Known For
Acting
Born
Jan 09, 1946
Place of Birth
Catania, Sicily, Italy
Credits
97 titles
Leo Gullotta
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
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)