# Dario Penne

Dario Penne (17 February 1938 – 15 February 2023) was an Italian actor and voice actor.

## Biography

Born in Trieste, Penne acted in theatre, television, cinema and radio.
He was heavily active as a voice actor and dubbed many characters in Italian: among the most popular actors he dubbed include Michael Caine, Anthony Hopkins, Christopher Lloyd, Tommy Lee Jones and Ben Kingsley; one of the roles he remains best known for is the character Bender Bending Rodríguez in the Italian-language version of the animated series Futurama; he also dubbed Sentinel Prime in Transformers: Dark of the Moon and the narrator in the Goofy shorts Tomorrow We Diet and Teachers Are People.

## Death

Penne died in Rome on 15 February 2023, two days shy of his 85th birthday.

## Filmografia
### Cinema

* Non ho tempo [it] (1973)
* A Violent Life (1990)
* I Wanted Pants (1990)
* Blu notte (1992)
* The Border (1996)
* Ferrari (2003)

### Televisione

* I promessi sposi - TV series (1967)
* Breve gloria di mister Miffin [it] (1967)
* E le stelle stanno a guardare - TV miniseries (1971)
* Tecnica di un colpo di stato: la marcia su Roma [it] (1978)
* L'eredità della priora [it] - TV series (1980)
* Distretto di Polizia – TV series, 2 episodes (2003-2007)
* R.I.S. - Delitti imperfetti – TV series, season 1, episode 10 (2005)
* Pope John Paul I: The Smile of God – TV miniseries (2006)
* Don Matteo – TV series, season 6, episode 15 (2008)
* Un medico in famiglia – TV series, season 6, episode 18 (2009)
* Max e Hélène [it] - TV film (2015)

## Voice work
### Animation

* Ciro in L'uovo
* Prefect in Padre Pio
* Giamus in Gli Smile and Go e il braciere di fuoco
* School director in Pinocchio (2012 film)
* Grandpa in Mini Cuccioli - Le quattro stagioni
* Healer in Trash - La leggenda della piramide magica [it]

### Live action

* Giulio Andreotti's phone voice in some scenes of Giovanni Falcone
* Narrator in We Still Talk

### Dubbing
#### Animation

* Bender Bending Rodríguez, Flexo and Bender #1 in Futurama (seasons 1-7x13), Bender in Futurama: Bender's Big Score, Futurama: The Beast With a Billion Backs, Futurama: Bender's Game, Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder
* Emmett "Doc" Brown, Reginald Barrington and Tommy Lee Jones in Family Guy
* Agent K in Men in Black: The Series
* Eduardo in Marsupilami
* Phillip Sherman in Finding Nemo
* Django in Ratatouille
* Finn McMissile in Cars 2
* Hovis in The Tale of Despereaux
* Pagemaster in The Pagemaster
* Tony in Alpha and Omega
* Herod in The Star
* Merlin in Sofia the First
* Grand Duke of Owls in Rock-a-Doodle
* Dr. Eggman in Sonic X
* Aristotle in Reign: The Conqueror
* Principal Pixiefrog in My Gym Partner's a Monkey
* Joe in A Christmas Carol
* Warden's Cat in The Animals of Farthing Wood
* King Mumbo Jumbo in ChalkZone
* Virgilius in Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic
* Anthony Hopkins in The Simpsons

