Stefano De Sando

Giuseppe "Stefano" De Sando (born 31 July 1954) is an Italian actor and voice actor.

Biography
Born in Pizzo Calabro, De Sando began his acting career during the mid-1970s, when he was mentored on stage by Vittorio Gassman. He later made several appearances on film and television, acting in Alberto Negrin's docudrama Mussolini and I and working multiple times with director Lamberto Bava. In 2007 he played the role of Apuleius in Giulio Base's Imperium: Pompeii (2007). De Sando is well known as a voice dubber as he is the official Italian voice of Robert De Niro, taking on the role since Ferruccio Amendola’s death in 2001. Other actors De Sando dubs include James Gandolfini, Ciarán Hinds, Ben Kingsley, John Goodman and many more.

Some of De Sando’s popular character dubbing roles include Walter White (portrayed by Bryan Cranston) in Breaking Bad, Tony Soprano (portrayed by James Gandolfini) in The Sopranos and Théoden (portrayed by Bernard Hill) in The Lord of the Rings film franchise. His animated dubbing roles include Clayton in Tarzan, Buck Strickland in King of the Hill, Don Lino in Shark Tale and various characters in The Simpsons.

Cinema

 * Astalut pader (1979)
 * Il ragazzo del Pony Express (1986)
 * Scugnizzi (1989)
 * Gli inaffidabili (1997)
 * Blek Giek (2001)
 * Kidnapped, alternate edit of Mario Bava's Rabid Dogs (1974), partly re-shot and re-edited by Lamberto Bava (2002)
 * L'era legale (2012)
 * A mano disarmata (2019)
 * D.N.A. - Decisamente non adatti (2020)

Television

 * La bisbetica domata - TV play (1982)
 * Mussolini and I - TV miniseries (1985)
 * Turno di notte - TV series (1987-1988)
 * Brivido Giallo: Until Death - TV film (1988)
 * Alta Tensione: Il gioko (a.k.a. School of Fear) - TV film (1989)
 * Una donna per amico - TV series, 3rd and 5th episode (1998)
 * Il maresciallo Rocca - TV series, season 3 (2001)
 * Valeria medico legale - TV series, season 2 (2002)
 * Commesse - TV series (2002)
 * Incantesimo - soap opera, season 6 (2003)
 * Elisa di Rivombrosa - TV series, season 1 (2004)
 * Pope John Paul I: The Smile of God - TV miniseries (2006)
 * Imperium: Pompeii - TV miniseries (2007)
 * Quo vadis, baby? - TV miniseries, 2nd episode (2008)

Animation

 * Capitano Navarez in Johan Padan a la descoverta de le Americhe
 * The Ringmaster in Pinocchio (2012 film)

Live action

 * Narrator in Dante ( it ) and L'uomo che non cambiò la storia

Animation

 * Superintendent Chalmers (season 4), Fat Tony (season 33 and on), Rex Banner, Adam West, Hugh Hefner and more characters in The Simpsons
 * Don Lino in Shark Tale
 * Clayton in Tarzan
 * General Li in Mulan
 * Aaron in The Prince of Egypt
 * King James in Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World
 * Shere Khan in The Jungle Book 2
 * Makunga in Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
 * Melvin in Chicken Little
 * Buck Strickland in King of the Hill
 * Lenny Turteltaub in BoJack Horseman
 * Fluke in Finding Dory
 * Stan in The Wild
 * Professor Derek Knight in Monsters University
 * Botticelli in The Tale of Despereaux
 * Zugor in Tarzan II
 * James Woods, Dennis Farina, Paul Gleason and Bryan Cranston in Family Guy
 * Blade Ranger in Planes: Fire & Rescue
 * Metal Beak in Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
 * Metallo in Superman: The Animated Series (2nd voice)
 * Johnny Fiama in The Muppets' Wizard of Oz
 * Gomez Addams in The Addams Family
 * Vendel in Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia
 * Emperor of the Darkest Ying in Legend of the Dragon
 * Count von Count in The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland
 * Chief in Isle of Dogs
 * Hector Con Carne in Evil Con Carne, Grim & Evil
 * Shanker Saunderson in Escape from Planet Earth
 * Cauldron in Once Upon a Halloween
 * Benjamin Mathius in Dead Space: Downfall
 * Fleetwood Yak in Rock Dog

