Biography
Ferruccio Amendola (22 July 1930 – 3 September 2001) was an Italian actor and voice actor. Born in Turin to actors Federico Amendola and Amelia Ricci and the nephew of director and screenwriter Mario Amendola, he was among Italy's most accomplished actors who worked for cinema and television and also did extensive voice dubbing work. Amendola moved to Rome with his family at a young age and he made his film debut at age 13 in Gian Burrasca directed by Sergio Tofano and continued working on cinema, television and theatre in his later years.In 1945, Amendola made his voice-over debut dubbing over Vito Annicchiarico's role in the film Rome, Open City. By 1968, Amendola began devoting most of his time to voice-over acting and eventually became well known as an Italian voice dubbing pioneer. He was best known as the Italian voice of famous actors including Al Pacino, Sylvester Stallone, Dustin Hoffman, Robert De Niro and Tomas Milian in a majority of their movies. He also dubbed Peter Falk as well as Bill Cosby in the television series The Cosby Show as well as Cosby. In addition, he has done the voice over in commercials and TV dramas with great success.
Filmography
all 42
Movies 40
Voice 4
TV Shows 2
Narrator 1
The Legend of the Titanic (1999)
My Dearest Son (1985)
Storia d'amore e d'amicizia (1982)
Why Did You Pick On Me? (1980)
The Soldier with Great Maneuvers (1978)
Three Tigers Against Three Tigers (1977)
Rome, Armed to the Teeth (1976)
Extra (1976)
Amici più di prima (1976)
Pinocchio (1972)
Tears of love (1970)
Vacation on the Esmeralda Coast (1968)
Man Only Cries for Love (1968)
Cuore matto... matto da legare (1967)
Sailors on Deck (1967)
Tutto Totò - Totò Ye Ye (1967)
Riderà! - Cuore matto (1967)
Viaggio di nozze all'italiana (1966)
West and Soda (1965)
The Terror of Rome Against the Son of Hercules (1964)
Sword of Damascus (1964)
Vino, whisky e acqua salata (1962)
La banda del buco (1960)
Run with the Devil (1960)
The Great War (1959)
La cento chilometri (1959)
Simpatico mascalzone (1959)
Prepotenti più di prima (1959)
Fantasmi e ladri (1959)
L' ultima faccia di Medusa (1958)
I prepotenti (1958)
Gagliardi and Babes (1958)
Napoli sole mio (1958)
La zia d'America va a sciare (1958)
Il gallo canta a mezzanotte (1958)
I dritti (1957)
Sette canzoni per sette sorelle (1957)
La ragazza di Via Veneto (1955)
Land of the Pharaohs (1955)
Jailbirds (1954)
Ridere! Ridere! Ridere! (1954)
11 men and a ball (1948)
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Known ForActing
GenderMale
Birthday1930-07-22
Deathday2001-09-03 (71 years old)
Birth PlaceTurin, Italy
ChildrenClaudio Amendola
RelativesMario Amendola, Alessia Amendola
CitizenshipsKingdom of Italy, Italy
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