Fabio Testi

Acting

Fabio Testi

Born

1941-08-02 (85)

Place of birth

Peschiera del Garda, Verona, Italy

Known for

Acting

Credits

75 titles

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 bett…

Known for

Father Matteo poster
6.3

Don Matteo is a thoroughly ordinary Catholic priest with an extraordinary ability to read people and solve crimes. He’s a parish priest who never met an unjustly accused person he didn’t want to help.

Father Matteo

2000

Once Upon a Time in the West poster
8.3

As the railroad builders advance unstoppably through the Arizona desert on their way to the sea, Jill arrives in the small town of Flagstone with the intention of starting a new life.

Once Upon a Time in the West

1968

Letters to Juliet poster
7.0

An American girl on vacation in Italy finds an unanswered "letter to Juliet" -- one of thousands of missives left at the fictional lover's Verona courtyard, which are typically answered by the "secretaries of Juliet" -- and she goes on a quest to find the lovers referenced in the letter.

Letters to Juliet

2010

Manuela poster
5.8

No synopsis available yet.

Manuela

1991

Ciao Darwin poster
7.9

Ciao Darwin is a variety game show format from Italy sold under licence to several countries, including Romania, Hungary, Poland, Serbia, Canada, USA, China and Greece. There are two competing teams of about 50 people each, usually made up of people who fit certain opposing stereotypes. In each game two members of the audience are selected at random, one from each team, indicated by a light in front of them which remains illuminated when all the other team members' lights have gone off. The games involve contestants competing in acts of bravery, style and talent, some of which are designed to humiliate the contestants, especially an assault course which was introduced with the Italian version in 2010, and the Finale which is a water tank game.

Ciao Darwin

1998

Barbarella poster
6.0

In the far future, a highly sexual woman is tasked with finding and stopping the evil Durand-Durand. Along the way she encounters various unusual people.

Barbarella

1968

Film credits

2020s · 4 titles

Reflection in a Dead Diamond poster
6.1

When the mysterious woman in the room next door disappears, a debonair 70-year-old ex-spy living in a luxury hotel on the Côte d'Azur is confronted by the demons and darlings of a lurid past in which moviemaking, memories and madness collide.

Reflection in a Dead Diamond

2025

Curse of the Blind Dead poster
4.1

In the Thirteenth century, a group of Satan worshipers, the Knights Templar, are captured during a ritual and brutally murdered by the locals. Just before the execution, the Knights swear to return from their graves to haunt the village and the nearby forest. Centuries later, in a post-apocalyptic future, a man and his daughter try to survive against both the undead Knights and a sect commanded by a mad preacher.

Curse of the Blind Dead

2020

Romy, A Free Woman poster
6.0

Romy Schneider has been En Compétition ever since 1957 with Sissi, before coming back to the Croisette multiple times, notably for Claude Sautet’s Les Choses de la vie. This exceptional documentary recounts her illustrious career with passion and dedication.

Romy, A Free Woman

2022

The Garden That Doesn't Exist poster
6.1

Once upon a time there was a garden, a refuge, a safe haven - 'The Garden of the Finzi Continis'. It came to life in Giorgio Bassani's 1962 semi-autobiographical novel recounting an unfulfilled love story between two young Jews in Ferrara, while fascism was raging in Italy in the late 1930's. In 1972, Vittorio De Sica's film adaptation of the book won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. Since then, the fictional space of the garden became so tangible that people from all over the world come to Ferrara to look for it. Fifty years after winning the Oscar, reality and fiction come together once more, as we walk through an imaginary garden and bring to life the book, its author, its main protagonists, history, love, friendships and betrayals.

The Garden That Doesn't Exist

2022

2010s · 5 titles

1990s · 6 titles

Desert of Fire poster
8.4

A helicopter crashes in the Sahara Desert. The entire crew are killed - only a small infant miraculously survives. Emir Tafud, who has no children of his own, brings the child up as his successor. When Ben is 25 years old he decides to set off in search of his true parents. In Casablanca he meets French crook Jacquot, who takes him with him to Monte Carlo. They both actually manage to find Ben's mother Christine. She tells Ben that his father was a scientist on a secret mission to Africa. Christine wants Ben to stay in Monte Carlo and take over her firm, but Ben has his heart set on living in Belem with his adored Amina. But now Ben gradually unearths a dreadful secret: Christine's second husband François was responsible for the death of his father, who had discovered valuable minerals in the Sahara. After a bitter struggle, Ben finally succeeds in saving his homeland from Western greed.

