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Marco Mete

{{Short description|Italian actor}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2024}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Marco Mete

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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1955|10|24|df=y}}

| birth_place = Rome, Italy

| occupation = {{hlist|Actor|voice actor||theatre director|dialogue adapter|dubbing director}}

| years_active = 1978–present

| spouse = Stefanella Marrama (divorced)

| children = {{hlist|Andrea|Federica}}

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Marco Mete (born 24 October 1955) is an Italian actor and voice actor.{{cite web|url=https://www.antoniogenna.net/doppiaggio/voci/vocimme.htm|title=Marco Mete's dubbing contributions|publisher=Antoniogenna.net |date= |accessdate=18 June 2024}}

Biography

Trained at the Accademia Nazionale di Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico, he became a theatre actor, director and playwright, also performing onstage in the United States,{{cite news|author=Anne Barry|work=New York Times|title=Arts and Leisure Guide – Theater Opening This Week|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1979/06/10/archives/arts-and-leisure-guide-theater-opening-this-week.html|date=June 10, 1979}} Germany, and France, working with figures such as Geppy Gleijeses,{{cite news|work=l'Unità|date=March 4, 1979|title=Maschere vere e uomini finti|language=it}} Eugenio Bennato, Stefanella Marrama, Ennio Coltorti and Gennaro Cannavacciuolo. He debuted as a TV actor in the late '70s and his first role on the big screen was in the collective film Intolerance – Sguardi del cinema sull'intolleranza in 1996, playing the main character in a segment directed by Leonardo Celi, followed by the narrating character in the award-winning short-film Asino chi legge.{{cite web|url=https://nuvolafilm.com/portfolio/asino-chi-legge/|title=ASINO CHI LEGGE - Nuvola Film|website=nuvolafilm.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230215041342/https://nuvolafilm.com/portfolio/asino-chi-legge/ |archive-date=February 15, 2023 }}

He is well known as a voice actor, having dubbed Roger Rabbit in both the Italian and Spanish edition of Who Framed Roger Rabbit, also voicing Woody Woodpecker in the Spanish dub; he has dubbed many animated characters in Italian, such as Daffy Duck from 1990 to 2022, Bonkers in the American series of the same name and in Raw Toonage, Chicken in Cow & Chicken, Adolf Hitler in Lupin III: The First, Narrator Smurf in The Smurfs and The Smurfs 2, Farmer Smurf in Smurfs: The Lost Village, Harv in Cars, Sir Miles Axlerod in Cars 2, Scuttle in The Little Mermaid and Jean-Bob in The Swan Princess. He also dubbed over the voices of Kevin Bacon, Bruce Willis, Robin Williams, Martin Lawrence, Kenneth Branagh, Aidan Quinn and other actors in Italian in some of their roles.

In 2019, Mete took part in the English dubbed version of Matteo Garrone's film Pinocchio, dubbing the Judge Gorilla, physically portrayed by Swiss actor Teco Celio.[https://i.imgur.com/cyDSWZb.png Voice actor in the English dub of Matteo Garrone's Pinocchio]

Filmography

Theatre (incomplete list)

=Actor=

  • Ammore e cummedia, written by Geppy Gleijeses and Marco Mete, music by Eugenio Bennato (1979)
  • La piazza, written by Geppy Gleijeses and Marco Mete (1980)
  • Anton Chekhov's The Seagull, directed by Ennio Coltorti (2019){{cite web|author=Alessandro Paesano|url=https://www.teatro.it/recensioni/il-gabbiano/la-contemporaneita-de-il-gabbiano-di-coltorti|title=La contemporaneità de Il Gabbiano di Coltorti|website=teatro.it|date=November 25, 2018 |language=it}}
  • Wilhelm Furtwängler. Processo all’Arte from a play by Ronald Harwood, directed by Ennio Coltorti (2020)

=Director=

  • Ammore e cummedia, collective direction by Compagnia Napoli Nuova 77 (1979)
  • Mahagonny, written by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill, starring Margherita Buy (1985){{cite web|url=https://www.unita.it/|title=Mahagonny in l'Unità|work=l'Unità|date=October 27, 1985|page=20|language=it}}
  • Gilda, written by Marco Mete and Gennaro Cannavacciuolo (1988){{cite web|url=https://www.unita.it/|title=Gilda pt. 1 in l'Unità|date=November 29, 1988|page=25|work=l'Unità|language=it}}{{cite web|url=https://www.unita.it/|title=Gilda pt. 2 in l'Unità|work=l'Unità|date=December 31, 1988|page=26|language=it}}
  • Volare, concerto a Domenico Modugno, co-directed with Gennaro Cannavacciuolo (2015){{cite web|author=Margherita Lamesta|url=https://www.sipario.it/recensioniprosav/item/9163-volare-concerto-a-domenico-modugno-regia-marco-mete-e-gennaro-cannavacciuolo.html|title=VOLARE, Concerto a Domenico Modugno – regia Marco Mete e Gennaro Cannavacciuolo|language=it|website=sipario.it}}

Dubbing roles

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=Live-action=

=Video games=

  • Daffy Duck in Bugs Bunny: Lost in Time,{{cite web |accessdate=July 1, 2021 |language=it |title=Bugs Bunny – Lost in time Italian voice cast |url=https://www.antoniogenna.net/doppiaggio/vgames/bugbunny-lostintime.htm |website=antoniogenna.net}} Bugs Bunny & Taz: Time Busters{{cite web |access-date=June 30, 2021 |language=it |title=Bugs Bunny & Taz: Time Busters Italian voice cast |url=https://www.antoniogenna.net/doppiaggio/vgames/bugbunnyetaz-inviag.htm |website=antoniogenna.net}}
  • Mayor and Electric Guardian in Ghosthunter{{cite web|url=https://www.antoniogenna.net/doppiaggio/vgames/ghosthunter.htm|title=Ghost Hunter|website=antoniogenna.net|accessdate=February 19, 2022|language=it}}
  • Tedworth in Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two{{cite web|url=https://www.antoniogenna.net/doppiaggio/vgames/epicmickey2.htm|title=Epic Mickey 2 – L'avventura di Topolino e Oswald|website=antoniogenna.net|accessdate=November 24, 2021|language=it}}

Notes

External links

  • {{IMDb name|id=0582493|name=Marco Mete}}
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Category:1955 births

Category:Living people

Category:Male actors from Rome

Category:Italian male stage actors

Category:Italian male voice actors

Category:Italian voice directors

Category:20th-century Italian male actors

Category:21st-century Italian male actors