--- name: "Gabriele Ferzetti" canonical: "https://film.one/person/gabriele-ferzetti" fi1m_id: "gabriele-ferzetti" imdb_id: "nm0275213" tmdb_id: 4961 wikidata_id: "Q555379" roles: ["Actor"] born: "17 March 1925" died: "2 December 2015" reviewed_on_fi1m: 3 average_fi1m_score: 85 average_as: "actor" average_over: 3 updated: "2026-10-01T21:12:27.802654+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Gabriele Ferzetti ## Identity Gabriele Ferzetti - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/gabriele-ferzetti - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** gabriele-ferzetti - **IMDb ID:** nm0275213 - **TMDB ID:** 4961 - **Wikidata ID:** Q555379 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriele_Ferzetti, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q555379, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0275213/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/4961 Actor. Born 17 March 1925 in Rome, Italy. Died 2 December 2015. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 17 March 1925, Rome, Italy - **Died:** 2 December 2015 - **Active:** 1960–2010 - **Also known as:** Pasquale Ferzetti, Gabriel Ferzetti, Gaetano Ferzetti, Габриэле Ферцетти, Габриеле Ферцетти, 加布里埃尔·费尔泽蒂 - **Average Fi1m score:** 85, as actor, over 3 titles - **Fi1m score by decade:** 1960s 87 (2), 2010s 81 (1) - **Fi1m against the critics:** 85 to 82 across 3 titles - **Score spread:** 3 at 80+, 0 at 60–79, 0 under 60 - **Lead roles:** 0 of 2 acting credits billed first or second - **Genres:** Drama 2, Action 1, Adventure 1, Romance 1, Thriller 1, Western 1 - **Screen time:** 7 hours of reviewed films - **Box office:** $99m across 3 films with figures - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriele_Ferzetti, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q555379, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0275213/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/4961 ## Fi1m on Gabriele Ferzetti > A handsome Italian lead who made a career of the moment the handsome man's composure gives way. Antonioni used it in *L'Avventura*; Leone and the Bond series borrowed it for a baron and a crime boss; we rate the crime boss. Draco throws a birthday party in *On Her Majesty's Secret Service* (1969), and his daughter and the man he wants her to marry are both there. Ferzetti plays the crime boss's negotiation with Bond as a joke, and he plays the father's worry underneath it as though it were not one. John Barry's *We Have All the Time in the World* comes in under the scene, and it is the point in the film where we stopped keeping score against Connery and simply watched. We had come for a gag about a gangster marrying off his daughter and found we minded what happened to him, because Ferzetti never lets the worry leave his face while the lines stay light. That was his trade long before Bond. Small film parts from 1942, stage work, a first lead in *Lo Zappatore* (1950) and a romantic lead in *The Wayward Wife* (1953); then Michelangelo Antonioni cast him twice, as Lorenzo, a struggling artist, in *Le Amiche* (1955), and as Sandro, a restless, unfulfilled playboy, in *L'Avventura* (1960). Those two made his name in Italy and then abroad, and they fixed the type: the elegant man in the good suit whose composure does not hold. We have not reviewed the Antonioni films. The two of his we have written about, a year apart, use that quality in supporting parts. In Sergio Leone's *Once Upon a Time in the West* (1968) he is Morton, the tubercular railroad baron, one face among the faces and pauses that give the film its dread; our review did not single him out, and in a film that long and that crowded that is no disgrace. In the Bond film he is the ally and prospective father-in-law, and the warmth is his. One caveat: his English dialogue was often dubbed in international films, this one included, so what we admire in Draco is bearing and expression with another man's voice on top. He kept working through the 1970s in biblical epics, poliziotteschi and thrillers, with Hans in Liliana Cavani's *The Night Porter* (1974) the part most often remembered from that decade. Supporting roles carried him into the 2000s, and Luca Guadagnino gave him a late return as Edoardo Recchi Senior in *I Am Love* (2009). Looking back, he