Giorgio Ardisson, best known as George Ardisson (31 December 1931 – 11 December 2014), was an Italian actor.
Life and career
Born in
Turin
Turin ( , ; ; , then ) is a city and an important business and cultural centre in northern Italy. It is the capital city of Piedmont and of the Metropolitan City of Turin, and was the first Italian capital from 1861 to 1865. The city is main ...
, Ardisson debuted in a minor role in
Mauro Bolognini
Mauro Bolognini (28 June 1922 – 14 May 2001) was an Italian film and stage director.
Early years
Bolognini was born in Pistoia, in the Tuscany region of Italy. After earning a master's degree in architecture at the University of Florence, Bol ...
's 1959 film ''
Arrangiatevi!''.
After several secondary roles in
sword-and-sandal
Sword-and-sandal, also known as peplum (: pepla), is a subgenre of largely Italy, Italian-made historical, mythological, or biblical epics mostly set in the Greco-Roman antiquity or the Middle Ages. These films attempted to emulate the big-budget ...
and adventure films, he gained a huge success playing Agent 3S3 in the
eurospy films ''
Agent 3S3: Passport to Hell'' and ''
Agent 3S3, Massacre in the Sun''.
[ According to director ]Sergio Sollima
Sergio Sollima (17 April 1921 – 1 July 2015) was an Italian film director and script writer.
Biography
Sollima graduated from the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in 1935. During World War II he was in the Italian Resistance.
After th ...
, he was chosen for this role thanks to his physical appearance that made him credible as American.spy film
The spy film, also known as the spy thriller, is a film genre, genre of film that deals with the subject of fictional espionage, either in a realistic way (such as the adaptations of John le Carré) or as a basis for fantasy (such as many Jame ...
s and spanned different genres, including Spaghetti Western
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and Italo-horror films.
Partial filmography
* '' You're on Your Own'' (1959) - Walter
* '' Morgan, the Pirate'' (1960)
* ''The Last of the Vikings
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'' (1961) - Guntar
* ''Hercules in the Haunted World
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'' (1961) - Teseo
* '' Erik the Conqueror'' (1961) - Erik
* ''Zorro in the Court of Spain'' (1962) - Riccardo Di Villa Verde / Zorro
* ''A Queen for Caesar
''A Queen for Caesar'' (, ) is a 1962 Italian-French historical drama film directed by Piero Pierotti and Victor Tourjansky and starring Pascale Petit, George Ardisson and Rik Battaglia. It is set in Egypt in 48 BC. Unlike other films about Cae ...
'' (1962) - Achilles
* ''Twist, lolite e vitelloni'' (1962) - Massimo Mauri
* '' Katarsis'' (1963) - Gugo, the poet
* ''Grand Canyon Massacre
''Grand Canyon Massacre'' (Italian: ''Massacro al Grande Canyon'', lit. "Massacre at Grand Canyon") is a 1964 Italian Spaghetti Western filmed in Croatia starring James Mitchum, Milla Sannoner, and George Ardisson. It was directed by Sergio Co ...
'' (1964)
* ''The Long Hair of Death
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'' (1965) - Baron Kurt Humboldt
* '' Agent 3S3: Passport to Hell'' (1965) - Walter Ross, Agent 3S3
* '' Hercules and the Princess of Troy'' (1965, TV Movie) - Leander
* '' Juliet of the Spirits'' (1965) - Dolores' model
* '' Operation Counterspy'' (1965) - Lord George Moriston
* '' Agent 3S3: Massacre in the Sun'' (1966) - Walter Ross, Agent 3S3
* '' Countdown to Doomsday'' (1966) - Jeff Milton
* ''Omicidio per appuntamento
''Omicidio per appuntamento'' (''Murder by Appointment'') is a 1966 giallo film directed by Mino Guerrini. The film stars George Ardisson, Günther Stoll and Ella Karin. Adapted from a novel by Franco Enna, the film has been described as "styli ...
