
Leo Gullotta
Known for Acting · 94 credits
- Born
- 1946-01-09 (age 80)
- Place of birth
- Catania, Sicily, Italy
- Also known as
- Leo · Salvatore Leopoldo Gullotta
Biography
Salvatore Leopoldo "Leo" Gullotta (born 9 January 1946) is an Italian actor, voice actor, comedian and writer.
Born in Catania and the last of six children, Gullotta started his career as an extra in Teatro Massimo Bellini. In his long career as actor, Gullotta has starred in about 100 films and has participated in numerous shows and drama series for television. In 1987 he won his first David di Donatello for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Il Camorrista by Giuseppe Tornatore, and later worked with Tornatore four more times. In 1997 and 2000 he won two more David di Donatello for Best Supporting Actor, for the Maurizio Zaccaro films Il carniere and Un uomo perbene. He has also won two Silver Ribbon for Best supporting Actor, in 1984 for Mi manda Picone by Nanni Loy and in 2001 for Vajont by Renzo Martinelli.
Gullotta has starred in many theatrical plays and dramas, and was part of the theater company "Il Bagaglino". He won the Flaiano Prize as stage actor of the year in 2010. He celebrated fifty years of activity that same year.
Gullotta is also a well known voice actor, among others. He was the Italian voice of Manny in the first three films of the Ice Age film series. He reprised this role in short films and video games. He also dubbed Burt Young in Rocky, Joe Pesci in Once Upon a Time in America, Moonwalker, My Cousin Vinny and The Irishman, and the robot Johnny 5 in Short Circuit. He also became the new Italian voice of Woody Allen after the death of Oreste Lionello in 2009.
In 1998 Gullotta debuted as writer with the book Mille fili d'erba (Di Renzo Editore, ISBN 88-86044-87-9).
Known For

Cinema Paradiso
1988
as Ignazio, usher

Ciao Darwin
1998
as Capitano Meridionali

The Nurse on a Military Tour
1977
as Captain Lopez - doctor

Framed! A Sicilian Murder Mystery
2022
as il Procuratore Nicolosi

Il camorrista - Una serie di Giuseppe Tornatore
2025
as Police Commissioner Iervolino

Scarlet Diva
2000
as Dr. Vessi
TV Shows (9)

Ciao Darwin
1998
as Capitano Meridionali

Framed! A Sicilian Murder Mystery
2022
as il Procuratore Nicolosi

Il camorrista - Una serie di Giuseppe Tornatore
2025
as Police Commissioner Iervolino
Il ricatto
1989
as Carla

Le ragazze di Piazza di Spagna
1998
as Il cieco

C'è posta per te
2000

Catturandi - Nel Nome del Padre
2016
as Ruggero Mazzamuto

A che punto è la notte
1994
as Priotti

The Heart in the Well
2005
as Don Bruno
Movies (85)

Cinema Paradiso
1988
as Ignazio, usher

The Nurse on a Military Tour
1977
as Captain Lopez - doctor

Scarlet Diva
2000
as Dr. Vessi

The Paramedic
1982
as Sostituto Procuratore

The Star Maker
1995
as Vito

I Carabbinieri
1981
as Salvatore Caruso

Department Store
1986
as Simoni, agente teatrale

Sinbad of the Seven Seas
1989
as Nadir

Baaria
2009
as Liborio

Everybody's Fine
1990
as L'homme armé sur le toit d'un immeuble de Naples

The Professor
1986
as Police Commissioner Iervolino

Vajont
2001
as Mario Pancini

Miss Right
1982
as Benito

The Swindle
1977
as Tarcisio Pollaroli "Er Fibbia"

The Escort
1993
as Polizzi

Stark System
1980
as Schioppa

It’s the Law
2017
as Don Raffaele

L'insegnante di violoncello
1989
as Leo

I carabbimatti
1981
as Ceci

Cristallo di rocca - Una storia di Natale
1999
as Don Anselmo

Il Bi e il Ba
1986
as Gaetano

Package, Double Package and Counterpackage
1993
as Michele Bellezza

Simpatici & antipatici
1998
as Gigetto

Savages
1995
as Luigi Pinardi

Snowball
1995
as Sidik

Café Express
1980
as Vincenzo Imbastaro

Leo the Lion
2005
as Cobo (voice)

