Olinto Cristina
Olinto Cristina was an Italian actor and voice actor.
Early life
Born in Florence to stage actors Raffaello Cristina and Cesira Sabatini, Cristina began acting on stage as a child, within the company of Tina Di Lorenzo and Flavio Andò.Career
Following World War I, he participated in various ensembles alongside local theatre personalities such as Armando Falconi, Ruggero Ruggeri, Emma Gramatica, Antonio Gandusio and his brother-in-law Ermete Zacconi. In 1956, he was among the actors to star in the first Italian theatrical production of The Crucible by Arthur Miller.On screen, Cristina debuted during the sound period in the 1932 musical film Pergolesi, directed by Guido Brignone. He appeared in more than 75 films between 1932 and 1957, usually playing tertiary or supporting characters. He made his last film appearance in the 1957 film L'ultima violenza. Cristina also made ten appearances on television, debuting in the 1954 TV miniseries Doctor Antonio, directed by Alberto Casella.
Cristina was also a radio actor, reciting plays for RAI such as Look Back in Anger and Blood Wedding. He was also a renowned voice dubber in Italian post-synchronised versions of foreign films, usually providing his voice for actors such as C. Aubrey Smith, Sig Ruman, Frank Morgan and Lionel Barrymore. He also dubbed over the voices of Edward Everett Horton, Thomas Mitchell, Alan Hale Sr., Jay C. Flippen and more. In Cristina's animated roles, he provided the Italian voices of Doc in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs as well as Friend Owl in Bambi and one of the crows in Dumbo. In 1949, he voiced Calif Oman in the 1949 animated film La Rosa di Bagdad.