1. Gabriele Ferzetti's career was at its peak in the 1950s and 1960s.
50 Facts About Gabriele Ferzetti
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Gabriele Ferzetti portrayed Puccini twice in the films Puccini and Casa Ricordi.
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Gabriele Ferzetti made his international breakthrough in Michelangelo Antonioni's controversial L'Avventura as a restless playboy.
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Gabriele Ferzetti starred as Lot in John Huston's biblical epic, The Bible: In the Beginning.
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Gabriele Ferzetti was perhaps best known to non-mainstream audiences for his role as the psychiatrist, Hans, in Liliana Cavani's The Night Porter.
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Gabriele Ferzetti appeared in Julia and Julia, opposite Laurence Olivier in Inchon, and the cult film, First Action Hero.
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Gabriele Ferzetti was born as Pasquale Gabriele Ferzetti in Rome, Italy on 17 March 1925.
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Gabriele Ferzetti studied at the Accademia d'Arte Drammatica in Rome, but was expelled.
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Gabriele Ferzetti made his screen debut in Via delle Cinque Lune under the directorship of Luigi Chiarini, featuring actors such as Luisella Beghi, Olga Solbelli, Andrea Checchi, and Gildo Bocci.
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Gabriele Ferzetti then took a break from film acting, instead making a succession of theatrical appearances until a small role in Lost Happiness and Riccardo Freda's Les Miserables.
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Gabriele Ferzetti had a supporting role in Flavio Calzavara's Sigillo rosso alongside Gino Cervi and Carla Del Poggio, but his first leading role came in Lo Zappatore, a film which focused on the life of peasants and farm workers during the interwar and great depression period.
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Gabriele Ferzetti starred in the successful biopic of composer Puccini under Carmine Gallone, Puccini, and reprised the role in House of Ricordi, featuring Roland Alexandre as Gioacchino Rossini.
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Gabriele Ferzetti starred in Mario Soldati's The Wayward Wife, a Cannes Film Festival nominee for best film, which saw him play the role of a professor who falls in love with a glamorous star.
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Gabriele Ferzetti appeared in Marcello Pagliero's comedy drama based on the play by Luigi Pirandello, Vestire gli ignudi, playing the character of Ludovico Nota alongside Pierre Brasseur, Manlio Busoni, and Paolo Ferrara, and in Camilla, under the directorship of Luciano Emmer.
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Gabriele Ferzetti starred in Michelangelo Antonioni's The Girlfriends, as a downbeat, struggling artist named Lorenzo, with Eleonora Rossi Drago, Franco Fabrizi, and Valentina Cortese in the other leading roles.
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Gabriele Ferzetti appeared in the crime film, Parola di ladro, for directors Nanni Loy and Gianni Puccini, opposite Abbe Lane, Nadia Gray, and Andrea Checchi.
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Gabriele Ferzetti appeared in Ballerina e Buon Dio, directed by Antonio Leonviola, followed by Racconti d'estate, under the directorship of Gianni Franciolini, based on a story by Alberto Moravia.
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Gabriele Ferzetti was cast in this romantic comedy, set in the Tigullio Gulf, alongside Alberto Sordi, Michele Morgan, Marcello Mastroianni, Sylva Koscina, Dorian Gray, Franca Marzi, Franco Fabrizi, and Jorge Mistral.
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In 1959, Gabriele Ferzetti starred alongside Andree Debar and Isa Miranda as Bernard Turquet de Mayenne in the French historical comedy, Le secret du Chevalier d'Eon.
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Gabriele Ferzetti later appeared in Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia's Hannibal, alongside Victor Mature, Rita Gam, Milly Vitale, and Rik Battaglia.
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The film is set during the Roman Republic; Gabriele Ferzetti played Fabius Maximus.
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Gabriele Ferzetti starred in Gianni Puccini's Il carro armato dell'8 settembre, followed by Florestano Vancini's La lunga notte del '43.
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Gabriele Ferzetti made his international breakthrough as an oversexed, restless playboy, Sandro, in Michelangelo Antonioni's L'Avventura.
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Gabriele Ferzetti entered one of the busiest periods of his career, featuring in seven films released during 1962.
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Gabriele Ferzetti had a role in Marcel Carne's Trois chambres a Manhattan, a film which incidentally featured a young Robert De Niro in an uncredited role.
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Gabriele Ferzetti starred as Lot in John Huston's biblical epic, The Bible: In the Beginning.
