Corrado Gaipa
Born: 1924-03-13 in Palermo, Sicily, Italy
Died: 1989-09-21
Known For: Acting
Biography
Corrado Gaipa was an Italian actor and voice actor. Born in Palermo, Sicily, Gaipa enrolled in the Silvio d’Amico Academy of Dramatic Arts, graduating in 1946. He appeared in many Italian films, notably playing Don Tommasino in Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather. Also active on stage, radio and television, he was mainly active as a voice actor and a dubber. He was in a wheelchair. At the time of his death, he had just signed to reprise the role of Don Tommasino in The Godfather Part III.
Filmography
1984
- All for the Moral Majority! as Ministro Euclide (voce)
- The Three of Us as Narrator (voice)
1983
- A School Trip as Voce Fuoricampo
1982
- Marco Polo as Consigliere
- Words and Blood as padre di rico
1981
- Help Me Dream as Narratore (uncredited)
1977
- A Spiral of Mist as Pietro Sangermano
- The Red Nights of the Gestapo as Udo Kassbaum
- The Criminals Attack. The Police Respond as Doctor
- Crazy Desires of a Murderer as The Inspector
1976
- Illustrious Corpses as Supposed Mafioso
1975
- Ritratto di Donna Velata as Il nebbia
- I racconti di Ernest Hemingway
1974
- The Sinful Nuns of Saint Valentine as Honorio de Mendoza, l'Inquisitore
- What Have They Done to Your Daughters? as DA
- Riot in a Women's Prison as Magistrate
- Malombra as Padre Tosi
1973
- Anna: the Pleasure, the Torment as Doctor
- The Valdez Horses as Padre
- Tony Arzenta as Arzenta's Father
- Napoleone a Sant'Elena as Lord Liverpool
- Giordano Bruno
- Napoleone a Sant'Elena as Lord Liverpool
- The Boss as Lawyer Rizzo
- Family Killer as Don Emilio Grisanti
- The Black Hand as Lawyer
- 1931: Once Upon a Time in New York as Mob Boss
1972
- The Godfather as Don Tommasino - Sicilian Sequence
- The Eroticist as Don Gesualdo
- My Dear Killer as Head of Insurance Company
- Execution Squad as L'avvocato Armani
- Without Family as Giudice
- The Sicilian Connection as Calogero
- Shadows Unseen as Günther Rosenthal
1971
- The Fifth Cord as Editor
- The Man with Icy Eyes as Isaac Thetman
- Birth of the Republic as Giovanni Conti
1970
- A Drama of Jealousy (and other things) as Presidente del Tribunale
- Metello as Badolati
1969
- That Splendid November as Alfio
1968
- The SuperVips as Il Colonnello (voice)
- Perils of Problemina as Puti Puti (voce)
1967
- Idea di un'isola as Narrator (voice)
1963
- The Monsters as Batachi (segment "Il povero soldato") / Outspoken Critic (segmento "La musa") (voice) (uncredited)
1962
- The Four Days of Naples as Direttore del riformatorio (voice)