Glauco Onorato (7 December 1936 – 31 December 2009) was an Italian actor and voice actor.
As an actor and dubber popular with audiences throughout Italy, he was renowned for voicing over nearly all of Bud Spencer's roles as Spencer had a thick Neapolitan accent. Onorato had worked consistently from the late 1950s until shortly before his death.
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Biography
Glauco Onorato was born in Turin on 7 December 1936 and was educated at the Silvio D'Amico National Academy of Dramatic Arts. His father was Giovanni Onorato, also an actor, and his brother was Marco Onorato, who was a cinematographer.
Active in film, theater, and television, Onorato starred in over 31 films and 51 television shows. Among Onorato's most notable roles were as a man haunted by the supernatural in Mario Bava's masterpiece Black Sabbath, a soldier returning from the Russian front in Vittoria De Sica's Sunflower, and as a ruthless gangster in the crime film The Big Racket. He also starred as Leonardo da Vinci's father Piero da Vinci in the television miniseries The Life of Leonardo da Vinci. Onstage, Onorato starred in the 1978 edition of the 1962 musical comedy play Rugantino and made collaborations with many other stage actors and directors such as Enrico Montesano and Ottavia Piccolo. He also starred as Sir John Falstaff in stage adaptation of The Merry Wives of Windsor.
With a deep, booming, yet comical voice, Onorato gained his greatest fame as a voice actor. He had dubbed many foreign-language films and television shows into Italian. He provided the Italian voice for actors such as Danny Glover, James Coburn, Anthony Quinn and Charles Bronson as well as Arnold Schwarzenegger in his earlier and iconic films, most notably The Terminator. He may however be best known for dubbing Italian actor Bud Spencer (whose heavy Neapolitan accent was considered unsuitable for his roles) in nearly all of his movies. In Onorato's animated roles, he provided the Italian voices of Captain Gantu in the Lilo & Stitch franchise, Sykes in Oliver & Company, Professor Ratigan in The Great Mouse Detective, Carface Caruthers in All Dogs Go to Heaven and Willie the Giant in Mickey's Christmas Carol in the second redubbing.
Personal life
Onorato had three children: two of his children, Riccardo Nissem and Sara, are also voice actors, while Giovanni is a priest.
Death
Onorato died at the San Camillo Hospital in Rome on 31 December 2009, at the age of 73, after battling an undisclosed serious illness for some time.
Filmography
Dubbing roles
Animation
Gantu in Lilo & Stitch
Gantu in Stitch! The Movie
Gantu in Leroy & Stitch
Professor Rattigan in The Great Mouse Detective
Sykes in Oliver & Company
Carface Caruthers in All Dogs Go to Heaven
Danny in One Hundred and One Dalmatians
Captain of the Guard in Robin Hood
Morbo in Futurama (season 1)
Hernán Cortés in The Road to El Dorado
George Harrison in Yellow Submarine
Kazar in The Wild
Big Indian Chief in Peter Pan (1986 redub)
Kron in Dinosaur
Live action
Terminator in The Terminator
Liberty Valence in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence
Bernardo O’Reilly in The Magnificent Seven
Roger Murtaugh in Lethal Weapon
Roger Murtaugh in Lethal Weapon 2
Roger Murtaugh in Lethal Weapon 3
Roger Murtaugh in Lethal Weapon 4
Alan "Dutch" Schaefer in Predator
Clubber Lang in Rocky III
Paul Kersey in Death Wish V: The Face of Death
Louis Sedgwick in The Great Escape
Tex Panthollow in Charade
Finis Valorum in Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace
John Matrix in Commando
Mark Kaminski in Raw Deal
Howard Langston in Jingle All the Way
Harry Tasker in True Lies
Jack Cates in 48 Hrs.
Cecil Fredericks in Night at the Museum
James Jordan in Space Jam
Simon in Grand Canyon
Hershey in 3 A.M.
