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.
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Fotos
Filme (89)
Salute!
2026
Una vita da Pingitore
2026 · Sé stesso
Raqmar
2025 · Cliente
Per il mio bene
2024 · Luciano
So tutto di te
2023 · Aldo Lipari
Quel posto nel tempo
2022 · Mario
Vecchio
2022 · Vecchio
The Great Wave
2020
Il delitto Mattarella
2020 · Rosario Nicoletti
Sono solo fantasmi
2019 · Signore distinto
I futurieri
2019 · Voce narrante
La stella di Andra e Tati
2018 · Giovanni Bucci (voice)
The Red Tree
2018 · Narrator
It’s the Law
2017 · Don Raffaele
In arte Nino
2016 · Prof. Giuffrida
I siciliani
2016
Sad Letters
2016 · Mario
Italo
2015 · Italo (Voce)
L'ultimo metro di pellicola
2014 · Self
La missione di 3P
2014 · Padre Pino Puglisi (voice)
In arte Lilia Silvi
2011 · Producer
The Father and the Foreigner
2011 · Santini
Giovanni e Paolo e il mistero dei pupi
2010 · Salvatore (voice) / Lisca (voice)
Baaria
2009 · Liborio
Di che peccato sei?
2007 · Antonio Bertolacci
La stella dei re
2007 · Melkhior
Leo the Lion
2005 · Cobo (voice)
Fatti della banda della Magliana
2005 · Il giudice
Incidenti
2005 · giornalista
Domani è un'altra truffa
2005
In This World of Thieves
2004 · Leonardo
Guardians of the Clouds
2004 · La Rocca
The Prince of the Dinosaurs
2003 · Sluggard (voice)
Ottavio Mario Mai
2002 · Self
Vajont
2001 · Mario Pancini
Territori d'ombra
2001 · Antonio
Scarlet Diva
2000 · Dr. Vessi
Operazione Odissea
2000 · Michele Sinatra
Villa Ada
1999
Un uomo perbene
1999 · Giovanni Pandico
Cristallo di rocca - Una storia di Natale
1999 · Don Anselmo
Ladri si diventa
1998 · Perini
Simpatici & antipatici
1998 · Gigetto
La missione
1998
Leo e Beo
1998 · Beo (voice)
Oltremare - Non è l'America
1998
The Game Bag
1997 · Carlo Gabbiadini
Ladri si nasce
1997 · il professore
Gli Inaffidabili
1997 · Bostik
3
1996 · Vescovo di Pisa
Bruno aspetta in macchina
1996 · Ziino
Snowball
1995 · Sidik
Savages
1995 · Luigi Pinardi
The Star Maker
1995 · Vito
Carogne - Ciro and Me
1995 · Prandstaller
Men Men Men
1995 · Tony
The Escort
1993 · Polizzi
Package, Double Package and Counterpackage
1993 · Michele Bellezza
Gole Ruggenti
1992 · Edoardo Lasagnetta - scriptwriter
Agnieszka
1992 · Franco
In The Rose Garden
1990 · Armando
Everybody's Fine
1990 · L'homme armé sur le toit d'un immeuble de Naples
L'insegnante di violoncello
1989 · Leo
Scugnizzi
1989 · Fortunato
Sinbad of the Seven Seas
1989 · Nadir
Cinema Paradiso
1988 · Ignazio, usher
Italiani a Rio
1987
Blue Tango
1987 · Fior da Fiore
The Professor
1986 · Police Commissioner Iervolino
Department Store
1986 · Simoni, agente teatrale
Il Bi e il Ba
1986 · Gaetano
Half Right Half Left - 2 Footballers Without a Ball
1985 · allenatore Juan Carlos Fulgencio
Where's Picone?
1984 · Sgueglia
Heads I Win, Tails You Lose
1982 · Walter
Stormtroopers II
1982 · Recluta
Spaghetti House
1982 · Salvatore Manzilla
The Paramedic
1982 · Sostituto Procuratore
Miss Right
1982 · Benito
L'esercito più pazzo del mondo
1981 · trasformista
I carabbimatti
1981 · Ceci
The Honorable with His Lover under the Bed
1981 · Secretary Sgarbozzi / Honorable Sgarbozzi
I Carabbinieri
1981 · Salvatore Caruso
Teste di quoio
1981 · Carrisi
Stark System
1980 · Schioppa
Café Express
1980 · Vincenzo Imbastaro
Rock 'n Roll
1978 · Il vigile
The Swindle
1977 · Tarcisio Pollaroli "Er Fibbia"
The Nurse on a Military Tour
1977 · Captain Lopez - doctor
Ride bene... chi ride ultimo
1977 · "Ifigenia", domestico omossessuale
Serien (11)
Il camorrista - Una serie di Giuseppe Tornatore
2025 · Police Commissioner Iervolino
Reingelegt!
2022 · il Procuratore Nicolosi
Catturandi - Nel Nome del Padre
2016 · Ruggero Mazzamuto
The Heart in the Well
2005 · Don Bruno
C'è posta per te
2000
Ciao Darwin
1998 · Capitano Meridionali
Le ragazze di Piazza di Spagna
1998 · Il cieco
A che punto è la notte
1994 · Priotti
Il ricatto
1989 · Carla
Mastro Don Gesualdo
1964 · cameriere
Italiani
· Se stesso