
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

The Nurse on a Military Tour (1977)
as Captain Lopez - doctor

Cinema Paradiso (1988)
as Ignazio, usher

The Professor (1986)
as Police Commissioner Iervolino

Vajont (2001)
as Mario Pancini

Domani è un'altra truffa (2005)
Actor

Scarlet Diva (2000)
as Dr. Vessi

Baaria (2009)
as Liborio

The Swindle (1977)
as Tarcisio Pollaroli "Er Fibbia"

The Paramedic (1982)
as Sostituto Procuratore

Half Right Half Left - 2 Footballers Without a Ball (1985)
as allenatore Juan Carlos Fulgencio

I Carabbinieri (1981)
as Salvatore Caruso

Everybody's Fine (1990)
as L'homme armé sur le toit d'un immeuble de Naples

Department Store (1986)
as Simoni, agente teatrale

The Star Maker (1995)
as Vito

Guardians of the Clouds (2004)
as La Rocca

Sinbad of the Seven Seas (1989)
as Nadir

Un uomo perbene (1999)
as Giovanni Pandico

In This World of Thieves (2004)
as Leonardo

Bruno aspetta in macchina (1996)
as Ziino

It’s the Law (2017)
as Don Raffaele

The Father and the Foreigner (2011)
as Santini

The Honorable with His Lover under the Bed (1981)
as Secretary Sgarbozzi / Honorable Sgarbozzi

Sono solo fantasmi (2019)
as Signore distinto

Simpatici & antipatici (1998)
as Gigetto

I futurieri (2019)
as Voce narrante

The Escort (1993)
as Polizzi

Per il mio bene (2024)
as Luciano

Ladri si nasce (1997)
as il professore

Leo the Lion (2005)
as Cobo (voice)

Café Express (1980)
as Vincenzo Imbastaro

In The Rose Garden (1990)
as Armando

Carogne - Ciro and Me (1995)
as Prandstaller

Snowball (1995)
as Sidik

Spaghetti House (1982)
as Salvatore Manzilla

Savages (1995)
as Luigi Pinardi

I carabbimatti (1981)
as Ceci

Giovanni e Paolo e il mistero dei pupi (2010)
as Salvatore (voice) / Lisca (voice)

Teste di quoio (1981)
as Carrisi

Blue Tango (1987)
as Fior da Fiore

Where's Picone? (1984)
as Sgueglia

Heads I Win, Tails You Lose (1982)
as Walter

In arte Nino (2016)
as Prof. Giuffrida

The Game Bag (1997)
as Carlo Gabbiadini

L'insegnante di violoncello (1989)
as Leo

Scugnizzi (1989)
as Fortunato

Package, Double Package and Counterpackage (1993)
as Michele Bellezza

Oltremare - Non è l'America (1998)
Actor

Ottavio Mario Mai (2002)
as Self

La stella dei re (2007)
as Melkhior

Operazione Odissea (2000)
as Michele Sinatra

Men Men Men (1995)
as Tony

Gli Inaffidabili (1997)
as Bostik

Stormtroopers II (1982)
as Recluta

Gole Ruggenti (1992)
as Edoardo Lasagnetta - scriptwriter

Ride bene... chi ride ultimo (1977)
as "Ifigenia", domestico omossessuale

Cristallo di rocca - Una storia di Natale (1999)
as Don Anselmo

Italiani a Rio (1987)
Actor

Stark System (1980)
as Schioppa

Il Bi e il Ba (1986)
as Gaetano

Raqmar (2025)
as Cliente

La missione di 3P (2014)
as Padre Pino Puglisi (voice)

Il delitto Mattarella (2020)
as Rosario Nicoletti

Ladri si diventa (1998)
as Perini

Fatti della banda della Magliana (2005)
as Il giudice

Miss Right (1982)
as Benito

Di Che Peccato Sei? (2007)
as Antonio Bertolacci

L'esercito più pazzo del mondo (1981)
as trasformista

Leo e Beo (1998)
as Beo (voice)

Territori d'ombra (2001)
as Antonio

Italo (2015)
as Italo (Voce)

Quel posto nel tempo (2022)
as Mario

Villa Ada (1999)
Actor

I siciliani (2016)
Actor

Rock 'n Roll (1978)
as Il vigile
La missione (1998)
Actor

La stella di Andra e Tati (2018)
as Giovanni Bucci (voice)

3 (1996)
as Vescovo di Pisa

The Great Wave (2020)
Actor

The Prince of the Dinosaurs (2003)
as Sluggard (voice)
L'ultimo metro di pellicola (2014)
as Self

Incidenti (2005)
as giornalista

So tutto di te (2023)
as Aldo Lipari

Sad Letters (2016)
as Mario

The Red Tree (2018)
as Narrator

Vecchio (2022)
as Vecchio





