Vittorio De Angelis


Vittorio De Angelis was an Italian voice actor.

Biography

Born in Rome, De Angelis was the son of voice actor Manlio De Angelis and the grandson of voice actor Gualtiero De Angelis. He began his voice acting career at 21 years of age and one of his first major roles was dubbing the voice of Prince Eric in the Italian dub of The Little Mermaid and I.M. Weasel in the Italian dub of I Am Weasel. He was also best known for voicing Joey Tribbiani in the Italian-Language dubbed version of Friends and the spin-off Joey as well as voicing Geordi La Forge in the Italian-Language dubbed version of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
De Angelis was the occasional voice actor of Cary Elwes, Kevin James and Matt LeBlanc. Some of the actors he dubbed in their most famous films included Billy Crudup in Big Fish, Val Kilmer in Tombstone and Stephen Dorff in Blade. He also dubbed Steve Zahn, Scott Speedman, Brendan Fraser and Ethan Hawke in some of their films.

Death

De Angelis died of a heart attack in Rome on June 11, 2015, at the age of 52. He was survived by his father Manlio as well as his younger sister Eleonora.