Leo Gullotta
Personal Info
Known For Actor
Gender Male
Birthday 1946-01-09 (78 years old)
Place of Birth Catania, Sicily, Italy
Also Known As Leo, Salvatore Leopoldo Gullotta
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
Actor
as Father
as Vecchio
as il Procuratore Nicolosi
as Rosario Nicoletti
as Signore distinto
as Voce narrante
as Giovanni Bucci (voice)
as Narrator
as Don Raffaele
as Prof. Giuffrida
as Ruggero Mazzamuto
as Italo (voce)
as Self
as Padre Pino Puglisi (voice)
as Salvatore (voice) / Lisca (voice)
as Santini
as Liborio
as Antonio Bertolacci
as Melkhior
as Cobo (voice)
as Il giudice
as giornalista
as Don Bruno
as Don Bruno
as Leonardo
as La Rocca
as Sluggard (voice)
as Mario Pancini
as Dr. Vessi
as Michele Sinatra
as Giovanni Pandico
as Don Anselmo
as Perini
as Gigetto
as Capitano Meridionali
as Carlo Gabbiadini
as il professore
as Bostik
as Vescovo di Pisa
as Ziino
as Sidik
as Luigi Pinardi
as Vito
as Tony
as Priotti
as Priotti
as Polizzi
as Michele Bellezza
as Edoardo Lasagnetta - scriptwriter
as L'homme armé sur le toit d'un immeuble de Naples
as Armando
as Leo
as Fortunato
as Nadir
as Carla
as Ignazio, usher
as Fior da Fiore
as Jervolino
as Simoni, agente teatrale
as Gaetano
as allenatore Juan Carlos Fulgencio
as Sgueglia
as Walter
as Recluta
as Salvatore Manzilla
as Sostituto Procuratore
as Benito
as trasformista
as Ceci
as Secretary Sgarbozzi / Honorable Sgarbozzi
as Salvatore Caruso
as Carrisi
as Schioppa
as Vincenzo Imbastaro
as Il vigile
as Tarcisio Pollaroli "Er Fibbia"
as Captain Lopez - doctor
as "Ifigenia", domestico omossessuale
Producer
as Producer