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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1924-03-13 (101 years old)

Place of Birth

Palermo, Sicily, Italy

Corrado Gaipa

Biography:

Corrado Gaipa was an Italian actor and voice actor.

Born in Palermo, Sicily, Gaipa enrolled in the Silvio d’Amico Academy of Dramatic Arts, graduating in 1946. He appeared in many Italian films, notably playing Don Tommasino in Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather.

Also active on stage, radio and television, he was mainly active as a voice actor and a dubber. He was in a wheelchair. At the time of his death, he had just signed to reprise the role of Don Tommasino in The Godfather Part III.

Known For

Acting

1984

All for the Moral Majority! as Ministro Euclide (voce)
The Three of Us as Narrator (voice)

1983

A School Trip as Voce Fuoricampo

1982

Words and Blood as padre di rico
Marco Polo as Consigliere

1981

1977

A Spiral of Mist as Pietro Sangermano

1976

Illustrious Corpses as Sospettato mafioso

1975

1974

Malombra as Padre Tosi
The Sinful Nuns of Saint Valentine as Honorio de Mendoza, l'Inquisitore

1973

Chino as Padre
The Boss as Lawyer Rizzo
The Black Hand as Lawyer
Family Killer as Don Emilio Grisanti
Tony Arzenta as Arzenta's Father

1972

The Eroticist as Don Gesualdo
My Dear Killer as Head of Insurance Company
The Godfather as Don Tommasino - Sicilian Sequence
Execution Squad as L'avvocato Armani
Shadows Unseen as Günther Rosenthal
Without Family as Giudice

1971

Death Walks on High Heels as Captain Lenny (voice) (dub: Italian version) (uncredited)
The Fifth Cord as Editor
The Man with Icy Eyes as Isaac Thetman

1970

Metello as Badolati
A Drama of Jealousy (and other things) as Presidente del Tribunale

1969

1968

The SuperVips as The Colonel (voice)
Perils of Problemina as Puti Puti (voce)

1967

Idea di un'isola as Narrator (voice)

1963

The Monsters as Batachi (segment "Il povero soldato") / Outspoken Critic (segmento "La musa") (voice) (uncredited)

1962

The Four Days of Naples as Direttore del riformatorio (voice)