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.

Фільмографія

• Il camorrista - Una serie di Giuseppe Tornatore — Police Commissioner Iervolino
• 2025Raqmar — Cliente
• 2024Per il mio bene — Luciano
• 2023So tutto di te — Aldo Lipari
• Framed! A Sicilian Murder Mystery — il Procuratore Nicolosi
• 2022Quel posto nel tempo — Mario
• 2022Vecchio — Vecchio
• 2020Il delitto Mattarella — Rosario Nicoletti
• 2020The Great Wave
• 2019I futurieri — Voce narrante
• 2019Sono solo fantasmi — Signore distinto
• 2018La stella di Andra e Tati — Giovanni Bucci (voice)
• 2018The Red Tree — Narrator
• 2017It’s the Law — Don Raffaele
• Catturandi - Nel Nome del Padre — Ruggero Mazzamuto
• 2016I siciliani
• 2016In arte Nino — Prof. Giuffrida
• 2016Sad Letters — Mario
• 2015Italo — Italo (Voce)
• 2014La missione di 3P — Padre Pino Puglisi (voice)
• 2011In arte Lilia Silvi — Producer
• 2011The Father and the Foreigner — Santini
• 2010Giovanni e Paolo e il mistero dei pupi — Salvatore (voice) / Lisca (voice)
• 2009Baaria — Liborio
• 2007Di che peccato sei? — Antonio Bertolacci
• 2007La stella dei re — Melkhior
• 2005Domani è un'altra truffa
• 2005Fatti della banda della Magliana — Il giudice
• 2005Incidenti — giornalista
• 2005Leo the Lion — Cobo (voice)
• The Heart in the Well — Don Bruno
• 2004Guardians of the Clouds — La Rocca
• 2004In This World of Thieves — Leonardo
• 2003The Prince of the Dinosaurs — Sluggard (voice)
• 2001Territori d'ombra — Antonio
• 2001Vajont — Mario Pancini
• C'è posta per te
• 2000Operazione Odissea — Michele Sinatra
• 2000Scarlet Diva — Dr. Vessi
• 1999Cristallo di rocca - Una storia di Natale — Don Anselmo
• 1999Un uomo perbene — Giovanni Pandico
• 1999Villa Ada
• Ciao Darwin — Capitano Meridionali
• 1998La missione
• 1998Ladri si diventa — Perini
• Le ragazze di Piazza di Spagna — Il cieco
• 1998Leo e Beo — Beo (voice)
• 1998Oltremare - Non è l'America
• 1998Simpatici & antipatici — Gigetto
• 1997Gli Inaffidabili — Bostik
• 1997Ladri si nasce — il professore
• 1997The Game Bag — Carlo Gabbiadini
• 19963 — Vescovo di Pisa
• 1996Bruno aspetta in macchina — Ziino
• 1995Carogne - Ciro and Me — Prandstaller
• 1995Men Men Men — Tony
• 1995Savages — Luigi Pinardi
• 1995Snowball — Sidik
• 1995The Star Maker — Vito
• A che punto è la notte — Priotti
• 1993Package, Double Package and Counterpackage — Michele Bellezza
• 1993The Escort — Polizzi
• 1992Gole Ruggenti — Edoardo Lasagnetta - scriptwriter
• 1990Everybody's Fine — L'homme armé sur le toit d'un immeuble de Naples
• 1990In The Rose Garden — Armando
• Il ricatto — Carla
• 1989L'insegnante di violoncello — Leo
• 1989Scugnizzi — Fortunato
• 1989Sinbad of the Seven Seas — Nadir
• 1988Новий кінотеатр «Парадізо» — Ignazio, usher
• 1987Blue Tango — Fior da Fiore
• 1987Italiani a Rio
• 1986Department Store — Simoni, agente teatrale
• 1986Il Bi e il Ba — Gaetano
• 1986The Professor — Police Commissioner Iervolino
• 1985Half Right Half Left - 2 Footballers Without a Ball — allenatore Juan Carlos Fulgencio
• 1984Where's Picone? — Sgueglia
• 1982Heads I Win, Tails You Lose — Walter
• 1982Miss Right — Benito
• 1982Spaghetti House — Salvatore Manzilla
• 1982Stormtroopers II — Recluta
• 1982The Paramedic — Sostituto Procuratore
• 1981I Carabbinieri — Salvatore Caruso
• 1981I carabbimatti — Ceci
• 1981L'esercito più pazzo del mondo — trasformista
• 1981Teste di quoio — Carrisi
• 1981The Honorable with His Lover under the Bed — Secretary Sgarbozzi / Honorable Sgarbozzi
• 1980Café Express — Vincenzo Imbastaro
• 1980Stark System — Schioppa
• 1978Rock 'n Roll — Il vigile
• 1977Ride bene... chi ride ultimo — "Ifigenia", domestico omossessuale
• 1977The Nurse on a Military Tour — Captain Lopez - doctor
• 1977The Swindle — Tarcisio Pollaroli "Er Fibbia"
• Mastro Don Gesualdo — cameriere
• Italiani — Se stesso

Ток-шоу, премії та інші появи (2)

• 2014L'ultimo metro di pellicola — Self
• 2002Ottavio Mario Mai — Self