said, "When I was young, I thought that I had wasted my talent because I worried too much about looking good." We are not sure it was wasted. The looking good was half the performance; the other half was showing what it cost. Start with Draco, which is the easier evening and the one where his kindness shows. Then find *L'Avventura*, where the same manners are put to a far less kindly use. ## Biography Gabriele Ferzetti (born Pasquale Ferzetti) was an Italian actor who appeared in more than 160 film, television and stage roles between 1942 and 2015. He made his screen debut as a teenager and became a leading man in the 1950s. Ferzetti trained at the Rome Academy of Dramatic Art after winning a scholarship, though he was later expelled for working professionally. His international breakthrough came with the role of Sandro in Michelangelo Antonioni’s *L’Avventura* (1960). He twice won the Nastro d’Argento for Best Supporting Actor, for *The Wayward Wife* (1953) and *We Still Kill the Old Way* (1967). Among his best-known international roles were railroad baron Morton in Sergio Leone’s *Once Upon a Time in the West* (1968), Marc Ange Draco in the James Bond film *On Her Majesty’s Secret Service* (1969), and Edoardo Recchi Senior in Luca Guadagnino’s *I Am Love* (2010). He also appeared as Lot in *The Bible: In the Beginning...* (1966) and as Hans in *The Night Porter* (1974). Ferzetti died in Rome on 2 December 2015. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, theguardian.com, telegraph.co.uk, imdb.com.* ## On Fi1m (3) - *I Am Love* (2010), Fi1m 81, as Edoardo Recchi Senior — [page](https://film.one/film/i-am-love.md) - *On Her Majesty's Secret Service* (1969), Fi1m 83, as Marc Ange Draco — [page](https://film.one/film/on-her-majestys-secret-service.md) - *Once Upon a Time in the West* (1968), Fi1m 91, as Morton — [page](https://film.one/film/once-upon-a-time-in-the-west.md) ## Complete filmography (151) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *18 Years Later* (2010), as Enrico - *I Am Love* (2010), as Edoardo Recchi Senior — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/i-am-love.md) - *1612: Chronicles of the Dark Time* (2007), Actor - *Pope John Paul I: The Smile of God* (2006), as Card. Giuseppe Siri - *Pope John Paul I: The Smile of God* (2006), series, as Card. Giuseppe Siri - *Callas & Onassis* (2005), as Livanos - *Callas & Onassis* (2005), series, as Livanos - *Concorso di colpa* (2005), as Vito Santamaria - *Lost Love* (2003), as Tommaso Pasini - *L'avvocato de Gregorio* (2003), as Alfonso - *Le ragazze di Miss Italia* (2002), as professor De Lollis - *Tower of the First Born* (1998), as Father Jacob - *Porzûs* (1997), as Strono vecchio - *Con rabbia e con amore* (1997), as Leone - *Othello* (1995), as The Duke of Venice - *Black as the Heart* (1994), as Signor Noé Alga Croce - *First Action Hero* (1994), as Ben Costa - *Weihnachtsfest mit Hindernissen* (1994), as Vittorio - *Die Ringe des Saturn* (1993), Actor - *Private Crimes* (1993), series, as Dr. Guido Braschi - *Suffocating Heat* (1991), as Gaetano Castelli - *Édouard et ses filles* (1990), series, as Antoine di Marco - *Una fredda mattina di maggio* (1990), as Signor Mantoni - *Gli angeli del potere* (1990), as Dr. Donhal - *Voyage of Terror: The Achille Lauro Affair* (1990), Actor - *Around the World in 80 Days* (1989), series, as Italian Chief of Police - *Computron 22* (1988), as Il Nonno - *Julia and Julia* (1988), as Alfredo - *La voglia di vincere* (1987), series, as Professor Besson - *Quo Vadis?* (1985), series, as Pisone - *Die goldenen Schuhe* (1983), series, as Marquesade Buenaventa - *Return to Lisca Bianca Island* (1983), as Sandro (voice) (archive footage) - *Delitto e castigo* (1983), series, as Svidrigajlov - *The Basileus Quartet* (1983), as Mario Cantone - *Grog* (1982), as Alberto - *Death in the Vatican* (1982), as Cardinale Ixaguirre - *Quasi quasi mi sposo* (1982), as Ingegnere - *The Possessed Hand* (1981), as Maestro Gomin - *The Devil's Game* (1981), series, as Master Gomin - *Inchon* (1981), as Turkish Brigadier - *I Vecchi E I Giovani* (1979), series, Actor - *Encounters in the Deep* (1979), as Miles - *The Burning Years* (1979), as Padre di Saverio - *Pigs with a P.38* (1978), as Max Astarita - *Last In, First Out* (1978), as