Fabio Testi
Fabio Testi (born August 2, 1941 in Peschiera del Garda ) is an Italian actor and singer .
Life
Testi worked as a stuntman for Sergio Leone's spaghetti western Two Glorious Scoundrels in 1966 . He has been an actor since 1967. He played leading roles in spaghetti westerns like Knie down und friss Staub (1971), but could not achieve the popularity of his Italian contemporaries Terence Hill , Franco Nero or Giuliano Gemma . Sergio Leone engaged him in 1968 for a smaller role in his western epic Spiel mir das Lied von Tod .
Testi was seen in war films like Dead rotten in the sun (1969) or Todkommando Tobruk (1969) and appeared regularly in thrillers like The Secret of the Green Pin (1972) or Westerns like Damned To Live - Damned To Die ( 1975). In 1970 star director Vittorio De Sica engaged him for his artistically demanding film The Garden of the Finzi Contini . Testi also played the leading role in the Poliziotteschi films Racket - Murder on a Call and Dealer Connection - The Street of Heroin by Enzo G. Castellari . At the side of Lou Castel , Testi played a communist revolutionary in France in the film Nada by Claude Chabrol . In the movie The Big Picture of Andrzej Żuławski Testi played the lover of Romy Schneider .
Fabio Testi has been working regularly as a television actor since the mid-1980s. In 2003 he appeared on the Italian reality show L'Isola dei famosi ("The Island of the Famous").
Testi was married to Lola Navarro between 1979 and 1996 (three children). In 2007 he ran for the mayoral election in Verona and won 0.437% of the vote.
Testi is considered a supporter of the former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi . Testi appeared as a supporter of Berlusconi's Forza Italia party in various campaigns .
Movies
- cinemamovies
- 1968: Cross yourself, stranger (Straniero… fatti il segno della Croce!)
- 1968: Ed ora… raccomanda l'anima a Dio!
- 1968: Play me the song of death (C'era una volta il West)
- 1969: Blonde bait for the killer
- 1969: Zorro's Revenge (El Zorro justiciero)
- 1970: The garden of the Finzi Contini (Il Giardino dei Finzi-Contini)
- 1970: Quel maledetto giorno d'inverno
- 1971: Kneel down and eat dust (Anda muchacho, spara!)
- 1972: Camorra (Camorra)
- 1972: The Secret of the Green Pin (Cosa avete fatto a Solange?)
- 1973: Diamond doll (L'ultima chance)
- 1974: Nada (Nada)
- 1974: Ten cowboys and one Indian boy (Dieci bianchi uccisi da un piccolo indiano)
- 1975: Night visor (L'important c'est d'aimer)
- 1975: The red coats (Giubbe rosse)
- 1975: Doomed to Live - Doomed to Die (I quattro dell'apocalisse)
- 1976: Racket (Il grande racket)
- 1977: Dealer Connection - The Road of Heroin (La via della droga) - Director: Enzo Castellari
- 1978: Agents don't know tears (A chi tocca, tocca ...!)
- 1978: Amore, piombo e furore
- 1978: Slaves of Hell (Manaos)
- 1978: Orgy of Death (Enigma rosso)
- 1980: The Syndicate of Horror (Luca il contrabbandiere)
- 1981: A bullet for the bull (Il carabiniere)
- 1996: Sandokan's return (Il ritorno di Sandokan)
- 2010: Letters to Julia (Letters to Juliet)
- 2020: Curse of the Blind Dead
- watch TV
- 1989: Disperatamente Giulia ( Giulia- From the life of a writer ), eleven-part miniseries
- 2003: L'Isola dei famosi ("The island of the famous")
music
Fabio Testi has sung a wide variety of titles in numerous programs on Italian television. His titles became known in Italy:
- 1974: with Raffaella Carrà Canzonissima
- 1976: Manuela
- 1976: with Raffaella Carrà Tutti Frutti
- 1984: Palma de Majorca and L'Artista
- 2008: with Elisa Pinelli Parole Parole
Web links
- official website
- Fabio Testi in the Internet Movie Database (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Testi, Fabio |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 2, 1941 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Peschiera del Garda |