Leo Gullotta
Acting • Born 1946-01-09
Biography
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.
Filmography
92 credits
Cinema Paradiso
Movie • 1988
Ignazio, usher
Stark System
Movie • 1980
Schioppa
Baaria
Movie • 2009
Liborio
Department Store
Movie • 1986
Simoni, agente teatrale
The Nurse on a Military Tour
Movie • 1977
Captain Lopez - doctor
The Escort
Movie • 1993
Polizzi
Scugnizzi
Movie • 1989
Fortunato
Vecchio
Movie • 2022
Vecchio
So tutto di te
Movie • 2023
Il Bi e il Ba
Movie • 1986
Gaetano
Un uomo perbene
Movie • 1999
Giovanni Pandico
Giovanni e Paolo e il mistero dei pupi
Movie • 2010
Salvatore (voice) / Lisca (voice)
The Prince of the Dinosaurs
Movie • 2003
Sluggard (voice)
Blue Tango
Movie • 1987
Fior da Fiore
Snowball
Movie • 1995
Sidik
La missione di 3P
Movie • 2014
Padre Pino Puglisi (voice)
Italiani a Rio
Movie • 1987
Gli Inaffidabili
Movie • 1997
Bostik
Villa Ada
Movie • 1999
Ladri si nasce
Movie • 1997
il professore
Domani è un'altra truffa
Movie • 2005
Spaghetti House
Movie • 1982
Salvatore Manzilla
Rock 'n Roll
Movie • 1978
Il vigile
Incidenti
Movie • 2005
giornalista
L'ultimo metro di pellicola
Movie • 2014
Self
Italo
Movie • 2015
Italo (Voce)
Quel posto nel tempo
Movie • 2022
Mario
Bruno aspetta in macchina
Movie • 1996
Ziino
Scarlet Diva
Movie • 2000
Dr. Vessi
Sinbad of the Seven Seas
Movie • 1989
Nadir
Café Express
Movie • 1980
Vincenzo Imbastaro
L'insegnante di violoncello
Movie • 1989
Leo
I siciliani
Movie • 2016
The Paramedic
Movie • 1982
Sostituto Procuratore
Men Men Men
Movie • 1995
Tony
Where's Picone?
Movie • 1984
Sgueglia
Vajont
Movie • 2001
Mario Pancini
Savages
Movie • 1995
Luigi Pinardi
The Honorable with His Lover under the Bed
Movie • 1981
Secretary Sgarbozzi / Honorable Sgarbozzi
I Carabbinieri
Movie • 1981
Salvatore Caruso
The Father and the Foreigner
Movie • 2011
Santini
Heads I Win, Tails You Lose
Movie • 1982
Walter
Fatti della banda della Magliana
Movie • 2005
Il giudice
Simpatici & antipatici
Movie • 1998
Gigetto
In This World of Thieves
Movie • 2004
Leonardo
Ride bene... chi ride ultimo
Movie • 1977
"Ifigenia", domestico omossessuale
Package, Double Package and Counterpackage
Movie • 1993
Michele Bellezza
Leo the Lion
Movie • 2005
Cobo (voice)
Ladri si diventa
Movie • 1998
Perini
Cristallo di rocca - Una storia di Natale
Movie • 1999
Don Anselmo
3
Movie • 1996
Vescovo di Pisa
Territori d'ombra
Movie • 2001
Teste di quoio
Movie • 1981
Carrisi
L'esercito più pazzo del mondo
Movie • 1981
trasformista
The Swindle
Movie • 1977
Tarcisio Pollaroli "Er Fibbia"
It’s the Law
Movie • 2017
Don Raffaele
In arte Nino
Movie • 2016
Prof. Giuffrida
The Star Maker
Movie • 1995
Vito
Everybody's Fine
Movie • 1990
L'homme armé sur le toit d'un immeuble de Naples
Half Right Half Left - 2 Footballers Without a Ball
Movie • 1985
allenatore Juan Carlos Fulgencio
I carabbimatti
Movie • 1981
Ceci
La stella dei re
Movie • 2007
Melkhior
Stormtroopers II
Movie • 1982
Recluta
Sad Letters
Movie • 2016
Mario
Gole Ruggenti
Movie • 1992
Edoardo Lasagnetta - scriptwriter
In The Rose Garden
Movie • 1990
Armando
La stella di Andra e Tati
Movie • 2018
Giovanni Bucci (voice)
The Red Tree
Movie • 2018
Narrator
La missione
Movie • 1998
Guardians of the Clouds
Movie • 2004
La Rocca
The Game Bag
Movie • 1997
Carlo Gabbiadini
Miss Right
Movie • 1982
Benito
Sono solo fantasmi
Movie • 2019
Signore distinto
Il delitto Mattarella
Movie • 2020
Rosario Nicoletti
I futurieri
Movie • 2019
Voce narrante
Operazione Odissea
Movie • 2000
Michele Sinatra
The Great Wave
Movie • 2020
Oltremare - Non è l'America
Movie • 1998
Di Che Peccato Sei?
Movie • 2007
Antonio Bertolacci
Per il mio bene
Movie • 2024
Luciano
The Professor
Movie • 1986
Police Commissioner Iervolino
Carogne - Ciro and Me
Movie • 1995
Prandstaller
Ottavio Mario Mai
Movie • 2002
Self
Ciao Darwin
TV • 1998
Capitano Meridionali
C'è posta per te
TV • 2000
Framed! A Sicilian Murder Mystery
TV • 2022
il Procuratore Nicolosi
Il ricatto
TV • 1989
Carla
The Heart in the Well
TV • 2005
Don Bruno
A che punto è la notte
TV • 1994
Priotti
Catturandi - Nel Nome del Padre
TV • 2016
Ruggero Mazzamuto
Le ragazze di Piazza di Spagna
TV • 1998
Il cieco
Il camorrista - Una serie di Giuseppe Tornatore
TV • 2025
Police Commissioner Iervolino