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.
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So tutto di te
2023
Quel posto nel tempo
2022
Vecchio
2022
as Vecchio
Framed! A Sicilian Murder Mystery
2022
as il Procuratore Nicolosi
The Great Wave
2020
Il delitto Mattarella
2020
as Rosario Nicoletti
Sono solo fantasmi
2019
as Signore distinto
I futurieri
2019
as Voce narrante
La stella di Andra e Tati
2018
as Giovanni Bucci (voice)
The Red Tree
2018
as Narrator
It’s the Law
2017
as Don Raffaele
In arte Nino
2016
as Prof. Giuffrida
Catturandi - Nel Nome del Padre
2016
as Ruggero Mazzamuto
Italo
2015
as Italo (voce)
L'ultimo metro di pellicola
2014
as Self
La missione di 3P
2014
as Padre Pino Puglisi (voice)
Giovanni e Paolo e il mistero dei pupi
2010
as Salvatore (voice) / Lisca (voice)
The Father and the Foreigner
2010
as Santini
Baaria
2009
as Liborio
Di Che Peccato Sei?
2007
as Antonio Bertolacci
La stella dei re
2007
as Melkhior
Leo the Lion
2005
as Cobo (voice)
Fatti della banda della Magliana
2005
as Il giudice
Incidenti
2005
as giornalista
The Heart in the Well
2005
as Don Bruno
The Heart in the Well
2005
as Don Bruno
Domani è un'altra truffa
2005
In This World of Thieves
2004
as Leonardo
Guardiani delle nuvole
2004
as La Rocca
The Prince of the Dinosaurs
2003
as Sluggard (voice)
Vajont
2001
as Mario Pancini
Territori d'ombra
2001
Scarlet Diva
2000
as Dr. Vessi
Operazione Odissea
2000
as Michele Sinatra
Villa Ada
1999
Un uomo perbene
1999
as Giovanni Pandico
Cristallo di rocca - Una storia di Natale
1999
as Don Anselmo
Ladri si diventa
1998
as Perini
Simpatici & antipatici
1998
as Gigetto
La missione
1998
Oltremare - Non è l'America
1998
The Game Bag
1997
as Carlo Gabbiadini
Ladri si nasce
1997
as il professore
Gli Inaffidabili
1997
as Bostik
3
1996
as Vescovo di Pisa
Bruno aspetta in macchina
1996
as Ziino
Snowball
1995
as Sidik
Savages
1995
as Luigi Pinardi
The Star Maker
1995
as Vito
Men Men Men
1995
as Tony
A che punto è la notte
1994
as Priotti
A che punto è la notte
1994
as Priotti
The Escort
1993
as Polizzi
Package, Double Package and Counterpackage
1993
as Michele Bellezza
Gole ruggenti
1992
as Edoardo Lasagnetta - scriptwriter
Everybody's Fine
1990
as L'homme armé sur le toit d'un immeuble de Naples
In The Rose Garden
1990
as Armando
L'insegnante di violoncello
1989
as Leo
Scugnizzi
1989
as Fortunato
Il ricatto
1989
as Carla
Sinbad of the Seven Seas
1989
as Nadir
Cinema Paradiso
1988
as Ignazio, usher
Italiani a Rio
1987
Blue Tango
1987
as Fior da Fiore
The Professor
1986
as Jervolino
Department Store
1986
as Simoni, agente teatrale
Il Bi e il Ba
1986
as Gaetano
Mezzo destro mezzo sinistro - 2 calciatori senza pallone
1985
as allenatore Juan Carlos Fulgencio
Where's Picone?
1984
as Sgueglia
Heads I Win, Tails You Lose
1982
as Walter
Stormtroopers II
1982
as Recluta
Spaghetti House
1982
as Salvatore Manzilla
The Paramedic
1982
as Sostituto Procuratore
Miss Right
1982
as Benito
L'esercito più pazzo del mondo
1981
as trasformista
I carabbimatti
1981
as Ceci
The Honorable with His Lover under the Bed
1981
as Secretary Sgarbozzi / Honorable Sgarbozzi
I Carabbinieri
1981
as Salvatore Caruso
Teste di quoio
1981
as Carrisi
Stark System
1980
as Schioppa
Cafè Express
1980
as Vincenzo Imbastaro
Rock 'n Roll
1978
as Il vigile
The Swindle
1977
as Tarcisio Pollaroli "Er Fibbia"
The Nurse on a Military Tour
1977
as Captain Lopez - doctor
Ride bene... chi ride ultimo
1977
as "Ifigenia", domestico omossessuale
I siciliani
Sad Letters
as Father