Renato Mori


Renato Pietro Mori was an Italian actor and voice actor.

Biography

Born in Milan, Mori started his career in the 1950s, appearing on several television series and acting on stage. Starting from the 1970s, he was often cast in roles of inspectors, police commissioners and men in uniform in poliziotteschi and crime films and TV-series, notably Il marsigliese and La piovra.
Mori was also very active as a voice actor and a dubber. A co-founder of Sefit, the largest Italian company of dubbing, he was the official Italian voice of Morgan Freeman as well as often dubbing James Earl Jones and John Rhys-Davies, among other actors. He also substituted for his colleague Sergio Fiorentini as the Italian voice of Gene Hackman.

Personal life

Mori was the father of Simone Mori, who is also a voice actor.

Death

Mori died on 22 August 2014 at the age of 79 of a very long illness which caused him to retire from his career since 2011.

Partial filmography

Animation