Acting
Leo Gullotta
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.
Movies with Leo Gullotta
Cinema Paradiso
1988
The Nurse on a Military Tour
1977
Baaria
2009
Scarlet Diva
2000
The Professor
1986
The Paramedic
1982
I Carabbinieri
1981
The Swindle
1977
Department Store
1986
Leo the Lion
2005
The Star Maker
1995
Vajont
2001
Where's Picone?
1984
Miss Right
1982
Everybody's Fine
1990
Spaghetti House
1982
Sinbad of the Seven Seas
1989
It’s the Law
2017
L'insegnante di violoncello
1989
Snowball
1995
The Escort
1993
Café Express
1980
Gli Inaffidabili
1997
Teste di quoio
1981
Ladri si nasce
1997
Savages
1995
Per il mio bene
2024
The Honorable with His Lover under the Bed
1981
Un uomo perbene
1999
Heads I Win, Tails You Lose
1982
Cristallo di rocca - Una storia di Natale
1999
Stormtroopers II
1982
Italiani a Rio
1987
Sono solo fantasmi
2019
Stark System
1980
In arte Nino
2016
Guardians of the Clouds
2004
I carabbimatti
1981
Il Bi e il Ba
1986
Bruno aspetta in macchina
1996
Scugnizzi
1989
Operazione Odissea
2000
Domani è un'altra truffa
2005
Rock 'n Roll
1978
Half Right Half Left - 2 Footballers Without a Ball
1985
The Great Wave
2020
Gole Ruggenti
1992
Il delitto Mattarella
2020
I futurieri
2019
Carogne - Ciro and Me
1995
In The Rose Garden
1990
The Father and the Foreigner
2011
Blue Tango
1987
Simpatici & antipatici
1998
3
1996
La stella dei re
2007
The Game Bag
1997
Men Men Men
1995
Package, Double Package and Counterpackage
1993
In This World of Thieves
2004
Italo
2015
Di Che Peccato Sei?
2007
The Prince of the Dinosaurs
2003
Ladri si diventa
1998
So tutto di te
2023
Ride bene... chi ride ultimo
1977
La missione di 3P
2014
La missione
1998
L'esercito più pazzo del mondo
1981
I siciliani
2016
Leo e Beo
1998
Territori d'ombra
2001
Villa Ada
1999
Vecchio
2022
Oltremare - Non è l'America
1998
La stella di Andra e Tati
2018
Quel posto nel tempo
2022
L'ultimo metro di pellicola
2014
Sad Letters
2016
The Red Tree
2018
Incidenti
2005
Fatti della banda della Magliana
2005
Ottavio Mario Mai
2002
Giovanni e Paolo e il mistero dei pupi
2010
Raqmar
2025
TV Shows with Leo Gullotta
Ciao Darwin
1998
Il camorrista - Una serie di Giuseppe Tornatore
2025
Framed! A Sicilian Murder Mystery
2022
Le ragazze di Piazza di Spagna
1998
Italiani
Catturandi - Nel Nome del Padre
2016
C'è posta per te
2000
Mastro Don Gesualdo
1964
A che punto è la notte
1994
Il ricatto
1989
The Heart in the Well
2005