George Ardisson
{{Short description|Italian actor (1931–2014)}}
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| death_place = Rome, Italy
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| years_active = 1960–1992
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Giorgio Ardisson, best known as George Ardisson (31 December 1931 – 11 December 2014), was an Italian actor.
Life and career
Born in Turin, Ardisson debuted in a minor role in Mauro Bolognini's 1959 film Arrangiatevi!.{{cite book|last=Enrico Lancia, Roberto Poppi|title=Dizionario del cinema italiano|publisher=Gremese Editore, 2003}}{{cite book|last=Marco Giusti|title=007 all'italiana|publisher=Isbn Edizioni, 2010}} After several secondary roles in sword-and-sandal and adventure films, he gained a huge success playing Agent 3S3 in the eurospy films Agent 3S3: Passport to Hell and Agent 3S3, Massacre in the Sun. According to director Sergio Sollima, he was chosen for this role thanks to his physical appearance that made him credible as American.{{cite web|last=Fabio Zanello|title=La regia come match di boxe - Intervista a Sergio Sollima|url=http://www.sentieriselvaggi.it/articolo.asp?sez0=6&sez1=0&art=7993|publisher=Sentieri Selvaggi|accessdate=16 January 2012|date=4 August 2004|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130925095136/http://www.sentieriselvaggi.it/articolo.asp?sez0=6&sez1=0&art=7993|archivedate=25 September 2013|df=dmy-all}}
Later Ardisson starred in several more spy films and spanned different genres, including Spaghetti Western and Italo-horror films.
Partial filmography
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- You're on Your Own (1959) - Walter
- Morgan, the Pirate (1960)
- The Last of the Vikings (1961) - Guntar
- Hercules in the Haunted World (1961) - Teseo
- Erik the Conqueror (1961) - Erik
- Zorro in the Court of Spain (1962) - Riccardo Di Villa Verde / Zorro
- A Queen for Caesar (1962) - Achilles
- Twist, lolite e vitelloni (1962) - Massimo Mauri
- Katarsis (1963) - Gugo, the poet
- Grand Canyon Massacre (1964)
- The Long Hair of Death (1965) - Baron Kurt Humboldt
- Agent 3S3: Passport to Hell (1965) - Walter Ross, Agent 3S3
- Hercules and the Princess of Troy (1965, TV Movie) - Leander
- Juliet of the Spirits (1965) - Dolores' model
- Operation Counterspy (1965) - Lord George Moriston
- Agent 3S3: Massacre in the Sun (1966) - Walter Ross, Agent 3S3
- Countdown to Doomsday (1966) - Jeff Milton
- Omicidio per appuntamento (1967) - Vince Dreyser
- {{Interlanguage link multi|La lunga sfida|de|3=Du stirbst um sechs in Tetuan|lt=La lunga sfida}} (1967) - Patrick Gordon
- Either All or None (1968) - Amen / Johnny
- May God Forgive You... But I Won't (1968) - Cjamango McDonald
- Zorro the Fox (1968) - Don Diego di Alcantara / Zorro
- Una ragazza di Praga (1969) - Adam Kryl
- Django Defies Sartana (1970) - Sartana
- A Suitcase for a Corpse (1970) - Clive Ardington
- Chapaqua's Gold (1970) - Doc Harrison
- {{ill|The Females|de|Die Weibchen}} (1970) - Tommy
- L'uomo più velenoso del cobra (1971) - Tony Garden
- La vergine di Bali (1972) - David Rank
- Sixteen (1973) - Giorgio
- Commissariato di notturna (1974) - Amedeo Furlan aka il Laureando
- La nipote (1974) - Piero / Luigi's friend
- Ciak si muore (1974) - Inspector Menzel
- Il torcinaso (1975) - Police Chief
- La guerre du pétrole n'aura pas lieu (1975) - Trudot
- Faccia di spia (1975) - Patrick
- Una vergine in famiglia (1975) - Ivan Fnrnesi
- Lo stallone (1975) - Guido, padre di Daniela
- L'ingenua (1975) - Piero Spazin
- Il signor Ministro li pretese tutti e subito (1977) - Pietro Santini
- Polizia selvaggia (1977)
- L'assassino speranza delle donne (1977)
- Eyes Behind the Stars (1978) - Agent for 'The Silencers'
- Supersexymarket (1979)
- Il viziaccio (1980)
- Las verdes vacaciones de una familia bien (1980) - Mario Nicosia
- Eroina (1980) - The Trafficant
- Carcerato (1981) - The Police Commissioner
- Don't Look in the Attic (1982) - Casati
- Pin il monello (1982)
- Apocalisse di un terremoto (1982) - Anthony Starace
- Amok (1983) - Le chef de la police
- La donna del mare (1984) - Alfred Wanfel
- I mercenari raccontano (1985)
- Cattivi Pierrot (1985) - Victim
- Delitti (1987) - Chief of Police
- La trasgressione (1987)
- Cross of the Seven Jewels (1987) - Boss from Sicily
- La tempesta (1988)
- La vendetta (1989) - Agent Roberts
- Viaggio di nozze in giallo (1990)
- Una donna da guardare (1991) - prof. Mueller
- Shadow Warriors (1992) - Ninja Master (final film role)
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References
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Further reading
- Matt Blake. Giorgio Ardisson: The Italian James Bond. The WildEye Press, 2014. {{ISBN|0956997317}}.
External links
- {{IMDb name|0034068}}
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Category:Italian male film actors
Category:Male actors from Turin
Category:20th-century Italian male actors
Category:People from Rocca Canavese
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