# Massimo Venturiello

Massimo Venturiello (born 4 August 1957) is an Italian actor and voice actor.

## Biography

Born in Roccadaspide, Province of Salerno, in 1982 Venturiello graduated at the Silvio D'Amico Academy of dramatic Arts in Rome and the same year he made his stage debut in an adaptation of William Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus directed by Gabriele Lavia. From then, he started an intense theatrical activity, which includes experimental and avant-garde works and a long collaboration with the director Giampiero Solari. Particularly, Venturiello was critically acclaimed for his performances in The Rose Tattoo, alongside Valeria Moriconi, and in Masaniello directed by Armando Pugliese. Also active in films and on television, he is well known for the role of Rudy in Gabriele Salvatores' Marrakech Express.
As a voice actor, Venturiello performed the Italian voice of Gary Oldman as Sirius Black in his first three appearances in the Harry Potter film franchise and as Commissioner James Gordon in Batman Begins. In his animated roles, he dubbed Hades in the 1997 film Hercules and Dr. Phillium Benedict in the 2001 film Recess: School's Out.

### Personal life

In 2024, Venturiello married the singer Tosca after 21 years of dating.

## Filmography
### Cinema

| Year | Title | Role |
| 1983 | Where's Picone? | |
| 1987 | The Family | Armando |
| 1987 | The Strangeness of Life | Mario |
| 1987 | My First Forty Years | Roberto D'Angelo |
| 1987 | Good Morning, Babylon | Duccio Bonanno |
| 1988 | Rorret | Carl |
| 1989 | Rosso di sera | Alex |
| 1989 | Rebus | Miriam’s secretary |
| 1989 | Marrakech Express | Rudy |
| 1990 | L'autostop | Sandro |
| 1991 | The Wicked | Enrico Carossi |
| 1991 | Barocco | Attilio Morelli |
| 1992 | Forbidden to Minors | Thomas Parker |
| 1992 | In viaggio verso est | Alessandro Manetti |
| 1992 | Lia, rispondi | |
| 1993 | Caccia alle mosche | Rocco |
| 1993 | L'amore dopo | Leone Aloisi |
| 1994 | Una notte che piove | Guido |
| 2001 | Ravanello pallido | Claudio Pignatti |
| 2006 | Our Land | Aldo Di Santo |

### Television

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1981 | I ragazzi di celluloide | Allievo C.S.C. | TV miniseries |
| 1982 | Il caso Murri | Francesco Bonmartini | TV miniseries |
| 1982 | L'indizio | Il ricattatore | TV miniseries |
| 1990 | Aquile | Altieri | TV series |
| 1992 | Gli anni d'oro | Nicola | TV series |
| 1992 | Assunta Spina | | TV miniseries |
| 1993 | L'ispettore anticrimine | Giuseppe Anastasia | TV miniseries |
| 2000 | Giochi pericolosi | Gabriele Lanza | TV miniseries |
| 2000 | Prigioniere del cuore | Commissario Giovannetti | TV miniseries |
| 2001 | Una lunga notte | Alberto | TV film |
| 2002 | Il giovane Casanova | Foscarini | TV miniseries |
| 2002 | Padri | Massimo | TV miniseries |
| 2006 | Distretto di Polizia | Cesare Carrano | 1 episode |
| 2007 | Il Capo dei Capi | Angelo Mangano | TV miniseries |
| 2007 | Imperium: Pompeii | Chelidonius | TV film |
| 2008 | Mogli a pezzi | Gianni Nero | TV miniseries |
| 2008 | Inspector De Luca | Carnera | TV miniseries |
| 2009 | Intelligence – Servizi & segreti | Colonel Carlo Fulgeri | TV series |
| 2010 | Il peccato e la vergogna | Dilmo Duranti | Recurring role (season 1) |
| 2012 | Né con te né senza di te | Guglielmo Cestra | TV miniseries |
| 2015 | L'onore e il rispetto | Dante Giordano | Recurring role (season 4) |
| 2016 | Il sistema | Guido Alcamo | Recurring role |

## Voice work
### Dubbing
#### Films (Animation, Italian dub)

| Year | Title | Role(s) |
| 1997 | Hercules | Hades |
| 1999 | The Tale of Tsar Saltan | Prince |
| 2001 | Recess: School's Out | Dr. Phillium Benedict |

#### Films (Live action, Italian dub)

| Year | Title | Role(s) | Original actor |
| 1985 | To Live and Die in L.A. | Richard Chance | William Petersen |
| 1985 | A Room with a View | George Emerson | Julian Sands |
| 1986 | The Mission | Father John Fielding | Liam Neeson |
| 1995 | Casino | Lester Diamond | James Woods |
| 1995 | Jade | David Corelli | David Caruso |
| 1996 | Dragonheart | Sir Bowen | Dennis Quaid |
| 1996 | Ghosts of Mississippi | Byron De La Beckwith | James Woods |
| 1996 | Escape from L.A. | Snake Plissken | Kurt Russell |
| 1996 | The Stendhal Syndrome | Alfredo Grossi | Thomas Kretschmann |
| 1997 | The Jackal | The Jackal | Bruce Willis |
| 1998 | Les Misérables | Jean Valjean | Liam Neeson |
| 1999 | Gloria | Kevin | Jeremy Northam |
| 1999 | They Called Them... Brigands! | Carmine Crocco | Enrico Lo Verso |
| 2000 | Billy Elliot | Jackie Elliot | Gary Lewis |
| 2000 | Gangster No. 1 | Freddie Mays | David Thewlis |
| 2003 | Girl with a Pearl Earring | Johannes Vermeer | Colin Firth |
| 2004 | Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | Sirius Black | Gary Oldman |
| 2005 | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | Sirius Black | Gary Oldman |
| 2005 | Batman Begins | James Gordon | Gary Oldman |
| 2007 | Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix | Sirius Black | Gary Oldman |
| 2011 | Red Riding Hood | Father Solomon | Gary Oldman |
| 2013 | Paranoia | Nicholas Wyatt | Gary Oldman |
| 2023 | The Marvels | Emperor Dro'ge | Gary Lewis |

#### Television (Animation, Italian dub)

| Year | Title | Role(s) | Notes |
| 1982 | Cyborg 009 | 002 Jet Link | Main cast |
| 1987 | Star Wars: Droids | C-3PO | Main cast |
| 1998–1999 | Hercules: The Animated Series | Hades | Main cast |
| 2001–2003 | House of Mouse | Hades | Recurring role (1st voice) |

#### Television (Live action, Italian dub)

| Year | Title | Role(s) | Notes | Original actor | Ref |
| 1983–1986 | Knight Rider | KITT | Main cast (seasons 2–4) | William Daniels | |
| 1996 | Nostromo | Charles Gould | TV miniseries | Colin Firth | |

#### Video games (Italian dub)

| Year | Title | Role(s) | Ref |
| 1997 | Hercules | Hades | |