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.

Filmography

• 2025Reflection in a Dead Diamond — John Diman (old)
• 2023800 giorni
• 2020Curse of the Blind Dead — Jailer
• 2019Very Valentine — Domenico Vechiarelli
• 2013Il tempo delle mimose
• 2013King of the Sands — Abdulaziz Al Saud (Ibn Saud)
• La donna che ritorna — Bruno Gedda
• Al di la del lago — Luciano Serramonti
• 2010Letters to Juliet — Count Lorenzo
• 2010Love Strikes — Pietro
• 2010Road to Nowhere — Nestor Duran
• Il falco e la colomba — Savelli
• 2005Torrente 3: The Protector — Montellini Roures
• 2001Vento di primavera — Dr. Leonardis
• Father Matteo — Dottor Ruggeri
• 1998Annarè — Fausto D'Alessio
• Ciao Darwin — Capitano Padania
• 1997Desert of Fire — Daniel Diderot
• Desert of Fire — Daniel Diderot
• La dottoressa Giò — Armando Colucci
• The Return of Sandokan — Janez De Gomera
• 1995Ragazzi della notte — Schizzo's father
• 1994Crime of Passion — Peter
• 1994First Action Hero — Mark Fierro
• 1993The Final Contract — Commissario Luca Calarno
• Piazza di Spagna — Claudio
• 1992Solo per Dirti Addio
• 1991El sueño de Tánger — Carlos
• Manuela — Carlo
• Le Gorille — René Faragi
• 1990Only One Survived — Sergio Dinardo
• Julia Forever — Ermes Corsini
• 1988Iguana — Gamboa
• 1987Skipper — Alex Grimaldi
• 1987Top Kids — Giovanni Agnelli
• 1986Bilbao Blues — Lucas Iturriaga
• 1985Deceptions — Carlo Ferraro
• Deceptions — Carlo Ferraro
• 1985Madman at War — Boda
• Mussolini and I — Lorenzo
• 1985The Ambassador — Mustapha Hashimi
• 1984Summer Games — Roberto Ripa
• 1983Morbida - Gier auf Lust
• 1981A Gun for a Cop — Francesco Palumbo
• Il falco e la colomba — Michele Alemani
• 1981The Hawk and the Dove — Michele Alemani
• 1980Contraband — Luca Di Angelo
• 1980S+H+E: Security Hazards Expert — Rudolf Caserta
• 1980Speed Cross — Paolo
• 1980Speed Driver — Rudi
• 1980The Black Hand — Fabio Testi
• 1979Manaos — Arquimedes
• 1978China 9, Liberty 37 — Clayton Drumm
• 1978Rings of Fear — Inspector Gianni Di Salvo
• 1978The Uranium Conspiracy — Renzo
• 1977The Heroin Busters — Fabio
• 1976The Big Racket — Nicola Palmieri
• 1976The Inheritance — Mario Ferramonti
• 1975Four of the Apocalypse — Stubby Preston
• 1975Go Gorilla, Go! — Marco Sartori
• 1975Red Coat — Bill Cormack
• 1975That Most Important Thing: Love — Servais Mont
• 1974Blood Brothers — Don Gaetano Fungillo
• 1974Blood River — Ringo
• 1974The Nada Gang — Buenaventura Diaz
• 1973Revolver — Milo Ruiz
• 1973Stateline Motel — Floyd
• 1973Un amore così fragile, così violento — Gerolamo Poliziani - detto 'Gepo'
• 1972Camorra — Tonino Russo
• 1972Killer — Georges Gasset
• 1972What Have You Done to Solange? — Enrico Rosseni
• 1971'Tis Pity She's a Whore — Soranzo
• 1971At the End of the Rainbow — Roy Greenford
• 1970One Damned Day at Dawn... Django Meets Sartana! — Sheriff Jack Ronson / Sartana
• 1970The Garden of the Finzi-Continis — Bruno
• 1969A Place In Hell — Ross
• 1969Cemetery without Crosses — Rogers' Man (uncredited)
• 1969Death Knocks Twice — Francesco di Villaverde
• 1969The Avenger, Zorro — Zorro / Don Diego
• 1969The Battle of the Damned — Pvt. Terry Wilson
• 1969Zingara — (uncredited)
• 1968And Now... Make Your Peace with God — Steve Cooper
• 1968Barbarella — Tall Man at Party (uncredited)
• 1968Gun Shy Piluk — Bit part (uncredited)
• 1968I due Crociati — Warrior enlisting Franco and Ciccio
• 1968Make the Sign of the Cross, Stranger! — Donovan henchman
• 1968Once Upon a Time in the West — Frank's Gunman (uncredited), Stunts
• 1968Two Eyes to Kill — Jean
• 1966The Good, the Bad and the Ugly — Stunts
• 1961Barabbas — Stunts

Appearances as themselves (4)

• 2025Pasquale Squitieri: il vizio della libertà — Self
• 2022Romy, A Free Woman — Self - Servais Mont (archive footage)
• 2022The Garden That Doesn't Exist — Self (archive footage)
• 2008Romy Schneider: A Woman in Three Notes — Self