Mario Milita


Mario Milita was an Italian actor and voice actor.

Biography

An actor with a career spanning over 65 years, performing for the theatre, films, television, and radio shows, he became well known to the audiences for his voice work in animation. Because of his coarse, raspy voice, he was typically known for voicing elderly characters in cartoons, movies and other entertainment. He was known for being the official Italian voice of Grampa Simpson in The Simpsons from 1991 until his retirement in 2012. He has also been the first Italian voice of Herbert from Family Guy and dubbed Fred Flintstone for many years.
In Italian dubs of live action films, Milita dubbed actors such as Desmond Llewelyn, Ed Williams and Brian Doyle-Murray. He provided the voice of Amos Tupper in a few episodes of Murder, She Wrote and Old Man Peabody in Back to the Future.
Since 2004, however, his voice had begun to weaken over time, causing it to become feeble and almost unrecognizable in his last years of activity. After Milita retired in 2012, he passed on the roles of Grampa Simpson and Herbert to Mino Caprio and Valerio Ruggeri respectively. In 2011, a year before his retirement, he released an interview.

Death

Milita died in Rome on 22 August 2017 at the age of 94, of natural causes.

Filmography

Cinema

Television

Diagnosi - TV miniseries Gente tutto cuore - TV play La scalata - TV miniseries Lo zio d'America - TV series - TV series, episode 11 Il mondo è meraviglioso - TV film

Voice work

Animation

' - Geremia LettigaPimpa - Additional voices

Italian-dubbed animated roles

Live action

Fantozzi va in pensione - Additional voices

Italian-dubbed live action roles

Video games