About Gabriele Ferzetti
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. He made his international breakthrough in Michelangelo Antonioni's 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 aristocratic looking leading man. Ferzetti's first leading role was in the film Lo Zappatore (1950). He portrayed Puccini twice in the films Puccini (1953) and House of Ricordi (1954), and starred as Lot in John Huston's biblical epic, The Bible: In the Beginning... (1966). Internationally, two of his best-known roles included railroad baron Morton in Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) and mob boss Marc Ange Draco in the James Bond movie On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969). He was perhaps best known to non-mainstream audiences for his role as the psychiatrist, Hans, in Liliana Cavani's The Night Porter (1974). In the 1970s, he also appeared in a significant number of poliziotteschi, often as a police inspector. Later in his career, he played the role of Nono in the TV series Une famille formidable, while also appearing in Luca Guadagnino's 2009 film I Am Love. Ferzetti twice won the Nastro d'Argento for Best Supporting Actor, for The Wayward Wife (1953) and We Still Kill the Old Way (1967). He was also a Premi Flaiano recipient and a David di Donatello nominee. He did however appear in the film First Action Hero (1994), but his only major role of the 1990s was as the Duke of Venice in Othello (1995), directed by Oliver Parker.
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