Per il mio bene
2024
as Luciano

Stormtroopers II
1982
as Recluta

Scugnizzi
1989
as Fortunato

Un uomo perbene
1999
as Giovanni Pandico

Blue Tango
1987
as Fior da Fiore

Spaghetti House
1982
as Salvatore Manzilla

Half Right Half Left - 2 Footballers Without a Ball
1985
as allenatore Juan Carlos Fulgencio

Sono solo fantasmi
2019
as Signore distinto

Heads I Win, Tails You Lose
1982
as Walter

Italo
2015
as Italo (Voce)

Il delitto Mattarella
2020
as Rosario Nicoletti

L'esercito più pazzo del mondo
1981
as trasformista

In This World of Thieves
2004
as Leonardo

In arte Nino
2016
as Prof. Giuffrida

Gli Inaffidabili
1997
as Bostik

Ladri si nasce
1997
as il professore

Villa Ada
1999

Oltremare - Non è l'America
1998

In The Rose Garden
1990
as Armando

Leo e Beo
1998
as Beo (voice)

The Honorable with His Lover under the Bed
1981
as Secretary Sgarbozzi / Honorable Sgarbozzi

Di Che Peccato Sei?
2007
as Antonio Bertolacci

Italiani a Rio
1987

Teste di quoio
1981
as Carrisi

Domani è un'altra truffa
2005

Operazione Odissea
2000
as Michele Sinatra

Men Men Men
1995
as Tony

3
1996
as Vescovo di Pisa

The Prince of the Dinosaurs
2003
as Sluggard (voice)

The Father and the Foreigner
2011
as Santini

Incidenti
2005
as giornalista

Gole Ruggenti
1992
as Edoardo Lasagnetta - scriptwriter

Guardians of the Clouds
2004
as La Rocca

Where's Picone?
1984
as Sgueglia

La stella di Andra e Tati
2018
as Giovanni Bucci (voice)

Rock 'n Roll
1978
as Il vigile

La missione di 3P
2014
as Padre Pino Puglisi (voice)

Ladri si diventa
1998
as Perini

Ride bene... chi ride ultimo
1977
as "Ifigenia", domestico omossessuale

The Game Bag
1997
as Carlo Gabbiadini

Quel posto nel tempo
2022
as Mario

So tutto di te
2023

Bruno aspetta in macchina
1996
as Ziino

Giovanni e Paolo e il mistero dei pupi
2010
as Salvatore (voice) / Lisca (voice)

La stella dei re
2007
as Melkhior

Carogne - Ciro and Me
1995
as Prandstaller

Raqmar
2025
as Cliente

The Great Wave
2020
La missione
1998

I futurieri
2019
as Voce narrante

Sad Letters
2016
as Mario

Vecchio
2022
as Vecchio

I siciliani
2016

Fatti della banda della Magliana
2005
as Il giudice

Ottavio Mario Mai
2002
as Self

Territori d'ombra
2001
L'ultimo metro di pellicola
2014
as Self

The Red Tree
2018
as Narrator
About Leo Gullotta
Salvatore Leopoldo "Leo" Gullotta (born 9 January 1946) is an Italian actor, voice actor, comedian and writer. Born in Catania and the last of six children, Gullotta started his career as an extra in Teatro Massimo Bellini. In his long career as actor, Gullotta has starred in about 100 films and has participated in numerous shows and drama series for television. In 1987 he won his first David di Donatello for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Il Camorrista by Giuseppe Tornatore, and later worked with Tornatore four more times. In 1997 and… With 94 credits spanning from 1977 to 2025, Leo Gullotta has appeared in 85 films and 9 TV shows.
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Most Popular Leo Gullotta Movies
- Cinema Paradiso (1988) — as Ignazio, usher
- The Nurse on a Military Tour (1977) — as Captain Lopez - doctor
- Scarlet Diva (2000) — as Dr. Vessi
- The Paramedic (1982) — as Sostituto Procuratore
- The Star Maker (1995) — as Vito
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