Fabio Testi
Date of birth: 1941-08-02
Place of birth: Peschiera del Garda, Verona, Italy
Known for: Acting
Also known as:
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.
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That Most Important Thing: Love
1975-02-12
Servais Mont, a freelance photographer who works taking compromising photos, gets fascinated by Nadi
Revolver
1973-09-27
An Italian prison official's wife is kidnapped, and the kidnappers demand that a notorious prisoner
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
1970-12-04
In 1930s Italy, a wealthy Jewish family tries to maintain their privileged lifestyle, hosting friend
The Nada Gang
1974-02-06
Nada, named after a gang of Spanish anarchists, is a small, confused band of French terrorists. They
Blood Brothers
1974-02-23
Set in Naples at the end of the 19th century, I Guappi tells the story of a strange friendship betwe
Killer
1972-03-01
Whilst being transferred to a psychiatric hospital, a ruthless serial killer Gassot makes a break an
China 9, Liberty 37
1978-08-04
Gunslinger Clayton Drumm is about to be hanged when he is given a chance to live if he agrees to mur
Morbida - Gier auf Lust
1983-01-01
Road to Nowhere
2010-09-11
A passionate filmmaker creating a film based upon a true crime casts an unknown mysterious young wom
The Hawk and the Dove
1981-03-21
Fabio Testi is the politician who finds himself descending into a world of drugs and crime when he e
Four of the Apocalypse
1975-08-12
Four petty criminals, three men and a woman, wander through the trackless terrain of the Wild West U
The Big Racket
1976-08-12
Nico Palmieri is a police inspector who battles a criminal gang terrorizing a sleepy Italian town, e
Contraband
1980-08-08
Cigarette smugglers in Naples run into problems with cocaine operations being set up by a rival smug
The Heroin Busters
1977-08-13
Drug use in the city of Rome is at an all-time high. Children score from dealers in front of their s
At the End of the Rainbow
1971-08-16
Roy runs away from the labor camp of Santa Lucia with Emiliano, a New Mexico rancher, both imprisone
Madman at War
1985-05-21
A young psychiatrist struggles to remove an erratic captain from command at an Italian base in the L
Red Coat
1975-04-23
Cormack, the lawman most feared by the rugged pioneers at the turn of the century, has a mysterious
Very Valentine
2019-06-08
Owners of the Angelini Shoe Company, one of the last family-owned businesses in Greenwich Village, f
Speed Driver
1980-12-04
Rudi is forced into racing for a kingpin drug dealer, but after the murder of his brother he swears
The Inheritance
1976-08-11
In 1880 Rome, a patriarch closes the family bakery. His ambitious daughter-in-law manipulates her br
Bilbao Blues
1986-10-31
Beatriz is an attractive young lawyer who enjoys an enviable position thanks to the influence of her
Death Knocks Twice
1969-11-25
When private detective Bob Martin looking for a stolen diamond necklace, he also has a clever serial
And Now... Make Your Peace with God
1968-10-26
Two men are on their way to Denver City to settle a personal score. One is looking for the murderer
Make the Sign of the Cross, Stranger!
1968-05-16
A bounty hunter wants to catch the Bandit Carson because he has a lot of people in his gang who are
The Avenger, Zorro
1969-06-23
The young Flem Mascaslim it be a hindrance to Bill Warner and, like his father did, try to get rid o
'Tis Pity She's a Whore
1971-09-20
Annabella marries Soranzo. She happens to also be pregnant by Giovanni — who also happens to be her
One Damned Day at Dawn... Django Meets Sartana!
1970-06-13
The small desert town of Black City is held in a reign of terror by a nasty gang of criminals lead b
Blood River
1974-08-18
A bunch of unscrupulous men make havoc of a tribe of Indians to take their land. A survivor of the m
Ragazzi della notte
1995-11-24
A TV crew on Lake Garda follows a bunch of young people through discos, exposing their rebellious li
Manaos
1979-10-21
At the beginning of this century some owners of rubber plantations in the Amazonas jungle convert a
Gun Shy Piluk
1968-03-07
A sheriff is killed by the leader of the local bad guys, and the father of the sheriff is not to ple
King of the Sands
2013-09-11
A daring, compelling and controversial take on the life of prince Abdulaziz Al Saud (Ibn Saud), foun
800 giorni
2023-09-30
A look at the era of kidnappings in Northern Italy by organized crime in the 1980s and is freely ins
Annarè
1998-09-27
Go Gorilla Go
1975-11-13
Fabio Testi is an undercover cop doubling as the bodyguard (hence, “Gorilla”) of a cantankerous midd
Iguana
1988-04-01
A grotesquely disfigured harpooner called Iguana is severely mistreated by his fellow sailors on a w
The Ambassador
1985-01-11
An American ambassador to Israel tries to bring peace to the Middle East conflict through unconventi
I due Crociati
1968-08-07
Two inept crusaders almost sabotage the christians' plan to conquer Jerusalem.
