Ferdinando "Nando" Gazzolo (16 October 1928 – 16 November 2015) was an Italian

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and

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Biography

Born in

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, the son of the actor and voice actor

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and

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radio announcer Aida Ottaviani Piccolo, Gazzolo debuted at young age on radio, and in 1948, at twenty years old, he started his acting career entering the stage company led by Antonio Gandusio. He achieved his first personal success in 1951, in the adaptation of '' Antonio e Cleopatra'' staged by

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. He later worked on stage with

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, among others, before focusing in voice acting and dubbing. Gazzolo was also active in films and starred in several TV-series of good success. As a voice actor, Gazzolo served as the regular dubbing voice for

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and

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. Other actors he occasionally dubbed included

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and was also the voice of the narrator in the Italian dubbed version of ''

Beauty and the Beast ''Beauty and the Beast'' (french: La Belle et la Bête) is a fairy tale written by French novelist Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve and published in 1740 in ''La Jeune Américaine et les contes marins'' (''The Young American and Marine ...

''.

Personal life

Gazzolo was married with three children. One of whom, Matteo, is also an actor. He also had a half-brother, Virginio, from his father's second marriage.

Death

Gazzolo died on 16 November 2015 in

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, aged 87.

Filmography

Cinema

* '' Black Sunday'' (1960) - Narrator (voice, uncredited) * '' Constantine and the Cross'' (1961) - Licinius * '' The Trojan Horse'' (1961) * '' Jeff Gordon, Secret Agent'' (1963) - Le docteur Mercier * ''

Toto and Cleopatra ''Toto and Cleopatra'' ( it, Totò e Cleopatra) is a 1963 Italian adventure-comedy film written and directed by Fernando Cerchio. Plot Mark Antony has a brother-lookalike, Totonno, a sinister slave trader. Totonno secretly replaces Mark Anton ...

'' (1963) - Narrator (voice, uncredited) * ''Il mistero del tempio indiano'' (1963) - Narrator (voice) * '' La Cittadella'' (1964, TV Mini-Series) - Freddie Hamson * '' Gladiators Seven'' (1964) - Sar / Milo * '' Pirates of Malaysia'' (1964) - Lt. Clintock * ''

West and Soda ''West and soda'' (also known as ''The West Way Out'') is a 1965 traditionally animated Italian feature film directed by Bruno Bozzetto. It is a parody of the traditional American Western. In an interview, Bozzetto claimed to have invented th ...

'' (1965) - Johnny (voice) * ''

The Spy with Ten Faces ''The Spy with Ten Faces'' (aka it, Upperseven, l'uomo da uccidere/ ''Upper Seven, the Man to Kill''), or german: Der Mann mit den tausend Masken/''The Man of a Thousand Masks'') is a 1966 Italian-West German Eurospy film written and directed ...

'' (1966) - Kobras * '' The Hills Run Red'' (1966) - Ken Seagull / Ken Milton * ''

Django Shoots First ''Django Shoots First'' ( it, Django spara per primo) is an Italian Spaghetti Western film directed by Alberto De Martino. Plot Ringo, a bounty hunter, has killed the father of Glenn Garvin (Glenn Saxson) to collect a bounty. Glenn kills Ringo ...

'' (1966) - Ken Kluster * ''La volpe e le camelie'' (1966) * '' Un caso di coscienza'' (1970) - Alfredo Serpieri * ''Maddalena'' (1971) * '' Il nano e la strega'' (1973) - Narratore (voice) * ''Angeli a sud'' (1992) * ''

Magnificat The Magnificat (Latin for "

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magnifies

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) is a canticle, also known as the Song of Mary, the Canticle of Mary and, in the Eastern Christianity, Byzantine tradition, the Ode of the Theotokos (). It is traditionally incorporated ...

'' (1993) - Narrator (voice) * '' Valeria medico legale'' (2000-2002, TV Series) - Il procuratore * '' The Comeback'' (2001) * '' Our Tropical Island'' (2001) - Tacchini * '' Le ragioni del cuore'' (2002, TV Mini-Series) * ''Il sottile fascino del peccato'' (2010) - Padre Edo (final film role)

Dubbing roles

Animation

*Narrator in ''

Live action

Phileas Fogg Phileas Fogg () is the protagonist in the 1872 Jules Verne novel ''Around the World in Eighty Days''. Inspirations for the character were the American entrepreneur George Francis Train and American writer and adventurer William Perry Fogg. ...

in ''

Around the World in 80 Days ''Around the World in Eighty Days'' (french: link=no, Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours) is an adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, first published in French in 1872. In the story, Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employe ...

'' *Raymond in '' Bonjour Tristesse'' *Major David Angus Pollock in ''

Separate Tables ''Separate Tables'' is the collective name of two one-act plays by Terence Rattigan, both taking place in the Beauregard Private Hotel, Bournemouth, on the south coast of England. The first play, titled ''Table by the Window'', focuses on the ...

