Biography

Carlo Sabatini (7 April 1932 – 10 April 2020) was an Italian actor and voice actor. Carlo Sabatini was born in Rome on April 7 1932, Sabatini began his career on film and television during the 1950s but he is perhaps best known as a voice actor. The many actors he dubbed included Ian McKellen, Morgan Freeman, Clint Eastwood, Donald Sutherland, Harvey Keitel, Bruce Lee, Kris Kristofferson, Alain Delon, Paul Newman, John Mahoney, Robert Duvall, Leonard Nimoy, and Marlon Brando.

In Sabatini’s character dubbing roles, he famously dubbed over the voice of Magneto (portrayed by Ian McKellen) in the X-Men film franchise as well as Morgan Freeman’s role as "Red" in the 1994 film The Shawshank Redemption. On television, Sabatini dubbed Josiah Bartlet (portrayed by Martin Sheen) in The West Wing and Philip Banks (portrayed by James Avery) in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. In Sabatini’s animated roles, he voiced Chilkoot in the Italian dub of Brother Bear 2.

In 2003, he acted in the mini-series Soraya, directed by Lodovico Gasparini.