Herzog - *Mon Premier Amour* (1978), as Georges - *Suggestionata* (1978), as Gregorio - *The Psychic* (1977), as Emilio Rospini - *Oedipus Orca* (1977), as Valerio - *A Matter of Time* (1976), as Antonio Vicari - *Nick the Sting* (1976), as Maurice - *La Orca* (1976), as Valerio - *The Hornet's Nest* (1976), as Gaspard - *Lezioni di violoncello con toccata e fuga* (1976), as Il padre di Stella - *Calling All Police Cars* (1975), as Professor Andrea Icardi - *End of the Game* (1975), as Dr. Lutz - *A Curious Man* (1975), as Moriondo - *Smiling Maniacs* (1975), as Prandó - *The Proof of love* (1974), as Angela Father - *Kidnap* (1974), as Don Francesco Salvatore - *Quick Trial* (1974), as L'avvocato Finaldi - *Appassionata* (1974), as Dr. Emilio Rutelli - *The Night Porter* (1974), as Hans - *Hospitals: The White Mafia* (1973), as Prof. Daniele Vallotti - *Hitler: The Last Ten Days* (1973), as Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm Keitel - *Divorce His, Divorce Hers* (1973), series, as Turi Livicci - *Divorce His - Divorce Hers* (1973), as Turi Livicci - *3000 Million Without an Elevator* (1972), as Raphaël - *Beggars and Proud Ones* (1972), Actor - *High Voltage* (1972), as Pablo Moncada - *The Boxer* (1972), as Nick La Caterina / Tony La Monica - *Million Dollar Eel* (1971), as Vasco - *Cold Sweat* (1970), as (uncredited) - *Cannabis* (1970), as Inspector Bardeche - *The Confession* (1970), as Kohoutek - *L'amica* (1969), as Paolo Marchesi - *On Her Majesty's Secret Service* (1969), as Marc Ange Draco — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/film/on-her-majestys-secret-service.md) - *That Splendid November* (1969), as Biagio - *Machine Gun McCain* (1969), as Don Francesco DeMarco - *Once Upon a Time in the West* (1968), as Morton — Fi1m 91, [page](https://film.one/film/once-upon-a-time-in-the-west.md) - *Bandits in Rome* (1968), as Commissioner - *Love Problems* (1968), as Guido - *Better a Widow* (1968), as Don Calogero Minniti - *The Protagonists* (1968), as Il Commissario - *Come Play With Me* (1968), as Stefano - *Escalation* (1968), as Augusto Lambertinghi - *A Devil Under the Pillow* (1968), as Anselmo - *We Still Kill the Old Way* (1967), as Avvocato Rosello - *The Devil in Love* (1966), as Lorenzo de' Medici - *The Bible: In the Beginning...* (1966), as Lot - *Three Rooms in Manhattan* (1965), as le comte Larsi - *Crime on a Summer Morning* (1965), as Victor Dermott - *Crucero de verano* (1964), as Carlos Brul y Betancourt - *Desideri d'estate* (1964), Actor - *La calda vita* (1964), as Guido - *Death, Where Is Your Victory?* (1964), as Max - *A Sentimental Attempt* (1963), as Giulio - *Torpedo Bay* (1963), as Leonardi - *The Shortest Day* (1963), as Tenente in trincea - *Imperial Venus* (1962), as Freron - *Beach Casanova* (1962), as Avvocato Leblanc - *Cross of the Living* (1962), as Abbot Delcourt - *The Nun of Monza* (1962), as Gian Paolo Osio - *Jessica* (1962), as Edmondo Raumo - *Eruption* (1962), as Roberto Santi - *Rencontres* (1962), as Ralph Scaffari - *Love, the Italian Way* (1960), as Alberto Bressan - *Il carro armato dell'8 settembre* (1960), as Tommaso - *Long Night in '43* (1960), as Franco Villani - *L'Avventura* (1960), as Sandro - *Red Lips* (1960), as Avvocato Paolo Martini - *Hannibal* (1959), as Senator Quintus Fabius - *The Great Deception* (1959), as Bernard Turquet de Mayenne - *Everyone's in Love* (1959), as Arturo - *Love on the Riviera* (1958), as Giulio Ferrari - *So Much Love Lost* (1958), as Frédéric Solingen - *Angel in a Taxi* (1958), as Andrea - *March's Child* (1958), as Sandro - *It Happened in Rome* (1957), as Lawyer Alberto Cortini - *Parola di ladro* (1957), as Desiderio - *Il prezzo della gloria* (1956), as Comandante Alberto Bruni - *Donatella* (1956), as Maurizio - *Defend My Love* (1956), as Pietro Leonardi - *Un po' di cielo* (1955), as Frank Lo Giudice - *Le Amiche* (1955), as Lorenzo - *Adriana Lecouvreur* (1955), as Maurizio di Sassonia - *Sins of Casanova* (1954), as Casanova - *House of Ricordi* (1954), as Giacomo Puccini - *Camilla* (1954), as Dott. Mario Rossetti - *Modern Virgin* (1954), as Gabriele Demico - *100 Years of Love* (1954), as Carlo, the Political Prisoner (segm. "Gli ultimi dieci Minuti") - *Clothing the Naked* (1954), as Ludovico Nota - *Empty Eyes* (1953), as Fernando Maestrelli - *Puccini* (1953), as Giacomo Puccini - *The Wayward Wife* (1953), as Professor Franco Vagnuzzi - *Three Forbidden Stories* (1952), as Mario - *Inganno* (1952), as Andrea Vannini - *The Counterfeiters* (1951), as Dario - *The Forbidden Christ* (1951), as (uncredited) - *Gli amanti di Ravello* (1951), as Sandro Deodata - *Sigillo rosso* (1950), Actor - *Lo zappatore* (1950), Actor - *Mountain Smugglers* (1950), as Leutnant Berti - *Welcome Reverend!