Gigi Angelillo

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| birth_name = Luigi Angelillo

| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1939|12|20}}

| birth_place = Gioia del Colle, Kingdom of Italy

| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|2015|7|21|1939|12|20}}

| death_place = Rome, Italy

| occupation = {{hlist|Actor|voice actor|theatre director}}

| years_active = 1966–2015

| spouse = Ludovica Modugno

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Luigi "Gigi" Angelillo (20 December 1939 – 21 July 2015) was an Italian actor, voice actor and theatre director.{{cite web |url=https://www.antoniogenna.net/doppiaggio/voci/vocigang.htm |title=Gigi Angelillo's dubbing contributions |publisher=Antoniogenna.net |date= |access-date=10 November 2018}}

Biography

Angelillo began an acting career on stage and screen in the 1960s and during the 1980s. He appeared in more than 20 films from 1966 to 2012 and he became well known to the Italian public as a voice dubber. From 1987 to 1995, he was the official Italian voice of Scrooge McDuck and he has performed other voice acting work for Disney. He has dubbed Wallace Shawn, Ronald Lacey and John Candy in a select number of their films.

In 1978, he founded the Società Teatrale 'l'Albero' with the actress and voice actress Ludovica Modugno.

=Personal life=

Angelillo was married to fellow actress and voice actress Ludovica Modugno until his death in 2015.

Death

Angelillo died on 21 July 2015, aged 75, after suffering a long illness.{{cite web |url=http://www.today.it/media/morto-gigi-angelillo-doppiatore-attore.html |title=È morto Gigi Angelillo, attore e voce storica di Zio Paperone |author= |publisher=today.it |date=22 July 2015 |language=it |access-date=24 January 2019}}

Filmography

=Cinema=

Tesoro mio (1979)
Giovanni Falcone (1993)
Sacred Heart (2005)
Romanzo Criminale (2005)
The Family Friend (2006)
Cado dalle nubi (2009)

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Category:1939 births

Category:2015 deaths

Category:Male actors from Apulia

Category:Italian male film actors

Category:Italian male voice actors

Category:Italian male stage actors

Category:Italian theatre directors

Category:20th-century Italian male actors

Category:21st-century Italian male actors