RIP Dario Penne

 

Dario Penne, the Italian voice of Anthony Hopkins, Michael Caine and Christopher Lloyd, dies

Two days before his 85th birthday, the actor and dubber from Trieste passed away

 

Ciak Magazine

By Vania Amitrano

February 15, 2023

Dario Penne was one of the most famous actors and dubbers in Italy. Born in Trieste in 1938, two days after his 85th birthday, the interpreter who gave voice in the Italian version to great stars such as Anthony Hopkins, Michael Caine, Christopher Lloyd, Tommy Lee Jones, James Cromwell and many others has passed away.

Dario Penne's career

Versatile actor, Dario Penne between the 80s and 90s has dubbed characters very different from each other, quickly becoming the official voice of many important protagonists of world cinema.

In 1989 he voiced Christopher Lloyd in the role of Doc in the sequel to the famous 1985 cult Back to the Future; the result was convincing aces, Penne continued to voice Lloyd even in the third film of the saga and became the official voice of the actor in other films such as Who framed Roger Rabbit?, Pagemaster, Dennis the threat and many others.

In the nineties Penne became the voice of other stars such as Tommy Lee Jones, Michael Caine, Clint Eastwood, Ben Kingsley and Michael Douglas. But it is above all in 1991 that he doubles the most important and famous role of his career: Dr. Hannibal Lecter in the film The Silence of the Lambs. In the film, Penne pounds his voice, made of nuances and ambiguities, to the excellent interpretation of Anthony Hopkins in the role of the most famous cannibal doctor in the history of cinema.

Dario Penne and Anthony Hopkins

Except in the case of Bram Stoker's Dracula, in which Penne voiced Gary Oldman's character as the famous vampire, the Hopkins-Penne duo becomes indissoluble.

Dario Penne also became famous in the field of animation where he was the voice of the bizarre robot Bender in the famous animated series Futurama. His voice remains associated with many unforgettable characters.

PENNE, Dario

Born: 2/17/1938, Trieste, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italy

Died: 2/15/2023, Rome, Lazio, Italy

 

Dario Penne’s westerns – voice dubbing:

Zorro (TV) – 1957 [Italian voice of Jan Arvan]

High Chaparral (TV) – 1967-1971 [Italian voice of Cameron Mitchell]

Cemetery Without Crosses – 1969 [Italian voice of Pierre Hatet]

Four Came to Kill Sartana – 1969 [Italian voice of Franco Ricci]

Chapaqua’s Gold – 1970 [Italian voice of Piero Lulli]

Django and Sartana are Coming… It’s the End – 1970 [Italian voice of Benito Pacifico]

Trinity Sees Red – 1970 [[Italian voice of ?]

Down With Your Hands… You Scum – 1971 [Italian voice of Benito Pacifico]

Four Gunmen of the Holy Trinity – 1971 [Italian voice of Salvatore Funari]

Kill Django… Kill First – 1971 [Italian voice of George Wang]

Shoot Joe and Shoot Again – 1971 [Italian voice of Paolo Magalotti]

Chato’s Land – 1972 [Italian voice of Charles Bronson]

Death Played the Flute – 1972 [Italian voice of Jose Palomo]

Pat Garrett and Billy Kid – 1973 [Italian voice of James Coburn]

Back to the Future III - 1990 [Italian voice of Christopher Lloyd]

Tombstone – 1993 [Italian voice of Sam Elliott]

The Mask of Zorro – 1998 [Italian voice of Anthony Hopkins]

Wild Wild West – 1999 [Italian voice of Ted Levine]

The Missing – 2003 [Italian voice of Tommy Lee Jones]

Deadwood (TV) – 2004-2006 [Italian voice of Ian McShane]

Doc West (TV) – 2009 [Italian voice of Adam Taylor]

Tex (Radio) – 2012 [Italian voice of Narbas]

A Million Ways to Die in the West - 2014 [Italian voice of Christopher Lloyd]

Westworld (TV) – 2016-2018 [Italian voice of Anthony Hopkins]