Monday, November 28, 2022

RIP Giancarlo Padoan

 

Il mondo dei doppiatori announced that Italian voice actor and dubber Giancarlo Padoan died in Rome, Italy on November 28, 2022. He was 87. Born in Venice, Italy on May 4, 1935, he was Italian voice actor who dubbed Rowlf on ‘Il Muppet Show’, the Italian dub of  TV’s ‘The Muppet Show’. In latter day Muppet projects, he took over as the Italian voice of Statler. He also dubbed Hoggle in ‘Labyrinth - Dove Tutto è Possibile’ (Labyrinth).

Padfoan dubbed Donald Pleasence in “Halloween 2”, Ossie Davis in Spike Lee's “She Hate Me”, Philip Baker Hall in “Rush Hour”, Topol in the miniseries ‘The Winds of War’, and Richard Griffiths in “Shanghai Surprise”. For TV, he dubbed Dan Blocker on ‘Bonanza’, Leonard Nimoy on ‘Star Trek’, Tony Haygarth on ‘The Borrowers’, and Wolfgang Völz on the German series ‘Ein Heim für Tiere’. Padoan frequently lent his voice to anime dubs.

PADOAN, Giancarlo

Born: 5/4/1935, Venice, Veneto, Italy

Died: 11/28/2022, Rome, Lazio, Italy

Giancarlo’s westerns – voice dubber, actor.

Bonanza (TV) – 1959 [Italian voice of Dan Blocker]

Brave Star (TV) – 1987-1989 [Italian voice of Thirty-Thirty]

Comanche Moon (TV) – 2008 [Italian voice of Wally Welch]

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