Francesco Pannofino

Francesco Pannofino
Pannofino attending the Lucca Comics & Games convention in 2018
Born (1958-11-14) 14 November 1958 (age 66)
Pieve di Teco, Italy
Occupations
  • Actor
  • voice actor
  • dubbing director
Years active1985–present
Spouse(s)
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(m. 1997; div. 2006)​

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(m. 2011)​
Children1
RelativesLino Pannofino (brother)

Francesco Pannofino (born 14 November 1958) is an Italian actor and voice actor.[1]

Biography

Born in Pieve di Teco, Pannofino's parents originated from Locorotondo. Sometime after 1972, he and his family moved to Rome. In 1978, while waiting for a bus to take him to university so that he could undergo an algebra exam, Pannofino heard the sound of gunshots coming from a street nearby: what he heard was in fact Aldo Moro being kidnapped;[2] he would later write a song based on those events, Il sequestro di stato (i.e. State abduction),[3] which appears in the soundtrack of Felice Farina's 2014 film Patria featuring him in the main role.

Pannofino began his career as a theatre actor somewhen between the late 1970s and the early 1980s and as a screen actor in the mid-90s, appearing in many films and television programs through the years;[4] these include Giovanni Falcone – L'uomo che sfidò Cosa Nostra, in which he portrayed real life gangster Tommaso Buscetta, and Night Bus, starring Giovanna Mezzogiorno and Valerio Mastandrea, as well as the TV film Imperium: Pompeii.[5] He is especially known for the role of frustrated TV director René Ferretti in the satirical TV series Boris, also contributing to the soundtrack with his own song Ciak (Italian onomatopeia indicating the clapperboard used to demand action while filming).[6]

Pannofino is considered to be one of the most representative dubbers in the fifth generation of Italian voice actors[6] and has dubbed a great number of characters in Italian.[7] He is the official voice actor of George Clooney and Denzel Washington. Other actors he often or occasionally dubs include Kurt Russell, Wesley Snipes, Mickey Rourke, Dan Aykroyd, Antonio Banderas, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ray Winstone, Michael Madsen, Daniel Day-Lewis, and Kevin Spacey (mainly dubbed by Roberto Pedicini). Pannofino performed the Italian voices of characters such as Rubeus Hagrid in the Harry Potter franchise (which includes narrating the official audiobooks), the Green Goblin in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy, Gil Grissom in CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Budd in Kill Bill: Volume 1 and Kill Bill: Volume 2, Forrest Gump in Forrest Gump, The Red Guy in Cow and Chicken/I Am Weasel and many more.[8]

Personal life

Pannofino is married to actress and voice actress Emanuela Rossi, with whom he had a son, Andrea, who also became an actor and voice actor; the two actors separated in 2006, but later reunited and married a second time in 2011, although, by mutual agreement, the two chose not to live together again.[9] He is a fan of Lazio, a passion that he developed in the mid-70s when, as a teenager, he sold drinks in the stands of the Olympic stadium in Rome.

Filmography

Cinema

Television

Voice work

Live action roles

  • Narrator in Via Veneto Set – documentary (2006),[17] Zero - Inchiesta sull'11 settembre [it] – documentary (2007), Coincidenze – short film (2010), La vita è arte. Renato Guttuso, l'artista e il suo tempo – documentary (2011),[18] Padre Pio costruttore di misericordia – documentary (2016),[19] Meraviglie – documentary series (2018-2022),[20] Io, Leonardo [it],[21] Being With Refugees – documentary (2020), Vaccari – documentary (2020),[22] Dentro il Quirinale - Il palazzo degli italiani – documentary (2020),[23] La Divina Commedia VR: l'Inferno, un Viaggio Immersivo – short film (2022),[24] Il tempio della velocità – documentary (2022)[25]
  • Guido Picelli in Il ribelle [it] – documentary (2011)[26]
  • Rasputin in Rasputin - La verità supera la leggenda (2011)[27]
  • Clown in Cuore di clown – short film (2011)[28]
  • Spam in Doggywood [it][29]
  • Marshal in Toilet [it] (2022)[30]

Italian-dubbed roles

Animated roles

Italian-dubbed roles

Video games

References

  1. ^ "Francesco Pannofino's voice acting and dubbing contributions". Il mondo dei doppiatori, antoniogenna.net (in Italian). Retrieved 8 October 2018.
  2. ^ Adinolfi intervista Pannofino (René) su Boris on YouTube
  3. ^ "Francesco Pannofino canta "Sequestro di Stato"" (in Italian). March 2, 2015.
  4. ^ "Francesco Pannofino". MYmovies. Retrieved 9 February 2020.
  5. ^ "Francesco Pannofino – Attore – Biografia e Filmographia – Ecodelcinema". ecodelcinema.com. 30 September 2013. Retrieved 8 October 2018.
  6. ^ a b "Francesco Pannofino" (in Italian).
  7. ^ FRANCESCO PANNOFINO e IL DOPPIAGGIO (2013) | enciclopediadeldoppiaggio.it
  8. ^ "Pannofino racconta Harry Potter per Audible: "Con la voce devi rapire l'attenzione"" (in Italian). wired.it. 21 September 2017. Retrieved 9 February 2020.
  9. ^ "Francesco Pannofino, l'amore per la moglie Emanuela Rossi il figlio/ "Tra noi tanti tira e molla, poi…"". ilsussidiario.bet (in Italian). 29 April 2024. Retrieved 26 December 2024.
  10. ^ "A mano disarmata". cinemaitaliano.info (in Italian).
  11. ^ "Nati 2 volte". cinemaitaliano.info (in Italian).
  12. ^ "Si muore solo da vivi". cinemaitaliano.info (in Italian).
  13. ^ "Uomini da marciapiede". cinemaitaliano.info (in Italian).
  14. ^ "La guerra del Tiburtino III". mymovies.it (in Italian).
  15. ^ "Gli addestratori". cinemaitaliano.info (in Italian).
  16. ^ "Il teaser FOX di Romolo + Giuly: la guerra mondiale italiana". 15 June 2018. Archived from the original on 24 June 2018. Retrieved 24 June 2018.
  17. ^ "Via Veneto Set". cinemaitaliano.info (in Italian).
  18. ^ "La Vita e' Arte. Renato Guttuso, l'Artista e il suo Tempo". cinemaitaliano.info (in Italian).
  19. ^ "Padre Pio".
  20. ^ "Meraviglie". vixvocal.it (in Italian).
  21. ^ "Io, Leonardo". cinemaitaliano.info (in Italian).
  22. ^ "Vaccari". cinemaitaliano.info (in Italian).
  23. ^ "Dentro il Quirinale - Il palazzo degli italiani". cinemaitaliano.info (in Italian).
  24. ^ "La Divina Commedia VR: L'Inferno, un Viaggio Immersivo". cinemaitaliano.info (in Italian).
  25. ^ "Il Tempio della Velocita'". cinemaitaliano.info (in Italian).
  26. ^ "Il ribelle". cinematografo.it (in Italian).
  27. ^ "Rasputin - La verità supera la leggenda". cinemaitaliano.info (in Italian).
  28. ^ "Cuore di clown". cinematografo.it (in Italian).
  29. ^ "Doggywood - serie TV - la Repubblica" (in Italian).
  30. ^ "Toilet". cinematografo.it (in Italian).
  31. ^ "Yaya e Lennie - The Walking Liberty". mymovies.it (in Italian).
  32. ^ "Lupo racconta la SMA".

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