Live action

 * Rodrigo Mendoza in The Mission
 * Le mari de la star-fantasme en croisière in One Hundred and One Nights
 * Sam in Ronin
 * Jack Byrnes in Meet the Parents, Meet the Fockers, Little Fockers
 * Eddie Flemming in 15 Minutes
 * Fearless Leader in The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle
 * Nick Wells in The Score
 * Mitch Preston in Showtime
 * Vincent LaMarca in City by the Sea
 * "Noodles" in Once Upon a Time in America (2003 redub)
 * Richard Wells in Godsend
 * Archbishop of Lima in The Bridge of San Luis Rey
 * David Callaway in Hide and Seek
 * Bill Sullivan in The Good Shepherd
 * Captain Shakespeare in Stardust
 * Ben in What Just Happened
 * Tom Cowan in Righteous Kill
 * Frank Goode in Everybody's Fine
 * John McLaughlin in Machete
 * Jack Mabry in Stone
 * Carl Van Loon in Limitless
 * Hunter in Killer Elite
 * Stan Harris in New Year's Eve
 * Simon Silver in Red Lights
 * Jonathan Flynn in Being Flynn
 * Patrizio Solitano Sr. in Silver Linings Playbook
 * Joe Sarcone in Freelancers
 * Don Griffin in The Big Wedding
 * Benjamin Ford in Killing Season
 * Fred Blake / Giovanni Manzoni in The Family
 * Paddy Connors in Last Vegas
 * Victor Tellegio in American Hustle
 * Billy "The Kid" McDonnen in Grudge Match
 * Dragna in The Bag Man
 * Ben Whittaker in The Intern
 * Francis "The Pope" Silva in Heist
 * Rudy Mangano in Joy
 * Dick Kelly in Dirty Grandpa
 * Murray Franklin in Joker
 * Frank Sheeran in The Irishman
 * Walter White in Breaking Bad, El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie
 * Tony Soprano in The Sopranos
 * Colonel Winter in The Last Castle
 * Winston Baldry in The Mexican
 * Big Dave Brewster in The Man Who Wasn't There
 * Tom Valco in Surviving Christmas
 * Nick Murder in Romance & Cigarettes
 * Tiny Duffy in All the King's Men
 * Charles Hildebrandt in Lonely Hearts
 * Mayor of New York City in The Taking of Pelham 123
 * Mickey in Killing Them Softly
 * Leon Panetta in Zero Dark Thirty
 * Doug Munny in The Incredible Burt Wonderstone
 * Albert in Enough Said
 * Marvin Stipler in The Drop
 * Théoden in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
 * Reverend Dennis Hasset in Oscar and Lucinda
 * Dick Koosman in Margot at the Wedding
 * Bill Maplewood in Life During Wartime
 * Aberforth Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2
 * Sam Daily in The Woman in Black
 * Spencer Ludlow in The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby
 * Piotr Aaron Litvenko in Hitman: Agent 47
 * Alessandro Valignano in Silence
 * Angelo Pazienza in Bleed for This
 * Colonel Zakharov in Red Sparrow
 * Gaius Julius Caesar in Rome
 * Hermocrates in The Triumph of Love
 * The Rabbi in Lucky Number Slevin
 * Prince Nizam in Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
 * Tamir in The Dictator
 * Trevor Slattery in Iron Man 3
 * Ibn Sina in The Physician
 * Mazer Rackham in Ender's Game
 * Nun in Exodus: Gods and Kings
 * Geran in Collide
 * Hamid Karzai in War Machine
 * Charlie in Security
 * Costa Pasaris in Backstabbing for Beginners
 * Adolf Eichmann in Operation Finale
 * "Mighty" Mack McTeer in Blues Brothers 2000
 * Bill Sanford in Coyote Ugly
 * Bones Darley in Death Sentence
 * Julie "Baby Feet" Balboni in In the Electric Mist
 * Pope Sergius II in Pope Joan
 * Harling Mays in Flight
 * Sam Cooper in Love the Coopers
 * Ed Davis in Patriots Day
 * Dave Phillips in Once Upon a Time in Venice
 * Igon Siruss in Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
 * William Mulligan in Captive State
 * Robert Baratheon in Game of Thrones
 * Ardeth Bay in The Mummy, The Mummy Returns
 * J. R. Ewing in Dallas
 * Carl Fox in Wall Street
 * Alan Grant in Jurassic Park, Jurassic Park III
 * Thomas Andrews in Titanic
 * George Smiley in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
 * Tex Richman in The Muppets
 * Oliver Queenan in The Departed
 * Dave Kujan in The Usual Suspects
 * Dave Boyle in Mystic River
 * Charles Rodman in Rise of the Planet of the Apes
 * Bill Kilgore in Apocalypse Now Redux
 * Phil Cerreta in Law & Order
 * Jay Pritchett in Modern Family
 * Hernan Reyes in Fast Five
 * Lyle Haggerty in Contagion
 * Colonel Powell in John Carter
 * Jack O'Donnell in Argo
 * Joe Brody in Godzilla
 * Ned Fleming in Why Him?
 * Bryan Cranston in The Disaster Artist
 * Howard Spence in Don't Come Knocking
 * Bill Buck in Bandidas
 * Frank James in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
 * Hank Cahill in Brothers
 * Sam Plame in Fair Game
 * Harlan Whitford in Safe House
 * Willie Grogan in Ithaca
 * Mr. Anderson in In Dubious Battle