Corrado Gaipa
{{Short description|Italian actor (1925–1989)}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Corrado Gaipa
| image = Corrado Gaipa 59.jpg
| caption = Gaipa in 1959
| birth_date = {{birth date|1925|3|13|df=y}}
| birth_place = Palermo, Kingdom of Italy
| death_date = {{death date and age|1989|9|21|1925|3|13|df=y}}
| occupation = {{hlist|Actor|voice actor}}
| years_active = 1946–1989
}}
Corrado Gaipa (13 March 1925 – 21 September 1989) was an Italian actor and voice actor.{{cite web |url=https://www.antoniogenna.net/doppiaggio/voci/vocicg.htm |title=Corrado Gaipa's voice acting and dubbing contributions|publisher=Antoniogenna.net |date= |accessdate=12 September 2018}}
A well known actor of Italian cinema, he was internationally known for his role as Don Tommasino in The Godfather, while his popularity in Italy was also connected to his activity as a voice dubber.{{cite web|url=http://www.italyonthisday.com/2018/03/corrado-gaipa-actor-The-Godfather-cinema.html |title=Corrado Gaipa - actor |author= |publisher=italyonthisday.com |date= |accessdate= 29 May 2019}}
Biography
Born in Palermo, Gaipa enrolled in the Silvio d'Amico Academy of Dramatic Arts, where he studied for three years and performed an adaptation of the play You Can't Take It with You. He then graduated in 1946. In 1948, Gaipa joined a theatre group based in Rome and began acting in radio dramas which were broadcast in many cities across Italy such as Turin, Florence and Milan. He also appeared in many films, beginning with That Splendid November (1969).{{cite web|url=https://www.mymovies.it/biografia/?a=2291 |title=Corrado Gaipa |author= |publisher=MYmovies |date= |accessdate= 29 May 2019}} He became well known worldwide playing Don Tommasino in the 1972 film The Godfather, directed by Francis Ford Coppola.
While also active on stage, radio and television, he was heavily active as a voice actor and especially as a dubber: he provided the Italian voice of Obi-Wan Kenobi (portrayed by Alec Guinness) in the Star Wars original trilogy as well as Bagheera in the Italian-Language version of The Jungle Book. He also dubbed over the voices of Lionel Stander, Eli Wallach, Peter Ustinov, Rod Steiger, Orson Welles, Burt Lancaster and Spencer Tracy. Gaipa assisted with the foundation of a dubbing company in the 1970s alongside Renato Turi, Giancarlo Giannini, Valeria Valeri, Oreste Lionello and other historical Italian dubbers.[https://www.antoniogenna.net/doppiaggio/speciali/cronologia.htm Cronologia fondamentale dell'epoca d'oro del doppiaggio italiano Dagli albori agli anni 1970] (in Italian)
Illness and death
In Gaipa's later years, he developed serious health problems and went from using a walking stick to a wheelchair, ultimately dying in Rome on 21 September 1989, at the age of 64.{{cite news|title=E' morto Corrado Gaipa|url=http://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/1989/09/23/morto-corrado-gaipa.html?ref=search|accessdate=20 December 2014|newspaper=La Repubblica|date=September 23, 1989|page=37}} At the time of his death, he had just signed to reprise the role of Don Tommasino in The Godfather Part III, which was instead passed on to Vittorio Duse.
Filmography
= Cinema =
| class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable"
!scope="col"|Year !scope="col"|Title !scope="col"|Role !scope="col"|Notes |
| 1969
|Alfio | |
| rowspan=2|1970
|President of Tribunal | |
| Metello
|Badolati |Also dubbing Frank Wolff's role |
| rowspan=2|1971
|Isaac Thetman | |
| The Fifth Cord
|Andrea's Chief | |
| rowspan=8|1972
|Günther Rosenthal | |
| Execution Squad
|Lawyer Armani | |
| The Sicilian Connection
|Don Calogero | |
| Without Family
|Judge | |
| The Eroticist
|Don Gesualdo |Also dubbing Lionel Stander's role |
| The Godfather
|Don Tommasino |Sicilian sequence |
| My Dear Killer
|Head of Insurance Company | |
| The Pisciotta Case
|Direttore del carcere | |
| rowspan=8|1973
|1931: Once Upon a Time in New York |Mob Boss | |
| Giordano Bruno
|Confessore di Giovanni Mocenigo | |
| The Boss
|Avvocato Rizzo | |
| The Black Hand
|Lawyer | |
| Chino
|Padre | |
| I Kiss the Hand
|Don Emilio Grisanti | |
| Tony Arzenta
|Tony Arzenta’s father | |
| Secrets of a Call Girl
|Doctor | |
| rowspan=3|1974
|The Sinful Nuns of Saint Valentine |Father Honorio de Mendoza | |
| What Have They Done to Your Daughters?
