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GIFFONI FILM FESTIVAL 1985 - 27 July.4 August

ORESTE LIONELLO

Oreste Lionello (Rhodes, 18 April 1927) is an Italian actor and voice dubbing artist. He was well known as Italy's film 'voice' for Woody Allen. Lionello was born in Rhodes (then a possession of Italy), to Calabrian parents, and grew up in Reggio Calabria. It began his career as a theatre actor, and is considered amongst the founders of Italian cabaret. In 1953 he entered the Musical Theatrical Company of RAI (Italian state TV) and the following year he debuted in television with "Marziano Filippo", a boys' show. He had found success as an entertainer on Italian TV in the 1970s and 1980s. Actors he dubbed include Charlie Chaplin, Groucho Marx, Dick Van Dyke, Peter Sellers, Gene Wilder, Michel Serrault, Gérard Depardieu and, in almost all his movies, Woody Allen. In the 1960s he was one of the founders of the Bagaglino comic theatre and TV company.

  • Filmography:

    • ACTOR
    cinema
    The Cheerful Squadron, by Paolo Moffa (1954) - uncredited
    È arrivata la parigina, by Camillo Mastrocinque (1958)
    Devil's Cavaliers, by Siro Marcellini (1959)
    La cento chilometri, by Giulio Petroni (1959) - uncredited
    Toto, Fabrizi and the Young People Today, by Mario Mattoli (1960) - uncredited
    Meravigliosa, by Carlos Arévalo and Siro Marcellini (1960)
    Totòtruffa 62, by Camillo Mastrocinque (1961)
    Le pillole di Ercole, by Luciano Salce (1962)
    Queste pazze, pazze donne, by Mario Girolami (1963)
    The Beast of Babylon Against the Son of Hercules, by Siro Marcellini (1963)
    The Swindlers, by Lucio Fulci (1963)
    L'ultima carica, by Leopoldo Savona (1964)
    The Magnificent Gladiator, by Alfonso Brescia (1964)
    I due sanculotti, by Giorgio Simonelli (1966)
    Top Crack, by Mario Russo (1966)
    Riderà (Cuore matto), by Bruno Corbucci (1967)
    The Prophet, by Dino Risi (1968)
    VIP: My Brother Superman, by Bruno Bozzetto, voce (1968)
    I quattro del pater noster, by Ruggero Deodato (1969)
    Four Flies on Grey Velvet, by Dario Argento (1971)
    The Case of the Bloody Iris, by Giuliano Carnimeo (1972)
    The Sensual Man, by Marco Vicario (1973)
    Mamma... li turchi!, by Renato Savino (1973)
    Provaci anche tu Lionel, by Roberto Montero (1973)
    I 7 magnifici cornuti, by Luigi Russo (1974)
    Poker in Bed, by Giuliano Carnimeo (1974)
    Antoine et Sébastien, by Jean-Marie Périer (1974)
    Sesso in testa, by Sergio Ammirata (1974)
    The Sex Machine, by Pasquale Festa Campanile (1975)
    The Best, by Mino Guerrini (1976)
    Remo e Romolo - Storia di due figli di una lupa, by Mario Castellacci and Pier Francesco Pingitore (1976)
    Cassiodoro il più duro del pretorio, regia di Oreste Castellacci (1976)
    La prima notte di nozze, regia di Corrado Prisco (1976)
    Sexycop, regia di Duccio Tessari (1976)
    Soldier of Fortune, by Pasquale Festa Campanile (1976)
    Un sorriso, uno schiaffo, un bacio in bocca, by Mario Morra (1976) - voice
    My Sister in Law, by Lucio Fulci (1976)
    Mondo di notte oggi, by Gianni Proia (1976) - voice
    For the Love of Poppea, by Mariano Laurenti (1977)
    Kakkientruppen, by Marino Girolami (1977)
    Nerone, by Mario Castellacci and Pier Francesco Pingitore (1977)
    Scherzi da prete, by Pier Francesco Pingitore (1978)
    The Bumbling Man, by Pier Francesco Pingitore (1979)
    Tutti a squola, by Pier Francesco Pingitore (1979)
    Ciao marziano, by Pier Francesco Pingitore (1980)
    Quella peste di Pierina, by Michele Massimo Tarantini (1982)
    Attenti a quei P2, by Pier Francesco Pingitore (1982)
    Biancaneve & Co., by Mario Bianchi (1982)
    Sfrattato cerca casa equo canone, by Pier Francesco Pingitore (1983)
    Massimamente folle, by Massimo Troiani (1985)

