Antonio Guidi

Italian actor and voice actor

Actor
voice actor

Years active1951–2004

Antonio Guidi (28 October 1927 – 17 October 2013) was an Italian actor and voice actor.^[1]

Biography

Born in Ferrara, Guidi began a career of acting in the 1950s. He originally wanted to become an architect but he did not pursue that vocation. He worked for two years at the Piccolo Teatro in Milan, then he became a stage actor. In addition, he also worked on radio and screen. He made his first ever film appearance in The Archangel starring Vittorio Gassman and on television, he made his debut on I legionari dello spazio.

Guidi was also a professional voice actor.^[2] He was the official Italian voice of Peter Ustinov as well as dubbing Peter Falk and Dominic Chianese in most of their work. He was internationally renowned for performing the Italian voice of Lieutenant Colombo (portrayed by Peter Falk) in the last two seasons of Columbo since the death of Giampiero Albertini in 1991. He also voiced Prince John in the Italian-Language version of the 1973 animated film Robin Hood.

After finishing his voice work on Colombo, Guidi retired in 2004, effectively ending his career.

Death

Guidi died in Bergamo on 17 October 2013, eleven days before his 86th birthday.^[3]

Filmography

Cinema

The Archangel (1969)
The Killer Is on the Phone (1972)
At Last, at Last (1975)
Young, Violent, Dangerous (1976)
Hanno ucciso un altro bandito (1976)
Ombre (1980)

Television

I legionari dello spazio (1966)
Delitto di regime - Il caso Don Minzoni (1973)
La commediante veneziana (1979)

Dubbing roles

Animation

Prince John in Robin Hood

Live action

Lieutenant Colombo in Columbo (seasons 9-11)
Fred G. Sanford in Sanford and Son
Fred G. Sanford in Sanford
Hercule Poirot in Evil Under the Sun
Hercule Poirot in Death on the Nile
The Old Man in Logan's Run
Herod the Great / Pontius Pilate in Jesus of Nazareth
Rowlie in Lassie Come Home (1975 redub)
President in Being There
Gloves Malloy / Spats Baxter in Movie Movie
Alonzo A. Hawk in Herbie Rides Again
Ed Hocken in The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
Roy Bensinger in The Front Page
Chiz in Countdown

Video games

Alexandre Valembois in Amerzone

References

^ "Antonio Guidi's dubbing contributions". Antoniogenna.net. Retrieved 20 May 2019.
^ Cronologia fondamentale dell'epoca d'oro del doppiaggio italiano Dagli albori agli anni 1970 (in Italian)
^ "Addio all'attore e doppiatore Antonio Guidi". Antoniogenna.net. 23 October 2008. Retrieved 20 May 2019.