Monday, January 2, 2023

RIP Massimo Turci

 


Italian voice dubber and actor Massimo Turci Winner of the XII Targa "Gualtiero De Angelis" at the Festival "Voci a Sanremo" 2008; winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award at the International Dubbing Grand Prix 2009 died in Rome on January 2, 2023. He was 92. Born in Rome on June 20, 1930, he was the son of two antique dealers, he became a child actor by chance at the age of eleven, starring in the film Lighthouses in the Fog (1942): he then played small parts in three other films during the war. At the end of the war, he began to act first in front of the microphones of EIAR in programs for children, then in prose, both in theater and in radio dramas with the Rai prose company, mainly at the Radio Roma headquarters. He later entered the world of film dubbing within the CDC cooperative, where he became one of the leading youth voices. She voiced such actors as Anthony Perkins, Alain Delon, Ryan O'Neal, Russ Tamblyn Tomas Milian and Peter Lee Lawrence. As dubbing director he worked on all the films of Luigi Magni and those of Mario Monicelli starting from the film Camera d'hotel (1981). In 1999 he retired from the artistic activity. Turci was once married to voice actress Serena Verdirosi [1947- ], with whom he had one son, Francesco.

Massimo Turci’s Euro-westerns – voice dubber:

Samson and the Slave Queen – 1963 [Italian voice of Andrea Scotti; Minnesota Clay – 1964 [Italian voice of Alberto Cevenini]; Adios Gringo – 1965 [Italian voice of Massimo Righi]; Blood for a Silver Dollar – 1965 [Italian voice of Massimo Righi]; Colorado Charlie – 1965 [Italian voice of Alberto Cevenini]; Three Dollars of Lead – 1965 [Italian voice of Virgilio Daddi]; Left Handed Johnny West – 1965 [Italian voice of Bob Felton]; The Relentless Four – 1965 [Italian voice of Robert Johnson Jr.]; The Trampers – 1965 [Italian voice of Giovanni Scratuglia]; Dollars for a Fast Gun – 1966 [Italian voice of ?]; Fort Yuma Gold – 1966 [Italian voice of ?]; The Good the Bad and the Ugly – 1966 [Italian voice of ?]; Johnny Colt – 1966 [Italian voice of Howard Ross]; My Name is Pecos – 1966 [Italian voice of Maurizio Bonuglia]; Return of the Magnificent 7 – 1966 [Italian voice of Julian Mateos]; Ringo’s Big Night – 1966 [Italian voice of Guido De Salvi]; 7 Guns for the MacGregors – 1966 [Italian voice of Alberto Dell’Acqua]; The Taste of Killing – 1966 [Italian voice of Dario De Grassi]; Texas Adios – 1966 [Italian voice of Alberto Dell’Acqua]; The Ugly Ones – 1966 [Italian voice of Tomas Milian];Adios Hombre – 1967 [Italian voice of Nazzareno Zamperla]; Buckaroo – 1967 [Italian voice of Dean Reed]; A Bullet for the General – 1967 [Italian voice of Lou Castel]; A Colt in the Hand of the Devil – 1967 [Italian voice of Gerardo Rossi], Dakota Joe – 1967 [Italian voice of ?]; The Dirty Outlaws – 1967 [Italian voice of Antonio Cantafora]; Django Kill – 1967 [Italian voice of Tomas Milian]; The Fury of Johnny Kid – 1967 [Italian voice of Peter Lee Lawrence]; Hallelujah for Django – 1967 [Italian voice of Giovanni Scratuglia]; Killer Caliber .32 – 1967 [Italian voice of Alberto Dell’Acqua]; Two Crosses at Danger Pass – 1967 [Italian voice of Anthony Freeman]; Up the MacGregors – 1967 [Italian voice of Alberto Dell’Acqua]; Wanted – 1967 [Italian voice of Ivan Scratuglia]; Death Sentence – 1968 [Italian voice of Tomas Milian]; A Train for Durango – 1968 [Italian voice of Mark Damon]; Johnny Hamlet – 1968 [Italian voice of Chip Corman]; A Long Ride from Hell – 1968 [Italian voice of Sergio De Vecchi]; The Longest Hunt – 1968 [Italian voice of Fabrizio Moroni]; Ringo the Lone Rider – 1968 [Italian voice of Paolo Herzl; The Taste of Vengeance – 1968 [Italian voice of Roberto Miali]; This Man Can’t Die – 1968 [Italian voice of Alberto Dell’Acqua]; The 5-Man Army – 1969 [Italian voice of Nino Casteluovo]; Today We Kill, Tomorrow We Die – 1968 [Italian voice of Franco Borelli]; Two Guns and a Coward – 1968 [Italian voice of Massimo Righi]; The Stranger’s Gundown (Django the Bastard) – 1969 [Italian voice of Celso Faria]; More Dollars for the MacGregors – 1970 [Italian voice of Peter Lee Lawrence]; Roy Colt and Winchester Jack – 1970 [Italian voice of Charles Southwood]; The Unholy Four – 1970 [Italian voice of Leonard Mann]; Black Killer – 1971 [Italian voice of Gerardo Rossi]; They Call Him Cemetery – 1971 [Italian voice of John Fordyce]; God in Heaven, Arizona on Earth – 1972 [Italian voice of Peter Lee Lawrence]; The Prey of Vultures – 1972 [Italian voice of Peter Lee Lawrence]; Sting of the West – 1972 [Italian voice of Giancarlo Prete]; The Three Musketeers of the West – 1972 [Italian voice of Giancarlo Prete]


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