Renato Cecchetto Explained

Renato Cecchetto
Birth Date:	28 October 1951
Birth Place:	Adria, Italy
Death Place:	Rome, Italy
Years Active:	1980–2022
Height:	1.79 cm

Renato Cecchetto (28 October 1951 – 23 January 2022) was an Italian actor who specialized in dubbing.^[1]

Life and career

In the 1970s, Cecchetto attended the Silvio d'Amico National Academy of Dramatic Arts and began his career working with film directors like Mario Monicelli and Carlo Vanzina. He was best known as a voice actor, who gave his voice to Shrek in the Shrek franchise^[2] and to nearly all the Disney Pixar characters originally voiced by John Ratzenberger, including Hamm from the Toy Story film series. Starting in season 12, he was the Italian voice of Cleveland Brown on Family Guy, replacing Luciano Marchitiello.

Cecchetto died from complications of a scooter accident at the San Camillo Hospital in Rome on 23 January 2022, at the age of 70.^[3]

Filmography

• Fracchia la belva umana (1981)
• I fichissimi (1981)
• La gorilla (1982)
• The Pool Hustlers (1982)
• All My Friends Part 2 (1982)
• Pierino colpisce ancora (1982)
• Story of Piera (1983)
• Il tenente dei carabinieri (1986)
• Fantozzi alla riscossa (1990)
• Parenti serpenti (1992)

Dubbing roles

Animation

• Shrek in Shrek, Shrek 2, Shrek the Third, Shrek Forever After
• Hamm in Toy Story, Toy Story 2, Toy Story 3, Toy Story 4, , Hawaiian Vacation, Small Fry, Partysaurus Rex
• P.T. Flea in A Bug's Life
• The Abominable Snowman in Monsters, Inc., Monsters University
• School of Moonfish in Finding Nemo
• Mack in Cars, Cars 2, Cars 3
• Mustafa in Ratatouille
• John in WALL-E
• Tom in Up
• Fritz in Inside Out
• Earl in The Good Dinosaur
• Bill in Finding Dory
• Juan Ortodoncia in Coco
• Cleveland Brown in Family Guy (season 12-19)
• Uncle Max in The Lion King 1½
• Mr. Trout in The Boxtrolls
• Razaq in The Breadwinner
• Mr. Ellingboe in Klaus
• Meow Meow Fuzzyface in BoJack Horseman

Live action

• Sid Garner in The Hangover, The Hangover Part II, The Hangover Part III
• Thomas Tipp in Vanilla Sky
• Detective Doyle in The Mask
• Pauly in Darkman
• Buck Russell in Uncle Buck
• Smith in Problem Child 2
• Maurice Woodruff in The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
• Matsui in Ocean's Twelve

Notes and References

1. Web site: Renato Cecchetto's dubbing contributions. Antoniogenna.net . 24 August 2018.
2. News: Film più belli doppiati da Renato Cecchetto . 27 August 2018 . PopcornTv.it . it.
3. Web site: 2022-01-24 . Renato Cecchetto, morto a 70 anni l'attore e doppiatore: fu la voce di Shrek . 2023-10-31 . www.ilmessaggero.it . it.