Desert of Fire

1997

Only One Survived poster
8.0

Four buddies set out on a three-week deep-sea fishing holiday in the Amazon and run into trouble.

Only One Survived

1990

Solo per Dirti Addio poster
9.0

Stefano is found dead in his car, killed by exhaust fumes that he himself had channeled into the cabin through a hose. Everyone believes it to be a suicide, and even the magistrate handling the case closes the investigation. But his mother doesn’t agree and, with the help of two friends, sets out to uncover the truth.

Solo per Dirti Addio

1992

First Action Hero poster
3.2

A maverick cop takes on the seedy criminal underbelly of Miami singlehanded.

First Action Hero

1994

El sueño de Tánger poster
4.2

Three friends get involved with arms traffickers in Tangiers.

El sueño de Tánger

1991

The Final Contract poster
9.0

David Sloan is 40 and is a Vietnam veteran unable to accept his violent past. Decides to consult a psychiatrist and gradually begins to understand that there are other things in life besides killing.

The Final Contract

1993

1980s · 11 titles

Contraband poster
6.3

Cigarette smugglers in Naples run into problems with cocaine operations being set up by a rival smuggler.

Contraband

1980

Speed Driver poster
6.1

Rudi is an illegal street racer named whose reputation in the area becomes so strong that he is hired to compete professionally on the circuit.

Speed Driver

1980

Deceptions poster
6.7

Twin sisters -- one a European jet-setter, the other an unhappy New Jersey housewife -- impulsively decide to swap lives and identities for a week, with unforseen results.

Deceptions

1985

The Ambassador poster
5.1

An American ambassador to Israel tries to bring peace to the Middle East conflict through unconventional methods, but his efforts are hampered at every turn and his personal life threatened.

The Ambassador

1985

Madman at War poster
5.8

A young psychiatrist struggles to remove an erratic captain from command at an Italian base in the Lybian desert during World War II.

Madman at War

1985

S+H+E: Security Hazards Expert poster
4.5

Lavinia Kean, a brilliant American espionage agent, combats the wiles of international criminal and blackmailer Cesare Magnasco.

S+H+E: Security Hazards Expert

1980

Speed Cross poster
3.7

Undercover cop Fabio Testi infiltrates the world of motocross racing.

Speed Cross

1980

Iguana poster
6.0

A grotesquely disfigured harpooner called Iguana is severely mistreated by his fellow sailors on a whaling ship in the 19th century. One night he escapes and takes up residence on a remote island. He makes himself ruler of the island and declares war on mankind. Anyone unfortunate enough to wind up on the island with Iguana is subjected to his cruel tyranny.

Iguana

1988

Skipper poster
7.8

Skipper Alex Grimaldi has two weaknesses: his daughter, born from a previous relationship, and, obviously, his boat. Always with a Tuscan cigar in his mouth, Fabio Testi’s sailor embarks on real seaside adventures because of his clients who are often dangerous criminals.

Skipper

1987

Summer Games poster
4.0

In Porto Rotondo, stories circulate about love and jealousy within a group of young people.

Summer Games

1984

The Hawk and the Dove poster
3.8

Fabio Testi is the politician who finds himself descending into a world of drugs and crime when he encounters Lara Wendel. A mixture of crime and old-fashioned melodrama all set to songs from Neil Diamond!

The Hawk and the Dove

1981

1970s · 22 titles

The Garden of the Finzi-Continis poster
7.0

In 1930s Italy, a wealthy Jewish family tries to maintain their privileged lifestyle, hosting friends for tennis and parties at their villa. As anti-Semitism intensifies under Fascism, they must ultimately face the horrors of the Holocaust.

The Garden of the Finzi-Continis

1970

Four of the Apocalypse poster
6.4

Four petty criminals, three men and a woman, wander through the trackless terrain of the Wild West Utah and are hounded by a sadistic bandit.

