Sunday, February 15, 2026

Pino Colizzi obit

Pino Colizzi, the great voice actor who voiced Michael Douglas and Jack Nicholson, has died at 88.

One of the greatest masters of dubbing passed away in Rome.

 He was not on the list.


Farewell to Pino Colizzi , historic Italian voice actor : he was 88 years old and died in Rome. He was married to his colleague Manuela Andrei, with whom he had two children: Carlo and Chiara. He was considered one of the great masters of dubbing.

Films and actors

As a voice actor, he has provided the voices of actors such as Michael Douglas, Jack Nicholson, James Caan, Richard Dreyfuss, Omar Sharif, Franco Nero, Robert Powell in Zeffirelli's Jesus of Nazareth (in which Colizzi also plays Jobab), Christopher Reeve in the first three Superman films, Robert De Niro in The Godfather Part II, Patrick McGoohan in the second edition of the dubbing of The Prisoner, the famous British science fiction series of the 1970s, and most notably Martin Sheen in Francis Ford Coppola's masterpiece Apocalypse Now. In 1973, he voiced Robin Hood in the famous Disney cartoon.

Filmography

Cinema

Everyone's in Love (1959)

Labbra rosse (1960)

Tom Jones (TV mini-series, 1960)

24 ore di terrore (1964)

Metello (1970)

Chronicle of a Homicide (1972)

Black Turin (1972)

Winged Devils (1972)

I Kiss the Hand (1973)

Italian Graffiti (1973)

Il commissario De Vincenzi (TV series, 1974)

A Common Sense of Modesty (1976)

Born Winner (1976)

Il medico... la studentessa (1976)

Jesus of Nazareth (1977, TV mini-series)

The Bishop's Bedroom (1977)

Bermuda: Cave of the Sharks (1978)

Puzzle (TV mini-series, 1978)

Brothers Till We Die (1978)

Vai avanti tu che mi vien da ridere (1982)

Notturno (1983)

Crime in Formula One (1984)

La piovra (TV miniseries, 1984)

Salomè (1986)

Volevo i pantaloni (1990)

Dicembre (1990)

La fine dell'intervista (1994)

Butterfly (TV series, 1995)

Tea with Mussolini (1999)

Il bello delle donne (TV series, 2001-2002)

Sei come sei (2002)

Holy Money (2009)

Alaska (2015)

Voice work

Narrator in Death Rides Along[8]

Voice of the afterlife in The Beyond (1981)[9]

Peterson's recorded voice in House by the Cemetery[10]

Dubbing roles

Animation

Robin Hood in Robin Hood[11]

Charlie B. Barkin in All Dogs Go to Heaven

Narrator in Fantasia (1973 redub)

Julius Caesar in Asterix the Gaul

Skrawl in ChalkZone

Live action

Clark Kent / Superman in Superman,[12] Superman II,[13] Superman III[14]

Sonny Corleone in The Godfather,[15] Sonny Corleone and Vito Corleone in The Godfather Part II[16]

Matt Hooper in Jaws[17]

Richard Adams in The China Syndrome

Dan Gallagher in Fatal Attraction

William Foster in Falling Down

Mark Forman in Heartburn

Grady Tripp in Wonder Boys

Tom Sanders in Disclosure

Nick Conklin in Black Rain[18]

President James Dale / Art Land in Mars Attacks![19]

Milo Tindle in Sleuth

Sean McLennon in North Star

Roy Neary in Close Encounters of the Third Kind[20]

Philip Blackwood in Her Alibi

Jimmie Rainwood in An Innocent Man

Peter Mitchell in Three Men and a Little Lady

Jon Aldrich in Folks!

Chris Leece in Stakeout

Bill "BB" Babowsky in Tin Men

Colin Harvey in Battle of Britain

Chang in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country[21]

Atahualpa in The Royal Hunt of the Sun

J. J. "Jake" Gittes in The Two Jakes

Charley Partanna in Prizzi's Honor

Daryl Van Horne in The Witches of Eastwick

Bill Rorish in Broadcast News

Francis Phelan in Ironweed

Harry Bliss in Man Trouble

Benjamin L. Willard in Apocalypse Now[22]

Joe Vandeleur in A Bridge Too Far

Bradford Crane in The Swarm

David Linderby in Ashanti

Charley Fortnum in The Honorary Consul

Sherlock Holmes / Reginald Kincaid in Without a Clue

Private Kelly in Kelly's Heroes

Dave Garver in Play Misty for Me

Jonathan Hemlock in The Eiger Sanction

Mr. Klein in Monsieur Klein

Michel Gerfaut in Three Men to Kill

Choucas in For a Cop's Hide

Roger Borniche in Flic Story

John Reed in Reds

Joe Pendleton in Heaven Can Wait

George Roundy in Shampoo

Nicky Wilson in The Fortune

John McCabe in McCabe & Mrs. Miller

W. P. Mayhew in Barton Fink

Clarence Oveur in Airplane!

Martin Stett in The Conversation

Len Peterson in Jaws 2

James Biggs in They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

Bob Hyde in Coming Home

The Detective in The Driver

Harry in Husbands

Brad Wesley in Road House

Tybalt in Romeo and Juliet

Harry York in Frances

Charles Brubaker in Capricorn One

John Blaine in Westworld

Darman in Prince of Shadows

Stony De Coco in Bloodbrothers

Bill in Days of Heaven

Father Da Costa in A Prayer for the Dying

Lavrentiy Beria in The Inner Circle

Rafer Janders in The Wild Geese

John Shaft in Shaft, Shaft's Big Score!

Logan Sharpe in They Call Me Mister Tibbs!

General Adlon in Meteor


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