent Cuckold
As Assessore
The Seven Cervi Brothers
As Aldo Cervi
The Terrorist
As Renato Braschi , l'ingeniere
Banderas, the Tyrant
As Tirano Banderas
A Man for Burning
As Salvatore
Pestalozzi's Mountain
As Pestalozzi
Apollon: una fabbrica occupata
As Narrator (voice)
La tenda in piazza
As Self (voice) (uncredited)
Summit
As Paolo
Documenti su Giuseppe Pinelli
As Self / Reenactor (uncredited)
Stark System
As Stark
The Felling of the Forest
As Guglielmo
Fedra
As Ippolito
Summer Night
As Alberto
Wind from the East
As Le Ranger Nordiste (uncredited)
Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker
As Self (archive footage)
Gangster Girl
As Jascha Freud
Letters from Marusia
As Gregorio
We Are Cinema
As Self (archive footage)
Tre colonne in cronaca
As Alberto Landolfi
Forgotten Activism
As Self (archive footage)
Under the Sign of Scorpio
As Renno
Funes, a Great Love
As El tano Bérgami
Under Ten Flags
As Samuel Braunstein
Investigation of a Citizen Named Volonté
As Self (archive footage)
Un attore contro - Gian Maria Volonté
As Self (archive footage)
Caravaggio
As Caravaggio
A Fistful of Dollars
As Ramón Rojo
For Love and Gold
As Teofilatto dei Leonzi
Zénon the Rebel
As Self (archive footage)
La strada più lunga
As Michele
Spanish Western
As The Indian (archive footage)
Reflections on a Political Cinema
As Self - Interviewee
Ipotesi sulla morte di G. Pinelli
As Self
Volonté: The Man of a Thousand Faces
As Self (archive footage)
Saul
As David
The Charterhouse of Parma
As Count Mosca
Vita di Michelangelo
As Michelangelo
Spécial cinéma
As Self
La Storia Vera Della Signora Dalle Camelie
As Plessis
The Idiot
As Parfen Rogozin
Le inchieste del commissario Maigret
As Radek
Diamoci del tu
As Self