Fabio Testi

Biography

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.

Filmography

Buenaventura Diaz
Milo Ruiz
Don Gaetano Fungillo
Georges Gasset
Clayton Drumm
Nestor Duran
Michele Alemani
Inspector Nico Palmieri
Luca Di Angelo
Bill Cormack
Domenico Vechiarelli
Mario Ferramonti
Lucas Iturriaga
Francesco di Villaverde
Zorro / Don Diego
Schizzo's father
Arquimedes
Bit part (uncredited)
Abdulaziz Al Saud (Ibn Saud)
Fausto D'Alessio
Marco Sartori
Gamboa
Mustapha Hashimi
Warrior enlisting Franco and Ciccio
Commissario Luca Calarno
Roberto Ripa
Alex Grimaldi
Pvt. Terry Wilson
Tonino Russo
Fabio Testi
Daniel Diderot
Self (archive footage)
(uncredited)
Giovanni Agnelli
Tall Man at Party (uncredited)
Francesco Palumbo
Dr. Leonardis
Rogers' Man (uncredited)
Gerolamo Poliziani - detto 'Gepo'
Montellini Roures
Carlo Ferraro
Inspector Gianni Di Salvo
Count Lorenzo
Frank's Gunman (uncredited)
Sergio Dinardo
Mark Fierro