'' *Miles Doughton in '' Ask Any Girl'' *Chris Walters in '' Happy Anniversary'' *Lawrence Mackay in '' Please Don't Eat the Daisies'' *Corporal Miller in '' The Guns of Navarone'' *Sir Charles Lytton in ''

The Pink Panther ''The Pink Panther'' is an American media franchise primarily focusing on a series of comedy-mystery films featuring an inept French police detective, Inspector Jacques Clouseau. The franchise began with the release of the classic film '' The Pin ...

'' *Lawrence Jameson in ''

Bedtime Story A bedtime story is a traditional form of storytelling, where a story is told to a child at bedtime to prepare the child for sleep. The bedtime story has long been considered "a definite institution in many families".Dickson, Marguerite Stockm ...

'' *

James Bond The ''James Bond'' series focuses on a fictional British Secret Service agent created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short-story collections. Since Fleming's death in 1964, eight other authors have ...

in '' Casino Royale'' *Colonel Race in ''

Death on the Nile ''Death on the Nile'' is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 1 November 1937 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company the following year. The UK edition retailed at se ...

'' * Memnon in ''

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'' *

Sherlock Holmes Sherlock Holmes () is a fictional detective created by British author Arthur Conan Doyle. Referring to himself as a " consulting detective" in the stories, Holmes is known for his proficiency with observation, deduction, forensic science and ...

in ''

The Hound of the Baskervilles ''The Hound of the Baskervilles'' is the third of the four crime novels by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. Originally serialised in ''The Strand Magazine'' from August 1901 to April 1902, it is set i ...

'' *John Banning in '' The Mummy'' *

Abraham Van Helsing Professor Abraham Van Helsing, a fictional character from the 1897 gothic horror novel ''Dracula'', is an aged Dutch polymath doctor with a wide range of interests and accomplishments, partly attested by the string of letters that follows his ...

in ''

The Brides of Dracula ''The Brides of Dracula'' is a 1960 British supernatural horror film produced by Hammer Film Productions. Directed by Terence Fisher, the film stars Peter Cushing, David Peel, Freda Jackson, Yvonne Monlaur, Andrée Melly, and Martita Hun ...

'' *Dr. Namaroff in ''

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'' *Dr. Schreck in ''

Dr. Terror's House of Horrors ''Dr Terror's House of Horrors'' is a 1965 British anthology horror film from Amicus Productions, directed by veteran horror director Freddie Francis, written by Milton Subotsky, and starring Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee. It was the fi ...

'' *Mike King in '' How the West Was Won'' *Johnny Gannon in ''

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'' *Clint Hollister in ''

The Law and Jake Wade ''The Law and Jake Wade'' is a 1958 American Western film released in Metrocolor by MGM in CinemaScope. It is based on the 1956 novel by Marvin H. Albert and directed by John Sturges. The film was shot on location in California's High Sierra m ...

'' *William Edwards in ''

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'' *Tom Rossiter in '' Alvarez Kelly'' *Ralph Anderson in '' The Trap'' *Rolfe in ''

The Long Ships ''The Long Ships'' or ''Red Orm'' (original Swedish: ''Röde Orm'' meaning ''Red Serpent'' or ''Red Snake'') is an adventure novel by the Swedish writer Frans G. Bengtsson. The narrative is set in the late 10th century and follows the advent ...

'' *Henry Higgins in ''

My Fair Lady ''My Fair Lady'' is a musical based on George Bernard Shaw's 1913 play '' Pygmalion'', with a book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe. The story concerns Eliza Doolittle, a Cockney flower girl who takes speech lessons ...

'' * Doctor John Dolittle in ''

Doctor Dolittle Doctor John Dolittle is the central character of a series of children's books by Hugh Lofting starting with the 1920 '' The Story of Doctor Dolittle''. He is a physician who shuns human patients in favour of animals, with whom he can speak in t ...

'' *Old Man Marley in ''

Home Alone ''Home Alone'' is a 1990 American Christmas comedy film directed by Chris Columbus and written and produced by John Hughes. The first film in the ''Home Alone'' franchise, the film stars Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern, John Hea ...

'' *Cledus "Snowman" Snow in ''

Smokey and the Bandit ''Smokey and the Bandit'' is a 1977 American road action comedy film starring Burt Reynolds, Sally Field, Jackie Gleason, Jerry Reed, Pat McCormick, Paul Williams and Mike Henry. The directorial debut of stuntman Hal Needham, the film follow ...

'' *Ross Webster in ''

Superman III ''Superman III'' is a 1983 superhero film directed by Richard Lester from a screenplay by David Newman and Leslie Newman based on the DC Comics character Superman. It is the third installment in the ''Superman'' film series and a sequel to ''Su ...

'' *Matthew Yelland in '' The Final Countdown''

References

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