Gabriele Ferzetti
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| Gabriele Ferzetti | |
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 Gabriele Ferzetti as Draco in On Her Majesty's Secret Service |
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| Born | Pasquale Ferzetti March 17, 1925 Rome, Italy |
| Occupation | Actor |
Gabriele Ferzetti (born 17 March 1925 in Rome, Italy) is an Italian film and stage actor.
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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 in Sergio Leone's celebrated Once Upon a Time in the West. A year later, he appeared in the James 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.
