# Gino La Monica

Luigi "Gino" La Monica (born 14 March 1944) is an Italian actor and voice actor.

## Biography

Trained at the Accademia Nazionale di Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico, La Monica started acting in theatre and television in the 1960s, working with directors such as Luchino Visconti, Ettore Giannini, Sandro Bolchi and Anton Giulio Majano. He also performed alongside Bud Spencer in the 1977 film Charleston. In 2011 he played the part of Cardinal Altamirano in the international musical play The Mission, inspired from Roland Joffé and Robert Bolt's film of the same name, where he had also previously dubbed Jeremy Irons' role of Father Gabriel in Italian.
In 2021, La Monica was cast by Walt Disney Pictures/Pixar Animation Studios to voice Tommaso in the animated film Luca, reprising his role in the Italian-dubbed version.
Gino La Monica is known to the Italian public as a voice dubbing artist, having dubbed over the voices of Christopher Walken, William Hurt, Sam Neill, Richard Gere, Dustin Hoffman in The Graduate and David Hemmings in Deep Red. Other actors dubbed by him include Martin Sheen, Robert Redford, Harrison Ford, Michael Caine, Alan Rickman, Jonathan Pryce, Jeremy Irons and many others.

## Filmography
### Films

| Year | Title | Role(s) | Notes |
| 1977 | Charleston | Sergeant Roy | |
| 2001 | The House of Chicken [it] | Procuratore | |
| 2001 | A Lele - Il caso Scieri | | Medium-length film |
| 2011 | Tutta colpa della musica [it] | | |

### Television

| Year | Title | Role(s) | Notes |
| 1966 | Il conte di Montecristo | Quarto marinaio | TV miniseries |
| 1967 | La fiera della vanità | Alfiere Stubble | TV miniseries |
| 1972 | I demoni | Satov | TV miniseries |
| 1974 | Un certo Marconi | Sid Ross | TV film |
| 1975 | Processo per l'uccisione di Raffaele Sonzogno giornalista romano | Giuseppe Luciani | TV miniseries |
| 1979 | Il signore di Ballantrae | Henry Durie | TV miniseries |
| 1979 | Il delitto Notarbartolo | Marchesano | TV miniseries |
| 1980 | L'eredità della priora [it] | Andrea Guarna | TV miniseries |
| 1980 | Delitto in piazza | Mario Aldara | TV miniseries |
| 1997 | Caro maestro | Gianni Vivaldi | TV series |
| 1998–1999 | Una donna per amico | Professor Conti | TV series |
| 2000 | Il rumore dei ricordi [it] | Giorgio | TV miniseries |
| 2002 | The Angel's House | Franco Manetti | TV film |
| 2002 | Lo zio d'America | Riccardo | TV series |
| 2012 | Il caso Enzo Tortora - Dove eravamo rimasti? [it] | Dall'Ora | TV miniseries |

## Voice work

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 2006 | I Lunes e la sfera di Lasifer | Narrator | Animated film |
| 2006 | Padre Pio | Wojtyla | Animated film |
| 2007 | Partire, Ritornare. In Viaggio con Tahar Ben Jelloun | Voice-over | Documentary |
| 2015 | 1200 km di bellezza | Voice-over | Documentary |
| 2021 | Luca | Tommaso | Animated film (original English voice-over and Italian dub) |
| 2021 | Ciao Alberto | Additional voices | Animated short film |

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

| Year | Title | Role(s) |
| 1967 | Asterix the Gaul | Narrator |
| 1968 | Asterix and Cleopatra | Narrator |
| 1978 | The Lord of the Rings | Elrond |
| 1999 | Animal Farm | Benjamin |
| 2000 | Titan A.E. | Professor Sam Tucker |
| 2004 | The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (2004 redub) | The Wind in the Willows segment narrator |
| 2006 | Over the Hedge | Ozzie |

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

| Year | Title | Role(s) | Original actor |
| 1967 | The Graduate | Benjamin Braddock | Dustin Hoffman |
| 1969 | John and Mary | John | Dustin Hoffman |
| 1975 | Deep Red | Marcus Daly | David Hemmings |
| 1976 | Next Stop, Greenwich Village | Robert Fulmer | Christopher Walken |
| 1980 | Flash Gordon | Flash Gordon | Sam J. Jones |
| 1983 | Brainstorm | Dr. Michael Brace | Christopher Walken |
| 1984 | Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom | Indiana Jones | Harrison Ford |
| 1986 | At Close Range | Bradford "Big Brad" Whitewood | Christopher Walken |
| 1986 | The Mission | Father Gabriel | Jeremy Irons |
| 1990 | Alice | Doug Tate | William Hurt |
| 1993 | True Romance | Vincenzo Coccotti | Christopher Walken |
| 1995 | The Prophecy | Gabriel | Christopher Walken |
| 1995 | GoldenEye | Alec Trevelyan | Sean Bean |
| 1995 | Search and Destroy | Kim Ulander | Christopher Walken |
| 1998 | The Prophecy II | Gabriel | Christopher Walken |
| 1999 | Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace | Qui-Gon Jinn | Liam Neeson |
| 2000 | The Prophecy 3: The Ascent | Gabriel | Christopher Walken |
| 2000 | X-Men | Robert Kelly | Bruce Davison |
| 2003 | Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl | Weatherby Swann | Jonathan Pryce |
| 2003 | X2 | Robert Kelly | Bruce Davison |
| 2005 | The Brothers Grimm | General Vavarin Delatombe | Jonathan Pryce |
| 2006 | Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl | Weatherby Swann | Jonathan Pryce |
| 2007 | Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End | Weatherby Swann | Jonathan Pryce |
| 2008 | The Incredible Hulk | Thaddeus E. "Thunderbolt" Ross | William Hurt |
| 2008 | Bedtime Stories | Martin "Marty" Bronson | Jonathan Pryce |
| 2011 | Cowboys & Aliens | Colonel Woodrow Dolarhyde | Harrison Ford |
| 2012 | Ted | Sam J. Jones | Sam J. Jones |
| 2015 | Ted 2 | Sam J. Jones | Sam J. Jones |
| 2016 | Captain America: Civil War | Thaddeus E. "Thunderbolt" Ross | William Hurt |
| 2017 | Thor: Ragnarok | Odin actor | Sam Neill |
| 2017 | The Man Who Invented Christmas | John Dickens | Jonathan Pryce |
| 2018 | Avengers: Infinity War | Thaddeus E. "Thunderbolt" Ross | William Hurt |
| 2019 | The Two Popes | Jorge Mario Cardinal Bergoglio | Jonathan Pryce |
| 2021 | Black Widow | Thaddeus E. "Thunderbolt" Ross | William Hurt |
| 2022 | Thor: Love and Thunder | Odin actor | Sam Neill |
| 2024 | Dune: Part Two | Emperor Shaddam IV | Christopher Walken |

#### Television (Animation, Italian dub)

| Year | Title | Role(s) | Notes |
| 1976–1977 | Magne Robo Gakeen | Narrator | Main cast |
| 1985 | Story of the Alps: My Annette | Dr. Givette | Recurring role |
| 1997 | Kassai and Luk | Narrator | Main cast |
| 2007–2009 | In the Night Garden... | Narrator | Main cast |
| 2008 | Avatar: The Last Airbender | Long Feng | Recurring role; Season 2 |
| 2009–2015 | Star Wars: The Clone Wars | Admiral Wullf Yularen | Recurring role |

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

| Year | Title | Role(s) | Notes | Original actor | Ref |
| 1984 | The Blood of Others | Dieter Bergman | TV film | Sam Neill | |