Fabio Testi

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Fabio Testi (born 2 August 1941) is an Italian actor. After growing up witnessing film work done around Lake Garda, Testi entered the sets of the film and began work as a stuntman and a double on set, where he worked as a stuntman on The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Testi continued stunt work and getting roles in low budget genre films until he was cast in Vittorio De Sica's film The Garden of the Finzi-Continis. Following this film, Testi became a star in Italy, appearing in some artistic films by Giuseppe Patroni Griffi and Claude Chabrol. Testi also continued to work in poliziotteschi genre films in the 1970s as well as a few gialli, and gained infamy for his publicised relationships with actresses Ursula Andress and Charlotte Rampling.[1]

Testi's popularity as an actor slowed towards the 1980s after which he predominantly worked in television series. By the early 2000s, Testi also began appearing in reality shows such as Gran Hermano VIP. Since 2006 he has been involved in Italian politics, running for Mayor of Verona as a member of Cattolici Liberali Cristiani.

Biography

Fabio Testi was born on 2 August 1941 in Peschiera del Garda on the Lake Garda in Northern Italy.Template:Sfn A number of adventure and pirate films were shot at this lake which led him to enter the sets of these films originally as a stuntman and as a double.Template:Sfn He initially took these roles in film and television work as a way of paying for his architecture degree, but later chose to enter film work.Template:Sfn Among early work, Testi was a stunt double in Sergio Leone's The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn He also played in Leone's follow-up as one of Henry Fonda's henchmen.Template:Sfn Most of Testi's role in the film was cut except for one shot, as Leone felt that Testi was too clean-looking for the film.Template:Sfn

Demofilo Fidani gave Testi his first on-screen role in his film Template:Ill (Template:Translation)Template:Sfn Testi continued his career doing what film historian and critic Roberto Curti described as "low-grade genre" films including a Zorro film The Avenger, Zorro by Rafael Romero Marchent, the thriller Death Knocks Twice with Anita Ekberg and singer Dean Reed by Harald Philipp, and more films by Fidani such as One Damned Day at Dawn… Django Meets Sartana! where he played the role of Sartana.Template:Sfn While director Fidani was scouting locations for the film Jungle Master, he met Vittorio De Sica who was also location scouting at the Orto Botanico dell'Università di Roma "La Sapienza".Template:Sfn Fidani recalled that the two directors spoke: De Sica was looking for a younger Latin actor but couldn't find anyone, and asked Fidani if he knew any.Template:Sfn Fidani stated he knew an actor who "can't act to save his life, but with you as a guide ... you know, I never have enough time, I always go for the first take'"Template:Sfn Fidani stated later that upon discovering that Testi had been cast by De Sica, he had made Testi cut his hair.Template:Sfn Curti noted that Fidani had a "notorious habit of embellishing his own career and filmography" and that the story may not be true.Template:Sfn

Testi was cast in The Garden of the Finzi-Continis which won De Sica an Academy Award.Template:Sfn Following the release of the film, Testi became a big box office name in Italy.Template:Sfn He continued to do genre films as well as artistic films such as Giuseppe Patroni Griffi's 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, Denys de la Patelliere's Le Tueur and Claude Chabrol's Nada and Andrzej Zulawski's That Most Important Thing: Love.Template:Sfn In the 1970s, Testi also worked on several genre films, predominantly crime films such as Pasquale Squitieri's Gang War in Naples, Sergio Sollima's Blood in the Streets, Tonino Valerii's Go Gorilla Go and Enzo G. Castellari's The Big Racket.Template:Sfn Testi also did work in giallo films, such as Massimo Dallamano's What Have You Done to Solange? and Alberto Negrin's Red Rings of Fear.Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn Testi also worked Lucio Fulci on two of his films: Four of the Apocalypse and Contraband.Template:Sfn

Testi was cast in a role intended for Maurizio Merli in Stelvio Massi's Speed Cross and Template:Ill.Template:Sfn Testi fell out of popularity in film by the 1980s showing up in Gianfranco Baldanello's thriller The Uranium Conspiracy and Silvio Amadio's drama Template:Ill.Template:Sfn From the eighties onward, Testi predominantly worked in television, such as Castellari's mini-series The Return of Sandokan where he replaced Philippe Leroy as Yanez.Template:Sfn Testi also began showing up in television reality shows such as L'isola dei famosi in 2003, the Spanish show El gran hermano in 2005.Template:Sfn In the late 2000s, Testi entered politics, where he ran for mayor in Verona.Template:Sfn

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Fabio Testi during the 14th Almeria Western Film Festival.

On 5 October 2024 he received the Nosferatu Award at Festival Internacional de Cinema Fantàstic de Catalunya in Sitges,[2] and on 10 October he received the Tabernas de Cine Award in the 14th Almeria Western Film Festival.[3]

Personal life

Testi was known to be in relationships with several actresses, including Edwige Fenech, Charlotte Rampling, Lynne Frederick,[4] Ursula Andress and Jean Seberg.Template:Sfn His longest relationship was with Spanish actress Lola Navarro, whom he began dating in the late 1970s and had three children with.Template:Sfn The two married in 1984[5] and separated in 1996.Template:Sfn As of 2013, Testi was focusing on his interest in agriculture, and owned the third largest kiwi farm in Italy.Template:Sfn He considers himself Roman Catholic.[6]

Selected filmography

Year Title Role Director(s) Notes Ref(s)
1968 And Now... Make Your Peace with God Sanders Script error: No such module "Sort". Template:Sfn[7]
1968 Straniero... fatti il segno della Croce! — Script error: No such module "Sort". Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn[8]
1970 One Damned Day at Dawn… Django Meets Sartana! Sartana Script error: No such module "Sort". [9][10]
1970 Script error: No such module "sort". Malnate Script error: No such module "Sort". [11]
1971 Dead Men Ride Roy Script error: No such module "Sort". Template:Sfn[12]
1972 Script error: No such module "sort". Zorro Script error: No such module "Sort". Template:Sfn
1972 Script error: No such module "sort". Georges Gassot Script error: No such module "Sort". [13]
1972 What Have You Done to Solange? Enrico "Henry" Rosseni Script error: No such module "Sort". [14]
1972 Gang War in Naples Tonino Russo Script error: No such module "Sort". Template:Sfn
1973 Revolver Milo Ruiz Script error: No such module "Sort". Template:Sfn
1973 Stateline Motel Floyd Gambino Script error: No such module "Sort". Template:Sfn
1974 Nada Diaz Script error: No such module "Sort". [15]
1974 Blood Brothers Don Gaetano Frungillo Script error: No such module "Sort". Template:Sfn
1975 That Most Important Thing: Love Servais Mont Script error: No such module "Sort". [16]
1975 Giubbe rosse Bill Cormack Script error: No such module "Sort". [17][18]
1975 Four of the Apocalypse Stubby Preston Script error: No such module "Sort". [19][20]
1975 Go Gorilla Go Marco Sartori Script error: No such module "Sort". Template:Sfn
1976 Script error: No such module "sort". Inspector Nico Palmieri Script error: No such module "Sort". Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn
1977 Script error: No such module "sort". Fabio Script error: No such module "Sort". Template:Sfn
1977 China 9, Liberty 37 Clayton Drumm Script error: No such module "Sort". Template:Sfn[21]
1978 Red Rings of Fear Inspektor Gianni Di Salvo Script error: No such module "Sort". [22]
1980 Contraband Luca Ajello Script error: No such module "Sort". Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn

References

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