Dario Penne

Dario Penne (17 February 1938 – 15 February 2023) was an Italian actor and voice actor.

Biography
Born in Trieste, Penne acted in theatre, television, cinema and radio. He was heavily active as a voice actor and dubbed many characters into the Italian language. One of the roles he is best known for is Bender Bending Rodríguez in the Italian-Language version of Futurama. He also dubbed Emmett "Doc" Brown in Back to the Future Part II and Back to the Future Part III, replacing Ferruccio Amendola. Among the most popular actors he dubbed include Michael Caine, Anthony Hopkins, Christopher Lloyd, Tommy Lee Jones and Ben Kingsley.

His most other popular dubbing roles include Agent K in the Men in Black movies, Judge Doom in Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Alfred Pennyworth in the Dark Knight trilogy films, Hannibal Lecter in the Hannibal Lecter trilogy from 1991 to 2002, and Sentinel Prime in Transformers: Dark of the Moon. He was the speaker of Goofy's shorts in Tomorrow We Diet and Teachers Are People.

Death
Penne died in Rome on 15 February 2023, aged 84.

Cinema

 * Non ho tempo (1973)
 * A Violent Life (1990)
 * I Wanted Pants (1990)
 * Blu notte (1992)
 * The Border (1996)
 * Ferrari (2003)

Televisione

 * I promessi sposi - TV series (1967)
 * Breve gloria di mister Miffin (1967)
 * E le stelle stanno a guardare - TV miniseries (1971)
 * Tecnica di un colpo di stato: la marcia su Roma (1978)
 * L'eredità della priora - TV series (1980)
 * Distretto di Polizia – TV series, 2 episodes (2003-2007)
 * R.I.S. - Delitti imperfetti – TV series, season 1, episode 10 (2005)
 * Pope John Paul I: The Smile of God – TV miniseries (2006)
 * Don Matteo – TV series, season 6, episode 15 (2008)
 * Un medico in famiglia – TV series, season 6, episode 18 (2009)
 * Max e Hélène - TV film (2015)

Animation

 * Ciro in L'uovo
 * Prefect in Padre Pio
 * Giamus in Gli Smile and Go e il braciere di fuoco
 * School director in Pinocchio (2012 film)
 * Grandpa in Mini Cuccioli - Le quattro stagioni
 * Healer in Trash - La leggenda della piramide magica

Live action

 * Giulio Andreotti's phone voice in some scenes of Giovanni Falcone
 * Narrator in We Still Talk

Animation

 * Bender Bending Rodríguez in Futurama (seasons 1-7x13), Futurama: Bender's Big Score, Futurama: The Beast With a Billion Backs, Futurama: Bender's Game, Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder
 * Emmett "Doc" Brown, Reginald Barrington and Tommy Lee Jones in Family Guy
 * Agent K in Men in Black: The Series
 * Eduardo in Marsupilami
 * The Dentist in Finding Nemo
 * Django in Ratatouille
 * Finn McMissile in Cars 2
 * Hovis in The Tale of Despereaux
 * Pagemaster in The Pagemaster
 * Tony in Alpha and Omega
 * Herod in The Star
 * Merlin in Sofia the First
 * Grand Duke of Owls in Rock-a-Doodle
 * Dr. Eggman in Sonic X
 * Aristotle in Reign: The Conqueror
 * Principal Pixiefrog in My Gym Partner's a Monkey
 * Joe in A Christmas Carol
 * Warden's Cat in The Animals of Farthing Wood
 * King Mumbo Jumbo in ChalkZone
 * Virgilius in Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic

