Gian Maria Volonté

Gian Maria Volonté

Gian Maria Volonté (9 April 1933 – 6 December 1994) was an Italian actor and activist, remembered for his versatility as a performer, his outspoken left-wing leanings, and fiery temper on- and off-screen. He is perhaps most famous outside Italy for his roles in four Spaghetti Western films: Ramón Rojo in Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars (1964) and 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). In Italy and much of Europe, he was notable for his 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). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gian Maria Volonté has received more than 856,848 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Gian Maria Volonté is the 377th most popular actor (up from 393rd in 2019), the 804th most popular biography from Italy (up from 826th in 2019) and the 22nd 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.