Stefano Sibaldi

Stefano Sibaldi
Sibaldi (left) in An Impossible Family (1940)
Born	(1905-06-11)11 June 1905 Livorno, Kingdom of Italy
Died	2 July 1996(1996-07-02) (aged 91) Rome, Italy
Occupations	Actor voice actor
Years active	1928–1989

Stefano Sibaldi (11 June 1905 – 2 July 1996) was an Italian actor and voice actor.

Biography

Born in Livorno, Sibaldi was considered to be among the most successful of the early actors and dubbers of the 20th century. He began his acting career in 1928 staying within the field of stage and screen and he worked alongside many related people within his ventures such as Carlo Veneziani and Armando Falconi. Sibaldi's film debut was in the 1934 film Full Speed and he also made radio and television acting contributions.[1]

In 1937, Sibaldi entered a career as a voice dubber. Among the actors he dubbed included Frank Sinatra, Glenn Ford, Louis de Funès, Fred Astaire, Richard Widmark, Groucho Marx, Danny Kaye and many more. In his Italian dubbed animated roles, he voiced Timothy Q. Mouse in Dumbo, Captain Hook in Peter Pan, Tramp in Lady and the Tramp and the Cheshire Cat in Alice in Wonderland. Sibaldi retired from his career in the late 1980s.[2]

Death

Sibaldi died in Rome on July 2, 1996, at the age of 91.

Filmography

Cinema

• Full Speed (1934)
• Sette giorni all'altro mondo (1936)
• Adam's Tree (1936)
• Pensaci, Giacomino! (1936)
• The Fornaretto of Venice (1939)
• Frenesia (1939)
• An Impossible Family (1940)
• Then We'll Get a Divorce (1940)
• Don Pasquale (1940)
• Il carnevale di Venezia (1940)
• Manovre d'amore (1941)
• Barbablù (1941)
• The Actor Who Disappeared (1941)
• La fuggitiva (1941)
• Il vagabondo (1941)
• Il pozzo dei miracoli (1941)
• Wedding Day (1942)
• Colpi di timone (1942)
• Sealed Lips (1942)
• L'amico delle donne (1943)
• Annabella's Adventure (1943)
• Il nemico (1943)
• Silenzio, si gira! (1943)
• 4 ragazze sognano (1943)
• La signora in nero (1943)
• Lascia cantare il cuore (1943)
• Mist on the Sea (1944)
• The Man with the Grey Glove (1948)
• Rascel-Fifì (1957)
• Il corazziere (1960)
• Mission Stardust (1967)

Voice work

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1950	La Rosa di Bagdad	Genie of the Lamp	Animated film
		Narrator

Dubbing

Films (Animation, Italian dub)

Year	Title	Role(s)	Ref
1939	Gulliver's Travels	King Little
1946	Make Mine Music	Narrator #5	[3]
	Peter and the Wolf	Narrator
1948	Dumbo	Timothy Q. Mouse	[4]
	The Three Caballeros	Professor Holloway
1950	Cinderella	Grand Duke	[5]
	Song of the South	Br'er Rabbit	[6]
1951	Alice in Wonderland	Cheshire Cat	[7]
1953	Peter Pan	Captain Hook	[8]
		Narrator
	Ben and Me	Amos Mouse
1955	Lady and the Tramp	Tramp	[9]

References

1. "Stefano Sibaldi". MYmovies. Retrieved 2 July 2019.
2. "Stefano Sibaldi's voice acting and dubbing contributions". Il mondo dei doppiatori, antoniogenna.net (in Italian). Retrieved 27 March 2019.
3. "Make Mine Music Italian voice cast". Antoniogenna.net. Retrieved 24 September 2024.
4. "Dumbo Italian voice cast". Antoniogenna.net. Retrieved 24 September 2024.
5. "Cinderella Italian voice cast". Antoniogenna.net. Retrieved 24 September 2024.
6. "Song of the South Italian voice cast". Antoniogenna.net. Retrieved 24 September 2024.
7. "Alice in Wonderland Italian voice cast". Antoniogenna.net. Retrieved 24 September 2024.
8. "Peter Pan Italian voice cast". Antoniogenna.net. Retrieved 24 September 2024.
9. "Lady and the Tramp Italian voice cast". Antoniogenna.net. Retrieved 24 September 2024.

External links

Media related to Stefano Sibaldi at Wikimedia Commons

• Stefano Sibaldi at IMDb
• Stefano Sibaldi at Behind The Voice Actors