Pino Insegno

Giuseppe "Pino" Insegno (born 30 August 1959) is an Italian actor, voice actor, television presenter and comedian.

Since 1986, Insegno has been a member of the comedy quartet Premiata Ditta and he also found success dubbing characters into the Italian language and presenting a variety of television shows across Italy.

Biography
Born in Rome, Insegno began his career in 1981 and then eventually in 1986, he became a member of Premiata Ditta alongside Roberto Ciufoli, Francesca Draghetti and Tiziana Foschi. The group performed a variety of comedy sketches on stage, television, and film, most notably the 1995 film L'assassino è quello con le scarpe gialle. Insegno also appeared in the music video for the song Tu stasera non esci by Gemelli Diversi on their second album 4x4.

Between the early and mid-2000s, he was one of four presenters of Premiata Teleditta alongside his three colleagues. In 2010, he presented the show Insegnami a sognare and from 2010 to 2013, he presented the Italian version of the French-Canadian game show Action Réaction. He presented these shows for Rai 1. He also presented shows for Mediaset in the past.

Insegno is recognised as a voice actor and dubber. He serves as the official Italian voice of Will Ferrell, having dubbed him in a majority of his films. He also dubbed Viggo Mortensen, Liev Schreiber and Sacha Baron Cohen in some of their movies. He is well known for voicing Stan Smith in the Italian-Language version of American Dad and he performed the Italian voices of Diego in the Ice Age film series, John Smith in Pocahontas and Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World, Chick Hicks in Cars and Cars 3, The Magic Mirror in the Shrek movies, and he also dubbed several characters in The Simpsons.

Personal life
Insegno is the older brother of voice actor Claudio Insegno. From his first marriage to actress Roberta Lanfranchi, Insegno had two children. He had another two with his second and current wife Alessia Navarro.

Cinema

 * Escape from the Bronx (1983)
 * In punta di piedi (1984)
 * Mezzo destro mezzo sinistro - 2 calciatori senza pallone (1985)
 * A me mi piace (1985)
 * I giorni randagi (1988)
 * Le finte bionde (1989)
 * L'assassino è quello con le scarpe gialle (1995)
 * Gli angeli di Borsellino (2003)
 * Il naso (2003)
 * Ti stramo - Ho voglia di un'ultima notte da manuale prima di tre baci sopra il cielo (2008)
 * Alta infedeltà (2010)
 * From the Waist Up (2010)
 * Una donna per la vita (2011)
 * Una notte agli studios (2013)
 * Ovunque tu sarai (2017)

Animation

 * Stan Smith in American Dad!
 * John Smith in Pocahontas, Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World
 * Diego in Ice Age, Ice Age: The Meltdown, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, Ice Age: Continental Drift, Ice Age: Collision Course
 * Lord Business / "The Man Upstairs" in The Lego Movie, The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part
 * Sinbad in Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas
 * Boog in Open Season, Open Season 2, Open Season 3, Open Season: Scared Silly
 * Chick Hicks in Cars, Cars 3
 * Magic Mirror in Shrek, Shrek 2, Shrek Forever After
 * Rafael in Rio, Rio 2
 * Louis in The Princess and the Frog
 * Gomez Addams in The Addams Family
 * Ranger in Free Birds
 * Ned Flanders (2nd voice), Moe Szyslak (season 8) and Denis Leary in The Simpsons
 * Cooking Channel Narrator in Ratatouille
 * Big Daddy in Sing
 * Elgin in Rango
 * Stabbington brothers in Tangled
 * King Peppy in Trolls
 * Freaky Fred in Courage the Cowardly Dog

Live action

 * Buddy Hobbs in Elf
 * Jacobim Mugatu in Zoolander, Zoolander 2
 * Ron Burgundy in Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues
 * Brennan Huff in Step Brothers
 * Rick Marshall in Land of the Lost
 * Harold Crick in Stranger than Fiction
 * Jack Wyatt / Darrin Stephens in Bewitched
 * Allen Gamble in The Other Guys
 * Brad Whitaker in Daddy's Home, Daddy's Home 2
 * Ricky Bobby in Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
 * Chazz Reinhold in Wedding Crashers
 * Big Earl in Starsky & Hutch
 * Sherlock Holmes in Holmes & Watson
 * James King in Get Hard
 * Franz Liebkind in The Producers
 * Cam Brady in The Campaign
 * Kevin in The Internship
 * Hobie in Melinda and Melinda
 * Scott Johansen in The House
 * Chazz Michael Michaels in Blades of Glory
 * Jackie Moon in Semi-Pro
 * Will Ferrell in Between Two Ferns: The Movie
 * Lars Erickssong in Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga
 * Mattel CEO in Barbie
 * Aragorn in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
 * Borat Sagdiyev in Borat, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
 * Brüno Gehard in Brüno
 * Ali G in Ali G Indahouse
 * Admiral General Aladeen / Efawadh in The Dictator
 * Frank Hopkins in Hidalgo
 * Tom Stall in A History of Violence
 * Sigmund Freud in A Dangerous Method
 * Victor Creed in X-Men Origins: Wolverine
 * Vincent Campbell in The Last Days on Mars
 * Stuart Besser in Kate & Leopold
 * Muhammad Ali in Ali
 * Marty Baron in Spotlight
 * Nikolai Luzhin in Eastern Promises
 * Everett Hitch in Appaloosa
 * Man in The Road
 * Old Bull Lee in On the Road
 * Chester MacFarland in The Two Faces of January
 * Ben Cash in Captain Fantastic
 * Inspector Gustave Dasté in Hugo
 * Monsieur Thénardier in Les Misérables
 * Colonel Alexander Vosch in The 5th Wave
 * Ned Freed in Every Day
 * Theodore Winter in Salt
 * Bobby Lincoln in The Reluctant Fundamentalist
 * Lyndon B. Johnson in The Butler
 * Dovi in Fading Gigolo
 * Boris Spassky in Pawn Sacrifice
 * Kyle Alan "Nobby" Butcher in Grimsby
 * Time in Alice Through the Looking Glass
 * Abbie Hoffman in The Trial of the Chicago 7
 * Sean Dignam in The Departed
 * Elliot Moore in The Happening
 * Max Payne in Max Payne
 * Cinna in The Hunger Games
 * Cinna in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
 * Andy Hanson in Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
 * Caesar in Rise of the Planet of the Apes
 * Edgar Areola in Sicario
 * Tommy Callahan III in Tommy Boy
 * Mike Donnelly in Black Sheep
 * Link in The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Revolutions
 * Indiana Jones in Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (2009 redub)
 * Vito Corleone in The Godfather Part II (2007 redub)
 * Mambrú in A Perfect Day

Video games

 * Ethan Mars in Heavy Rain
 * Aragorn in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The Lord of the Rings: The Third Age
 * Chen Stormstout in World of Warcraft