Sergio Graziani
Appearance
Sergio Graziani | |
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Born | Udine, Italy | November 10, 1930
Died | May 25, 2018 Rome, Italy | (aged 87)
Occupation(s) | Actor, voice actor |
Years active | 1956–2014 |
Sergio Graziani (November 10, 1930 – May 25, 2018) was an Italian actor and voice actor[1].
Biography
Graziani attended the Silvio d'Amico National Academy of Dramatic Arts, and began his career on stage in the late 1950s, working as well as a voice actor: he dubbed Donald Sutherland and Peter O'Toole in most of their performances[2].
In 1999 he gave his voice to Professor Farnsworth from Futurama for the first five seasons of the show, until he retired in 2014.
He died in Rome on 25 May 2018, at the age of 87[3].
Filmography
Actor
- A Complicated Girl (1968)
- My Pleasure Is Your Pleasure (1973)
- The Five Days (1973)
- Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen (1976)
- The Butterfly's Dream (1994)
- It Can't Be All Our Fault (2003)
- Secret File (2003)
Dubbing
Actors dubbed
- Donald Sutherland in The First Great Train Robbery, MASH, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, A Time to Kill, JFK, Six Degrees of Separation, Fallen, Kelly's Heroes, Klute, S*P*Y*S, Outbreak, Instinct, Virus, The Assignment, Five Moons Square and Ask the Dust
- Michael Caine in Zulu, Play Dirty, The Last Valley, The Marseille Contract, The Wilby Conspiracy, Educating Rita, The Holcroft Covenant, Half Moon Street, Jaws: The Revenge, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and Bewitched
- Peter O'Toole in Lawrence of Arabia, Becket, Lord Jim, What's New Pussycat?, The Lion in Winter, How to Steal a Million, The Ruling Class, Zulu Dawn, Phantoms, Troy, Venus and Stardust
- Klaus Kinski in That Most Important Thing: Love, A Genius, Two Partners and a Dupe, Nosferatu the Vampyre, Woyzeck, A Bullet for the General, The Ruthless Four, And God Said to Cain, Gangster's Law, Black Killer, Web of the Spider and The Cats
- Franco Nero in Compañeros, The Day of the Owl, The Fifth Day of Peace, Confessions of a Police Captain, The Fifth Cord and The Case Is Closed, Forget It
- Philippe Noiret in The Judge and the Assassin, La Grande Bouffe, Don't Touch the White Woman!, Let's Hope It's a Girl and On Guard
- Richard Harris in The Heroes of Telemark, The Cassandra Crossing, Orca, Patriot Games, Major Dundee and The Wild Geese
- Jean-Louis Trintignant in La morte ha fatto l'uovo, Three Colours: Red, The Conformist and Passion of Love
- Terence Hill in God Forgives... I Don't!, Ace High, Boot Hill and Django, Prepare a Coffin
- John Cassavetes in The Killers, The Dirty Dozen and Machine Gun McCain
- Bruce Dern in Mulholland Falls, Down in the Valley and Nebraska
- Peter Ustinov in Appointment with Death, Lorenzo's Oil and Luther
- Maximilian Schell in Topkapi, Vampires and Little Odessa
- Laurence Olivier in A Little Romance and A Bridge Too Far
- Leonard Nimoy in Star Trek and Star Trek Into Darkness
- Robert Mitchum in Farewell, My Lovely and Cape Fear
- Ian McKellen in Apt Pupil and Gods and Monsters
- Eli Wallach in Night and the City and Two Much
- Kris Kristofferson in Blade II and Blade: Trinity
- Ernest Borgnine in Gattaca and BASEketball
- John Hurt in Contact and The Skeleton Key
- Ben Kingsley in Maurice and Oliver Twist
- Ralph Richardson in Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
- Christopher Plummer in The Return of the Pink Panther
- Fernando Rey in That Obscure Object of Desire
- Lance Henriksen in The Quick and the Dead
- Richard Chamberlain in The Music Lovers
- Harry Dean Stanton in The Green Mile
- Farley Granger in They Call Me Trinity
- William Holden in The Christmas Tree
- Martin Balsam in The Anderson Tapes
- Jeff Bridges in 8 Million Ways to Die
- Burt Lancaster in The Professionals
- Donald Pleasence in Phenomena
- Ricardo Montalbán in Madame X
- Joseph Cotten in Tora! Tora! Tora!
- Richard Mulligan in Little Big Man
- Nigel Hawthorne in Twelfth Night
- Oskar Werner in Fahrenheit 451
- Gregory Peck in Mackenna's Gold
- Max von Sydow in Judge Dredd
- Richard Dreyfuss in The Crew
- Karl Malden in The Cat o' Nine Tails
- James Mason in Bad Man's River
- L. Q. Jones in The Mask of Zorro
- Oliver Reed in Women in Love
- Gunnar Björnstrand in Persona
- James Caan in Red Line 7000
- Gene Hackman in Prime Cut
- Jason Robards in The Paper
- John Marley in The Godfather
- Paul Scofield in Quiz Show
- Glenn Ford in Superman
- E.G. Marshall in Nixon
- Elliott Gould in Bugsy
- David Niven in Lady L
- Om Puri in Wolf
Animation
- Professor Farnsworth in Futurama (seasons 1-5)
References
- ^ "Sergio Graziani's dubbing contributions". Antoniogenna.net. Retrieved 10 September 2018.
- ^ "Sergio Graziani: morto il doppiatore di Donald Sutherland e Peter O'Toole". cinematographe.it. 25 May 2018. Retrieved 10 September 2018.
- ^ "Morto il doppiatore Sergio Graziani, voce storica di Peter O'Toole, Donald Sutherland, Michael Caine e Farnsworth di Futurama". lascimmiapensa.com. 26 May 2018. Retrieved 10 September 2018.