- Gabriele Ferzetti
Infobox actor
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name = Gabriele Ferzetti
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caption = Gabriele Ferzetti as Draco in "On Her Majesty's Secret Service "
birthname = Pasquale Ferzetti
birthdate = birth date and age|1925|03|17
location =Rome, Italy
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occupation = Actor
spouse =Gabriele Ferzetti (born
17 March 1925 inRome, Italy ) is an Italian film and stage actor.Biography
Career
He is famous for his appearance in three classic films: In 1960, he made his international breakthrough as an oversexed, restless playboy in
Michelangelo Antonioni 's controversial "L'avventura " (the same year as he played one of the leads in "Long Night in 1943 "). Then in 1968, he played railroad baron Morton inSergio Leone 's celebrated "Once Upon a Time in the West ". A year later, he appeared in theJames Bond movie "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" as Marc Ange Draco, though his voice was dubbed by a British Actor. (He speaks English — see "Othello" — but with a heavy accent and is almost always dubbed into English by another actor.) He also appeared in "Julia and Julia " and the cult film "First Action Hero ", but he is best-known to non-mainstream audiences for the role that he played as the psychiatrist, Hans, inLiliana Cavani 'sarthouse classic "The Night Porter " (1974).External links
Persondata
NAME= Ferzetti, Gabriele
ALTERNATIVE NAMES= Ferzetti, Pasquale
SHORT DESCRIPTION= Actor
DATE OF BIRTH= 1925-03-17
PLACE OF BIRTH=Rome, Italy
DATE OF DEATH=
PLACE OF DEATH=
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