Four of the Apocalypse

1975

What Have You Done to Solange? poster
6.7

After several Catholic school pupils are murdered, a teacher who is having an affair with one of his students becomes a suspect. When other gruesome murders start occurring shortly thereafter, the teacher suspects that he may be the cause of them.

What Have You Done to Solange?

1972

The Big Racket poster
6.8

Nico Palmieri is a police inspector who battles a criminal gang terrorizing a sleepy Italian town, extorting cash from the local merchants. With the threat of violence, no one dares to act, except for a restaurant owner who is forced by Palmieri to tell the truth.

The Big Racket

1976

Rings of Fear poster
5.3

Angela Russo, a sixteen-year-old girl, is found dead in a river, having been fatally violated with a large blunt instrument. Inspector Di Salvo is assigned to the case and focuses his investigations on St. Theresa's, the exclusive school where Angela boarded. Three of the murdered girl's classmates, Franca, Paola and Virginia (who call themselves "The Inseparables"), receive threatening poems from an individual using the name "Nemesis." Bizarre "accidents" start to befall the girls: Franca is injured when someone causes her horse to bolt and Virginia nearly breaks her neck on marbles left at the top of a staircase. But Di Salvo is determined to find the killer, even if it means using unorthodox methods. He is aided by Angela Russo's little sister Emily, whose helpful clues lead to a boutique owned by a dubious character and a vice ring where "rich influential men pay well for teenage favours..."

Rings of Fear

1978

The Heroin Busters poster
6.3

Drug use in the city of Rome is at an all-time high. Children score from dealers in front of their schools, mules waltz straight through airport security, and Interpol's main man, Mike Hamilton, is at his wits' end. Fed up to the back teeth with the local police force's incompetence, his only hope is to rely on one of his own men, Fabio, an officer so deep undercover that no-one but Hamilton knows who he really is. Even as Fabio gains the trust of cartel leader Gianni, however, the dealers are edging ever closer to the truth, and when his cover is blown, the hunter becomes the hunted as Fabio finds himself alone in a desperate fight to survive.

The Heroin Busters

1977

That Most Important Thing: Love poster
7.0

Servais Mont, a freelance photographer who works taking compromising photos, gets fascinated by Nadine Chevalier, a tormented low-budget movie actress married to an eccentric film photo collector.

That Most Important Thing: Love

1975

The Uranium Conspiracy poster
5.5

Two Israeli agents uncover a ring of uranium smugglers. When Israeli agent Dan learns that an Austrian company has purchased a shipload of uranium for an Arab country, he calls in his colleague Renzo.

The Uranium Conspiracy

1978

The Inheritance poster
6.3

In 1880 Rome, a patriarch closes the family bakery. His ambitious daughter-in-law manipulates her brothers-in-law to prevent their father's remarriage, securing her inheritance.

The Inheritance

1976

Blood Brothers poster
6.2

In Naples at the end of the 19th century, Nicola Bellizzi dreams of becoming a lawyer. However, when he seeks the reason that people are reluctant to help him in his goals, he discovers that some of his blood relations are high-ranking members of the Mafia. He tries to break away from his family obligations, but falls into a life of crime and violence.

Blood Brothers

1974

'Tis Pity She's a Whore poster
5.2

Annabella marries Soranzo. She happens to also be pregnant by Giovanni — who also happens to be her brother. Destiny, and jealousies threaten to expose her past, and Soranzo plots revenge.

'Tis Pity She's a Whore

1971

Stateline Motel poster
5.3

After robbing a jewelry shop in Canada, two Americans arrange a meeting near the US borders in order to split the loot. One of them has an accident with his car on his way there and gets stuck in an isolated motel until his car is fixed. The owner of the motel, a sexy woman in her thirties, falls in love with him, but her suspicions about him begin to multiply, as the police arrive at the motel...

Stateline Motel

1973

China 9, Liberty 37 poster
5.3

Gunslinger Clayton Drumm is about to be hanged when he is given a chance to live if he agrees to murder Matthew, a miner who has steadfastly refused to sell his land to the railroad company. Matthew’s refusal is a major obstacle to the railroad’s plans for expansion.

