Marco Mete Explained

Marco Mete
Birth Date:24 October 1955
Birth Place:Rome, Italy
Years Active:1978–present
Spouse:Stefanella Marrama (divorced)

Marco Mete (born 24 October 1955) is an Italian actor and voice actor.[1]

Biography

Trained at the Accademia Nazionale di Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico, he became a theatre actor, director and playwright, also performing onstage in the United States,[2] Germany, and France, working with figures such as Geppy Gleijeses,[3] Eugenio Bennato, Stefanella Marrama, Ennio Coltorti and Gennaro Cannavacciuolo. He debuted as a TV actor in the late '70s and his first role on the big screen was in the collective film Intolerance – Sguardi del cinema sull'intolleranza in 1996, playing the main character in a segment directed by Leonardo Celi, followed by the narrating character in the award-winning short-film Asino chi legge.[4]

He is best known as a voice actor, having dubbed Roger Rabbit in both the Italian and Spanish edition of Who Framed Roger Rabbit, also voicing Woody Woodpecker in the Spanish dub; he has dubbed many animated characters in Italian, such as Daffy Duck from 1990 to 2022, Bonkers in the American series of the same name and in Raw Toonage, Chicken in Cow & Chicken, Adolf Hitler in , Narrator Smurf in The Smurfs and The Smurfs 2, Farmer Smurf in , Harv in Cars, Sir Miles Axlerod in Cars 2, Scuttle in The Little Mermaid and Jean-Bob in The Swan Princess. He also dubbed over the voices of Kevin Bacon, Bruce Willis, Robin Williams, Martin Lawrence, Kenneth Branagh, Aidan Quinn and other actors in Italian in some of their roles.

In 2019, Mete took part in the English dubbed version of Matteo Garrone's film Pinocchio, dubbing the Judge Gorilla, physically portrayed by Swiss actor Teco Celio.[5]

Filmography

Theatre (incomplete list)

Actor

Director

Dubbing roles

Animation

Live-action

Videogames

Notes

  1. Web site: Marco Mete's dubbing contributions. Antoniogenna.net . 18 June 2024.
  2. News: Anne Barry. New York Times. Arts and Leisure Guide – Theater Opening This Week. June 10, 1979.
  3. News: l'Unità. March 4, 1979. Maschere vere e uomini finti. it.
  4. Web site: ASINO CHI LEGGE - Nuvola Film. nuvolafilm.com. https://web.archive.org/web/20230215041342/https://nuvolafilm.com/portfolio/asino-chi-legge/ . February 15, 2023 .
  5. https://i.imgur.com/cyDSWZb.png Voice actor in the English dub of Matteo Garrone's Pinocchio
  6. Web site: Alessandro Paesano. La contemporaneità de Il Gabbiano di Coltorti. teatro.it. it.
  7. News: l'Unità. October 27, 1985. 20. it.
  8. News: 31 dicembre 1988 . 26 . l'Unità.
  9. News: l'Unità. December 31, 1988. 26. it.
  10. Web site: Margherita Lamesta. VOLARE, Concerto a Domenico Modugno – regia Marco Mete e Gennaro Cannavacciuolo. it. sipario.it.
  11. Web site: Marco Mete. eldoblaje.com. es.
  12. Web site: Once Upon a Studio. antoniogenna.net. it.
  13. Web site: 27 January 2022 . South Park – Il film: più grosso, più lungo & tutto intero . Il mondo dei doppiatori, antoniogenna.net.
  14. Web site: October 1, 2022 . South Park Italian voice cast . antoniogenna.net.
  15. Web site: The Simpsons Italian Voice Cast. antoniogenna.net.
  16. News: Dragonball Evolution: I doppiatori italiani del film. AnimeClick.it. March 10, 2009.
  17. Web site: July 1, 2021 . it . Bugs Bunny – Lost in time Italian voice cast . antoniogenna.net.
  18. Web site: June 30, 2021 . it . Bugs Bunny & Taz: Time Busters Italian voice cast . antoniogenna.net.
  19. Web site: Ghost Hunter. antoniogenna.net. February 19, 2022. it.
  20. Web site: Epic Mickey 2 – L'avventura di Topolino e Oswald. antoniogenna.net. November 24, 2021. it.