Born in Zadar, Dalmatia (then Italy, now part of Croatia), he moved to Trieste in 1948 to attend the acting school of the Piccolo Teatro di Trieste, and then to Rome to enter the Accademia nazionale d'arte drammatica. Garko began his career in the 1950s playing roles of various genres, especially in westerns and Italian-style comedies; in his later years he devoted himself to films for RAI television. He gave life to the character of Sartana (together with directors Gianfranco Parolini and later Giuliano Carnimeo), the protagonist of numerous spaghetti-westerns. In the film Il compagno don Camillo (1965) he played the character of Scamoggia, the photographer sent by the party to document the twinning. In addition to the films he starred in, he had various television experiences. Among the many, we recall his appearance in the television series Space 1999 as astronaut Tony Cellini, in the episode entitled The Dragon's Domain (in addition to voicing Gwent in the episode The Infernal Machine in the same series), and in the television series Suspects, in the role of industrialist Martin Fisher. From 2002 to 2004 he starred in the soap opera Vivere, playing entrepreneur Pierfrancesco Moretti. He took part in a number of commercials; among others an olive oil, a wine, and finally a medicine alongside comedian Fabrizio Fontana from 1995-1997. Active now mainly as a character actor from tv

Filmography

• 2025Dead Souls — Writer
• 2025Heads or Tails? — Mr. Rupè
• 2025Vamos a Matar - Storia e storie del western mediterraneo — Sé stesso
• Maggie & Bianca Fashion Friends — Tancredi Lombardi
• 2014Django, Sartana, Trinita' et les autres… — Lui-même
• 2004Western all'italiana
• 2002Family Flaw
• Vivere — Pierfrancesco Moretti
• 1998Entscheidung für die Liebe
• 1998Tower of the First Born — Commander
• 1997Con rabbia e con amore
• Mio padre è innocente — Luigi Ammannati
• Uno di noi
• Italian Restaurant — Henken
• 1992Body Puzzle — Capo della polizia
• Una prova d'innocenza — Cremonese
• 1990In nome del popolo sovrano — Nicolas Charles Victor Oudinot
• I promessi sposi — fratello gentiluomo
• 1987Gila and Rik — Giovanni
• 1987Skipper
• 1986Black Tunnel
• 1985Drei und eine halbe Portion — Fabo
• 1984Monster Shark — Sheriff Gordon
• 1983Amok — Le journaliste Breyten
• 1983Babystrich im Sperrbezirk
• 1983Hercules — Valcheus
• 1983Il passo falso
• 1982L'occhio di Giuda — Harry
• 1979Dracula Blows His Cool — Stan / Count Stanislaus
• 1979Encounters in the Deep — Mike
• 1979Lo scugnizzo
• Morte a passo di valzer — Jack Cheviot
• 1979Star Odyssey — Dirk
• 1979The New Godfathers — Capitano Ivano Radovich
• 1978Summer Night Fever — Jacky / Playboy
• 1977Joy of Flying — Jörg Bronner
• 1977Maldoror — Il regista
• 1977The Psychic — Francesco Ducci
• 1977Three Swedish Girls in Upper Bavaria — Otto Gruber
• Space: 1999 — Tony Cellini
• 1974Seven Jackals — Luis
• 1973The Boss — Police Commissioner Torri
• 1973The Flower with Petals of Steel — Dr. Andrea Valenti
• 1973The Heroes — Schreiber
• 1973Those Dirty Dogs! — Korano
• 1972His Name Was Holy Ghost — Holy Ghost
• 1972The Night of the Devils — Nicola
• the famous escapes — Benvenuto Cellini
• 1971Bad Man's River — Ed Pace
• 1971Cold Eyes of Fear — Peter Flower
• 1971The Price of Death — Silver
• 1971They Call Him Cemetery — Camposanto / 'The Stranger'
• 1970Have a Good Funeral, My Friend… Sartana Will Pay — Sartana
• 1970Light the Fuse… Sartana Is Coming — Sartana
• 1970Sartana Kills Them All — Santana
• 1970The Cop — Dan Rover
• 1970Tulips of Haarlem — Bernardo
• 1970Waterloo — Drouot
• 1969Five for Hell — Lt. Glenn Hoffmann
• 1969I Am Sartana Your Angel of Death — Sartana
• 1969Thunder from the West — Riccardo Cloro
• 1968Bloody Days
• 1968If You Meet Sartana Pray for Your Death — Sartana
• 1968Lucrezia — Fabrizio Aldobrandi
• 1968Red Roses for the Fuhrer — Alex Rostov / il tenente Mann
• 1968Taste of Vengeance — Bryan Clarke
• 1967$10,000 for a Massacre — Django
• 1967Vengeance Is Mine — John Forest
• 1966$1,000 on the Black — Sartana Liston
• 1966Almost a Man — Michele's Brother
• 1965Don Camillo in Moscow — Scamoggia
• 1964Saul and David — David
• 1963The Shortest Day — Uomo alla stazione (uncredited)
• 1962Crazy Desire — Piero
• 1962Eighteen in the Sun — Nicola Molino
• 1962Pontius Pilate — Jonathan
• 1962The Avenger — Turno, King of the Rusalie
• 1961Mole Men Against the Son of Hercules — Kathar - Kahab's Son
• 1961One Night at the Beach — Heinrich
• 1961The Mongols — Henry de Valois
• 1960Death of a Friend — Aldo
• 1960Kapo — Karl
• 1959Hello, Hello Baby! (Rains)
• L'isola del tesoro — Harry
• 1958Cannon Serenade — Un altro ufficiale

Appearances as themselves (8)

• 2025Aquel último tiburón — Self
• 2019George Hilton - The World Belongs to the Daring — Himself
• 2010Giallo Western — self
• 2008Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1 — Self
• 2006Denn sie kennen kein Erbarmen - Der Italowestern — Self
• 2006Do You Remember Lucio Fulci? — Self
• 2005Mondo Garko — Himself
• 2001Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema — Self - Actor