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Fabio Testi

Born 1941-08-02

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.

Known for

The Garden of the Finzi-Continis 1970 · 7.2 Torrente 3: El protector 2005 · 5.6 Cemetery Without Crosses 1969 · 6.7 Contraband 1980 · 6.5 China 9, Liberty 37 1978 · 6.1 Reflection in a Dead Diamond 2025 · 6.2 The Inheritance 1976 · 7.0 Red Rings of Fear 1978 · 5.6 Iguana 1988 · 6.1 Curse of the Blind Dead 2019 · 3.1 The Hired Gun 1975 · 6.3 The Battle of the Damned 1969 · 4.5