Leo Gullotta
- Acting
- January 9, 1946 · Catania, Sicily, Italy
Biography
Salvatore Leopoldo "Leo" Gullotta (born 9 January 1946) is an Italian actor, voice actor, comedian and writer. Born in Catania and the last of six children, Gullotta started his career as an extra in Teatro Massimo Bellini. In his long career as actor, Gullotta has starred in about 100 films and has participated in numerous shows and drama series for television. In 1987 he won his first David di Donatello for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Il Camorrista by Giuseppe Tornatore, and later worked with Tornatore four more times. In 1997 and 2000 he won two more David di Donatello for Best Supporting Actor, for the Maurizio Zaccaro films Il carniere and Un uomo perbene. He has also won two Silver Ribbon for Best supporting Actor, in 1984 for Mi manda Picone by Nanni Loy and in 2001 for Vajont by Renzo Martinelli. Gullotta has starred in many theatrical plays and dramas, and was part of the theater company "Il Bagaglino". He won the Flaiano Prize as stage actor of the year in 2010. He celebrated fifty years of activity that same year. Gullotta is also a well known voice actor, among others. He was the Italian voice of Manny in the first three films of the Ice Age film series. He reprised this role in short films and video games. He also dubbed Burt Young in Rocky, Joe Pesci in Once Upon a Time in America, Moonwalker, My Cousin Vinny and The Irishman, and the robot Johnny 5 in Short Circuit. He also became the new Italian voice of Woody Allen after the death of Oreste Lionello in 2009. In 1998 Gullotta debuted as writer with the book Mille fili d'erba (Di Renzo Editore, ISBN 88-86044-87-9). Gullotta is openly gay. He did not reveal his sexuality to the public until 1995. In 2019, he married his partner of 32 years. Gullotta is discreet about the details of his husband. Source: Article "Leo Gullotta" from Wikipedia in english, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Known for
Filmography
- Salute!
- Raqmar · Cliente
- Il camorrista - Una serie di Giuseppe Tornatore · Police Commissioner Iervolino
- Per il mio bene · Luciano
- So tutto di te · Aldo Lipari
- Quel posto nel tempo · Mario
- Vecchio · Vecchio
- Framed! A Sicilian Murder Mystery · il Procuratore Nicolosi
- The Great Wave
- Il delitto Mattarella · Rosario Nicoletti
- Sono solo fantasmi · Signore distinto
- I futurieri · Voce narrante
- La stella di Andra e Tati · Giovanni Bucci (Voice)
- The Red Tree · Narrator
- It’s the Law · Don Raffaele
- In arte Nino · Prof. Giuffrida
- I siciliani
- Catturandi - Nel Nome del Padre · Ruggero Mazzamuto
- Sad Letters · Mario
- Italo · Italo (Voce)
- L'ultimo metro di pellicola · Self
- La missione di 3P · Padre Pino Puglisi (Voice)
- In arte Lilia Silvi · Producer
- The Father and the Foreigner · Santini
- Giovanni e Paolo e il mistero dei pupi · Salvatore (voice) / Lisca (Voice)
- Baaria · Liborio
- Di che peccato sei? · Antonio Bertolacci
- La stella dei re · Melkhior
- Leo the Lion · Cobo (Voice)
- Fatti della banda della Magliana · Il giudice
- Incidenti · giornalista
- The Heart in the Well · Don Bruno
- Domani è un'altra truffa
- In This World of Thieves · Leonardo
- Guardians of the Clouds · La Rocca
- The Prince of the Dinosaurs · Sluggard (Voice)
- Ottavio Mario Mai · Self
- Vajont · Mario Pancini
- Territori d'ombra · Antonio
- Scarlet Diva · Dr. Vessi
- Operazione Odissea · Michele Sinatra
- C'è posta per te
- Villa Ada
- Un uomo perbene · Giovanni Pandico
- Cristallo di rocca - Una storia di Natale · Don Anselmo
- Ciao Darwin · Capitano Meridionali
- Ladri si diventa · Perini
- Simpatici & antipatici · Gigetto
- Le ragazze di Piazza di Spagna · Il cieco
- La missione
- Leo e Beo · Beo (Voice)
- Oltremare - Non è l'America
- The Game Bag · Carlo Gabbiadini
- Ladri si nasce · il professore
- Gli Inaffidabili · Bostik
- 3 · Vescovo di Pisa
- Bruno aspetta in macchina · Ziino
- Snowball · Sidik
- Savages · Luigi Pinardi
- The Star Maker · Vito
- Carogne - Ciro and Me · Prandstaller
- Men Men Men · Tony
- A che punto è la notte · Priotti
- The Escort · Polizzi
- Package, Double Package and Counterpackage · Michele Bellezza
- Gole Ruggenti · Edoardo Lasagnetta - scriptwriter
- In The Rose Garden · Armando
- Everybody's Fine · L'homme armé sur le toit d'un immeuble de Naples
- L'insegnante di violoncello · Leo
- Scugnizzi · Fortunato
- Il ricatto · Carla
- Sinbad of the Seven Seas · Nadir
- Cinema Paradiso · Ignazio, usher
- Italiani a Rio
- Blue Tango · Fior da Fiore
- The Professor · Police Commissioner Iervolino
- Department Store · Simoni, agente teatrale
- Il Bi e il Ba · Gaetano
- Half Right Half Left - 2 Footballers Without a Ball · allenatore Juan Carlos Fulgencio
- Where's Picone? · Sgueglia