#### Live action

* Tim Comell in Desperate Hours
* Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal, Red Dragon
* Odin in Thor, Thor: The Dark World, Thor: Ragnarok
* Alfred Pennyworth in Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, The Dark Knight Rises
* Agent K in Men in Black, Men in Black II, Men in Black 3
* Judge Doom in Who Framed Roger Rabbit
* Emmett "Doc" Brown in Back to the Future Part II, Back to the Future Part III, A Million Ways to Die in the West
* Nearly Headless Nick in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
* Samuel Gerard in The Fugitive, U.S. Marshals
* Sentinel Prime in Transformers: Dark of the Moon
* John Quincy Adams in Amistad
* James Stevens in The Remains of the Day
* C. S. Lewis in Shadowlands
* William Ludlow in Legends of the Fall
* Charles Morse in The Edge
* Don Diego de la Vega in The Mask of Zorro
* William Parrish in Meet Joe Black
* Dr. Ethan Powell in Instinct
* Titus Andronicus in Titus
* Mission Commander Swanbeck in Mission: Impossible 2
* Ted Brautigan in Hearts in Atlantis
* Officer Oakes in Bad Company
* Coleman Silk in The Human Stain
* Ptolemy I Soter in Alexander
* Robert in Proof
* Burt Munro in The World's Fastest Indian
* Judge Irwin in All the King's Men
* John in Bobby
* Theodore "Ted" Crawford in Fracture
* King Hrothgar in Beowulf
* Felix Bonhoeffer in Slipstream
* Sir John Talbot in The Wolfman
* Adam Gund in The City of Your Final Destination
* Alfie Shepridge in You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
* Father Lucas Trevant in The Rite
* John in 360
* Dr. Edward Bailey in Red 2
* Methuselah in Noah
* Freddy Heineken in Kidnapping Mr. Heineken
* John Clancy in Solace
* Arthur Denning in Misconduct
* Hagen Kahl in Collide
* Sir Edmund Burton in Transformers: The Last Knight
* Robert Ford in Westworld
* Michael Jennings in On Deadly Ground
* Ray Say in Little Voice
* Dr. Wilbur Larch in The Cider House Rules
* Nigel Powers in Austin Powers in Goldmember
* Pierre Brossard in The Statement
* Robert Spritzel in The Weather Man
* Jasper in Children of Men
* Mr. Hobbs in Flawless
* Stephen Miles in Inception
* Matthew Morgan in Mr. Morgan's Last Love
* Professor Brand in Interstellar
* Arthur / Chester King in Kingsman: The Secret Service
* Fred Ballinger in Youth
* Father Dolan in The Last Witch Hunter
* Joe Harding in Going in Style
* John Neville in Eyes of Laura Mars
* Thomas Boyette in The Package
* Roy Foltrigg in The Client
* Henry Marshall in Blue Sky
* William Strannix in Under Siege
* Steve Butler in Heaven & Earth
* Hayes Lawrence Hodges II in Rules of Engagement
* Travis Lehman in Double Jeopardy
* L. T. Bonham in The Hunted
* Samuel Jones in The Missing
* Pete Perkins in The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
* Robert Stansfield in The Family
* Dr. Micah Franks in Criminal
* Robert Dewey in Jason Bourne
* Max Adams in Mechanic: Resurrection
* Bruno Daley in Why Me?
* Bill Burns in Eight Men Out
* Henry Sikorsky in The Dream Team
* Charlie Wilcox in Suburban Commando
* Switchblade Sam in Dennis the Menace
* Jimmy in Twenty Bucks
* Dennis Van Welker in Camp Nowhere
* Mr. Dewey in The Pagemaster
* Dr. Heep in Baby Geniuses
* Ray in Interstate 60
* Carl Goodman in Piranha 3D
* Cosmo in Sneakers
* Nicholas Templeton in Photographing Fairies
* Amos in The Assignment
* Don Logan in Sexy Beast
* Graydon in What Planet Are You From?
* Specialist in A.I. Artificial Intelligence
* Massoud Amir Behrani in House of Sand and Fog
* Grinko in Transsiberian
* Dr. Jeffrey Squires in The Wackness
* Dr. John Cawley in Shutter Island
* Georges Méliès in Hugo
* William Donohue in Eraser
* Charles Keating in The People vs. Larry Flynt
* Alan Rittenhouse in Deep Impact
* Joseph Campbell in The General's Daughter
* Priest in The Bachelor
* J. Robert Fowler in The Sum of All Fears
