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 Ε»uΕawski in L'important c'est d'aimer (1975), opposite Romy Schneider, Klaus Kinski, Jacques Dutronc and Claude Dauphin.
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Filmography (91)
Reflection in a Dead Diamond
2025
Pasquale Squitieri: il vizio della libertΓ
2025
800 giorni
2023
The Garden That Doesn't Exist
2022
Romy, A Free Woman
2022
Very Valentine
2019
Curse of the Blind Dead
2019
King of the Sands
2013
Il tempo delle mimose
2013
La donna che ritorna
2011
Road to Nowhere
2010
Love Strikes
2010
Letters to Juliet
2010
Al di la del lago
2010
Romy Schneider: A Woman in Three Notes
2008
Torrente 3: The Protector
2005
Vento di primavera
2001
Father Matteo
2000
Annarè
1998
Ciao Darwin
1998
Desert of Fire
1997
La dottoressa GiΓ²
1997
Desert of Fire
1997
The Return of Sandokan
1996
Ragazzi della notte
1995
First Action Hero
1994
Crime of Passion
1994
The Final Contract
1993
Solo per Dirti Addio
1992
Piazza di Spagna
1992
El sueΓ±o de TΓ‘nger
1991
Manuela
1991
Only One Survived
1990
Le Gorille
1990
Julia Forever
1989
Iguana
1988
Skipper
1987
Top Kids
1987
Bilbao Blues
1986
Madman at War
1985
The Ambassador
1985
Deceptions
1985
Deceptions
1985
Mussolini and I
1985
Summer Games
1984
Morbida - Gier auf Lust
1983
The Hawk and the Dove
1981
A Gun for a Cop
1981
Il falco e la colomba
1981
Contraband
1980
Speed Driver
1980
S+H+E: Security Hazards Expert
1980
Speed Cross
1980
The Black Hand
1980
Manaos
1979
China 9, Liberty 37
1978
The Uranium Conspiracy
1978
Rings of Fear
1978
The Heroin Busters
1977
The Inheritance
1976
The Big Racket
1976
That Most Important Thing: Love
1975
Four of the Apocalypse
1975
Red Coat
1975
Go Gorilla, Go!
1975
The Nada Gang
1974
Blood Brothers
1974
Blood River
1974
Revolver
1973
Stateline Motel
1973
Un amore così fragile, così violento
1973
Killer
1972
Camorra
1972
What Have You Done to Solange?
1972
At the End of the Rainbow
1971
'Tis Pity She's a Whore
1971
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
1970
One Damned Day at Dawn... Django Meets Sartana!
1970
Death Knocks Twice
1969
The Avenger, Zorro
1969
The Battle of the Damned
1969
A Place In Hell
1969
Zingara
1969
Cemetery Without Crosses
1969
And Now... Make Your Peace with God
1968
Make the Sign of the Cross, Stranger!
1968
Gun Shy Piluk
1968
I due Crociati
1968
Two Eyes to Kill
1968
Barbarella
1968
Once Upon a Time in the West
1968