* (1950), as The veteran - *Fabiola* (1949), as Claudio - *Rondini in volo* (1949), as Ufficiale d'aviazione - *William Tell* (1948), Actor - *Les Misérables* (1948), as (uncredited) - *Vertigine d'amore* (1948), Actor - *Felicità perduta* (1946), Actor - *La contessa Castiglione* (1942), as (uncredited) ## Gallery - ![Gabriele Ferzetti](https://film.one/media/person/102517/gallery-b738c5dfcb7a.jpg) Gabriele Ferzetti — Salvatore Samperi (director), Aldo Scavarda (cinematographer), Doria G. Film (production)., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/30/Grazie_zia_%281968%29_Gabriele_Ferzetti.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Fotografia di scena del film "La calda vita" - Florestano Vancini - 1964 - Gli attori Catherine Spaak e Gabriele Ferzetti a letto Luogo e data della ripresa: Ca](https://film.one/media/person/102517/gallery-8e76039998a9.jpg) Fotografia di scena del film "La calda vita" - Florestano Vancini - 1964 - Gli attori Catherine Spaak e Gabriele Ferzetti a letto Luogo e data della ripresa: Ca — Vancini, Florestano, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3b/%22La_calda_vita%22_-_1964_-_Catherine_Spaak_e_Gabriele_Ferzetti.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Gabriele Ferzetti e Ornella Muti nella scena finale del film italiano Appassionata (1974).](https://film.one/media/person/102517/gallery-e795c0ae99fc.png) Gabriele Ferzetti e Ornella Muti nella scena finale del film italiano Appassionata (1974). — Film diretto da Gianluigi Calderone e prodotto da P.A.C., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Appassionata_%28film_1974%29_Ferzetti_e_Muti.png/1280px-Appassionata_%28film_1974%29_Ferzetti_e_Muti.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Gabriele Ferzetti e Ornella Muti nella scena finale del film italiano Appassionata (1974)](https://film.one/media/person/102517/gallery-047fab0015c1.png) Gabriele Ferzetti e Ornella Muti nella scena finale del film italiano Appassionata (1974) — Film diretto da Gianluigi Calderone e prodotto da P.A.C., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/Appassionata_%28film_1974%29_Ferzetti_e_Muti_%282%29.png/1280px-Appassionata_%28film_1974%29_Ferzetti_e_Muti_%282%29.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Gabriele Ferzetti](https://film.one/media/person/102517/gallery-f9f733d241f0.jpg) Gabriele Ferzetti — Image via TMDB - ![Gabriele Ferzetti](https://film.one/media/person/102517/gallery-9dbd4ce10281.jpg) Gabriele Ferzetti — Image via TMDB - ![Gabriele Ferzetti](https://film.one/media/person/102517/gallery-f77dcc630b97.jpg) Gabriele Ferzetti — Image via TMDB - ![Gabriele Ferzetti in una scena del film italiano Appassionata (1974)](https://film.one/media/person/102517/gallery-1b1ae8d48602.png) Gabriele Ferzetti in una scena del film italiano Appassionata (1974) — Film diretto da Gianluigi Calderone e prodotto da P.A.C., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Appassionata_%28film_1974%29_Gabriele_Ferzetti.png/1280px-Appassionata_%28film_1974%29_Gabriele_Ferzetti.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Gabriele Ferzetti in una scena del film italiano Appassionata (1974)](https://film.one/media/person/102517/gallery-f6b726105adb.png) Gabriele Ferzetti in una scena del film italiano Appassionata (1974) — Film diretto da Gianluigi Calderone e prodotto da P.A.C., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/Appassionata_%28film_1974%29_Gabriele_Ferzetti_%282%29.png/1280px-Appassionata_%28film_1974%29_Gabriele_Ferzetti_%282%29.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Gabriele Ferzetti](https://film.one/media/person/102517/gallery-01fc10784da4.jpg) Gabriele Ferzetti — Image via TMDB --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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