He had given the voice to Mel Gibson, John Travolta, Bruce Willis, Russell Crowe,Mickey Rourke e baby mouse. Yesterday, Claudio Sorrentino he has lost his forever. Covid took him away at 8.10 a Villa Tiberia, in the capital.
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75 years old, a versatile journalist and author, Sorrentino has had many lives. His beginnings were as an enfant prodige, noticed at age 5 while he was singing a song by Roberto Murolo, he became a theatrical actor already at 6, reciting a play by Pirandello ed Eduardo.
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He had a strong passion for TV which began by participating in dramas, films, miniseries, comedies and entertainment broadcasts. Launched by Corrado in Domenica In, he had been a television face with Blitz and Tandem. And then the author of surveys and programs, among the best known: Drugs what to do?. It became the first social secretariat with a number dedicated to families and children with drug problems, run by former drug addicts. A commitment continued with the creation of Social Points dedicated to young people.
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He had made and conducted radio programs, had written important scripts, had been consigliere of the Minister for Cultural Heritage and Activities, for Cinema and Entertainment. But what made him famous to the general public was his voice acting activity that had taken him to the highest peaks of success. Founder of the Italian Actors and Dubbers Association, he had been its president since 1994. He was the first Rusty in Rin Tin Tin, then Rickie in Happy Days, the official Italian voice of Mickey Mouse, John Travolta, gives Staying Alive a Pulp Fiction a most of his films, Bruce Willies in Die Hard. But he had also lent his voice to Sylvester Stallone in Cop Land, a Willem Dafoe in The Last Temptation of Christ, it’s at Ryan O’Neal in Love Story, in a career that had peaked with the cry launched by Mel Gibson in the key scene of the film about Scottish hero William WallaceBraveheart (Brave Heart). A long, proud, and moving cry against the torturer: Li-be-rt. Friends love to remember him like this.
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