'' (1967) - Vince Dreyser
* ' (1967) - Patrick Gordon
* ''Either All or None'' (1968) - Amen / Johnny
* '' May God Forgive You... But I Won't'' (1968) - Cjamango McDonald
* '' Zorro the Fox'' (1968) - Don Diego di Alcantara / Zorro
* ''Una ragazza di Praga'' (1969) - Adam Kryl
* ''Django Defies Sartana'' (1970) - Sartana
* '' A Suitcase for a Corpse'' (1970) - Clive Ardington
* ''Chapaqua's Gold'' (1970) - Doc Harrison
* ' (1970) - Tommy
* '' L'uomo più velenoso del cobra'' (1971) - Tony Garden
* ''La vergine di Bali'' (1972) - David Rank
* ''Sixteen'' (1973) - Giorgio
* '' Commissariato di notturna'' (1974) - Amedeo Furlan aka il Laureando
* ''La nipote
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In France, the film was released in an adult version with addition of Italian-produced hardco ...
'' (1974) - Piero / Luigi's friend
* ''Ciak si muore'' (1974) - Inspector Menzel
* ''Il torcinaso'' (1975) - Police Chief
* '' La guerre du pétrole n'aura pas lieu'' (1975) - Trudot
* ''Faccia di spia
''Faccia di spia'' (also known as ''C.I.A. Secret Story'') is a 1975 Italian political drama film written and directed by Giuseppe Ferrara.
Cast
* Ugo Bologna as Salvador Allende
*Adalberto Maria Merli as Captain Felix Ramos
*Mariangela Melato a ...
'' (1975) - Patrick
* ''Una vergine in famiglia'' (1975) - Ivan Fnrnesi
* ''Lo stallone'' (1975) - Guido, padre di Daniela
* '' L'ingenua'' (1975) - Piero Spazin
* ''Il signor Ministro li pretese tutti e subito'' (1977) - Pietro Santini
* ''Polizia selvaggia'' (1977)
* ''L'assassino speranza delle donne'' (1977)
* ''Eyes Behind the Stars
''Eyes Behind the Stars'' () is a 1978 Italian sci-fi film directed by Mario Gariazzo (here credited as Roy Garrett).
Cast
* Robert Hoffmann: Tony Harris
* Nathalie Delon: Monica Stiles
* Martin Balsam: Inspector Jim Grant
* Sherry Buchanan: ...
'' (1978) - Agent for 'The Silencers'
* ''Supersexymarket'' (1979)
* ''Il viziaccio'' (1980)
* ''Las verdes vacaciones de una familia bien'' (1980) - Mario Nicosia
* ''Eroina'' (1980) - The Trafficant
* '' Carcerato'' (1981) - The Police Commissioner
* '' Don't Look in the Attic'' (1982) - Casati
* ''Pin il monello'' (1982)
* ''Apocalisse di un terremoto'' (1982) - Anthony Starace
* '' Amok'' (1983) - Le chef de la police
* ''La donna del mare'' (1984) - Alfred Wanfel
* ''I mercenari raccontano'' (1985)
* ''Cattivi Pierrot'' (1985) - Victim
* ''Delitti'' (1987) - Chief of Police
* ''La trasgressione'' (1987)
* '' Cross of the Seven Jewels'' (1987) - Boss from Sicily
* ''La tempesta'' (1988)
* ''La vendetta'' (1989) - Agent Roberts
* ''Viaggio di nozze in giallo'' (1990)
* ''Una donna da guardare
''Una donna da guardare'' (also known in English-speaking countries as ''What a Girl'' and ''Pamela'') is a 1990 Italian erotic
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'' (1991) - prof. Mueller
* ''Shadow Warriors'' (1992) - Ninja Master (final film role)
References
Further reading
* Matt Blake. ''Giorgio Ardisson: The Italian James Bond''. The WildEye Press, 2014. .
External links
*
1931 births
2014 deaths
Italian male film actors
Male actors from Turin
20th-century Italian male actors
People from Rocca Canavese
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