Which actor played the villain 'El Indio' in the 1965 film 'For a Few Dollars More'?

Gian Maria Volontè played the villain El Indio in the 1965 film “For a Few Dollars More.”

Directed by Sergio Leone, the film follows two bounty hunters—Clint Eastwood’s Manco and Lee Van Cleef’s Colonel Douglas Mortimer—as they join forces to pursue El Indio and his gang. Volontè’s performance gives the character a mixture of cruelty, calculation, and psychological damage, making El Indio one of the defining villains of the early spaghetti-western cycle.

The plot centers on a planned robbery of the Bank of El Paso and a musical pocket watch connected to El Indio’s past. The watch’s melody becomes a recurring suspense device and ultimately frames the climactic duel between El Indio and Mortimer. Klaus Kinski appears as a secondary villain, but he does not play El Indio.

The film was an international co-production made primarily in Italy, West Germany, and Spain, with exterior scenes shot around Almería. It is the second entry in Leone’s Dollars Trilogy, following “A Fistful of Dollars” and preceding “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.” In the United States, it was released in 1967.