Fabio Testi
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.
Known For
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
96
Gender
Male
Birthday
1941-08-02 (84 years old)
Place of Birth
Peschiera del Garda, Verona, Italy
Acting

2025

Reflection in a Dead Diamond as John Diman (Old)

2023

800 giorni as Not available

2019

Very Valentine as Domenico Vechiarelli

2010

Letters to Juliet as Count Lorenzo

2010

Road to Nowhere as Nestor Duran

2005

Torrente 3: The Protector as Montellini Roures

2000

Father Matteo as Dottor Ruggeri

1998

Ciao Darwin as Capitano Padania

1998

Annarè as Fausto D'Alessio

1995

Ragazzi della notte as Schizzo's father

1994

First Action Hero as Mark Fierro

1991

Manuela as Carlo

1990

Le Gorille as René Faragi

1988

Iguana as Gamboa

1987

Top Kids as Giovanni Agnelli

1987

Skipper as Alex Grimaldi

1986

Bilbao Blues as Lucas Iturriaga

1985

Deceptions as Carlo Ferraro

1985

The Ambassador as Mustapha Hashimi

1985

Deceptions as Carlo Ferraro

1981

The Hawk and the Dove as Michele Alemani

1981

A Gun for a Cop as Francesco Palumbo

1980

S+H+E: Security Hazards Expert as Rudolf Caserta

1980

Speed Driver as Rudi

1980

The Black Hand as Fabio Testi

1979

Manaos as Arquimedes

1978

Rings of Fear as Inspector Gianni Di Salvo

1976

The Big Racket as Inspector Nico Palmieri

1975

Red Coat as Bill Cormack

1975

Go Gorilla Go as Marco Sartori

1974

Blood Brothers as Don Gaetano Fungillo

1974

The Nada Gang as Buenaventura Diaz

1973

Revolver as Milo Ruiz

1973

Un amore così fragile, così violento as Gerolamo Poliziani - detto 'Gepo'

1972

Killer as Georges Gasset

1972

Camorra as Tonino Russo

1970

One Damned Day at Dawn... Django Meets Sartana! as Sheriff Jack Ronson / Sartana

1969

Zingara as (uncredited)

1969

The Avenger, Zorro as Zorro / Don Diego

1969

Cemetery Without Crosses as Rogers' Man (uncredited)

1968

Barbarella as Tall Man at Party (uncredited)

1968

Once Upon a Time in the West as Frank's Gunman (uncredited)

NaN

Il burattinaio as Mark Fierro

2025

The Run as Oil Miller

2022

The Garden That Doesn't Exist as Self (archive footage)

2013

Il tempo delle mimose as Not available

2013

King of the Sands as Abdulaziz Al Saud (Ibn Saud)

2011

La donna che ritorna as Bruno Gedda

2010

Love Strikes as Pietro

2010

Al di la del lago as Luciano Serramonti

2009

Il falco e la colomba as Savelli

2001

Vento di primavera as Dr. Leonardis

1997

La dottoressa Giò as Armando Colucci

1997

Desert of Fire as Daniel Diderot

1997

Desert of Fire as Daniel Diderot

1996

Il Ritorno di Sandokan as Janez De Gomera

1994

Crime of Passion as Peter

1993

The Final Contract as Commissario Luca Calarno

1992

Piazza di Spagna as Claudio

1992

Solo per Dirti Addio as Not available

1991

El sueño de Tánger as Carlos

1990

Only One Survived as Sergio Dinardo

1989

Julia Forever as Ermes Corsini

1985

Mussolini and I as Lorenzo

1985

Madman at War as Boda

1984

Summer Games as Roberto Ripa

1983

Morbida - Gier auf Lust as Not available

1981

Il falco e la colomba as Michele Alemani

1980

Speed Cross as Paolo

1980

Contraband as Luca Di Angelo

1978

China 9, Liberty 37 as Clayton Drumm

1977

The Heroin Busters as Fabio

1976

The Inheritance as Mario Ferramonti

1975

Four of the Apocalypse as Stubby Preston

1975

That Most Important Thing: Love as Servais Mont

1974

Blood River as Ringo

1973

Stateline Motel as Floyd

1972

What Have You Done to Solange? as Enrico Rosseni

1971

At the End of the Rainbow as Roy Greenford

1971

'Tis Pity She's a Whore as Soranzo

1969

The Battle of the Damned as Pvt. Terry Wilson

1969

Death Knocks Twice as Francesco di Villaverde

1969

A Place In Hell as Ross

1968

Make the Sign of the Cross, Stranger! as Donovan henchman

1968

Gun Shy Piluk as Bit part (uncredited)

1968

I due Crociati as Warrior enlisting Franco and Ciccio

1968

Two Eyes to Kill as Jean