Farewell to Nando Gazzolo, the entry "British"
of Italian events
He’s died at the age of 87 years in Nepi, an actor known
to the public for his "Carousels" but also to have dubbed the
greatest movies.
Corriere Della Sera
November 16, 2015
Who can forget that voice. Elegant, it sets even if it did not seem
terribly seductive, whether he was committed to read the Divine Comedy, in the
recitation of a carousel or in the dubbing of a spaghetti western with Clint
Eastwood of Gian Maria Volonte. The
voice was that of Nando Gazzolo, the great protagonist of the Italian stage. Who’s died at age 87. This was announced by the family. He was hospitalized for a week at a clinic in
Nepi. Hard to say if Gazzolo was more good
on the theater stage, on the movie set or in a dubbing room. He was long the
famous face and voice of Rai. As for the
first, also because of those commercials - were the Carousels of the sixties
and seventies - that thanks to him became wise incredible drama: readings of
literary classics after which Gazzolo, an imposing figure, elegant, resembling
another great British actor, Michael Caine (who had also repeatedly voiced)
took leave soberly, very British style, sipping that glass of bitters that he
advertised. As for the face, they do not
count his interpretations: the Sherlock Holmes Rai British so as to receive the
compliments of the BBC, then the Buddenbrooks.
But also many dramas, thrillers and giallos.
Largest of the Voice actors
And then the dubbing theater. On film his voice was unmistakable. Often
better than some actors who he was dubbing.
Gian Maria Will unforgettable, hallucinatory and crazy, in "A Fistful
of Dollars" and "A Few Dollars More." Imagine that voice in
those films of Leone, with Eastwood in turn voiced by Enrico Maria Salerno ...
But there was no great movie that Gazzolo has dubbed, between drama and humor,
both timbres of his most obvious quality artist: Lawrence Olivier, David Niven,
Henry Fonda, Yul Brynner, Warren Beatty.
On the stage was Goldoni, Shakespeare, Pirandello, the Greek
classics. Maybe directed by Dario Fo,
Orazio Costa, Gabriele Lavia, Giorgio Albertazzi. On the radio, highly appreciated those readings,
in recent times, of poets like D'Annunzio, García Lorca, Leopardi, Neruda,
Montale, Pascoli, Pasolini, Quasimodo, Saba, Ungaretti.
GAZZOLO, Nando
(Ferdinando Gazzolo)
Born: 10/16/1928,
Savona, Liguria, Italy
Died: 11/15/2015,
Nepi, Viterbo, Italy
Nando Gazzolo’s
western – actor, voice actor:
Gunfight at Red Sands – 1963 [Italian voice of narrator]
Fistful of Dollars – 1964 [Italian voice of Johnny Wels]
West and Soda – 1964 [Italian voice of Johnny]
Adios Gringo – 1965 [Italian voice of Ugo Sasso]
Django – 1965 [Italian voice of Franco Nero]
For a Few Dollars More – 1965 [Italian voice of Gian
Maria Volonte]
Django Shoots First - 1966 (Ken Kluster/Custer)
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - 1966 [Italian voice of
Luigi Pistilli]
The Hills Run Red - 1966 (Ken Seagall/Ken Milton)
7 Dollars to Kill – 1966 [Italian voice of Anthony
Steffen]
7 Guns for the MacGregors – 1966 [Italian voice of Leo
Anchoriz]
A Taste of Killing – 1966 [Italian voice of George
Martin]
The Tramplers – 1966 [Italian voice of James Mitchum]
Don’t Sing, Shoot (TV) – 1967 (Roy Thomas)
The Two Faces of the Dollar – 1967 [Italian voice of
Gerard Herter]
Viva Django! – 1967 [Italian voice of Horst Frank]
Once Upon a Time in the West – 1968 [Italian voice of
Henry Fonda]
The Price of Power – 1969 [Italian voice of Benito
Stefanelli]
The Stranger’s Gundown – 1969 [Italian voice of Paolo
Gozlino]
Guns for Dollars - 1971 [Italian voice of Andrea Bosic]
God in Heaven, Arizona on Earth - 1972 [Italian voice of
Frank Braña]
My Name is Nobody – 1972 [Italian voice of Henry Fonda]
The Genius - 1975 [Italian voice of Patrick McGoohan]
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