ACTOR

Gian Maria Volonté

1933 - 1994

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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), 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 942,480 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Gian Maria Volonté is the 438th most popular actor (down from 376th in 2019), the 881st most popular biography from Italy (down from 802nd 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.

Memorability Metrics

  • 940k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 64.03

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 36

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.96

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.14

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year Gian Maria Volonté has had the most page views in the with 231,429 views, followed by English (174,227), and French (80,058). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Galician (69.38%), Swahili (58.47%), and Dutch (51.70%)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Gian Maria Volonté ranks 438 out of 13,578. Before him are Cillian Murphy, Bruno Cremer, Emmanuelle Riva, David McCallum, Mark Hamill, and Françoise Dorléac. After him are Jane Seymour, John Goodman, Paul Hogan, Frances McDormand, Christian Bale, and Pat Morita.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Gian Maria Volonté ranks 46. Before him are Mohammad-Ali Rajai, Samora Machel, Steven Weinberg, Oliver Sacks, Jerzy Grotowski, and David McCallum. After him are Richard Rogers, Joan Collins, Charles K. Kao, Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Stanley Milgram, and Edward de Bono. Among people deceased in 1994, Gian Maria Volonté ranks 36. Before him are Robert Doisneau, George Peppard, André Michel Lwoff, Richard Laurence Millington Synge, Henry Mancini, and Sergei Bondarchuk. After him are Marija Gimbutas, Juvénal Habyarimana, Pierre Boulle, Niels Kaj Jerne, Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia, and Witold Lutosławski.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Gian Maria Volonté ranks 881 out of 5,161. Before him are Rosalba Carriera (1673), Guercino (1591), Tommaso Buscetta (1928), Fabio Cannavaro (1973), Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany (1797), and Isabella d'Este (1474). After him are Marcus Calpurnius Bibulus (-102), Hormizd I (250), Luciano Spalletti (1959), Bartolomeo Eustachi (1500), Francesco II Sforza (1495), and Victor Amadeus I, Duke of Savoy (1587).

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Among ACTORS In Italy

Among actors born in Italy, Gian Maria Volonté ranks 22. Before him are Virna Lisi (1936), Silvana Mangano (1930), Vittorio Gassman (1922), Rudolph Valentino (1895), Lino Ventura (1919), and Giancarlo Giannini (1942). After him are Michele Placido (1946), Alberto Sordi (1920), Lucia Bosè (1931), Franco Columbu (1941), Claudia Mori (1944), and Totò (1898).

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Television and Movie Roles

Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
Dottore
Rome, Italy. After committing a heinous crime, a senior police officer exposes evidence incriminating him because his moral commitment prevents him from circumventing the law and the social order it protects.
Oct 16o 19708.202 / 10
For a Few Dollars More
El Indio
Two bounty hunters are in pursuit of "El Indio," one of the most wanted fugitives in the western territories, and his gang.
Dec 18o 19658.018 / 10
A Fistful of Dollars
Ramón Rojo
The Man With No Name enters the Mexican village of San Miguel in the midst of a power struggle among the three Rojo brothers and sheriff John Baxter. When a regiment of Mexican soldiers bearing gold intended to pay for new weapons is waylaid by the Rojo brothers, the stranger inserts himself into the middle of the long-simmering battle, selling false information to both sides for his own benefit.
Sep 12o 19647.847 / 10