Gino La Monica

Gino La Monica (born Luigi La Monica; 14 March 1944) is an Italian actor and voice actor.

Biography

Trained at the Accademia Nazionale di Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico, he has acted in theatre and television, working with directors such as Luchino Visconti, Ettore Giannini, Sandro Bolchi and Anton Giulio Majano.^[1][2] He also performed alongside Bud Spencer in the 1977 film Charleston. In 2011 he played the part of Cardinal Altamirano in the international musical play The Mission, inspired from Roland Joffé and Robert Bolt's film of the same name, where he had also previously dubbed Jeremy Irons' role of Father Gabriel in Italian.^[3][4] La Monica is known to the Italian public as a voice dubbing artist, having dubbed over the voices of Christopher Walken, William Hurt, Sam Neill, Richard Gere, Dustin Hoffman in The Graduate and David Hemmings in Deep Red.^[5] Other actors dubbed by him include Martin Sheen, Robert Redford, Harrison Ford, Michael Caine, Alan Rickman, Jonathan Pryce, Jeremy Irons and many others.^[5]

In 2021 he was cast by

• Charleston (1977)
• The House of Chicken (La casa del pollo, 2001)
• Tutta colpa della musica (2011)
• Mezzanotte - short film (2018)
• Luca (2021) - voice^[6]
• Ciao Alberto - short film (2021) - voice^[7]

Television

• Il conte di Montecristo - TV miniseries (1966)
• La fiera della vanità - TV miniseries (1967)
• I demoni - TV miniseries (1972)
• Un certo Marconi - TV film (1974)
• Processo per l'uccisione di Raffaele Sonzogno giornalista romano - TV miniseries (1975)
• Il signore di Ballantrae - TV miniseries (1979)
• Il delitto Notarbartolo - TV miniseries (1979)
• L'eredità della priora - TV miniseries (1980)
• Delitto in piazza - TV miniseries (1980)
• Caro maestro - TV series (1997)
• Una donna per amico - TV series (1998–1999)
• Il rumore dei ricordi - TV miniseries (2000)
• La casa dell'angelo - TV film (2002)
• Lo zio d'America - TV series, season 1 (2002)
• Il caso Enzo Tortora - Dove eravamo rimasti? - TV miniseries (2012)

Dubbing

Animation

• Narrator in the Italian dub of Asterix the Gaul,^[8] Asterix and Cleopatra,^[9] The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (The Wind in the Willows segment),^[10] Magne Robo Gakeen,^[11] Les Misérables,^[12] Kassai and Luk,^[13] Funky Valley,^[14] Mittelland - Die Legende der Elfen,^[15] In the Night Garden...^[16]
• Elrond in The Lord of the Rings^[5]
• Benjamin in Animal Farm (1999 film)^[5]
• Professor Sam Tucker in Titan A.E.^[5]
• Ozzie in Over the Hedge^[5]
• Tommaso in Luca^[6]

Live action

• Thunderbolt Ross in The Incredible Hulk, Captain America: Civil War, Avengers: Infinity War, Black Widow^[5]
• Gabriel in The Prophecy, The Prophecy II, The Prophecy 3: The Ascent^[5]
• Weatherby Swann in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End^[5]
• Robert Kelly in X-Men, X2^[5]
• Sam J. Jones in Ted, Ted 2^[5]
• Actor Odin in Thor: Ragnarok, Thor: Love and Thunder^[5]
• Benjamin "Ben" Braddock in The Graduate^[5]
• Marc Daly in Deep Red^[5]
• Robert Fulmer in Next Stop, Greenwich Village^[5]
• Bradford "Big Brad" Whitewood Sr. in At Close Range^[5]
• Doug Tate in Alice^[5]
• Flash Gordon in Flash Gordon^[5]
• Michael Brace in Brainstorm^[5]
• John in John and Mary^[5]
• Dieter Bergman in The Blood of Others^[5]
• Father Gabriel in The Mission^[5]
• Vincenzo Coccotti in True Romance^[5]
• Kim Ulander in Search and Destroy^[5]
• Martin "Marty" Bronson in Bedtime Stories^[5]
• General Vavarin Delatombe in The Brothers Grimm^[5]
• Mr. John Dickens in The Man Who Invented Christmas^[5]
• Pope Francis in The Two Popes^[5]
• Shaddam IV in Dune: Part Two^[5]

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