Leo Gullotta
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.
94 acting credits
Acting · 94
Cinema Paradiso
1988
Ciao Darwin
1998
The Nurse on a Military Tour
1977
Framed! A Sicilian Murder Mystery
2022
Scarlet Diva
2000
Il camorrista - Una serie di Giuseppe Tornatore
2025
Everybody's Fine
1990
Baaria
2009
Department Store
1986
A che punto è la notte
1994
I Carabbinieri
1981
The Paramedic
1982
Sinbad of the Seven Seas
1989
Le ragazze di Piazza di Spagna
1998
The Swindle
1977
Il ricatto
1989
The Professor
1986
The Escort
1993
The Star Maker
1995
Vajont
2001
It’s the Law
2017
Catturandi - Nel Nome del Padre
2016
C'è posta per te
2000
L'insegnante di violoncello
1989
Stark System
1980
Simpatici & antipatici
1998
Miss Right
1982
The Heart in the Well
2005
Il Bi e il Ba
1986
Snowball
1995
Cristallo di rocca - Una storia di Natale
1999
I carabbimatti
1981
Italo
2015
Savages
1995
Sono solo fantasmi
2019
L'esercito più pazzo del mondo
1981
Blue Tango
1987
Spaghetti House
1982
Un uomo perbene
1999
Package, Double Package and Counterpackage
1993
Il delitto Mattarella
2020
Ladri si nasce
1997
Café Express
1980
Leo the Lion
2005
Half Right Half Left - 2 Footballers Without a Ball
1985
The Honorable with His Lover under the Bed
1981
In The Rose Garden
1990
Stormtroopers II
1982
Scugnizzi
1989
In arte Nino
2016
Men Men Men
1995
Leo e Beo
1998
3
1996
Heads I Win, Tails You Lose
1982
Villa Ada
1999
The Prince of the Dinosaurs
2003
Di Che Peccato Sei?
2007
Per il mio bene
2024
In This World of Thieves
2004
Teste di quoio
1981
Guardians of the Clouds
2004
Operazione Odissea
2000
Where's Picone?
1984
The Father and the Foreigner
2011
The Game Bag
1997
La stella di Andra e Tati
2018
Domani è un'altra truffa
2005
Incidenti
2005
Rock 'n Roll
1978
Italiani a Rio
1987
Gole Ruggenti
1992
Gli Inaffidabili
1997
Oltremare - Non è l'America
1998
Quel posto nel tempo
2022
Raqmar
2025
Ladri si diventa
1998
La stella dei re
2007
So tutto di te
2023
Ride bene... chi ride ultimo
1977
Bruno aspetta in macchina
1996
The Great Wave
2020
I futurieri
2019
La missione di 3P
2014
Sad Letters
2016
Vecchio
2022
Fatti della banda della Magliana
2005
Ottavio Mario Mai
2002
La missione
1998
Giovanni e Paolo e il mistero dei pupi
2010
Carogne - Ciro and Me
1995
L'ultimo metro di pellicola
2014
Territori d'ombra
2001
The Red Tree
2018
I siciliani
2016