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 80)
Asti, Italy
Occupations
  • Actor
  • voice actor
  • dubbing director
Years active1966–present
Spouse(s)Claudia Giannotti (m. ?–?)
Cristina Giachero (m. ?)
Children2

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] He 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.

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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Short films

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

Dubbing roles

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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. ^ "Pinocchio (2012)". vixvocal.it (in Italian).; "Pinocchio". Il mondo dei doppiatori, antoniogenna.net (in Italian).
  6. ^ A stage performance of William Shakespeare's Timon of Athens, directed by Jonathan Miller and streamed on RAI, : "Teatro 1984-1985" (in Italian).
  7. ^ 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).
  8. ^ A stage performance of William Shakespeare's Richard III streamed on RAI, directed by Jane Howell: "Teatro 1986-1988" (in Italian).
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