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 w...
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.
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Movies (Cast)
The Paramedic
Café Express
Savages
Villa Ada
Cinema Paradiso
The Swindle
Spaghetti House
I Carabbinieri
The Professor
Operazione Odissea
Stark System
Scarlet Diva
Italo
Baaria
Domani è un'altra truffa
It’s the Law
Everybody's Fine
The Escort
Sinbad of the Seven Seas
Vajont
Department Store
L'insegnante di violoncello
Blue Tango
Gli Inaffidabili
Fatti della banda della Magliana
La stella dei re
Giovanni e Paolo e il mistero dei pupi
I carabbimatti
In The Rose Garden
Ladri si diventa
Heads I Win, Tails You Lose
Italiani a Rio
Scugnizzi
The Honorable with His Lover under the Bed
Men Men Men
In arte Nino
3
Where's Picone?
Ladri si nasce
Gole Ruggenti
In This World of Thieves
The Father and the Foreigner
Miss Right
L'esercito più pazzo del mondo
The Nurse on a Military Tour
Di Che Peccato Sei?
Bruno aspetta in macchina
The Prince of the Dinosaurs
Un uomo perbene
The Star Maker
Per il mio bene
Snowball
Il Bi e il Ba
Leo the Lion
Guardians of the Clouds
La stella di Andra e Tati
Sono solo fantasmi
Stormtroopers II
Cristallo di rocca - Una storia di Natale
Teste di quoio
Half Right Half Left - 2 Footballers Without a Ball