Giuseppe Rinaldi

Giuseppe Rinaldi (14 September 1919 – 15 December 2007) was an Italian actor and voice actor.

Giuseppe Rinaldi
Rinaldi in The Man on the Street (1941)
Born	(1919-09-14)14 September 1919 Rome, Kingdom of Italy
Died	15 December 2007(2007-12-15) (aged 88) Rome, Italy
Other names	Peppino Rinaldi
Occupations	Actor voice actor dubbing director
Years active	1939–1997
Spouse(s)	Marina Dolfin (divorced) Maria Pia Casilio
Children	Massimo Antonella Francesca

Biography

Born in Rome, Rinaldi appeared in more than 20 films between 1939 and 1982. During his time, he was considered to be one of the greatest dubbers in Italy.^[1] He provided the Italian voices of Marlon Brando, Jack Lemmon, Rock Hudson, Paul Newman, Van Johnson and James Dean.^[2] Other actors dubbed by him included Peter Sellers, Frank Sinatra, Glenn Ford, David Tomlinson, Richard Burton, George Peppard, Burt Lancaster, Charles Bronson, Kirk Douglas, Gregory Peck, Roger Moore, Jeffrey Hunter, Max von Sydow, and Christopher Plummer.^[3] He even dubbed many Italian actors in post-syncronization, voicing many roles performed by Antonio Cifariello, Mario Merola, and Renato Salvatori.^[4]

In Rinaldi's animated film roles, he voiced Bruno Bozzetto's character Mr. Rossi in two films and a TV show, Pongo in the Italian dub of the 1961 animated film One Hundred and One Dalmatians as well as Prince Charming in the Italian version of Cinderella. Other animated dubbing roles included Jim Dear in Lady and the Tramp, The Great Prince of the Forest in the 1968 redub of Bambi and Dallben in The Black Cauldron. He also voiced Jolly Jumper in the 1991 live-action film Lucky Luke and in the following short-lived TV series (in the English language edition, the same character was voiced by Roger Miller).

Personal life

Rinaldi was once married to actress Marina Dolfin. They had two children together; Massimo and Antonella. From his second marriage to actress Maria Pia Casilio, they had one daughter; Francesca. All three of his children are voice actors.

Rinaldi died on 15 December 2007, aged 88. He had retired from his career 10 years earlier.^[5]

Filmography

Cinema

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1939	Department Store	Skier
	The Night of Tricks
	Heartbeat
1940	The First Woman Who Passes	Raoul d'Aubigny
	Then We'll Get a Divorce	Bob
	The Cavalier from Kruja	Essad Haidar
	Tormented Hearts [it]	Paolo Antinori
1941	The Man on the Street	Stelio Corsi
	The Prisoner of Santa Cruz	Paolo Costa
1942	Forbidden Music	Giulio Folchi
	Disturbance	Saverio
	Black Gold	Carlo Marini
1943	Farewell Love!	Giustino Morelli
1945	Romulus and the Sabines	Emilio
1946	L'elisir d'amore [it]
1947	L'amante del male [it]	Cugino della contessina
	Sangue a Ca' Foscari [it]
1948	Immigrants	Ingegnere
1950	Night Taxi	Il ragionere
1963	Outlaws of Love	Narrator[6]	Anthology comedy
1970	A Pocketful of Chestnuts	Poker Player Doctor
1972	Chung Kuo, Cina	Narrator (voice)[7]	Documentary
1977	Mr. Rossi's Dreams	Mr. Rossi (voice)	Animated film
1978	Mr. Rossi's Vacation

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1955	L'assassino	Corrado	TV play[8]
1972–1981	SuperGulp! [it]	Mr. Rossi (voice)	Animated series[9]
1983	La fuggidiva	Rinaldi, the interviewer	TV film[10]

Dubbing

Films (Animation, Italian dub)

Year	Title	Role(s)	Ref
1950	Cinderella	Prince Charming	[11]
1955	Lady and the Tramp	Jim Dear	[12]
1960	Alakazam the Great	Prince Amat	[13]
1961	One Hundred and One Dalmatians	Pongo	[14]
1966	Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree	Narrator
1968	Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day
	Bambi	The Great Prince of the Forest (1968 redub)	[15]
1985	The Black Cauldron	Dallben	[16]
1986	Peter Pan	Captain Hook (1986 redub)	[17]

Films (Live action, Italian dub)

Year	Title	Role(s)	Original actor	Ref
1946	It's a Wonderful Life	Marty Hatch	Harold Landon	[18]
1964	Mary Poppins	George Banks	David Tomlinson
1967	Casino Royale	Evelyn Tremble	Peter Sellers
1972	The Godfather	Vito Corleone	Marlon Brando	[19]
1973	Hitler: The Last Ten Days	Adolf Hitler	Alec Guinness
1983	The World of Don Camillo	Crucifix	Allan Arbus	[20]
1994	The Hudsucker Proxy	Sidney J. Mussburger	Paul Newman