Live action

 * Tim Comell in Desperate Hours
 * Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal, Red Dragon
 * Odin in Thor, Thor: The Dark World, Thor: Ragnarok
 * Alfred Pennyworth in Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, The Dark Knight Rises
 * Agent K in Men in Black, Men in Black II, Men in Black 3
 * Judge Doom in Who Framed Roger Rabbit
 * Emmett "Doc" Brown in Back to the Future Part II, Back to the Future Part III, A Million Ways to Die in the West
 * Nearly Headless Nick in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
 * Samuel Gerard in The Fugitive, U.S. Marshals
 * Sentinel Prime in Transformers: Dark of the Moon
 * John Quincy Adams in Amistad
 * James Stevens in The Remains of the Day
 * C. S. Lewis in Shadowlands
 * William Ludlow in Legends of the Fall
 * Charles Morse in The Edge
 * Don Diego de la Vega in The Mask of Zorro
 * William Parrish in Meet Joe Black
 * Dr. Ethan Powell in Instinct
 * Titus Andronicus in Titus
 * Mission Commander Swanbeck in Mission: Impossible 2
 * Ted Brautigan in Hearts in Atlantis
 * Officer Oakes in Bad Company
 * Coleman Silk in The Human Stain
 * Ptolemy I Soter in Alexander
 * Robert in Proof
 * Burt Munro in The World's Fastest Indian
 * Judge Irwin in All the King's Men
 * John in Bobby
 * Theodore "Ted" Crawford in Fracture
 * King Hrothgar in Beowulf
 * Felix Bonhoeffer in Slipstream
 * Sir John Talbot in The Wolfman
 * Adam Gund in The City of Your Final Destination
 * Alfie Shepridge in You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
 * Father Lucas Trevant in The Rite
 * John in 360
 * Dr. Edward Bailey in Red 2
 * Methuselah in Noah
 * Freddy Heineken in Kidnapping Mr. Heineken
 * John Clancy in Solace
 * Arthur Denning in Misconduct
 * Hagen Kahl in Collide
 * Sir Edmund Burton in Transformers: The Last Knight
 * Robert Ford in Westworld
 * Michael Jennings in On Deadly Ground
 * Ray Say in Little Voice
 * Dr. Wilbur Larch in The Cider House Rules
 * Nigel Powers in Austin Powers in Goldmember
 * Pierre Brossard in The Statement
 * Robert Spritzel in The Weather Man
 * Jasper in Children of Men
 * Mr. Hobbs in Flawless
 * Stephen Miles in Inception
 * Matthew Morgan in Mr. Morgan's Last Love
 * Professor Brand in Interstellar
 * Arthur / Chester King in Kingsman: The Secret Service
 * Fred Ballinger in Youth
 * Father Dolan in The Last Witch Hunter
 * Joe Harding in Going in Style
 * John Neville in Eyes of Laura Mars
 * Thomas Boyette in The Package
 * Roy Foltrigg in The Client
 * Henry Marshall in Blue Sky
 * William Strannix in Under Siege
 * Steve Butler in Heaven & Earth
 * Hayes Lawrence Hodges II in Rules of Engagement
 * Travis Lehman in Double Jeopardy
 * L. T. Bonham in The Hunted
 * Samuel Jones in The Missing
 * Pete Perkins in The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
 * Robert Stansfield in The Family
 * Dr. Micah Franks in Criminal
 * Robert Dewey in Jason Bourne
 * Max Adams in Mechanic: Resurrection
 * Bruno Daley in Why Me?
 * Bill Burns in Eight Men Out
 * Henry Sikorsky in The Dream Team
 * Charlie Wilcox in Suburban Commando
 * Switchblade Sam in Dennis the Menace
 * Jimmy in Twenty Bucks
 * Dennis Van Welker in Camp Nowhere
 * Mr. Dewey in The Pagemaster
 * Dr. Heep in Baby Geniuses
 * Ray in Interstate 60
 * Carl Goodman in Piranha 3D
 * Cosmo in Sneakers
 * Nicholas Templeton in Photographing Fairies
 * Amos in The Assignment
 * Don Logan in Sexy Beast
 * Graydon in What Planet Are You From?
 * Specialist in A.I. Artificial Intelligence
 * Massoud Amir Behrani in House of Sand and Fog
 * Grinko in Transsiberian
 * Dr. Jeffrey Squires in The Wackness
 * Dr. John Cawley in Shutter Island
 * Georges Méliès in Hugo
 * William Donohue in Eraser
 * Charles Keating in The People vs. Larry Flynt
 * Alan Rittenhouse in Deep Impact
 * Joseph Campbell in The General's Daughter
 * Priest in The Bachelor
 * J. Robert Fowler in The Sum of All Fears
