
Corrado Gaipa
Acting • Born 1924-03-13 – Died 1989-09-21
Biography
Corrado Gaipa was an Italian actor and voice actor. Born in Palermo, Sicily, Gaipa enrolled in the Silvio d’Amico Academy of Dramatic Arts, graduating in 1946. He appeared in many Italian films, notably playing Don Tommasino in Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather. Also active on stage, radio and television, he was mainly active as a voice actor and a dubber. He was in a wheelchair. At the time of his death, he had just signed to reprise the role of Don Tommasino in The Godfather Part III.
Filmography
46 credits
A Spiral of Mist
Movie • 1977
Pietro Sangermano

The Eroticist
Movie • 1972
Don Gesualdo

The Godfather: The Complete Epic 1901–1959
Movie • 2016
Don Tmmasino

Words and Blood
Movie • 1982
padre di rico

The Fifth Cord
Movie • 1971
Editor

My Dear Killer
Movie • 1972
Head of Insurance Company

The Valdez Horses
Movie • 1973
Padre

The Boss
Movie • 1973
Lawyer Rizzo

The Godfather
Movie • 1972
Don Tommasino - Sicilian Sequence

Execution Squad
Movie • 1972
L'avvocato Armani

The Red Nights of the Gestapo
Movie • 1977
Udo Kassbaum

The Man with Icy Eyes
Movie • 1971
Isaac Thetman

Riot in a Women's Prison
Movie • 1974
Magistrate

Metello
Movie • 1970
Badolati

Crazy Desires of a Murderer
Movie • 1977
The Inspector

The Black Hand
Movie • 1973
Lawyer

The Criminals Attack. The Police Respond
Movie • 1977
Doctor

1931: Once Upon a Time in New York
Movie • 1973
Mob Boss

Malombra
Movie • 1974
Padre Tosi

The SuperVips
Movie • 1968
Il Colonnello (voice)

The Sinful Nuns of Saint Valentine
Movie • 1974
Honorio de Mendoza, l'Inquisitore

Idea di un'isola
Movie • 1967
Narrator (voice)

Shadows Unseen
Movie • 1972
Günther Rosenthal

Anna: the Pleasure, the Torment
Movie • 1973
Doctor

Giordano Bruno
Movie • 1973

Family Killer
Movie • 1973
Don Emilio Grisanti

Tony Arzenta
Movie • 1973
Arzenta's Father

A School Trip
Movie • 1983
Voce Fuoricampo

All for the Moral Majority!
Movie • 1984
Ministro Euclide (voce)

A Drama of Jealousy (and other things)
Movie • 1970
Presidente del Tribunale

That Splendid November
Movie • 1969
Alfio

The Four Days of Naples
Movie • 1962
Direttore del riformatorio (voice)

The Monsters
Movie • 1963
Batachi (segment "Il povero soldato") / Outspoken Critic (segmento "La musa") (voice) (uncredited)

The Sicilian Connection
Movie • 1972
Calogero

Without Family
Movie • 1972
Giudice

What Have They Done to Your Daughters?
Movie • 1974
DA

Illustrious Corpses
Movie • 1976
Supposed Mafioso

Perils of Problemina
Movie • 1968
Puti Puti (voce)

The Three of Us
Movie • 1984
Narrator (voice)

Help Me Dream
Movie • 1981
Narratore (uncredited)

Napoleone a Sant'Elena
Movie • 1973
Lord Liverpool

Ritratto di Donna Velata
TV • 1975
Il nebbia

Marco Polo
TV • 1982
Consigliere

Malombra
TV • 1974
Padre Tosi

Birth of the Republic
TV • 1971
Giovanni Conti

Napoleone a Sant'Elena
TV • 1973
Lord Liverpool