Sergio Fantoni, (born 7 August 1930) is an Italian actor.He was born in Rome, the son of actor Cesare Fantoni (1905–1963). In films from the late 1940s, he has worked mainly in his own country but made several appearances in American films in the 1960s, most notably opposite Frank Sinatra in the war film Von Ryan's Express, made in 1965. In 1960 he played the villainous Haman in Esther and the King, starring Joan Collins and Richard Egan in the title roles. Among his TV roles, he appeared alongside Anglo-Italian actress Cherie Lunghi in the Channel 4 series The Manageress.
Primarily from the classical stage (Cyrano de Bergerac, Antigone, Othello), and with a sturdy operatic background (Electra, Medea), this suave, darkly handsome Neopolitan actor occasional played staunch second leads in a number of Italian spectacles and a few 60s Hollywood films.
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
L'inconveniente
1976
La traccia verde
1975-1976
TV Mini-Series
Thomas Norton
E cominciò il viaggio nella vertigine
1974
Andrei
Anna Karenina
1974
TV Mini-Series
Costantino Levin
Le hasard et la violence
1974
Inspecteur Tanner
Una chica y un señor
1974
El Señor
Alcide De Gasperi
1974
TV Series
Alcide De Gasperi
Il consigliere imperiale
1974
TV Mini-Series
La mano spietata della legge
1973
Musante
Lungo il fiume e sull'acqua
1973
TV Mini-Series
David Henderson
Con rabbia e con dolore
1972
TV Mini-Series
Bad Man's River
1971
Colonel Enrique Fierro
Sacco & Vanzetti
1971
Consul Giuseppe Andrower (uncredited)
Hornets' Nest
1970
Von Hecht
Oliver Cromwell: Ritratto di un dittatore
1969
TV Movie
Oliver Cromwell
Istruttoria preliminare
1968
TV Mini-Series
Diaboliquement vôtre
1967
Freddie
Sheridan: Squadra omicidi
1967
TV Mini-Series
Jacob
What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?
1966
Capt. Oppo
Do Not Disturb
1965
Paul
Von Ryan's Express
1965
Capt. Oriani
Cadavere per signora
1964
Commisario
High Infidelity
1964
Luigi (segment "La Sospinosa")
The Prize
1963
Dr. Carlo Farelli
Il mistero del tempio indiano
1963
Ram Chand
Kali Yug, la dea della vendetta
1963
Ram Chand
The Shortest Day
1963
Aiutante del colonnello (uncredited)
Catherine of Russia
1963
Orloff
Giuseppe Verdi
1963
TV Mini-Series
Dieci italiani per un tedesco (Via Rasella)
1962
Gilberto di San Severino
Morte di un bandito
1961
Michele Galardo
Tiro al piccione
1961
Nardi
Man nennt es Amore
1961
Fabrizio
Gioventù di notte
1961
Commissario
Blood Feud
1961
Il peccato degli anni verdi
1960
Giulia's husband
Esther and the King
1960
Haman
Silver Spoon Set
1960
Doctor Mario Corsi
Atom Age Vampire
1960
Pierre Mornet
Escape by Night
1960
Don Valerio
L'impiegato
1960
Sergio
Ottocento
1959-1960
TV Mini-Series
Costantino Nigra
The Giant of Marathon
1959
Teocrito
The Night of the Great Attack
1959
Marco da Volterra
Caterina Sforza, la leonessa di Romagna
1959
Giacomo Feo
Ercole e la regina di Lidia
1959
Eteocles
...and the Wild Wild Women
1959
Giudice instruttore (uncredited)
Io sono la Primula Rossa
1955
Lord Sheridan
Il principe dalla maschera rossa
1955
Senso
1954
Luca
Captain Phantom
1953
Officer in second
Le meravigliose avventure di Guerrin Meschino
1952
Anthony of Padua
1951
Un cavaliere
Il leone di Amalfi
1950
Ruggero
Paolo e Francesca
1950
The Accidental Detective
2003
Baroni
Il commissario Montalbano
1999
TV Series
Cataldo Barbera
Fine secolo
1999
TV Mini-Series
Ludovico Rinaldi
Provincia segreta
1998
TV Mini-Series
Comm. Zagato
A che punto è la notte
1994
TV Movie
Ingegner Musumanno
Charlemagne
1994
TV Mini-Series
Pape Hadrien
Per non dimenticare
1992
The Manageress
1989-1990
TV Series
Sergio Rebecchi
Mission: Eureka
1989
TV Series
Petrinelli
La coscienza di Zeno
1988
TV Movie
Doctor S.
Private Affairs
1988
Una vittoria
1988
TV Movie
The Belly of an Architect
1987
Io Speckler
Le tiroir secret
1986-1987
TV Mini-Series
The Fifth Missile
1986
TV Movie
Pietro
La piovra 2
1986
TV Mini-Series
Colonel Ettore Ferretti
Si elle dit oui... je ne dis pas non
1983
Carniato
Progetti di allegria
1982
TV Mini-Series
Delitto di stato
1982
TV Mini-Series
Tommaso Striggi
Lulù
1980
TV Movie
Un reietto delle isole
1980
TV Movie
Diario di un giudice
1978
TV Mini-Series
Andrea Sarlo
Miscellaneous
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Price of Power
1969
voice dubbing: Van Johnson - uncredited
Romeo and Juliet
1968
voice dubbing: Robert Stephens - Italian version, uncredited