China 9, Liberty 37

1978

Revolver poster
6.8

An Italian prison official's wife is kidnapped, and the kidnappers demand that a notorious prisoner be released in order for the man to get his wife back. He gets the man released - but then kidnaps him himself, in order to ensure that the man's colleagues don't kill his wife. Enraged, the gang sets out to free their compatriot and kill the man who took him.

Revolver

1973

Go Gorilla, Go! poster
7.2

Fabio Testi is an undercover cop doubling as the bodyguard (hence, “Gorilla”) of a cantankerous middle-aged industrialist targeted for extortion.

Go Gorilla, Go!

1975

One Damned Day at Dawn... Django Meets Sartana! poster
5.7

The small desert town of Black City is held in a reign of terror by a nasty gang of criminals lead by the ruthless Bud Willer. Earnest, but inexperienced Sheriff Jack Ronson arrives in town to establish law and order. Mysterious bounty hunter Django helps Ronson out.

One Damned Day at Dawn... Django Meets Sartana!

1970

Blood River poster
4.0

A bunch of unscrupulous men make havoc of a tribe of Indians to take their land. A survivor of the massacre decides to avenge his people by killing the whole bunch one by one.

Blood River

1974

Manaos poster
4.7

At the beginning of this century some owners of rubber plantations in the Amazonas jungle convert a village into one big prison. But the inhabitants have other plans...

Manaos

1979

The Nada Gang poster
6.0

Nada, named after a gang of Spanish anarchists, is a small, confused band of French terrorists. They kidnap the American ambassador after one of his regular visits to an exclusive brothel. The gang starts to quarrel amongst themselves as to the diplomat's fate, while the police purge suspects in their attempts to destroy the Nada faction. As the violence escalates on both sides, the States and the terrorists are forced to use one another's methods in an increasingly desperate and relentless conflict.

The Nada Gang

1974

Killer poster
5.1

Whilst being transferred to a psychiatric hospital, a ruthless serial killer Gassot makes a break and goes on the run. He arrives in Marseilles, intending to escape abroad. Here, he falls for a young prostitute, Gerda.

Killer

1972

At the End of the Rainbow poster
5.9

Roy runs away from the labor camp of Santa Lucia with Emiliano, a New Mexico rancher, both imprisoned unjustly for three powerful American bankers, to seize the gold mine that had Emiliano. During flight, the landowner dies and in his last moments asked Roy to recover the mine and save Jessica, daughter of his former foreman.

At the End of the Rainbow

1971

Camorra poster
6.7

The fast career of a young Neapolitan among contraband, gambling dens, bribes and illegality. He will upgrade its rank till the maximum level of the "Family".

Camorra

1972

1960s · 11 titles

Once Upon a Time in the West poster
8.3

As the railroad builders advance unstoppably through the Arizona desert on their way to the sea, Jill arrives in the small town of Flagstone with the intention of starting a new life.

Once Upon a Time in the West

1968

Barbarella poster
6.0

In the far future, a highly sexual woman is tasked with finding and stopping the evil Durand-Durand. Along the way she encounters various unusual people.

Barbarella

1968

Cemetery without Crosses poster
6.4

A melancholic gunfighter is drawn into a vengeful and tragic kidnapping plot by his widowed ex-lover.

Cemetery without Crosses

1969

Death Knocks Twice poster
4.2

When private detective Bob Martin looking for a stolen diamond necklace, he also has a clever serial killer on the trail ...

Death Knocks Twice

1969

Make the Sign of the Cross, Stranger! poster
6.4

A bounty hunter wants to catch the Bandit Carson because he has a lot of people in his gang who are worth a lot of money. When he comes into White City he gets his first problems with Carson's son Lucas. After this incident Carson wants this man dead. They can catch him but not for a long time because he can escape with the help of Zoppo who the bounty hunter had helped a couple of days before.

Make the Sign of the Cross, Stranger!

1968

A Place In Hell poster
5.4

A drunken war correspondent, a prostitute and happy-go-lucky Italian GI barely escape a bombing of Manila, only to realize that the island they land on has been captured by the Japanese. They hook up with a band of Allied survivors and attempt to escape.

A Place In Hell

1969

The Battle of the Damned poster
5.8

A small band of misfit American commandos are assigned to head across the North African desert to blow up a huge German fuel depot.