    RAI television prose
    Servizio completo, directed by Flaminio Bollini (1963)
    The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, by William Shakespeare, directed by Vittorio Cottafavi (1965)

    • DUBBING
    cinema
    Woody Allen in What's New Pussycat, Manhattan, Love and Death, Zelig, Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask), Stardust Memories, Take the Money and Run, Sleeper, Bananas, Annie Hall, A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy, Broadway Danny Rose, Play It Again, Sam
    Rick Moranis in Ghostbusters
    Michel Serrault in La Cage aux Folles, La Cage aux Folles II, La Cage aux Folles 3: The Wedding, Good King Dagobert, The Wolf and the Lamb
    Charlie Chaplin in The Great Dictator
    Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins
    Gene Wilder in Young Frankenstein, The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother, The World's Greatest Lover, Silver Streak, The Friso Kid, Hanky Panky, Stir Crazy
    Pierre Richard in Le Distrait
    Richard Attenborough in 10 Rillington Place
    Peter Sellers in Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, The Revenge of the Pink Panther, Murder by Death, The Magic Christian, The Optimists, There's a Girl in My Soup
    Roman Polanski in The Fearless Vampire Killers
    Clint Eastwood in Revenge of the Creature
    Jerry Lewis in Cracking Up, Hardly Working
    Groucho Marx in Duck Soup, A Night in Casablanca
    Donald Pleasence in Cul-de-sac, Watch Out, We're Mad!
    Jean Lefebvre in Le Gendarme Se Marie, The Mona Lisa Has Been Stolen
    George Harrison in A Hard Day's Night, Help!
    Peter Falk in Pocketful of Miracles, The Great Race, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Robin and the 7 Hoods, Penelope, Luv
    John Huston and Derek Nimmo in Casino Royale
    Tim Kazurinsky in Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment
    Jean-Claude Brialy in Operation St. Peter's
    Peter Cellier in And the Ship Sails On
    Everett Sloane in Citizen Kane
    Daniel Emilfork-Berenstein in Fellini's Casanova
    Michael Crawford in How I Won the War
    Martin Landau in North by Northwest
    John Hurt in Midnight Express
    Eddie Deezen in 1941
    Aubrey Morris in A Clockwork Orange
    Francis Blanche in The Eroticist
    Louis de Funès in Fantômas se déchaîne, The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob
    Jean Sarrus in Les Bidasses en folie
    Tom Ewell in Tender Is the Night
    Gino Pernice in The Specialist
    Mario Cencelli in Fellini's Casanova
    Jacques Herlin in The Mandrake
    Robert Duvall in The Chase
    Dennis Hopper in The Sons of Katie Elder
    Jack E. Leonard in The Disorderly Orderly

    television
    Robin Williams in Mork & Mindy
    Patrick Cargill in Father, Dear Father
    Clive Revill in Columbo, episode 7x05

    animation
    Goliath II (Mouse)
    One Hundred and One Dalmatians (Sergeant Tibbs)
    Cinderella (ed.1967, Grand Duke)
    The Aristocats (Roquefort and Lawyer Georges Hautecourt)
    The Jungle Book (Ziggy)
    VIP: My Brother Superman (Mini VIP)
    Asterix the Gaul and Asterix and Cleopatra (Asterix)
    Fritz the Cat (Fritz)
    Hey There, It's Yogi Bear! (Bubu)
    Postman Pat (Reverend Timms)
    Yellow Submarine (Jeremy Hillary Boob)
    Lupin the Third Part I (Gordon)