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