 * Warden Hal Moores in The Green Mile
 * George H. W. Bush in W.
 * Ogden Phipps in Secretariat
 * Sir Benjamin Lockwood in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
 * Prof. Edward Johnston in Timeline
 * George Sibley in Six Feet Under
 * Dr. Arthur Arden in American Horror Story: Asylum
 * Thatcher Karsten in Betrayal
 * Cardinal Michael Spencer in The Young Pope
 * Walter Dean in Air Force One
 * Lando Calrissian in Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back
 * Khan Noonien Singh in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
 * Zefram Cochrane in Star Trek: First Contact
 * Blain in Predator
 * Dr. William Weir in Event Horizon
 * Vito Cornelius in The Fifth Element
 * Chief George Earle in Demolition Man
 * Bill Rico in Starship Troopers
 * Robert McKee in Adaptation
 * Robert Crawford in Finding Forrester
 * The Entity in Five Moons Square
 * Shahid in The Stone Merchant
 * Léon Sée in Carnera: The Walking Mountain
 * Siniscalco Barozzi in Barbarossa
 * Gregor in Dead Man Down
 * Marco d'Aviano in The Day of the Siege: September Eleven 1683
 * Braque in I Looked in Obituaries
 * Dante Alter Ego in The Mystery of Dante
 * Pekwarsky in Wanted
 * Siegfried in Get Smart
 * Terrence Bundley in Yes Man
 * Thompson in The Adjustment Bureau
 * Arthur Harris in Song for Marion
 * John Canaday in Big Eyes
 * Bruno Bischofberger in Basquiat
 * Paul Kaufman in Land of the Dead
 * John Canyon in Space Truckers
 * King Koopa in Super Mario Bros.
 * The Deacon in Waterworld
 * Frank in Palermo Shooting
 * Donald Greenleaf in Swing Vote
 * Robert in The Comfort of Strangers
 * Raimundo Tempio in The Funeral
 * Raymond Perkins in Excess Baggage
 * Umberto Bevalaqua in Illuminata
 * Stanley Jacobellis in Gigli
 * Nat Parker in Five Dollars a Day
 * Hans Kieslowski in Seven Psychopaths
 * Warren Sharp in Eddie the Eagle
 * Pieter van Ruijven in Girl with a Pearl Earring
 * James Manning in Separate Lies
 * John Webster in Ripley Under Ground
 * Sir Graham Dashwood in The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
 * Bolek in Polish Wedding
 * D'Artagnan in The Man in the Iron Mask
 * Satan in End of Days
 * Charlie Miller in Shade
 * Chorus in Henry V
 * Probert in Gosford Park
 * Derek Jacobi in Hereafter
 * Narrator in Anonymous
 * Owen Morshead in My Week with Marilyn
 * Count Fernando D'Ailieres in Grace of Monaco
 * Mr. Yaffe in Tomb Raider
 * Harold Oxley in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
 * Old Man in Immortals
 * The Priest in Jackie
 * Doctor Murnau in Kafka
 * Baron Alphonse Frankenstein in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
 * Naville in A Life Less Ordinary
 * Gideon Largeman in Garden State
 * Simeon Weisz Lord of War
 * Dan Wanamaker in What Women Want
 * Owen Brewster in The Aviator
 * Ralph Metz in Resurrecting the Champ
 * Arthur Shaw in Tower Heist
 * Ira Levinson The Longest Ride
 * Samuel the Sheep in Charlotte's Web
 * Ben Shockley in The Gauntlet
 * Harry Callahan in The Dead Pool
 * Frank Horrigan in In the Line of Fire
 * Éamon de Valera in Michael Collins
 * Lord Lionel Shabandar in Gambit
 * Ronald Reagan in The Butler
 * Louis XIV of France in A Little Chaos
 * Albert "Burt" Grusinsky in We Own the Night
 * Martin Cash in Jack Reacher
 * Chris Bolton in In Dubious Battle
 * Ben Lewin in It's My Turn
 * Charlie in King of California
 * Billy Gerson in Last Vegas
 * Professor Dave Jennings in Animal House
 * Bartholomew in The Pillars of the Earth
 * Michel Dorn in Crossing Lines
 * Drew Blakeley in The Dogs of War
 * Bob Barnes in Platoon
 * J. Paul Getty in All the Money in the World
 * Deputy Kovacs in The Grand Budapest Hotel
 * Count Dracula / Vlad the Impaler in Bram Stoker's Dracula
 * Stepan in Eastern Promises
 * The narrator in Our Planet
 * Anthony in The Father

Video games

 * Bender Bending Rodríguez in Futurama
 * Alfred Pennyworth in Batman Begins