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Fabio Testi
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Fabio Testi (born 2 August 1941) is an Italian film actor, notable as the star of, among many other films, First Action Hero. Born in Peschiera del Garda, Italy, the 1.84m tall actor started his film career as a stuntman in his college years. His most famous job as a stuntman was in Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West, where he fell from a rooftop and hit the ground on his shoulder. Testi married only once, in 1979, to Lola Navarro, with whom he fathered three children. He skirted international stardom through a series of unusual role choices and a firm decision to remain in Italy. He chose to work with people like Miles Deem, known as the "Ed Wood of Spaghetti Westerns" when bett…
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Fabio Testi (born 2 August 1941) is an Italian film actor, notable as the star of, among many other films, First Action Hero. Born in Peschiera del Garda, Italy, the 1.84m tall actor started his film career as a stuntman in his college years. His most famous job as a stuntman was in Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West, where he fell from a rooftop and hit the ground on his shoulder. Testi married only once, in 1979, to Lola Navarro, with whom he fathered three children. He skirted international stardom through a series of unusual role choices and a firm decision to remain in Italy. He chose to work with people like Miles Deem, known as the "Ed Wood of Spaghetti Westerns" when better roles were available. Testi was cast by director Andrzej Żuławski in L'important c'est d'aimer (1975), opposite Romy Schneider, Klaus Kinski, Jacques Dutronc and Claude Dauphin. Description above from the Wikipedia article Fabio Testi, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Fabio Testi's Filmography
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Between Heaven and Earth: In the Footsteps of Antonio Rosmini
as Papa Pio IX
Pasquale Squitieri: il vizio della libertà
as Self
Reflection in a Dead Diamond
as John Diman (old)
The Mysteries of the Bargello
as Domenico Antonio Thun
Parallel Lives
as Imprenditore
800 giorni
The Garden That Doesn't Exist
as Self (archive footage)
Romy, A Free Woman
as Self - Servais Mont (archive footage)
Curse of the Blind Dead
as Jailer
Very Valentine
as Domenico Vechiarelli
King of the Sands
as Abdulaziz Al Saud (Ibn Saud)
Il tempo delle mimose
Road to Nowhere
as Nestor Duran
Letters to Juliet
as Count Lorenzo
Love Strikes
as Pietro
Romy Schneider: A Woman in Three Notes
as Self
Torrente 3: The Protector
as Montellini Roures
Vento di primavera
as Dr. Leonardis
Annarè
as Fausto D'Alessio
Desert of Fire
as Daniel Diderot
Ragazzi della notte
as Schizzo's father
Crime of Passion
as Peter
First Action Hero
as Mark Fierro
The Final Contract
as Commissario Luca Calarno
Solo per Dirti Addio
El sueño de Tánger
as Carlos
Only One Survived
as Sergio Dinardo
Iguana
as Gamboa
Skipper
as Alex Grimaldi
Top Kids
as Giovanni Agnelli
Bilbao Blues
as Lucas Iturriaga
Deceptions
as Carlo Ferraro
Madman at War
as Boda
The Ambassador
as Mustapha Hashimi
Summer Games
as Roberto Ripa
Morbida - Gier auf Lust
A Gun for a Cop
as Francesco Palumbo
The Hawk and the Dove
as Michele Alemani
Speed Driver
as Rudi
Contraband
as Luca Di Angelo
S+H+E: Security Hazards Expert
as Rudolf Caserta
Speed Cross
as Paolo
The Black Hand
as Fabio Testi
Manaos
as Arquimedes
Rings of Fear
as Inspector Gianni Di Salvo
The Uranium Conspiracy
as Renzo
China 9, Liberty 37
as Clayton Drumm
The Heroin Busters
as Fabio
The Big Racket
as Nicola Palmieri
The Inheritance
as Mario Ferramonti
Go Gorilla, Go!
as Marco Sartori
Four of the Apocalypse
as Stubby Preston
Red Coat
as Bill Cormack
That Most Important Thing: Love
as Servais Mont
Blood River
as Ringo
Blood Brothers
as Don Gaetano Fungillo
The Nada Gang
as Buenaventura Diaz
Revolver
as Milo Ruiz
Stateline Motel
as Floyd
Un amore così fragile, così violento
as Gerolamo Poliziani - detto 'Gepo'
Camorra
as Tonino Russo
What Have You Done to Solange?
as Enrico Rosseni
Killer
as Georges Gasset
'Tis Pity She's a Whore
as Soranzo
At the End of the Rainbow
as Roy Greenford
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
as Bruno
One Damned Day at Dawn... Django Meets Sartana!
as Sheriff Jack Ronson / Sartana
Death Knocks Twice
as Francesco di Villaverde
Zingara
as (uncredited)
The Avenger, Zorro
as Zorro / Don Diego
The Battle of the Damned
as Pvt. Terry Wilson
Cemetery without Crosses
as Rogers' Man (uncredited)
A Place In Hell
as Ross
Once Upon a Time in the West
as Frank's Gunman (uncredited)
And Now... Make Your Peace with God
as Steve Cooper
Barbarella
as Tall Man at Party (uncredited)
I due Crociati
as Warrior enlisting Franco and Ciccio
Make the Sign of the Cross, Stranger!
as Donovan henchman
Gun Shy Piluk
as Bit part (uncredited)
Two Eyes to Kill
as Jean