Fabio Testi
Acting
- Born:
- 1941-08-02
- Place of birth:
- Peschiera del Garda, Verona, Italy
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
Filmography
Between Heaven and Earth: In the Footsteps of Antonio Rosmini
Pasquale Squitieri: il vizio della libertà
Reflection in a Dead Diamond
The Mysteries of the Bargello
Parallel Lives
800 giorni
Romy, A Free Woman
The Garden That Doesn't Exist
Curse of the Blind Dead
Very Valentine
King of the Sands
Il tempo delle mimose
La donna che ritorna
Al di la del lago
Road to Nowhere
Letters to Juliet
Love Strikes
Il falco e la colomba
Romy Schneider: A Woman in Three Notes
Torrente 3: The Protector
Vento di primavera
Father Matteo
Ciao Darwin
Annarè
La dottoressa Giò
Desert of Fire
Desert of Fire
The Return of Sandokan
Ragazzi della notte
Crime of Passion
First Action Hero
The Final Contract
Solo per Dirti Addio
Piazza di Spagna
El sueño de Tánger
Manuela
Only One Survived
Le Gorille
Julia Forever
Iguana
Skipper
Top Kids
Bilbao Blues
Mussolini and I
Deceptions
Deceptions
Madman at War
The Ambassador
Summer Games
Morbida - Gier auf Lust
A Gun for a Cop
The Hawk and the Dove
Il falco e la colomba
Speed Driver
Contraband
S+H+E: Security Hazards Expert
Speed Cross
The Black Hand
Manaos
Rings of Fear