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Gian Maria Volonté

1933 - 1994

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Gian Maria Volonté (9 April 1933 – 6 December 1994) was an Italian actor and activist. He is best known for his roles in four Spaghetti Western films: Ramón Rojo in Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars (1964), El Indio in Leone's For a Few Dollars More (1965), El Chuncho Munoz in Damiano Damiani's A Bullet for the General (1966) and Professor Brad Fletcher in Sergio Sollima's Face to Face (1967). He had notable roles in high-profile social dramas depicting the political and social stirrings of Italian and European society in the 1960s and 1970s, including four films directed by Elio Petri – We Still Kill the Old Way (1967), Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970), The Working Class Goes to Heaven (1971), and Todo modo (1976). He is also recognized for his performances in Jean-Pierre Melville's Le Cercle Rouge (1970), Giuliano Montaldo's Sacco & Vanzetti (1971) and Giordano Bruno (1973), and Francesco Rosi's Christ Stopped at Eboli (1979). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gian Maria Volonté is the 514th most popular actor (down from 438th in 2019), the 975th most popular biography from Italy (down from 881st in 2019) and the 25th most popular Italian Actor.

Gian Maria Volonté is most famous for his role as the antagonist in the film Once Upon a Time in America.

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Among actors, Gian Maria Volonté ranks 514 out of 13,578. Before him are Robert Carlyle, Alan Arkin, Peter Stormare, Kevin Kline, Tobin Bell, and Alida Valli. After him are Daniel Auteuil, Arthur Kennedy, Ray Stevenson, Richard Kiel, Richard Griffiths, and Carmen Maura.

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Among people born in 1933, Gian Maria Volonté ranks 49. Before him are Joan Collins, Ilia II of Georgia, Rik Van Looy, Bernardo Provenzano, Samora Machel, and John Hopfield. After him are Gene Wilder, Lee Radziwill, Charles K. Kao, Antonio Negri, John Barry, and Jerzy Grotowski. Among people deceased in 1994, Gian Maria Volonté ranks 43. Before him are Marija Gimbutas, Andrés Escobar, Pierre Boulle, Vladimir Ivashko, Witold Lutosławski, and Henry Mancini. After him are Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Paul Delvaux, Roger Wolcott Sperry, Julian Schwinger, Juvénal Habyarimana, and Fernando Rey.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Gian Maria Volonté ranks 975 out of 5,161. Before him are Victor Amadeus I, Duke of Savoy (1587), Lucrezia de' Medici, Duchess of Ferrara (1545), Edda Mussolini (1910), Occhiali (1519), Valerius Maximus (-100), and Guarino Guarini (1624). After him are Antipope John XVI (1000), Franco Modigliani (1918), Faustina the Elder (105), Gnaeus Naevius (-275), Giovanni Angelo Becciu (1948), and Maurice Garin (1871).

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Among ACTORS In Italy

Among actors born in Italy, Gian Maria Volonté ranks 25. Before him are Giancarlo Giannini (1942), Lino Ventura (1919), Vittorio Gassman (1922), Stefania Sandrelli (1946), Claudia Mori (1944), and Michele Placido (1946). After him are Eleonora Duse (1858), Elsa Martinelli (1935), Alberto Sordi (1920), Totò (1898), Lucia Bosè (1931), and Raf Vallone (1916).

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