Leo Gullotta
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.
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The Paramedic
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Baaria
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The Nurse on a Military Tour
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Sono solo fantasmi
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Vajont
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It’s the Law
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Snowball
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The Star Maker
as VitoThe adventures and deceptions of a photographer who travels through small villages of 1950s...
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The Swindle
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Everybody's Fine
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The Professor
as JervolinoAn imprisoned murderer carries out a violent bid for control of Naples' underworld crime syndicate.
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Department Store
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Savages
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In This World of Thieves
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Mezzo destro mezzo sinistro - 2 calciatori senza pallone
as allenatore Juan Carlos FulgencioThe "Marchigiana" soccer team has been promoted to the Serie A of the national championship, but...
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Scarlet Diva
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A che punto è la notte
as PriottiIn Turin, a fanatic priest dies falling from the pulpit, killed by the explosion of a candle. A...
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The Escort
as PolizziThe film shows the difficulties of an honest, imperiled judge and his bodyguard of four men,...
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Sinbad of the Seven Seas
as NadirSinbad returns from the sea to find his country subjected to the will of two unscrupulous sorcerers.
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Where's Picone?
as SguegliaDuring a debate in Naples' town hall in the early 1980s, Pasquale Picone, a former steel-worker...
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Heads I Win, Tails You Lose
as WalterTwo back-to-back stories that deals with two "taboo" themes, the celibacy of the clergy in the...
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In arte Nino
as Prof. GiuffridaBiopic about Italian actor Nino Manfredi, focusing on the period between 1939 and 1959,...
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L'insegnante di violoncello
as LeoLeo is a street vendor who, always accompanied by his dog Cagliostro, he entertains shoppers on...
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as Vescovo di PisaAt the end of the 18th century, a couple of libertine Tuscan aristocrats welcome in their villa...
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The Honorable with His Lover under the Bed
as Secretary Sgarbozzi / Honorable SgarbozziAn unemployed teacher asks for help from her lover, an MP, and finds out that he is married.
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The Prince of the Dinosaurs
as Sluggard (voice)Join Rakhal, Prince of the Land of Ice, and his five dinosaur friends on a journey to find the...
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Cafè Express
as Vincenzo ImbastaroAn Italian laborer foils anyone who tries to stop him from selling espresso on the...
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Men Men Men
as TonyFour homosexual men in their 40s have issues and no small degree of self hatred. Yet, can laugh...
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I carabbimatti
as CeciTwo fools eventually become Carabinieri, and jump from a trash situation to another.
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Stormtroopers II
as ReclutaA group of misfits form an army in an absurd war.
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Spaghetti House
as Salvatore ManzillaThree black militants kidnap the waiters in an Italian restaurant in London. Soon the victims...
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Domani è un'altra truffa
as uncreditedThe plot focuses on the classic "Italian scams", where those who deceive are in turn duped by...
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Miss Right
as BenitoAfter falling for Juliette, the woman of his dreams, a womanizing journalist in Rome must dump...
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Blue Tango
as Fior da FioreTango blu is a night club in Milan where various bizarre characters meet. Among them a...
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Il delitto Mattarella
as Rosario NicolettiJanuary 6, 1980. President of the Sicily Piersanti Mattarella is going to Mass with his family...
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Italiani a Rio
as uncreditedA bank sends three prize-winning employees on a vacation to Rio.
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Teste di quoio
as CarrisiA group of clumsy terrorists hold a strange group of inhabitants of a compartment block hostage.
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Un uomo perbene
as Giovanni PandicoIn June 1983 the journalist and TV presenter Enzo Tortora was arrested on charges of drug...
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Il Bi e il Ba
as GaetanoA man goes to Rome because he wants a magician to solve his problem: dandruff.
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Leo the Lion
as Cobo (voice)It’s a hard life for young Leo: his family just doesn’t understand why he’s a vegetarian lion....
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Quel posto nel tempo
as uncreditedMario, a retired conductor, spends his days in a luxury resort in the south of England. He has...
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Ride bene... chi ride ultimo
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In The Rose Garden
as ArmandoAn advertiser who lives in Milan learns from a former teacher that his mother is dying. He...
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Sad Letters
as FatherA father writes down in a letter to his daughter how he feels about his Alzheimer's disease.
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The Red Tree
as NarratorA powerful and poetic short film that tells the little known history of Italian gay men being...
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Stark System
as SchioppaArmenia Balducci's film, featuring Gian Maria Volontè as Stark, a cop-movie actor that falls...
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The Great Wave
as uncreditedThe entrepreneurial turning point of one of the most heinous and powerful criminal organizations...
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Rock 'n Roll
as Il vigilePassionate rock'n roll dancer, Rodolfo has his partner Ornella as a partner. Frozen by the...
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Giovanni e Paolo e il mistero dei pupi
as Salvatore (voice) / Lisca (voice)
Vecchio
as VecchioAldo lives as a guest in an RSA. Every day he waits for his loved ones looking out the window of...
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L'esercito più pazzo del mondo
as trasformistaIn an unnamed village there is a barracks where improbable soldiers have been recruited, who are...
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Ciao Darwin
as Capitano MeridionaliCiao Darwin is a variety game show format from Italy sold under licence to several countries,...
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Framed! A Sicilian Murder Mystery
as il Procuratore NicolosiAfter two hapless TV technicians stumble upon a murder scene, every step they take to avoid...
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A che punto è la notte
as PriottiIn Turin, a priest is killed by the explosion of a candle and Commissioner Santamaria has to...
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