RIP Giorgio Favretto

 

Italian actor, voice actor, dubbing director and Italian dialogue writer Giorgio Favretto, who was active in theater, cinema and television since the mid-sixties died in Anguillara Sabazia, Rome, Lazio, Italy on January 23. He was 83. Born in Rijeka, Primorsko-Goranska County, Croatia on December 5, 1941, he graduated in 1964 from the National Academy of Dramatic Art "Silvio D'Amico" in Rome. On television, he played the role of Maximilien in the 1966 television drama ‘The Count of Monte Cristo’. The bulk of his career was in voice acting and dubbing as a director, dialogue writer and voice dubber. Giorgio dubbed several actors including among others, Lee Majors, Mitchell Ryan, Luis Guzmán, Raoul Hernandez and David Clennon. He was the Italian voice of Raimond Harmstorf in 1987’s Euro-western “Thunder Warrior II” and the sequel “Thunder Warrior II” where he dubbed Horst Schön.