Francesco Pannofino

Italian actor and voice actor
  • Actor
  • voice actor
  • dubbing director
Years active1985–presentSpouse(s)Emanuela Rossi (m. ?–2006)
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(m. 2011)​
Children1RelativesLino 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 Emanuela Rossi, with whom he has made several collaborations. Together, they have one son, Andrea. They briefly divorced in 2006 but they eventually remarried in 2011. Pannofino's brother Lino is a dialogue writer.

Filmography

Cinema

  • Croce e delizia [it] (1995)
  • That's Life (1998)
  • Free the Fish (2000)
  • Fatti della banda della Magliana [it] (2005)
  • Night Bus (2007)
  • Lessons in Chocolate (2007)
  • This Night Is Still Ours (2008)
  • Pinocchio (2008)
  • L'uomo fiammifero [it] (2009)
  • Different from Whom? (2009)
  • Just Married (2009)
  • Me and Marilyn (2009)
  • Scontro di civiltà per un ascensore a Piazza Vittorio [it] (2010)
  • Coincidenze - short film (2010)
  • Men vs. Women (2010)
  • Boris: The Film (2011)
  • Faccio un salto all'Avana [it] (2011)
  • Una notte da paura [it] (2012) – TV Film
  • Poker Generation [it] (2012)
  • Workers - Pronti a tutto [it] (2012)
  • Operazione vacanze [it] (2012)
  • L'arbitro (2013)
  • Il pretore [it] (2014)
  • Ogni maledetto Natale [it] (2014)
  • Patria [it] (2014)
  • Le frise ignoranti [it] (2015)
  • Burning Love (2015)
  • Solo [it] (2016)
  • My Father Jack [it] (2016)
  • Pipì, Pupù e Rosmarina in Il mistero delle note rapite [it] (2017) - voice
  • The Match (2019)

Television

  • Linda e il brigadiere - TV series, season 3, episode 2 (1998)
  • Una donna per amico – TV series (2001)
  • La squadra – TV series, 9 episodes (2001)
  • Judas - TV film (2001)
  • Carabinieri – TV series, season 5, episode 1 (2002)
  • Distretto di Polizia – TV series, episode 5, season 8 (2005)
  • Try again teacher! – TV series, season 1, episode 1 and 3 (2005)
  • Questa è la mia terra – TV series (2006)
  • Giovanni Falcone - L'uomo che sfidò Cosa Nostra [it] – TV miniseries (2006)
  • Imperium: Pompeii - TV miniseries (2007)
  • Piloti - TV series, season 1, episode 5 (2007)
  • Il generale Dalla Chiesa [it] – TV minisereies (2007)
  • Boris – TV series (2007-2010, 2022)
  • Pinocchio – TV miniseries (2008)
  • Un caso di coscienza – TV series, 6 episodes (2009-2010)
  • I Cesaroni – TV series (2009-2012)
  • Un medico in famiglia – TV series, 1 episode (2009)
  • La nuova squadra – TV series (2011)
  • Camera Café – TV series, 1 episode (2011)
  • Nero Wolfe – TV series (2012)
  • Heiraten ist auch keine Lösung – TV film (2012)
  • Una notte da paura [it] - TV film (2012)
  • Adriano Olivetti - La forza di un sogno [it] – TV miniseries (2013)
  • La farfalla granata – film TV (2013)
  • Romolo + Giuly: La guerra mondiale italiana [it] – TV series (2018)[9]
  • Inspector Coliandro – TV series, season 7, episode 1 (2018)
  • Enrico Piaggio - Un sogno italiano [it] - TV film (2019)
  • Ostaggi – TV film (2021)
  • No Activity - Niente da segnalare [it] – TV series (2024)

Dubbing roles

Live action

Animation

Video games

References

  1. ^ "Francesco Pannofino's dubbing contributions". Antoniogenna.net. 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. 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. ^ "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.

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