Leo Gullotta
Born: 1946-01-09 in Catania, Sicily, Italy
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2025
- Il camorrista - Una serie di Giuseppe Tornatore as Police Commissioner Iervolino
2024
- Per il mio bene as Luciano
2023
2022
- Quel posto nel tempo as Mario
- Framed! A Sicilian Murder Mystery as il Procuratore Nicolosi
- Vecchio as Vecchio
2020
- Il delitto Mattarella as Rosario Nicoletti
- The Great Wave
2019
- I futurieri as Voce narrante
- Sono solo fantasmi as Signore distinto
2018
- The Red Tree as Narrator
- La stella di Andra e Tati as Giovanni Bucci (voice)
2017
- It’s the Law as Don Raffaele
2016
- I siciliani
- In arte Nino as Prof. Giuffrida
- Sad Letters as Mario
- Catturandi - Nel Nome del Padre as Ruggero Mazzamuto
2015
- Italo as Italo (Voce)
2014
- L'ultimo metro di pellicola as Self
- La missione di 3P as Padre Pino Puglisi (voice)
2011
- The Father and the Foreigner as Santini
- In arte Lilia Silvi ... (Producer)
2010
- Giovanni e Paolo e il mistero dei pupi as Salvatore (voice) / Lisca (voice)
2009
- Baaria as Liborio
2007
- La stella dei re as Melkhior
- Di Che Peccato Sei? as Antonio Bertolacci
2005
- Incidenti as giornalista
- Fatti della banda della Magliana as Il giudice
- Domani è un'altra truffa
- Leo the Lion as Cobo (voice)
- The Heart in the Well as Don Bruno
2004
- In This World of Thieves as Leonardo
- Guardians of the Clouds as La Rocca
2003
- The Prince of the Dinosaurs as Sluggard (voice)
2001
- Vajont as Mario Pancini
- Territori d'ombra
2000
- Operazione Odissea as Michele Sinatra
- Scarlet Diva as Dr. Vessi
- C'è posta per te
1999
- Villa Ada
- Un uomo perbene as Giovanni Pandico
- Cristallo di rocca - Una storia di Natale as Don Anselmo
1998
- Ciao Darwin as Capitano Meridionali
- Ladri si diventa as Perini
- Oltremare - Non è l'America
- Le ragazze di Piazza di Spagna as Il cieco
- La missione
- Simpatici & antipatici as Gigetto
1997
- Gli Inaffidabili as Bostik
- Ladri si nasce as il professore
- The Game Bag as Carlo Gabbiadini
1996
- 3 as Vescovo di Pisa
- Bruno aspetta in macchina as Ziino
1995
- Savages as Luigi Pinardi
- Snowball as Sidik
- Men Men Men as Tony
- The Star Maker as Vito
1994
- A che punto è la notte as Priotti
1993
- The Escort as Polizzi
- Package, Double Package and Counterpackage as Michele Bellezza
1992
- Gole Ruggenti as Edoardo Lasagnetta - scriptwriter
1990
- Everybody's Fine as L'homme armé sur le toit d'un immeuble de Naples
- In The Rose Garden as Armando
1989
- Sinbad of the Seven Seas as Nadir
- L'insegnante di violoncello as Leo
- Scugnizzi as Fortunato
- Il ricatto as Carla
1988
- Cinema Paradiso as Ignazio, usher
1987
- Italiani a Rio
- Blue Tango as Fior da Fiore
1986
- The Professor as Police Commissioner Iervolino
- Department Store as Simoni, agente teatrale
- 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
- The Paramedic as Sostituto Procuratore
- Spaghetti House as Salvatore Manzilla
- Heads I Win, Tails You Lose as Walter
- Miss Right as Benito
- Stormtroopers II as Recluta
1981
- I Carabbinieri as Salvatore Caruso
- The Honorable with His Lover under the Bed as Secretary Sgarbozzi / Honorable Sgarbozzi
- L'esercito più pazzo del mondo as trasformista
- I carabbimatti as Ceci
- Teste di quoio as Carrisi
1980
- Café Express as Vincenzo Imbastaro
- Stark System as Schioppa
1978
- Rock 'n Roll as Il vigile
1977
- The Swindle as Tarcisio Pollaroli "Er Fibbia"
- The Nurse on a Military Tour as Captain Lopez - doctor
- Ride bene... chi ride ultimo as "Ifigenia", domestico omossessuale