Massimo Dapporto

Massimo Dapporto
Dapporto (left) and Francesco Benigno in The Last Breath (1992)
Born	(1945-08-08) 8 August 1945 (age 78) Milan, Italy
Occupation(s)	Actor, voice actor, dialogue writer
Years active	1973–present
Spouse	Stefania Longo (m. 1971)
Children	Davide Dapporto
Parent	Carlo Dapporto

Massimo Dapporto (born 8 August 1945) is an Italian actor and voice actor.^[1]

Biography

Born in Milan, the son of the actor and comedian Carlo Dapporto, he studied acting at the Silvio D'Amico National Academy of Dramatic Arts.^[2]^[3] Dapporto began his career in the 1970s and found professional opportunities in the small screen, where he starred in TV-series and mini-series of great success, notably the medical drama Amico mio and he even played the role of Emperor Claudius in the Imperium movie Nero.^[4]

In 1989, he won a David di Donatello for best supporting actor for his performance in Francesca Archibugi's Mignon Has Come to Stay.^[5]

In his profession as a voice actor, Dapporto dubbed characters into the Italian language. He served as the Italian voice of Buzz Lightyear in the Toy Story films as well as dubbing Tim Curry, Michael Keaton, John Goodman, Pierre Arditi, Patrick Stewart, Joe Mantegna and Cheech Marin in some of their movies.^[6]

Personal life

Dapporto is the father of director Davide Dapporto. He has also been married to Stefania Longo since 1971. He considers himself Catholic but he believes in reincarnation.^[7]

Filmography

Cinema

Il trafficone (1974)
Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen (1976)
Nerone (1976)
Hunted City (1979)
Soldati - 365 all'alba (1987)
Il mistero del panino assassino [it] (1987)
Tenerezza [it] (1987)
The Family (1987)
Mignon Has Come to Stay (1988)
Disamistade [it] (1989)
Rouge Venise (1989)
Tre colonne in cronaca (1990)
L'alba [it] (1990)
Traces of an Amorous Life (1990)
Ma non per sempre [it] (1991)
A Simple Story (1991)
Ultimo respiro [it] (1992)
Per non dimenticare (1992)
State Secret (1995)
Marching in Darkness (1996)
Celluloide (1996)
Anni Ribelli (1996)
Con rabbia e con amore [it] (1997)
L'apparenza (2003)
Nicola, lì dove sorge il sole [it] (2006)

Television

All'ultimo minuto (1973)
Nucleo centrale investigativo [it] (1974)
Sarti Antonio brigadiere [it] (1978)
Il mercante di Venezia (1979)
Anna Kuliscioff [it] (1981)
Storia d'amore e d'amicizia [it] (1982)
Uno + uno [it] (1983)
Mussolini and I (1985)
Il boss [it] (1986)
Diventerò padre [it] (1987)
Come una mamma [it] (1990)
Non siamo soli [it] (1991)
Una madre come tu (1993)
Amico mio (1993–1998)
Una bambina di troppo [it] (1995)
Mio padre è innocente [it] (1997)
Un prete tra noi (1997–1999)
Mio figlio ha 70 anni [it] (1999)
Ciao professore (1999)
Per amore per vendetta [it] (2001)
Casa famiglia (2001–2003)
Il commissario (2002)
Nero (2004)
Giovanni Falcone - L'uomo che sfidò Cosa Nostra [it] (2006)
Distretto di Polizia (2007)
Il generale dei briganti [it] (2012)
Mister Ignis - L'operaio che fondò un impero [it] (2013)
Luisa Spagnoli [it] (2016)

Dubbing roles

Animation

Buzz Lightyear in Toy Story
Buzz Lightyear / Utility Belt Buzz in Toy Story 2
Buzz Lightyear in Toy Story 3
Buzz Lightyear in Toy Story 4
Buzz Lightyear in Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: The Adventure Begins
Buzz Lightyear in Toy Story of Terror!
Buzz Lightyear in Hawaiian Vacation
Buzz Lightyear in Small Fry
Buzz Light Car in Cars
Shaggy Rogers in Scooby-Doo (2nd voice)
Warren T. Rat in An American Tail
Heathcliff in Heathcliff

Live action

Mr. Hector in Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
Walter Garfield in The Monuments Men
Bill Blazejowski in Night Shift
Stan Starkey in Maid to Order
Cheech Marin in Cheech and Chong's Next Movie
Jean Passepartout in Around the World in 80 Days
Maitre d' at L'Idiot in L.A. Story
Quon in One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing
Joe Gipp in Adventures in Babysitting

References

^ "Massimo Dapporto's dubbing contributions". Antoniogenna.net. Retrieved 13 September 2018.
^ "Massimo Dapporto". MYmovies. Retrieved 5 May 2020.
^ "Articoli e interviste: Massimo Dapporto". La Repubblica. 9 June 2003. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 27 November 2013.
^ Grasso, Aldo (1996). Enciclopedia della televisione (in Italian). Milan: Garzanti. ISBN 88-11-50466-X.
^ Lancia, Enrico (1998). I premi del cinema (in Italian). Rome: Gremese. ISBN 88-7742-221-1.
^ Bonardelli, Marco; Di Cola, Gerardo; Razza, Andrea (24 January 2013). Massimo Dapporto e il doppiaggio (Interview) (in Italian). enciclopediadeldoppiaggio. Retrieved 24 February 2019 – via YouTube.
^ Giordano, Lucio (9 September 2022). "Per me l'aldilà non esiste: io credo nella reincarnazione". Dipiù (in Italian). No. 36. pp. 86–89.