The Battle of the Damned

1969

And Now... Make Your Peace with God poster
6.7

Two men are on their way to Denver City to settle a personal score. One is looking for the murderer of his father, the other for a former friend who stole his gold. They're joined by a third person, a mysterious pistolero.

And Now... Make Your Peace with God

1968

The Avenger, Zorro poster
7.6

The young Flem Mascaslim it be a hindrance to Bill Warner and, like his father did, try to get rid of it to take over his ranch. Along with his manager devises a plan: will be arrested on suspicion of robbing a bank and present false witnesses to his sentence. But the Fox manages to free the boy, putting him safely home of a friend and her daughter.

The Avenger, Zorro

1969

Gun Shy Piluk poster
6.0

A sheriff is killed by the leader of the local bad guys, and the father of the sheriff is not to pleased. The father, Mr. Piluk, is the local undertaker and also plays a mean violin when he is in a bad mood.

Gun Shy Piluk

1968

I due Crociati poster
6.6

Two inept crusaders almost sabotage the christians' plan to conquer Jerusalem.

I due Crociati

1968

Series credits

Father Matteo poster
6.3

Don Matteo is a thoroughly ordinary Catholic priest with an extraordinary ability to read people and solve crimes. He’s a parish priest who never met an unjustly accused person he didn’t want to help.

Father Matteo

2000

Manuela poster
5.8

No synopsis available yet.

Manuela

1991

Ciao Darwin poster
7.9

Ciao Darwin is a variety game show format from Italy sold under licence to several countries, including Romania, Hungary, Poland, Serbia, Canada, USA, China and Greece. There are two competing teams of about 50 people each, usually made up of people who fit certain opposing stereotypes. In each game two members of the audience are selected at random, one from each team, indicated by a light in front of them which remains illuminated when all the other team members' lights have gone off. The games involve contestants competing in acts of bravery, style and talent, some of which are designed to humiliate the contestants, especially an assault course which was introduced with the Italian version in 2010, and the Finale which is a water tank game.

Ciao Darwin

1998

Mussolini and I poster
6.0

World War II is about to end. Benito Mussolini, il Duce, supreme dictator of Fascist Italy, sees his totalitarian dream crumbling and his power slipping away as the terrible day of his ignominious death at the hands of those he so ruthlessly oppressed for more than two decades draws inexorably near.

Mussolini and I

1985

La dottoressa Giò poster
3.0

La dottoressa Giò is an Italian television series.

La dottoressa Giò

1997

The Return of Sandokan poster
7.3

Sandokan is called by his friend Yáñez, now attached to the maharani Surama, to help them against her cousin Raska treacherous plans. Journalist lady Dora and photographer Alfred, on their side, pursue the famous rebel pirate to get an interview. They will go together through danger and adventure. The third chapter in the "Sandokan" saga starred by Kabir Bedi.

The Return of Sandokan

1996

Deceptions poster
6.0

A bored U.S. housewife trades places in London with her jet-set twin, and one of them winds up dead.

Deceptions

1985

Il falco e la colomba poster
6.6

No synopsis available yet.

Il falco e la colomba

2009

Le Gorille poster
6.2

No synopsis available yet.

Le Gorille

1990

Desert of Fire poster
7.0

A helicopter crashes in the Sahara Desert. The entire crew are killed - only a small infant miraculously survives. Emir Tafud, who has no children of his own, brings the child up as his successor. When Ben is 25 years old he decides to set off in search of his true parents.

Desert of Fire

1997

Al di la del lago poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Al di la del lago

2010

No artwork available
7.0

Italian miniseries.

Piazza di Spagna

1992

Julia Forever poster
7.0

Italy, 1940: Carmen de Blasco is married to a fascist, but falls in love with a friend of her father Ubaldo, the young partisan Armando Zani. At the end of the war, their daughter Giulia is born, but Carmen returns to her husband. Two decades later, Giulia falls in love with university student Ermes Corsini. Nevertheless, he decides to marry the egocentric, but rich heiress Marta Montini. After some years and a disastrous marriage, Giulia meets the love of her life again. Ermes is annoyed by Marta, so he starts an affair with Giulia, but one day she gets a horrible diagnosis...

Julia Forever

1989

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

La donna che ritorna

2011

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Il falco e la colomba

1981