Massimo Giuliani

Italian film, television, and voice actor

Actor
voice actor
dialogue writer
dubbing director
impressionist

Years active1955–presentSpouseTiziana LattucaChildrenDaniele GiulianiRelativesClaudia Catani (niece)

Massimo Giuliani (born 5 February 1951) is an Italian actor, voice actor and impressionist.^[1]

Biography

Born in Rome, Giuliani began his career at four years of age in the 1956 film Supreme Confession. He had an intensifying experience as a child actor throughout the 1950s and 1960s on cinema and television and also voiced Arthur in the Italian-Language dub of the 1963 animated film The Sword in the Stone. This marked Giuliani's first dubbing contribution.^[2]

As a voice actor, Giuliani is well known for providing the Italian voice of Fozzie Bear in The Muppets as well as Buck from the Ice Age film series. From 1996 to 2007 he provided the Italian voice of Bugs Bunny, until he passed on the role to Davide Garbolino. Giuliani has also dubbed Mel Gibson, Dudley Moore, John Belushi, Billy Crystal, John Candy, Andy García and Warwick Davis in some of their projects.^[3]

Giuliani is also an avid football fan. In the 1960s, he participated in a football youth squad but he left after four months due to his obligations as a child actor. In the early 2000s, he sparked controversy for impersonating footballer Francesco Totti on the show Convenscion.^[4] He has also made appearances in La Partita del cuore.

Personal life

Giuliani is married to dubbing director Tiziana Lattuca. He is also the father of voice actor Daniele Giuliani and the uncle of voice actress Claudia Catani.

Filmography

Cinema

Supreme Confession (1956)
Vento di primavera (1959)
Nuda fra le tigri (1959)
Accadde a Vienna (1960)
I Am Semiramis (1962)
I terribili 7 (1963)
Liolà (1963)
Giacobbe, l'uomo che lottò con Dio (1963)
Face in the Rain (1963)
I patriarchi (1964)
Seasons of Our Love (1965)
The Sunday Woman (1975)
The Face with Two Left Feet (1979)
I Don't Understand You Anymore (1980)
The Children Thief (1991)
L'ultimo innocente (1992)
Ci hai rotto papà (1993)

Television

Il romanzo di un maestro (1959)
Le avventure della squadra di stoppa (1964)
Avventure in IV B (1964)
David Copperfield (1965)
Diario partigiano (1970)
Processo ad un atto di valore (1972)
I ragazzi della 3ª C (1987-1989)
Classe di ferro (1989)
...Se non avessi l'amore (1991)
Pazza famiglia (1995)
S.P.Q.R. (1998)
Anni '60 (1999)
Don Matteo (2004)
Carabinieri - Sotto copertura (2005)
Imperium: Pompeii (2007)

Dubbing roles

Animation

Arthur in The Sword in the Stone
Young Thumper in Bambi (1968 redub)
Wally and Elvis in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kids^[5]
Koji Kabuto and Mucha in Great Mazinger
Fozzie Bear in The Muppet Movie, The Great Muppet Caper, The Muppet Christmas Carol (Fozziwig) / Swedish Chef, Muppet Treasure Island (Squire Trelawney), Muppets From Space, It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie, The Muppets' Wizard of Oz (Cowardly Lion), The Muppets, Muppets Most Wanted, Muppet Babies
Bugs Bunny in Animaniacs, Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies (1996-2006), Space Jam, The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie (1999 redub),^[6] Tweety's High-Flying Adventure, Looney Tunes: Back in Action, ^[7] Bah, Humduck! A Looney Tunes Christmas^[8]
Various characters in Animaniacs, The Simpsons
Buck in Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, Ice Age: Collision Course, The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild
Dusty Rust-eze in Cars 3

Live action

Jake "Joilet" Blues in The Blues Brothers
Frank Dunne in Gallipoli
Guy Hamilton in The Year of Living Dangerously
Fletcher Christian in The Bounty
Tom Garvey in The River
Ed Biddle in Mrs. Soffel
Max Rockatansky in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
Barf in Spaceballs
George Stone / Giuseppe Petri in The Untouchables
Ben Chase in Criminal Law
Rick Becker in Loaded Weapon 1
Nikanor "Nick" Chevotarevich in The Deer Hunter
Arthur Bach in Arthur, Arthur 2: On the Rocks
Francis Fratelli in The Goonies
Larry Donner in Throw Momma from the Train
The Leprechaun in Leprechaun
Rob Salinger in Micki & Maude
Jack Hammond in Like Father Like Son
Melvyn Orton in Blame It on the Bellboy
Angel Maldonado in 8 Million Ways to Die
Norbert "Norby" LeBlaw in Baby's Day Out
Eddie Moscone in Midnight Run
Ramirez in Stand and Deliver
Nick "Goose" Bradshaw in Top Gun
Gray Baker in Dead Again
Ernie Souchak in Continental Divide
Danny Costanzo in Running Scared

Video games

Bugs Bunny in Bugs Bunny: Lost in Time,^[9] Bugs Bunny & Taz: Time Busters,^[10] Looney Tunes: Back in Action^[11]

References

^ "Massimo Giuliani's dubbing contributions". Antoniogenna.net. Retrieved 26 May 2019.
^ "Massimo Giuliani". MYmovies. Retrieved 26 May 2019.
^ Intervista a MASSIMO GIULIANI (2013) | enciclopediadeldoppiaggio.it
^ "Una vita tra minacce e insulti per aver toccato il mito Totti". ricerca.repubblica.it. 10 October 2002. Retrieved 26 May 2019.
^ "Butch Cassidy". Il mondo dei doppiatori, antoniogenna.net (in Italian).
^ "Super Bunny in orbita!". Il mondo dei doppiatori, antoniogenna.net (in Italian).
^ ""Giro del mondo con Titti" / "Titti turista tuttofare"". Il mondo dei doppiatori, antoniogenna.net (in Italian).
^ "Looney Tunes - Canto di Natale". Il mondo dei doppiatori, antoniogenna.net (in Italian).
^ "Bugs Bunny - Lost in Time". Il mondo dei doppiatori, antoniogenna.net (in Italian).
^ "Bugs Bunny e Taz in viaggio nel tempo". Il mondo dei doppiatori, antoniogenna.net (in Italian).
^ "IL MONDO DEI DOPPIATORI - EXTRA - VIDEOGAMES: "Looney Tunes Back in Action". Il mondo dei doppiatori, antoniogenna.net (in Italian).