* Warden Hal Moores in The Green Mile
* George H. W. Bush in W.
* Ogden Phipps in Secretariat
* Sir Benjamin Lockwood in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
* Prof. Edward Johnston in Timeline
* George Sibley in Six Feet Under
* Dr. Arthur Arden in American Horror Story: Asylum
* Thatcher Karsten in Betrayal
* Cardinal Michael Spencer in The Young Pope
* Walter Dean in Air Force One
* Lando Calrissian in Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back
* Khan Noonien Singh in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
* Zefram Cochrane in Star Trek: First Contact
* Blain in Predator
* Dr. William Weir in Event Horizon
* Vito Cornelius in The Fifth Element
* Chief George Earle in Demolition Man
* Bill Rico in Starship Troopers
* Robert McKee in Adaptation
* Robert Crawford in Finding Forrester
* The Entity in Five Moons Square
* Shahid in The Stone Merchant
* Léon Sée in Carnera: The Walking Mountain
* Siniscalco Barozzi in Barbarossa
* Gregor in Dead Man Down
* Marco d'Aviano in The Day of the Siege: September Eleven 1683
* Braque in I Looked in Obituaries
* Dante Alter Ego in The Mystery of Dante
* Pekwarsky in Wanted
* Siegfried in Get Smart
* Terrence Bundley in Yes Man
* Thompson in The Adjustment Bureau
* Arthur Harris in Song for Marion
* John Canaday in Big Eyes
* Bruno Bischofberger in Basquiat
* Paul Kaufman in Land of the Dead
* John Canyon in Space Truckers
* King Koopa in Super Mario Bros.
* The Deacon in Waterworld
* Frank in Palermo Shooting
* Donald Greenleaf in Swing Vote
* Robert in The Comfort of Strangers
* Raimundo Tempio in The Funeral
* Raymond Perkins in Excess Baggage
* Umberto Bevalaqua in Illuminata
* Stanley Jacobellis in Gigli
* Nat Parker in Five Dollars a Day
* Hans Kieslowski in Seven Psychopaths
* Warren Sharp in Eddie the Eagle
* Pieter van Ruijven in Girl with a Pearl Earring
* James Manning in Separate Lies
* John Webster in Ripley Under Ground
* Sir Graham Dashwood in The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
* Bolek in Polish Wedding
* D'Artagnan in The Man in the Iron Mask
* Satan in End of Days
* Charlie Miller in Shade
* Chorus in Henry V
* Probert in Gosford Park
* Derek Jacobi in Hereafter
* Narrator in Anonymous
* Owen Morshead in My Week with Marilyn
* Count Fernando D'Ailieres in Grace of Monaco
* Mr. Yaffe in Tomb Raider
* Harold Oxley in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
* Old Man in Immortals
* The Priest in Jackie
* Doctor Murnau in Kafka
* Baron Alphonse Frankenstein in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
* Naville in A Life Less Ordinary
* Gideon Largeman in Garden State
* Simeon Weisz Lord of War
* Dan Wanamaker in What Women Want
* Owen Brewster in The Aviator
* Ralph Metz in Resurrecting the Champ
* Arthur Shaw in Tower Heist
* Ira Levinson The Longest Ride
* Samuel the Sheep in Charlotte's Web
* Ben Shockley in The Gauntlet
* Harry Callahan in The Dead Pool
* Frank Horrigan in In the Line of Fire
* Éamon de Valera in Michael Collins
* Lord Lionel Shabandar in Gambit
* Ronald Reagan in The Butler
* Louis XIV of France in A Little Chaos
* Albert "Burt" Grusinsky in We Own the Night
* Martin Cash in Jack Reacher
* Chris Bolton in In Dubious Battle
* Ben Lewin in It's My Turn
* Charlie in King of California
* Billy Gerson in Last Vegas
* Professor Dave Jennings in Animal House
* Bartholomew in The Pillars of the Earth
* Michel Dorn in Crossing Lines
* Drew Blakeley in The Dogs of War
* Bob Barnes in Platoon
* J. Paul Getty in All the Money in the World
* Deputy Kovacs in The Grand Budapest Hotel
* Count Dracula / Vlad the Impaler in Bram Stoker's Dracula
* Stepan in Eastern Promises
* The narrator in Our Planet
* Anthony in The Father

### Video games

* Bender Bending Rodríguez in Futurama
* Alfred Pennyworth in Batman Begins