Biography

Carlo Valli (born 4 October 1943) is an Italian actor and voice actor. Born in Asti, Valli studied at the Accademia Nazionale di Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico and then began performing at the Teatro Stabile d'Abruzzo. As an actor, Valli had key roles on stage and television. In the 1970s, he acted in the science fiction-drama miniseries Gamma as well as the detective fiction show La donna di picche.

Valli later became well known to the Italian public as a voice actor and dubber, especially as the main Italian voice dubbing actor of Robin Williams. He is also renowned for dubbing Jim Broadbent, Colm Meaney, Richard Dreyfuss, Ken Stott, Martin Sheen, John Heard, Robert Duvall and Richard Jenkins in some of their movies. Some of the Italian dubbing roles that Valli is best known for includes Ghostface from the Scream film series and Horace Slughorn from the Harry Potter franchise.

In Valli’s Italian dubbed animated roles, he voiced Rex in the Toy Story film series, Gobber the Belch in the How to Train Your Dragon franchise and Pops in The Secret Life of Pets franchise. He also gave his voice to Bender in Futurama starting from season 8.