The Final Contract
1993-02-07
David Sloan is 40 and is a Vietnam veteran unable to accept his violent past. Decides to consult a p
Summer Games
1984-11-06
In Porto Rotondo, stories circulate about love and jealousy within a group of young people.
S+H+E: Security Hazards Expert
1980-02-23
Lavinia Kean, a brilliant American espionage agent, combats the wiles of international criminal and
The Uranium Conspiracy
1978-08-10
This feature was shot in the midst of some of Europe's most stunning scenery. The story focuses on t
Skipper
1987-06-10
Speed Cross
1980-02-02
Undercover cop Fabio Testi infiltrates the world of motocross racing.
Il tempo delle mimose
2013-01-01
The Battle of the Damned
1969-04-17
A small band of misfit American commandos are assigned to head across the North African desert to bl
Camorra
1972-08-30
The fast career of a young Neapolitan among contraband, gambling dens, bribes and illegality. He wil
Stateline Motel
1973-09-14
After robbing a jewelry shop in Canada, two Americans arrange a meeting near the US borders in order
Two Eyes to Kill
1968-01-01
A ruthless racketeer uses his nightclub as a front for all kinds of crime, suffers a drastic reversa
Romy Schneider: A Woman in Three Notes
2008-09-21
Documentary portrait of the actress Romy Schneider, in which director Frederick Baker tries to form
The Black Hand
1980-01-01
Three old schoolmates, who in their time as students had formed a kind of secret society called The
Desert of Fire
1997-01-01
A helicopter crashes in the Sahara Desert. The entire crew are killed - only a small infant miraculo
The Garden That Doesn't Exist
2022-07-04
Once upon a time there was a garden, a refuge, a safe haven - 'The Garden of the Finzi Continis'. It
A Place In Hell
1969-01-10
A drunken war correspondent, a prostitute and happy-go-lucky Italian GI barely escape a bombing of M
Zingara
1969-08-06
Franco, singer in search of success, falls in love with Marisa. But she walks away from him to stay
Top Kids
1987-04-01
A fun journey through the history of the automobile, this film is about a group of future computer h
Reflection in a Dead Diamond
2025-06-25
When the mysterious woman in the room next door disappears, a debonair 70-year-old ex-spy living in
Barbarella
1968-10-10
In the far future, a highly sexual woman is tasked with finding and stopping the evil Durand-Durand.
A Gun for a Cop
1981-11-19
A family of farmers wage war against a group of unscrupulous, corrupt speculators who are trying to
El sueño de Tánger
1991-05-24
Three friends get involved with arms traffickers in Tangiers.
Vento di primavera
2001-01-01
A young woman falls for a cardiologist and gives him a job in his father's hospital.
Love Strikes
2010-04-13
Maya lives in Argentina and works at Fernando's restaurant, the man who raised her like a daughter,
First Action Hero
1994-01-01
A maverick cop takes on the seedy criminal underbelly of Miami singlehanded.
Cemetery Without Crosses
1969-01-25
A melancholic gunfighter is drawn into a vengeful and tragic kidnapping plot by his widowed ex-lover
Un amore così fragile, così violento
1973-01-01
From the homonymous novel. Rejecting the consumer society, a young man abandons the profession of ar
Torrente 3: The Protector
2005-09-30
A popular and beautiful politician plans to expose the evil-doings of a multinational corporation. H
Crime of Passion
1994-12-29
Hungary: Callously leaving her handicapped daughter home alone, Sonya meets her lover at a hotel an
What Have You Done to Solange?
1972-03-23
After several Catholic school pupils are murdered, a teacher who is having an affair with one of his
Deceptions
1985-05-26
Twin sisters -- one a European jet-setter, the other an unhappy New Jersey housewife -- impulsively
Rings of Fear
1978-08-19
Angela Russo, a sixteen-year-old girl, is found dead in a river, having been fatally violated with a
Letters to Juliet
2010-05-13
An American girl on vacation in Italy finds an unanswered "letter to Juliet" -- one of thousands of
Curse of the Blind Dead
2019-10-31
In the Thirteenth century, a group of Satan worshipers, the Knights Templar, are captured during a r
Once Upon a Time in the West
1968-12-21
As the railroad builders advance unstoppably through the Arizona desert on their way to the sea, Jil
Only One Survived
1990-10-27
Four buddies set out on a three-week deep-sea fishing holiday in the Amazon and run into trouble.
Il burattinaio
Solo per Dirti Addio
1992-03-08
Stefano is found dead in his car, killed by exhaust fumes that he himself had channeled into the cab
The Run
2025-06-20
An interactive film. A famous fitness influencer's morning run turns into a fight for survival when