Armando Bandini | |
Birth Name: | Armando Burlando |
Birth Date: | 5 June 1926 |
Birth Place: | Genoa, Italy |
Death Place: | Rome, Italy |
Occupation: | Actor |
Years Active: | 1955-2011 |
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Armando Bandini (born Armando Burlando; 5 June 1926 – 27 May 2011) was an Italian film, television and voice actor.
Born in Genoa, Bandini began his career as an actor after the war at the Teatro Sperimentale Luigi Pirandello.[1] In the 1950s he moved to Rome, where he was the protagonist of the revue Il dente senza giudizio and started working in films and on television. Bandini even worked as a voice dubber.[2] He performed the Italian voices of some major Hollywood stars in at least one of two of their films. Among his most prominent dubbing roles, he was the Italian voice of Chi-Fu in the 1998 animated film Mulan.
In the late 1940s, Bandini married stage actress Emma Fedeli and they were together until her death in 1980. He then married actress Daniela Igliozzi.
Bandini died in Rome on 27 May 2011, nine days before his 85th birthday.[3] His wife Daniela Igliozzi survived him.