Leo Gullotta
85 movies · 9 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Jan 9, 1946 (age 80)
- Place of birth
- Catania, Sicily, Italy
- Also known as
- Leo · Salvatore Leopoldo 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.
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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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Leo Gullotta: movies and TV shows
Acting (93)
- Upcoming
- Upcoming
- 2025 Raqmar
as Cliente
- 2025
- 2024 Per il mio bene
as Luciano
- 2023 So tutto di te
as Aldo Lipari
- 2022 Quel posto nel tempo
as Mario
- 2022 Vecchio
as Vecchio
- 2022
- 2020
- 2020 Il delitto Mattarella
as Rosario Nicoletti
- 2019 Sono solo fantasmi
as Signore distinto
- 2019 I futurieri
as Voce narrante
- 2018 La stella di Andra e Tati
as Giovanni Bucci (voice)
- 2018 The Red Tree
as Narrator
- 2017 It’s the Law
as Don Raffaele
- 2016 In arte Nino
as Prof. Giuffrida
- 2016
- 2016
- 2016 Sad Letters
as Mario
- 2015 Italo
as Italo (Voce)
- 2014 La missione di 3P
as Padre Pino Puglisi (voice)
- 2011 The Father and the Foreigner
as Santini
- 2010 Giovanni e Paolo e il mistero dei pupi
as Salvatore (voice) / Lisca (voice)
- 2009 Baaria
as Liborio
- 2007 Di che peccato sei?
as Antonio Bertolacci
- 2007 La stella dei re
as Melkhior
- 2005 Leo the Lion
as Cobo (voice)
- 2005 Fatti della banda della Magliana
as Il giudice
- 2005 Incidenti
as giornalista
- 2005
- 2005
- 2004 In This World of Thieves
as Leonardo
- 2004 Guardians of the Clouds
as La Rocca
- 2003 The Prince of the Dinosaurs
as Sluggard (voice)
- 2001 Vajont
as Mario Pancini
- 2001 Territori d'ombra
as Antonio
- 2000 Scarlet Diva
as Dr. Vessi
- 2000 Operazione Odissea
as Michele Sinatra
- 1999
- 1999 Un uomo perbene
as Giovanni Pandico
- 1999 Cristallo di rocca - Una storia di Natale
as Don Anselmo
- 1998 Ladri si diventa
as Perini
- 1998 Simpatici & antipatici
as Gigetto
- 1998
- 1998
- 1998 Leo e Beo
as Beo (voice)
- 1998
- 1997 The Game Bag
as Carlo Gabbiadini
- 1997 Ladri si nasce
as il professore
- 1997 Gli Inaffidabili
as Bostik
- 1996 3
as Vescovo di Pisa
- 1996 Bruno aspetta in macchina
as Ziino
- 1995 Snowball
as Sidik
- 1995 Savages
as Luigi Pinardi
- 1995 The Star Maker
as Vito
- 1995 Carogne - Ciro and Me
as Prandstaller
- 1995 Men Men Men
as Tony
- 1994
- 1993 The Escort
as Polizzi
- 1993 Package, Double Package and Counterpackage
as Michele Bellezza
- 1992 Gole Ruggenti
as Edoardo Lasagnetta - scriptwriter
- 1990 In The Rose Garden
as Armando
- 1990 Everybody's Fine
as L'homme armé sur le toit d'un immeuble de Naples
- 1989 L'insegnante di violoncello
as Leo
- 1989 Scugnizzi
as Fortunato
- 1989
- 1989 Sinbad of the Seven Seas
as Nadir
- 1988 Cinema Paradiso
as Ignazio, usher
- 1987
- 1987 Blue Tango
as Fior da Fiore
- 1986 The Professor
as Police Commissioner Iervolino
- 1986 Department Store
as Simoni, agente teatrale
- 1986 Il Bi e il Ba
as Gaetano
- 1985 Half Right Half Left - 2 Footballers Without a Ball
as allenatore Juan Carlos Fulgencio
- 1984 Where's Picone?
as Sgueglia
- 1982 Heads I Win, Tails You Lose
as Walter
- 1982 Stormtroopers II
as Recluta
- 1982 Spaghetti House
as Salvatore Manzilla
- 1982 The Paramedic
as Sostituto Procuratore
- 1982 Miss Right
as Benito
- 1981 L'esercito più pazzo del mondo
as trasformista
- 1981 I carabbimatti
as Ceci
- 1981 The Honorable with His Lover under the Bed
as Secretary Sgarbozzi / Honorable Sgarbozzi
- 1981 I Carabbinieri
as Salvatore Caruso
- 1981 Teste di quoio
as Carrisi
- 1980 Stark System
as Schioppa
- 1980 Café Express
as Vincenzo Imbastaro
- 1978 Rock 'n Roll
as Il vigile
- 1977 The Swindle
as Tarcisio Pollaroli "Er Fibbia"
- 1977 The Nurse on a Military Tour
as Captain Lopez - doctor
- 1977 Ride bene... chi ride ultimo
as "Ifigenia", domestico omossessuale
- 1964
Behind the camera (1)
- 2011 In arte Lilia Silvi
Producer
Talk shows and appearances (4)
- 2014
- 2002
- 2000 C'è posta per te
1 episode
- 1998 Ciao Darwin
1 episode