|Prosecutor | |
| Prigione di donne
|Magistrate | |
| 1976
|Supposed Mafioso | |
| rowspan=4|1977
|The Red Nights of the Gestapo |Udo Kassbaum | |
| The Criminals Attack… The Police Respond!
|Doctor | |
| Crazy Desires of a Murderer
|Inspector | |
| A Spiral of Mist
|Pietro San Germano | |
= Television =
| class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable"
!scope="col"|Year !scope="col"|Title !scope="col"|Role !scope="col"|Notes |
| rowspan=2|1971
|La rosa bianca |Kurt Huber |TV film |
| Bernadette Devlin
| |TV film |
| 1972
|Le inchieste del commissario Maigret |Germain Cageot |1 episode |
| 1973
|Napoleone a Sant'Elena |Lord Liverpool |TV miniseries |
| 1974
|Ho incontrato un'ombra |Buache |TV miniseries |
| rowspan=3|1975
|Nebbia |TV miniseries |
| Il marsigliese
|Tanino Sciacca |TV miniseries |
| L'invitto
|Retana |TV film |
| 1976
|Dov'è Anna? |Loris |TV miniseries |
| rowspan=2|1977
|La mossa del cavallo |Il maestro |TV miniseries (Segment: "L'ultima notte") |
| The Godfather: The Complete Novel for Television
|Don Tommasino |TV miniseries |
| 1978
|Storie della camorra |Onorevole Colajanni |TV miniseries |
| 1979
|La dama dei veleni |Guido Santacroce |TV miniseries |
| rowspan=2|1980
|L'eredità della priora |Don Vincenzo |TV miniseries |
| Sam & Sally
|Dr. Jesse |1 episode |
| rowspan=2|1982
|Il fascino dell'insolito |L'uomo dei manichini |1 episode |
| Marco Polo
|Senator |1 episode |
= Documentaries =
| class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable"
!scope="col"|Year !scope="col"|Title !scope="col"|Notes |
| 1984
|Giuseppe Fava: Siciliano come me | |
Voice work
| class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable"
!scope="col"|Year !scope="col"|Title !scope="col"|Role !scope="col"|Notes |
| 1965
|Additional voices |rowspan="2"|Animated film |
| 1968
|Colonel |
| 1978
|rowspan="4"|Narrator |rowspan="4"|Uncredited |
| rowspan=2|1983 |
| A School Outing |
| 1988 |
= Dubbing =
== Films (Animation, Italian dub) ==
| class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable"
!scope="col"|Year !scope="col"|Title !scope="col"|Role(s) !scope="col" class="unsortable" | Ref |
| rowspan=2|1967 |
| Asterix the Gaul
|Abraracourcix | |
| rowspan=2|1968
| |
| Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day
|Owl | |
| 1970
|Scat Cat |
== Films (Live action, Italian dub) ==
| class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable"
!scope="col"|Year !scope="col"|Title !scope="col"|Role(s) !scope="col"|Original actor !scope="col" class="unsortable" | Ref |
| 1959
|Marquis Macri | |
| 1960
|Quintino Fornaciari | |
| rowspan=2|1963
|Don Fabrizio Corbera | |
| The Eye of the Needle
|Don Salvatore | |
| 1966
| |
| rowspan=5|1967
|Joe Ventura | |
| Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
|Matt Drayton | |
| In the Heat of the Night
|Bill Gillespie | |
| The Dirty Dozen
|Archer J. Maggot | |
| Attack on the Iron Coast
|Frederick Grafton | |
| rowspan=16|1968
|Cardinal Leone | |
| House of Cards
|Charles Leschenhaut |Orson Welles | |
| The Day of the Owl
|Don Mariano Arena | |
| Never a Dull Moment
|Leo Joseph Smooth |Edward G. Robinson | |
| Once Upon a Time in the West
|Brett McBain | |
| The Ruthless Four
|Sam Cooper | |
| Krakatoa, East of Java
|Harry Connerly | |
| Blackbeard's Ghost
| |
| Hang 'Em High
|Adam Fenton | |
| The Lion in Winter
| |
| 2001: A Space Odyssey
|Frank Poole's father | |
| Will Penny
