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Italian actor
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2 August 1941(Peschiera del Garda, Province of Verona, Veneto, Italy)
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Biography
Introduction
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.
He has a son, Edwin, born 1971, from his relationship with Edwige Fenech. He lived with Ursula Andress in the mid-1970s. In 1979 Testi married Lola Navarro, with whom he fathered three children. On January 3, 2015 he got married to Antonella Liguori.
Filmography
- Death Knocks Twice (1969)
- The Avenger, Zorro (1969)
- The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1970)
- Addio, Fratello Crudele (Tis Pity...) (1971)
- Dead Men Ride (1971)
- Le Tueur (1972)
- What Have You Done to Solange? (1972)
- Gang War in Naples (1972)
- Stateline Motel (1973)
- Revolver (1973)
- Nada (1974)
- Cormack of the Mounties (1975)
- L'important c'est d'aimer (1975)
- Four of the Apocalypse (1975)
- The Inheritance (1976)
- The Big Racket (1976)
- The Heroin Busters (1977)
- China 9, Liberty 37 (1978)
- The Uranium Conspiracy (1978)
- S*H*E (1980)
- Contraband (1980)
- The Ambassador (1984)
- Madman at War (1985)
- Iguana (1988)
- First Action Hero (1994)
- Desert of Fire (1997, TV miniseries)
- Torrente 3: El protector (2005)
- Road to Nowhere (2010)
- "Letters to Juliet" (2010)
- King of the Sands (2012)
- Ella ganda (2012)