Fabio Testi

Personal Info

Birthday

August 2, 1941

(84 years old)

Place of Birth

Peschiera del Garda, Verona, Italy

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.

Known For

Father Matteo

Once Upon a Time in the West

Letters to Juliet

Ciao Darwin

Barbarella

Manuela

Deceptions

China 9, Liberty 37

Filmography

2025
Reflection in a Dead Diamond
as John Diman (Old)
2022
The Garden That Doesn't Exist
as Self (archive footage)
2019
Curse of the Blind Dead
as Jailer
Very Valentine
as Domenico Vechiarelli
2013
King of the Sands
as Abdulaziz Al Saud (Ibn Saud)
2010
Road to Nowhere
as Nestor Duran
Letters to Juliet
as Count Lorenzo
Love Strikes
as Pietro
2008
Romy Schneider: A Woman in Three Notes
as Self
2005
Torrente 3: The Protector
as Montellini Roures
2001
Vento di primavera
as Dr. Leonardis
1998
Annarè
as Fausto D'Alessio
1995
Ragazzi della notte
as Schizzo's father
1994
Crime of Passion
as Peter
First Action Hero
as Mark Fierro
1993
The Final Contract
as Commissario Luca Calarno
1991
El sueño de Tánger
as Carlos
1990
Only One Survived
as Sergio Dinardo
1988
Iguana
as Gamboa
1987
Skipper
as Alex Grimaldi
Top Kids
as Giovanni Agnelli
1986
Bilbao Blues
as Lucas Iturriaga
1985
Madman at War
as Boda
The Ambassador
as Mustapha Hashimi
1984
Summer Games
as Roberto Ripa
1981
A Gun for a Cop
as Francesco Palumbo
The Hawk and the Dove
as Michele Alemani
1980
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
1979
Manaos
as Arquimedes
1978
Rings of Fear
as Inspector Gianni Di Salvo
The Uranium Conspiracy
as Renzo
China 9, Liberty 37
as Clayton Drumm
1977
The Heroin Busters
as Fabio
1976
The Big Racket
as Inspector Nico Palmieri
The Inheritance
as Mario Ferramonti
1975
The Hired Gun
as Marco Sartori
Four of the Apocalypse
as Stubby Preston
Red Coat
as Bill Cormack
That Most Important Thing: Love
as Servais Mont
1974
Blood River
as Ringo
Blood Brothers
as Don Gaetano Fungillo
The Nada Gang
as Buenaventura Diaz
1973
Revolver
as Milo Ruiz
Stateline Motel
as Floyd
Un amore così fragile, così violento
as Gerolamo Poliziani - detto 'Gepo'
1972
Camorra
as Tonino Russo
What Have You Done to Solange?
as Enrico Rosseni
Killer
as Georges Gasset
1971
'Tis Pity She's a Whore
as Soranzo
At the End of the Rainbow
as Roy Greenford
1970
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
as Bruno
One Damned Day at Dawn... Django Meets Sartana!
as Sheriff Jack Ronson / Sartana
1969
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
1968
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