Monday, May 27, 2019

RIP Flaminia Jandolo


Italian actress and voice dubber Flamina Jandolo died in Italy on May 22, 2019. She was 89. Born Flaminia Iandolo on February 11, 1930 in Rome, she was the daughter of writer Rina De Felici, Jandolo began her career in the early 1950s in Rai's radio prose, before going into voice acting and dubbing. Among the several actresses she dubbed, were Brigitte Bardot, Jean Simmons, Joan Plowright, Joanne Woodward, Maggie Smith and Debbie Reynolds. Jandolo was also very active in dubbing many animated characters, including Lady in Lady and the Tramp, the fairy Merryweather in Sleeping Beauty, Perdita in One Hundred and One Dalmatians and Mrs. Brisby in The Secret of NIMH. Jandolo was married to dialogue adapter Alberto Piferi, from whom she divorced and from whom she had her children Leonardo and Susanna, who were also dialogue adapters, and Caterina, who is a dubbing assistant. She was the Italian voice of Brigitte Bardot in 1965’s “Viva Maria!”; Soledad Miranda in 1966’s “Sugar Colt”; Rosanna Rovere in 1969’s “Sabata” and Iris Berben in 1970’ “Companeros!”

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