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Mario Milita (26 June 1923 – 22 August 2017) was an Italian actor and voice actor.
Biography
An actor with a career spanning over 65 years, performing for the theatre, films, television, and radio shows, he became well known to the audiences for his voice work in animation. Because of his coarse, raspy voice, he was typically known for voicing elderly characters in cartoons, movies and other entertainment. He was known for being the official Italian voice of Grampa Simpson in The Simpsons from 1991 until his retirement in 2012 (except for the young Abraham, for which he alternated with the official Italian Homer voice, Tonino Accolla). He has also been the first Italian voice of Herbert from Family Guy and dubbed Fred Flintstone for many years.
Since 2004, however, his voice had begun to weaken over time, causing it to become feeble and almost unrecognizable in his last years of activity.
In Italian dubs of live action films, Milita dubbed actors such as Desmond Llewelyn, Ed Williams and Brian Doyle-Murray. He provided the voice of Amos Tupper (portrayed by Tom Bosley) in a few episodes of Murder, She Wrote and Old Man Peabody (portrayed by Will Hare) in Back to the Future.
In 2011, a year before his retirement, he released an interview.
Retirement and death
After Milita retired in 2012, he passed on the roles of Grampa Simpson and Herbert to Mino Caprio and Valerio Ruggeri respectively and he died on 22 August 2017 at the age of 94, of natural causes.
Filmography
= Cinema
=Montecassino (1946)
Non ho paura di vivere (1952)
Ultimatum alla vita (1962)
The Hyena of London (1964)
I criminali della metropoli (1967)
Non ho tempo (1973)
= Television
=Diagnosi - TV miniseries (1975)
Gente tutto cuore - TV play (1965)
La scalata - TV miniseries (1993)
Lo zio d'America - TV series (2002)
Stiamo bene insieme - TV series, episode 11 (2002)
Il mondo è meraviglioso - TV film (2005)
Voice work
= Animation
=Alan Ford e il gruppo TNT contro Superciuk - Geremia Lettiga
Pimpa - Additional voices
L'eroe dei due mondi (film 1994) - Quarto
Kate - the Taming of the Shrew - Gremio
Italian-dubbed animated roles
Fred Flintstone in The Flintstones (3rd voice), The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones, The New Fred and Barney Show
Grandpa Lou Pickles in The Rugrats Movie, Rugrats in Paris: The Movie, Rugrats Go Wild
Grampa Simpson and The Pope in The Simpsons (seasons 1-22), Grampa Simpson in The Simpsons Movie
Narrator and Doctor Harada in Captain Tsubasa
Marvin Marsh and Harold Cartman in South Park (1st Italian dub)
Herbert (seasons 1–9) and Francis Griffin (episodes 2x02, 4x18) in Family Guy
Treebeard in The Lord of the Rings
Ebeneezer Scrooge (Scrooge McDuck) in Mickey's Christmas Carol (1st Italian dub)
Mumm-Ra in ThunderCats
The Old Heretic in The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Laughing Bull in Cowboy Bebop
Old Theban in Hercules
Gennai in Digimon Adventure
Sparky in Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp's Adventure
= Live action
=Fantozzi va in pensione - Additional voices
Italian-dubbed live action roles
George "Miles" Jergens in Rocky
Mickey Goldmill in Rocky V
Old Man Peabody in Back to the Future
Amos Tupper in Murder, She Wrote (episodes 1x01, 2x07, 2x14, 3x03, 3x06)
Monsignor Fargo in True Confessions
The Ancient One in Santa Claus: The Movie
Ted Olsen in The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear, Naked Gun 33+1⁄3: The Final Insult
Q in Moonraker, A View to a Kill
Orderly Turkle in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Doc Wallace in The Quick and the Dead
Grandpa Sam in ...And Justice for All
Rabbi Ben Lewis in Keeping the Faith
Frank Slater in Last Action Hero
Man in Airport in Home Alone
Cliff in Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
Ernie in Snow Dogs
Bud Beckett in Philadelphia
Rudolf Smuntz in Mouse Hunt
Priest in Bedazzled
Bradley Tozer in High Road to China
Mr. Finkle in Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
Acme Vice President in Looney Tunes: Back in Action
Abdul Ben Hassan in Blade Runner
= Video games
=Fakir in Disney's Aladdin in Nasira's Revenge
Grampa Simpson in The Simpsons Game
References
External links
Mario Milita at IMDb
Mario Milita at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Mario Milita
- Mario (given name)
- Deaths in August 2017
- Mino Caprio
- 1923
- Where Words Fail
- The Hyena of London
- Valerio Ruggeri
- Mario Montoto
- Musketeers of the Sea
