Sergio Fiorentini

Sergio Fiorentini was born in Rome on 29 July 1934. He started his career on stage in the 1960s, and since the early 1970s he began an intense career as a character actor, being often cast in roles of inspectors, police commissioners and men in uniform in poliziotteschi and in crime films and TV-series, such as A Special Cop in Action and Distretto di Polizia.^[1] He most notably portrayed Alfio Cacciapuoti in Il maresciallo Rocca opposite Gigi Proietti.

Fiorentini was also very active as a voice actor and a dubber.^[2] He was the official Italian voice actor of Gene Hackman. This was a role he shared with his colleague Renato Mori. Other actors he dubbed included Eli Wallach and Jack Warden as well as Bill Cosby, Burt Young, Tony Burton, Max von Sydow, Tom Wilkinson, Charles Durning, Patrick McGoohan, Bud Spencer, James Doohan, Mel Brooks and he also voiced Benny Hill in the Italian dubbed version of The Benny Hill Show.^[3] In Fiorentini's animated voice roles, he dubbed Rafiki in The Lion King franchise. Other roles include Bumblelion in The Wuzzles, Alm-Onji in Heidi, Girl of the Alps, Trigger in Robin Hood, Br'er Bear, Pete in Trombone Trouble and Walt Disney speaking about fire and water.^[4]

Fiorentini was the father of voice actor Maurizio Fiorentini (born 1963) and he was married to actress Eliana Lupo (who was 27 years younger than him) until his death in 2014.^{[citation needed]}

Fiorentini died in Rome after battling an illness on the evening of 11 December 2014, at the age of 80.^[5][6]

• Hospitals: The White Mafia (1973)
• Flatfoot (1973) – Ferramenti's Thug (voice, uncredited)
• Bello come un arcangelo (1974) – Don Fernando, priest
• Rome: The Other Side of Violence (1976) – Marcello
• A Special Cop in Action (1976) – Mancuso
• I Am the Law (1977) – Un mafioso
• The Invisible Wall (1991) – Capo Stato Maggiore Aereonautica
• Ostinato destino (1992)
• Angel with a Gun (1992)
• Complicazioni nella notte (1992)
• A Cold, Cold Winter (1996)
• La Vera Madre (1999)
• Stregati dalla luna (2001) – Maresciallo
• Nel mio amore (2004) – Giovanni
• Taxi Lovers (2005) – Alberto
• Torno a vivere da solo (2008) – Peppino
• Me, Them and Lara (2009) – Albero Mascolo – padre di Carlo
• All at Sea (2011) – Nonno
• Teresa Manganiello. Sui passi dell'amore (2012) – Alberto Gregorini
• Viva l'Italia (2012) – Cesare
• A Perfect Family (2012) – Uomo cimitero
• The Move of The Penguin (2013) – padre Salvatore
• Il mio giorno (2015) – Matteo (posthumous release)

• Il maresciallo Rocca (1996–2005) – Brig. Alfio Cacciapuoti
• Saint Philip Neri: I Prefer Heaven (2010)
• La ladra (2010)
• Crimini (2010)
• Paul VI: The Pope in the Tempest (2008)
• Ho sposato uno sbirro (2008)
• Nebbie e delitti (2007)
• Imperium: Pompeii (2007)
• Pope John Paul I: The Smile of God (2006)
• La buona battaglia – Don Pietro Pappagallo (2006)
• La squadra (2004-2006)