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Gabriele Ferzetti made his television debut with his appearance in two episodes of the American spy series, I Spy.
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Gabriele Ferzetti starred in A ciascuno il suo under director Elio Petri, and the TV series Dossier Mata Hari.
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Gabriele Ferzetti featured in a total of eight films released in 1968, including Marcello Fondato's I protagonisti, Salvatore Samperi's Grazie zia, Jose Maria Forque's Un diablo bajo la almohada, Roberto Faenza's Escalation, Alberto De Martino's Roma come Chicago, and Sergio Leone's western epic, Once Upon a Time in the West, in which he played Morton, the railroad baron, opposite acclaimed actors Henry Fonda and Charles Bronson.
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In 1969, Gabriele Ferzetti starred in Giuliano Montaldo's crime film, Gli intoccabili.
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Gabriele Ferzetti next starred in Un bellissimo novembre, directed by Mauro Bolognini.
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In 1970, Gabriele Ferzetti starred in the political thriller, The Confession, opposite Yves Montand and Simone Signoret, under director Costa-Gavras.
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Gabriele Ferzetti starred as an inspector in the crime picture, Cannabis, directed by Pierre Koralnik.
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Gabriele Ferzetti had an uncredited role in Terence Young's American picture, Cold Sweat.
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In 1971, Gabriele Ferzetti featured in Salvatore Samperi's Million Dollar Eel, a comedy film about an heiress who fakes her own kidnapping and hides in the river Po's delta, in order to obtain money from her parents.
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In 1972, Gabriele Ferzetti starred opposite Robert Blake, Catherine Spaak, and Ernest Borgnine in Franco Prosperi's boxing drama, Un uomo dalla pelle dura.
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In 1973, Gabriele Ferzetti appeared in the TV movie, Divorce His, Divorce Hers, under Waris Hussein, and Hitler: The Last Ten Days, a British-Italian produced picture directed by Ennio De Concini.
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Gabriele Ferzetti played the role of Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel opposite Alec Guinness, Simon Ward, Adolfo Celi, and Diane Cilento.
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Gabriele Ferzetti starred alongside Dirk Bogarde and Charlotte Rampling and played Hans, a psychiatrist, one of his most notable roles.
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Gabriele Ferzetti appeared in French director Roger Pigaut's picture, Le guepier, opposite Claude Brasseur and Marthe Keller, and had a small role in Vincente Minnelli's fantasy, A Matter of Time in 1976, which featured a prominent cast, which included Ingrid Bergman and Liza Minnelli.
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In 1978, Gabriele Ferzetti appeared in French director Claude d'Anna's picture, CIA contro KGB, alongside Bruno Cremer, Donald Pleasence, Laure Dechasnel, Helene Lehman, Dennis Hopper, and Joseph Cotten.
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Gabriele Ferzetti appeared in another French picture, the romantic drama Mon premier amour, directed by Elie Chouraqui.
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In 1979, Gabriele Ferzetti starred in Porci con la P 38, directed by Gianfranco Pagani, Gli anni struggenti, directed by Vittorio Sindoni, Incontro con gli umanoidi, directed by Anthony Richmond and Tonino Ricci, and had an uncredited role in Terence Young's Bloodline.
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Gabriele Ferzetti appeared in the TV series I vecchi e i giovani.
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Gabriele Ferzetti played a Turkish brigadier in another of Young's pictures, the historical war film, Inchon, with Laurence Olivier as General Douglas MacArthur.
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Gabriele Ferzetti appeared in Vatican Conspiracy directed by Marcello Aliprandi, and starred alongside Franco Nero in the crime comedy, Grog, directed by Francesco Laudadio, about two convicts who escape from prison and takes the family of a doctor as hostages.
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Gabriele Ferzetti did however appear in the film First Action Hero, but his only major role of the 1990s was as the Duke of Venice in Othello, directed by Oliver Parker.
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Gabriele Ferzetti appeared in Renzo Martinelli's Porzus and Alfredo Angeli's television series Con rabbia e con amore.
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Gabriele Ferzetti's best known role, after 1996, is as Nono in the French series Une famille formidable, in which he appeared in 11 episodes, between 1996 and 2007.
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Gabriele Ferzetti portrayed Enrico in Edoardo Leo's comedy picture, 18 Years Later, which featured Marco Bonini in the lead role.