| Oreste Rizzini | |
| Birth Date: | 27 March 1940 |
| Birth Place: | Milan, Italy |
| Death Place: | Rome, Italy |
| Occupation: | Actor, voice actor, adapter, dubbing director |
| Years Active: | 1960–2008 |
| Spouse: | Viviana Toniolo (m. ?-?) Fiorina Piscopo (m. ?-2008) |
| Children: | 2 |
Oreste Rizzini (27 March 1940 - 18 March 2008) was an Italian actor and voice actor.[1]
Born in Milan, Rizzini began his career working as an actor on stage in the early 1960s alongside figures such as Vittorio Gassman, Mariangela Melato and Luca Ronconi, also working for the radio industry where he came to establish himself as a performer, impressionist, host and author. As a voice actor, Rizzini was well known for dubbing the voice of Michael Douglas in many of his films, also providing the Italian voices of Bill Murray in the Ghostbusters films, Danny Trejo in Spy Kids, Paul Hogan in almost all his roles and Michael Caine, Gene Hackman, Rade Šerbedžija in some of their films. In his animated roles, he voiced Lord Farquaad in the Italian dub of Shrek as well as King Randor and Skeletor in He-Man and the Masters of the Universe.He narrated the documentary film Succede in Quarantotto or Italy After the War released in 1994.[2] [3]
Rizzini died of a stomach cancer in Rome on 18 March 2008, aged 67.[4] He was later interred in a cemetery in Capalbio.