Marco Mete

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Marco Mete
Born (1955-10-24) 24 October 1955 (age 68)
Rome, Italy
Occupations
  • Actor
  • voice actor
  • theatre director
  • dialogue writer
  • dubbing director
Years active1978–present
SpouseStefanella Marrama (divorced)
Children
  • Andrea
  • Federica

Marco Mete (born 24 October 1955) is an Italian actor and voice actor. [1]

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Biography

Trained at the Accademia Nazionale di Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico, he became a theatre actor, director and playwright, also performing onstage in the United States, [2] Germany, and France, working with figures such as Geppy Gleijeses, [3] Eugenio Bennato, Stefanella Marrama, Ennio Coltorti and Gennaro Cannavacciuolo. He debuted as a TV actor in the late '70s and his first role on the big screen was in the collective film Intolerance – Sguardi del cinema sull'intolleranza in 1996, playing the main character in a segment directed by Leonardo Celi, followed by the narrating character in the award-winning short-film Asino chi legge . [4]

He is best known as a voice actor, having dubbed Roger Rabbit in both the Italian and Spanish edition of Who Framed Roger Rabbit , also voicing Woody Woodpecker in the Spanish dub; he has dubbed many animated characters in Italian, such as Daffy Duck from 1990 to 2022, Bonkers in the American series of the same name and in Raw Toonage , Chicken in Cow & Chicken , Adolf Hitler in Lupin III: The First , Narrator Smurf in The Smurfs and The Smurfs 2 , Farmer Smurf in Smurfs: The Lost Village , Harv in Cars , Sir Miles Axlerod in Cars 2 , Scuttle in The Little Mermaid and Jean-Bob in The Swan Princess . He also dubbed over the voices of Kevin Bacon, Bruce Willis, Robin Williams, Martin Lawrence, Kenneth Branagh, Aidan Quinn and other actors in Italian in some of their roles.

In 2019, Mete took part in the English dubbed version of Matteo Garrone's film Pinocchio , dubbing the Judge Gorilla, physically portrayed by Swiss actor Teco Celio. [5]

Filmography

Theatre (incomplete list)

Actor

Director

Dubbing roles

Animation

Live-action

Videogames

Notes

  1. ↑ "Marco Mete's dubbing contributions". Antoniogenna.net. Retrieved June 18, 2024.
  2. 1 2 Anne Barry (June 10, 1979). "Arts and Leisure Guide – Theater Opening This Week". New York Times .
  3. 1 2 3 "Maschere vere e uomini finti". l'Unità (in Italian). March 4, 1979.
  4. ↑ "ASINO CHI LEGGE - Nuvola Film". nuvolafilm.com.
  5. ↑ Voice actor in the English dub of Matteo Garrone's Pinocchio
  6. ↑ Alessandro Paesano. "La contemporaneità de Il Gabbiano di Coltorti". teatro.it (in Italian).
  7. ↑ Margherita Lamesta. "VOLARE, Concerto a Domenico Modugno – regia Marco Mete e Gennaro Cannavacciuolo". sipario.it (in Italian).
  8. ↑ "Marco Mete". eldoblaje.com (in Spanish).
  9. 1 2 "Once Upon a Studio". antoniogenna.net (in Italian).
  10. ↑ "South Park – Il film: più grosso, più lungo & tutto intero". Il mondo dei doppiatori, antoniogenna.net. Retrieved January 27, 2022.
  11. ↑ "South Park Italian voice cast". antoniogenna.net. Retrieved October 1, 2022.
  12. ↑ "The Simpsons Italian Voice Cast". antoniogenna.net.
  13. ↑ "Dragonball Evolution: I doppiatori italiani del film". AnimeClick.it. March 10, 2009.
  14. ↑ "Bugs Bunny – Lost in time Italian voice cast". antoniogenna.net (in Italian). Retrieved July 1, 2021.
  15. ↑ "Bugs Bunny & Taz: Time Busters Italian voice cast". antoniogenna.net (in Italian). Retrieved June 30, 2021.
  16. ↑ "Ghost Hunter". antoniogenna.net (in Italian). Retrieved February 19, 2022.
  17. ↑ "Epic Mickey 2 – L'avventura di Topolino e Oswald". antoniogenna.net (in Italian). Retrieved November 24, 2021.

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