Glauco Onorato (7 December 1936 — 31 December 2009) was an Italian actor.
Early life
He was born in Turin, Piedmont, Italy. His father was Giovanni Onorato, also an actor.
Career
Active in film, theater, and television. Among his most notable roles were as a man haunted by the supernatural in Mario Bava's masterpiece Black Sabbath, a soldier returning from the Russian front in Vittorio De Sica's Sunflower, and as a ruthless gangster in the crime film The Big Racket. He worked consistently from the late 1950s until shortly before his death.
With a deep, booming, yet comical voice, he gained his greatest fame as a voice actor. He provided the Italian voice for actors such as Danny Glover, Arnold Schwarzenegger in his earlier films, Anthony Quinn and Charles Bronson. He may however be best known for dubbing Italian actor Bud Spencer (whose heavy Neapolitan accent was considered unsuitable for his roles) in nearly all of his movies.
Filmography
- Spavaldi e Innamorati (1959), directed by Giuseppe Vari
- I Baccanali di Tiberio (1960), directed by Giorgio Simonelli
- Black Sabbath (Italian: I Tre Volti della Paura) (1963), directed by Mario Bava and Salvatore Billitteri
- Giacobbe, l'Uomo che Lottò con Dio (1963), directed by Marcello Baldi
- Lo Sceicco Rosso (1963), directed by Fernando Cerchio
- Amori Pericolosi (1964), episodio "La Ronda", directed by Carlo Lizzani
- Rivincita di Ivanhoe (1965), directed by Tanio Boccia
- Le piacevoli notti (1966), directed by Luciano Lucignani and Armando Crspino
- John il Bastardo (1967), directed by Armando Crispino
- Il Magnifico Texano (1968), directed by Luigi Capuano
- La Freccia Nera (1968), directed by Anton Giulio Majano
- Boot Hill (Italian: La collina degli stivali) (1969), directed by Giuseppe Colizzi
- Sunflower (Italian: I girasoli) (1970), directed by Vittorio De Sica
- Incontro (1971), directed by Piero Schivazappa
- W Django! (1971), directed by Edoardo Mulargia
- L'Ultimo Uomo di Sara (1972), directed by Maria Virginia Onorato
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- The Five Days (Italian: Le cinque giornate) (1973), directed by Dario Argento
- Fra' Tazio da Velletri (1973), directed by Romano Scandariato (and Joe D'Amato, uncredited)
- The Magnificent Dare Devil (Italian: Troppo rischio per un uomo solo) (1973), directed by Luciano Ercoli
- Wer Stirbt Schon Gerne unter Palmen? (1974), directed by Alfred Vohrer
- Carambola, Filotto... Tutti in Buca (1975), directed by Ferdinando Baldi
- Colpita da Improvviso Benessere (1975), directed by Franco Giraldi
- Deep Red (Italian: Profondo Rosso) (1975; uncredited), directed by Dario Argento
- Il Grande Racket (1976), directed by Enzo G. Castellari
- Maria R. e Gli Angeli del Trastevere (1976), directed by Elfriede Gaeng
- L'altra metà del cielo (1977), directed by Franco Rossi
- Poliziotto Sprint (1977), directed by Stelvio Massi
- Stringimi forte Papà (1977), directed by Michele Massimo Tarantini
- Il Vizietto II (1980), directed by Edouard Molinaro
- Stark System (1980), directed by Armenia Balducci
- Zucchero, Miele e Peperoncino (1980), directed by Sergio Martino
- Chi Nasce Tondo (2008), directed by Alessandro Valori
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Television
- Il Mondo è una Prigione (1962), directed by Vittorio Cottafavi
- Delitto e Castigo (1963), directed by Anton Giulio Majano
- Bene Mio Core Mio (1964), directed by Eduardo De Filippo
- Antony and Cleopatra (Italian: Antonio e Cleopatra) (1965), directed by Vittorio Cottafavi
- Vita di Dante (1965), directed by Vittorio Cottafavi
- Trampoli (1966), directed by Caludio Fino
- Caravaggio (1967), directed by Silverio Blasi
- I Promessi Sposi (1967), directed by Sandro Bolchi
- La Roma di Moravia (1967), directed by Daniele D'Anza
- Vita di Cavour (1967), directed by Piero Schivazappa
- La Freccia Nera (1968–1969; 6 episodes)
- I Fratelli Karamazov (1969; 2 episodes)
- Il Triangolo Rosso (1969; 1 episode)
- Antonio Meucci Cittadino Toscano Contro il Monopolio Bell (1970), directed by Daniele D'Anza
- La Vita di Leonardo da Vinci (1971), directed by Renato Castellani
- Prima, Durante e Dopo la Partita (1972), directed by Gian Domenico Giagni
- Assunta Spina (1973), directed by Carlo Di Stefano
- Door into Darkness (Italian: La porta sul buio) (1973; 1 episode)
- Merkwürdige Lebensgeschichte des Friedrich Freiherrn von der Trenck (1973)
- Canossa (1974), directed by Silverio Blasi
- L'Assassinio dei Fratelli Rosselli (1974), directed by Silvio Maestranzi
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- Nucleo Centrale Investigativo (1974), directed by Vittorio Armentano
- Processo per l'Uccisione di Raffaele Sonzogno Giornalista Romano (1975), directed by Alberto Negrin
- Dopo un Lungo Silenzio (1978), directed by Piero Schivazappa
- L'Étrange Monsieur Duvallier (1979; 1 episode)
- Bambole: Scene di un Delitto Perfetto (1980), directed by Alberto Negrin
- Parole e Sangue (1982), directed by Damiano Damiani
- I Due Prigionieri (1985), directed by Anton Giulio Majano
- La Grande Cabriole (1989), directed by Nina Companéez
- Donne Armate (1990), directed by Sergio Corbucci
- it (1992), directed by Luigi Perelli
- Tre Passi nel Delitto: Villa Maltraversi (1993), directed by Fabrizio Laurenti
- Uno di noi (1996), directed by Fabrizio Costa
- Don Matteo (2000; 1 episode)
- Centovetrine (2001), directed by Michele Ferrari and Pepi Romagnoli
- Le ali Della Vita 2 (2001), directed by Stefano Reali
- Sant'Antonio da Padova (2002), directed by Umberto Marino
- Luisa Sanfelice (2004), directed by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani
- I Colori della Vita (2005), directed by Stefano Reali
- L'Amore non Basta (2005), directed by Tiziana Aristarco
- A Voce Alta (2006), directed by Vincenzo Verdecchi
- La Princesa del Polígono (2007), directed by Rafael Montesinos
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Death
Onorato died at the San Camillo Hospital in Rome, Lazio, Italy, after battling an undisclosed serious illness for some time.
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