Oreste Rizzini

Oreste Rizzini (27 March 1940 – 18 March 2008) was an Italian actor and voice actor.

Biography
Born in Milan, Rizzini began his career working as an actor on stage in the early 1960s alongside figures such as Vittorio Gassman, Mariangela Melato and Luca Ronconi, also working for the radio industry where he came to establish himself as a performer, impressionist, host and author. As a voice actor, Rizzini was well known for dubbing the voice of Michael Douglas in many of his films, also providing the Italian voices of Bill Murray in the Ghostbusters films, Danny Trejo in Spy Kids, Paul Hogan in almost all his roles and Michael Caine, Gene Hackman, Rade Šerbedžija in some of their films. In his animated roles, he voiced Lord Farquaad in the Italian dub of Shrek as well as King Randor and Skeletor in He-Man and the Masters of the Universe. He narrated the documentary film Succede in Quarantotto or Italy After the War released in 1994.

Death
Rizzini died of a stomach cancer in Rome on 18 March 2008, aged 67. He was later interred in a cemetery in Capalbio.

Film

 * Evelina e i suoi figli (1990)
 * L'eroe dei due mondi (1994) - voice

Television

 * Tre quarti di luna - TV play (1971)
 * Don Giovanni - TV play (1973)
 * La traccia verde, - TV miniseries (1975-1976)
 * Colpo di grazia alla sezione III – TV film (1981)
 * George Sand - TV miniseries (1981)
 * Troilo e Cressida - TV play (1986)
 * Le allegre comari di Windsor - TV play (1987)

Animation

 * Lord Farquaad in Shrek, Shrek the Third, Shrek 4-D
 * Narrator in Hercules and Disney's Hercules: The Animated Series
 * King Randor (2nd voice) and Skeletor (3rd voice) in He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
 * Scooter and Joe Snow in It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie
 * Seti I in The Prince of Egypt
 * Jean-Claude in Rugrats in Paris: The Movie
 * The Falcon in Stuart Little 2
 * Lord Qin in Mulan II
 * Peter Venkman in The Real Ghostbusters

Live action

 * Jack Colton in Romancing the Stone, The Jewel of the Nile
 * Peter Venkman in Ghostbusters, Ghostbusters II
 * James Braddock in Missing in Action 2: The Beginning, Braddock: Missing in Action III
 * Mick Dundee in Crocodile Dundee, Crocodile Dundee II
 * Isador "Machete" Cortez in Spy Kids, Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams
 * Denethor in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
 * Nathan R. Conrad in Don't Say a Word
 * Zach in A Chorus Line
 * Oliver Rose in The War of the Roses
 * Ed Leland in Shining Through
 * Nick Curran in Basic Instinct
 * Charles Remington in The Ghost and the Darkness
 * Nicholas van Orton in The Game
 * Robert Wakefield in Traffic
 * Sally Ann Santa in It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie
 * Mr. Burmeister in One Night at McCool's
 * Steve Tobias in The In-Laws
 * Alex Gromberg in It Runs in the Family
 * Pete Garrison in The Sentinel
 * Bob Thompson in You, Me and Dupree
 * Oscar "Manny" Manheim in Runaway Train
 * Leo F. Drummond in The Rainmaker
 * Thomas Brian Reynolds in Enemy of the State
 * John McClane in Die Hard 2
 * Bud Newman in The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause
 * Alex Gates in Blood and Wine
 * William Cleary in Wedding Crashers
 * William Earle in Batman Begins
 * Lando Calrissian in Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi
 * Tion Medon in Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith
 * Kreacher in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
 * Bob Harris in Lost in Translation
 * Don Johnston in Broken Flowers
 * Elmer C. Robinson in Lonely Hearts