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Carlo Valli

Carlo Valli (born 4 October 1943) is an Italian actor and voice actor.[1]

Carlo Valli
Valli attending the Lucca Comics & Games convention in 2018
Born (1943-10-04) 4 October 1943 (age 81)
Asti, Kingdom of Italy
Occupations
  • Actor
  • voice actor
  • dubbing director
Years active1966–present
Spouse(s)Claudia Giannotti (divorced)
Cristina Giachero
Children
  • Ruggero
  • Arturo

Biography

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Born in Asti, Valli studied at the Accademia Nazionale di Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico and then began performing at the Teatro Stabile d'Abruzzo. As an actor, Valli had key roles on stage and television. In the 1970s, he acted in the science fiction-drama miniseries Gamma as well as the detective fiction show La donna di picche.[2]

Valli later became well known to the Italian public as a voice actor and dubber, especially as the main Italian voice dubbing actor of Robin Williams.[3] He is also renowned for dubbing Jim Broadbent, Colm Meaney, Richard Dreyfuss, Ken Stott, Martin Sheen, John Heard, Robert Duvall and Richard Jenkins in some of their movies.[4] Some of the Italian dubbing roles that Valli is best known for includes Ghostface from the Scream film series and Horace Slughorn from the Harry Potter franchise.

In Valli’s Italian dubbed animated roles, he voiced Rex in the Toy Story film series, Gobber the Belch in the How to Train Your Dragon franchise and Pops in The Secret Life of Pets franchise. He also gave his voice to Bender in Futurama starting from season 8.

Personal life

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Valli was once married to actress Claudia Giannotti. He is now married to voice actress Cristina Giachero. In 1998, Valli became a father for the first time at the age of 54 to voice actor Ruggero Valli. In 2000 he had another son, Arturo, who is also a voice actor.

Filmography

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Cinema

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Television

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  • Jack e Jill – TV miniseries (1956)
  • Un certo Harry Brent - TV miniseries (1970)
  • La donna di picche – TV miniseries (1972)
  • È stata una bellissima partita – TV miniseries, fourth episode (La rivincita) (1972)
  • Orlando Furioso – TV miniseries (1974)
  • Senza uscita – TV miniseries, episode Mia cara Anna, addio (1974)
  • La contessa Lara – TV miniseries (1975)
  • Tracce sulla neve – TV film (1975)
  • Gamma – TV miniseries (1975)
  • Tatort – TV series, episode Wohnheim Westendstraße (1976)
  • L'assassinio di Federico Garcia Lorca – TV miniseries (1976)
  • Chi? – TV mystery/quiz (1976-1977)
  • Il povero soldato – TV miniseries (1978)
  • Un amore di Dostoevskij – TV miniseries (1978)
  • Così per gioco – TV miniseries (1979)
  • Quell'antico amore – TV miniseries (1981)
  • Giallo sera - TV mystery/quiz (1983)
  • Piccolo mondo antico – TV miniseries (1983)
  • Un delitto – TV miniseries (1984)
  • Timone d'Atene – TV film (1984)[5]
  • Tutto è bene quel che finisce bene – TV film (1986)[6]
  • Riccardo III – TV film (1987)[7]
  • Disperatamente Giulia – TV miniseries (1989)
  • Un figlio a metà – TV miniseries (1992)
  • Un figlio a metà - Un anno dopo – TV miniseries (1994)
  • Italian Restaurant – TV series, episode Figlio, figlio... mio? (1994)
  • Il maresciallo Rocca – TV series, episode 1.2 (Senso di colpa) (1996)
  • Incantesimo – soap opera (2000)
  • Adriano Olivetti - La forza di un sogno – TV miniseries (2013)

Short films

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  • Wind Back (2017)
  • TOB.IA (2020)
  • Our Good Hands (2020)

Voice work

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Year Title Role Notes Ref
1996 La lupa Narrator Drama film [8]
2003 Il magico Natale di Rupert Fantasy film [9]
2012 Pinocchio The Talking Cricket Animated film [10]
2015 Una meravigliosa stagione fallimentare [it] Narrator Documentary [11]
Ancora Vivi - La Storia della Bar Boon Band [12]
La dolce arte di esistere Drama film [13]
2019 Manuale di storie dei cinema Cosmic Bob Short film - Documentary [14]
2021 Manuale di storie dei cinema Documentary [15]

Dubbing

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Animation

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Live action

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Video games

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References

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  1. ^ "Carlo Valli's dubbing contributions". Antoniogenna.net. Retrieved November 21, 2018.
  2. ^ "Carlo Valli". MYmovies. Retrieved March 29, 2020.
  3. ^ "La voce di Robin Williams era piemontese, il doppiatore è Carlo Valli: "Sono sbigottito"" (in Italian). quotidianopiemontese.it. August 12, 2014. Retrieved March 29, 2020.
  4. ^ Intervista a CARLO VALLI (2012) | enciclopediadeldoppiaggio.it
  5. ^ A stage performance of William Shakespeare's Timon of Athens, directed by Jonathan Miller and streamed on RAI, : "Teatro 1984-1985" (in Italian).
  6. ^ A stage performance of William Shakespeare's All's Well That Ends Well streamed on RAI, directed by Elijah Moshinsky: "Teatro 1986-1988" (in Italian).
  7. ^ A stage performance of William Shakespeare's Richard III streamed on RAI, directed by Jane Howell: "Teatro 1986-1988" (in Italian).
  8. ^ "LA LUPA". cinematografo.it (in Italian).
  9. ^ "Il Magico Natale di Rupert (2003), di Flavio Moretti". cinemaitaliano.info (in Italian).
  10. ^ "Pinocchio (2012)". vixvocal.it (in Italian).; "Pinocchio". Il mondo dei doppiatori, antoniogenna.net (in Italian).
  11. ^ "UNA MERAVIGLIOSA STAGIONE FALLIMENTARE (2015), di Mario Bucci". cinemaitaliano.info (in Italian).
  12. ^ "Ancora Vivi - La Storia della Bar Boon Band". cinematografo.it (in Italian).
  13. ^ "LA DOLCE ARTE DI ESISTERE". cinematografo.it (in Italian).
  14. ^ "Manuale di Storie dei Cinema (2019), di Bruno Ugioli, Stefano D'Antuono". cinemaitaliano.info (in Italian).
  15. ^ "Manuale di Storie dei Cinema (2021), di Bruno Ugioli, Stefano D'Antuono". cinemaitaliano.info (in Italian).
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