Oreste Rizzini
Oreste Rizzini (March 27, 1940 – March 18, 2008) was an Italian actor and voice actor. Biography. Born in Milan, Rizzini began his career working as an actor on stage at some point during the early 1960s. He also narrated the documentary film "Succede in Quarantotto" or "Italy After the War" released in 1994. As a voice actor, Rizzini was best known for working on various American films' Italian language versions. He was most well known for dubbing the voice of Michael Douglas in many of his films. He was also well known for providing the Italian voices of  Bill Murray, Jon Voight, Gene Hackman, Dustin Hoffman and Christopher Walken in some of their films. In his animated roles, he voiced Lord Farquaad in the Italian dub of "Shrek" as well as Skeletor in "He-Man and the Masters of the Universe". Death. Rizzini died of stomach cancer in Rome on March 18, 2008 nine days before his 68th birthday. He was later interred in a cemetery in Capalbio.