Roberto Del Giudice (25 September 1940 – 25 November 2007) was an Italian actor and voice actor.[1]
Born in Milan, Del Giudice studied at the Silvio d'Amico National Academy of Dramatic Arts and he began his career in the 1960s mainly working as a television and stage actor. His roles were fairly minor. He then eventually found success as a voice dubber. He was well known for voicing Arsène Lupin III in the Italian version of the Lupin III anime series, and currently has voiced the character longer than any voice actor. He was also famous for providing the Italian voices of Miss Piggy in The Muppets, Zazu in The Lion King film series, Benny in Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Death in Family Guy.[2]
Del Giudice was renowned for dubbing live action characters as well. He dubbed Lee Majors in most of his work, most notably The Six Million Dollar Man as well as Terry Jones in Monty Python's Flying Circus, the character Neelix in Star Trek: Voyager, Snowbell in the last two succeeding Stuart Little films, replacing television presenter Paolo Bonolis, who had dubbed him in the first film.
Del Giudice died in Rome during the evening of 25 November 2007, aged 67, after suffering a long illness.[3] He was buried at the Cimitero Flaminio.
