Glauco Onorato

Glauco Onorato
Onorato in W Django! (1971)
Born	7 December 1936 Turin, Piedmont, Italy
Died	31 December 2009 (aged 73) Rome, Lazio, Italy
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1959–2008

Glauco Onorato (7 December 1936 — 31 December 2009) was an Italian actor.

Early life

He was born in Turin, Piedmont, Italy. His father was Giovanni Onorato, also an actor.

Career

Active in film, theater, and television. Among his most notable roles were as a man haunted by the supernatural in Mario Bava's masterpiece Black Sabbath, a soldier returning from the Russian front in Vittorio De Sica's Sunflower, and as a ruthless gangster in the crime film The Big Racket. He worked consistently from the late 1950s until shortly before his death.

With a deep, booming, yet comical voice, he gained his greatest fame as a voice actor. He provided the Italian voice for actors such as Danny Glover, Arnold Schwarzenegger in his earlier films, Anthony Quinn and Charles Bronson. He may however be best known for dubbing Italian actor Bud Spencer (whose heavy Neapolitan accent was considered unsuitable for his roles) in nearly all of his movies.

Filmography

Spavaldi e Innamorati (1959), directed by Giuseppe Vari I Baccanali di Tiberio (1960), directed by Giorgio Simonelli Black Sabbath (Italian: I Tre Volti della Paura) (1963), directed by Mario Bava and Salvatore Billitteri Giacobbe, l'Uomo che Lottò con Dio (1963), directed by Marcello Baldi Lo Sceicco Rosso (1963), directed by Fernando Cerchio Amori Pericolosi (1964), episodio "La Ronda", directed by Carlo Lizzani Rivincita di Ivanhoe (1965), directed by Tanio Boccia Le piacevoli notti (1966), directed by Luciano Lucignani and Armando Crspino John il Bastardo (1967), directed by Armando Crispino Il Magnifico Texano (1968), directed by Luigi Capuano La Freccia Nera (1968), directed by Anton Giulio Majano Boot Hill (Italian: La collina degli stivali) (1969), directed by Giuseppe Colizzi Sunflower (Italian: I girasoli) (1970), directed by Vittorio De Sica Incontro (1971), directed by Piero Schivazappa W Django! (1971), directed by Edoardo Mulargia L'Ultimo Uomo di Sara (1972), directed by Maria Virginia Onorato

The Five Days (Italian: Le cinque giornate) (1973), directed by Dario Argento Fra' Tazio da Velletri (1973), directed by Romano Scandariato (and Joe D'Amato, uncredited) The Magnificent Dare Devil (Italian: Troppo rischio per un uomo solo) (1973), directed by Luciano Ercoli Wer Stirbt Schon Gerne unter Palmen? (1974), directed by Alfred Vohrer Carambola, Filotto... Tutti in Buca (1975), directed by Ferdinando Baldi Colpita da Improvviso Benessere (1975), directed by Franco Giraldi Deep Red (Italian: Profondo Rosso) (1975; uncredited), directed by Dario Argento Il Grande Racket (1976), directed by Enzo G. Castellari Maria R. e Gli Angeli del Trastevere (1976), directed by Elfriede Gaeng L'altra metà del cielo (1977), directed by Franco Rossi Poliziotto Sprint (1977), directed by Stelvio Massi Stringimi forte Papà (1977), directed by Michele Massimo Tarantini Il Vizietto II (1980), directed by Edouard Molinaro Stark System (1980), directed by Armenia Balducci Zucchero, Miele e Peperoncino (1980), directed by Sergio Martino Chi Nasce Tondo (2008), directed by Alessandro Valori

Television

Il Mondo è una Prigione (1962), directed by Vittorio Cottafavi Delitto e Castigo (1963), directed by Anton Giulio Majano Bene Mio Core Mio (1964), directed by Eduardo De Filippo Antony and Cleopatra (Italian: Antonio e Cleopatra) (1965), directed by Vittorio Cottafavi Vita di Dante (1965), directed by Vittorio Cottafavi Trampoli (1966), directed by Caludio Fino Caravaggio (1967), directed by Silverio Blasi I Promessi Sposi (1967), directed by Sandro Bolchi La Roma di Moravia (1967), directed by Daniele D'Anza Vita di Cavour (1967), directed by Piero Schivazappa La Freccia Nera (1968–1969; 6 episodes) I Fratelli Karamazov (1969; 2 episodes) Il Triangolo Rosso (1969; 1 episode) Antonio Meucci Cittadino Toscano Contro il Monopolio Bell (1970), directed by Daniele D'Anza La Vita di Leonardo da Vinci (1971), directed by Renato Castellani Prima, Durante e Dopo la Partita (1972), directed by Gian Domenico Giagni Assunta Spina (1973), directed by Carlo Di Stefano Door into Darkness (Italian: La porta sul buio) (1973; 1 episode) Merkwürdige Lebensgeschichte des Friedrich Freiherrn von der Trenck (1973) Canossa (1974), directed by Silverio Blasi L'Assassinio dei Fratelli Rosselli (1974), directed by Silvio Maestranzi

Nucleo Centrale Investigativo (1974), directed by Vittorio Armentano Processo per l'Uccisione di Raffaele Sonzogno Giornalista Romano (1975), directed by Alberto Negrin Dopo un Lungo Silenzio (1978), directed by Piero Schivazappa L'Étrange Monsieur Duvallier (1979; 1 episode) Bambole: Scene di un Delitto Perfetto (1980), directed by Alberto Negrin Parole e Sangue (1982), directed by Damiano Damiani I Due Prigionieri (1985), directed by Anton Giulio Majano La Grande Cabriole (1989), directed by Nina Companéez Donne Armate (1990), directed by Sergio Corbucci La piovra 6 - L'ultimo segreto (1992), directed by Luigi Perelli Tre Passi nel Delitto: Villa Maltraversi (1993), directed by Fabrizio Laurenti Uno di noi (1996), directed by Fabrizio Costa Don Matteo (2000; 1 episode) Centovetrine (2001), directed by Michele Ferrari and Pepi Romagnoli Le ali Della Vita 2 (2001), directed by Stefano Reali Sant'Antonio da Padova (2002), directed by Umberto Marino Luisa Sanfelice (2004), directed by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani I Colori della Vita (2005), directed by Stefano Reali L'Amore non Basta (2005), directed by Tiziana Aristarco A Voce Alta (2006), directed by Vincenzo Verdecchi La Princesa del Polígono (2007), directed by Rafael Montesinos

Death

Onorato died at the San Camillo Hospital in Rome, Lazio, Italy, after battling an undisclosed serious illness for some time.

References

External links

• Glauco Onorato at the Internet Movie Database