|Alex | |
| Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
|Lord Scrumptious | |
| Rosemary's Baby
|Roman Castevet | |
| Pistol for a Hundred Coffins
|J. Texas Corbett | |
| May God Forgive You... But I Won't
|Stuart | |
| rowspan=8|1969
|Colonel Cascorro |Orson Welles | |
| The Big Bounce
|Sam Mirakian |Van Heflin | |
| The Brain
|Frankie Scannapieco | |
| The Secret of Santa Vittoria
|Italo Bombolini | |
| On Her Majesty's Secret Service
|M | |
| Battle of Britain
| |
| Fellini Satyricon
|Trimalchio |Mario Romagnoli | |
| Simón Bolívar
|Mr. Hernandez | |
| rowspan=8|1970
|Betto Lampredi |rowspan=2|Frank Wolff | |
| When Women Had Tails
|Grr | |
| The Kremlin Letter
|Bresnavitch |Orson Welles | |
| Between Miracles
|Oreste Micheli | |
| Too Late the Hero
|Captain Hornsby | |
| La Horse
|Auguste Maroilleur | |
| The McMasters
|McMasters | |
| Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
|Plumber | |
| rowspan=5|1971
|Théo Van Horn |Orson Welles | |
| Lawman
|Vincent Bronson |Lee J. Cobb | |
| Scandalous John
|John McCanless |Brian Keith | |
| A Clockwork Orange
|Tramp | |
| Bananas
|Sanchez |David Ortiz | |
| rowspan=8|1972
|Cardinal Maravidi |rowspan=2|Lionel Stander | |
| Don Camillo e i giovani d'oggi
|Peppone | |
| Treasure Island
|Orson Welles | |
| Duck Soup
|Ambassador Trentino of Sylvania (1972 dubbing) | |
| rowspan=4|Roma
|Roman Eating in Terrace |rowspan=4| |
| Music Hall Compere
|Galliano Sbarra |
| Trattoria Waiter |
| Cinema Spectator with Family
|Dante Cleri |
| rowspan=6|1973
|William F. Kinderman |rowspan=2|Lee J. Cobb | |
| The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing
|Harvey Lapchance | |
| Soylent Green
|Solomon Roth |Edward G. Robinson | |
| Scorpio
|Sergei Zharkov | |
| Ludwig
|Father Hoffmann | |
| Amarcord
|Aurelio Biondi | |
| rowspan=2|1974
|Baron Castorini |rowspan=2|Lionel Stander | |
| Innocence and Desire
|Salvatore Niscemi | |
| rowspan=6|1975
|Commander Petapiece |Denholm Elliott | |
| Barry Lyndon
|Captain Grogan | |
| The Hindenburg
|Emilio Pajetta | |
| My Friends
|Niccolò Righi | |
| Deep Red
|Rodi | |
| The Big Sleep
|General Sternwood (1975 redub) | |
| rowspan=3|1976
|Carl Bugenhagen |Leo McKern | |
| The Inheritance
|Gregorio Ferramonti |Anthony Quinn | |
| Dog's Heart
|Police Chief | |
| rowspan=5|1977 |
| The Greatest
| |
| The Deep
|Adam Coffin |Eli Wallach | |
| Wifemistress
|Head Doctor |Armando Brancia | |
| Julia
| |
| rowspan=2|1978
|Carl Bugenhagen |Leo McKern | |
| Convoy
|Lyle "Cottonmouth" Wallace |Ernest Borgnine | |
| 1979
|1941 |Angelo Scioli |Lionel Stander | |
| rowspan=2|1980
|Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back |Obi-Wan Kenobi |Alec Guinness |
| Private Benjamin
|Colonel Clay Thornbush | |
| 1981
|Ron Hamer | |
| rowspan=2|1983
|Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi |Obi-Wan Kenobi |Alec Guinness |
| Zeder
|Professor Chesi |John Stacy | |
| 1986
|Admiral Aulenti | |
| 1987
|Il mistero del panino assassino |Arno dei conti Vicini | |
| 1989
|Psychiatrist |Marvin Chatinover | |
References
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Category:Male actors from Palermo
Category:Italian male film actors
Category:Italian male voice actors
Category:Italian male stage actors
Category:Italian male television actors
Category:Italian male radio actors
Category:Accademia Nazionale di Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico alumni