Marco Mete


Marco Mete is an Italian actor and voice actor.

Biography

Trained at the Accademia Nazionale di Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico, he became a theatre actor, director and playwright, also performing onstage in the United States, Germany, and France, working with figures such as Geppy Gleijeses, Eugenio Bennato, Stefanella Marrama, Ennio Coltorti and Gennaro Cannavacciuolo. He debuted as a TV actor in the late '70s and his first role on the big screen was in the collective film Intolerance – Sguardi del cinema sull'intolleranza in 1996, playing the main character in a segment directed by Leonardo Celi, followed by the narrating character in the award-winning short-film Asino chi legge.
He is well known as a voice actor, having dubbed Roger Rabbit in both the Italian and Spanish edition of Who Framed Roger Rabbit, also voicing Woody Woodpecker in the Spanish dub; he has dubbed many animated characters in Italian, such as Daffy Duck from 1990 to 2022, Bonkers in the American series of the same name and in Raw Toonage, Chicken in Cow & Chicken, Adolf Hitler in Lupin III: The First, Narrator Smurf in The Smurfs and The Smurfs 2, Farmer Smurf in Smurfs: The Lost Village, Harv in Cars, Sir Miles Axlerod in Cars 2, Scuttle in The Little Mermaid and Jean-Bob in The Swan Princess. He also dubbed over the voices of Kevin Bacon, Bruce Willis, Robin Williams, Martin Lawrence, Kenneth Branagh, Aidan Quinn and other actors in Italian in some of their roles.
In 2019, Mete took part in the English dubbed version of Matteo Garrone's film Pinocchio, dubbing the Judge Gorilla, physically portrayed by Swiss actor Teco Celio.

Filmography

Un amore di Dostoevskij – TV miniseries Intolerance – Sguardi del cinema sull'intolleranza Asino chi legge – short film Movimenti Magic Sport - animated film Fratelli detective – TV series, 1st episode

Theatre (incomplete list)

Actor

Ammore e cummedia, written by Geppy Gleijeses and Marco Mete, music by Eugenio Bennato La piazza, written by Geppy Gleijeses and Marco Mete

Director

Ammore e cummedia, collective direction by Compagnia Napoli Nuova 77 Mahagonny, written by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill, starring Margherita Buy Gilda, written by Marco Mete and Gennaro Cannavacciuolo Volare, concerto a Domenico Modugno, co-directed with Gennaro Cannavacciuolo

Dubbing roles

Animation

Live-action

Video games