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Corrado Racca

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Corrado Racca
Born(1889-11-14)14 November 1889
Died12 May 1950(1950-05-12) (aged 60)
Occupations
  • Actor
  • voice actor
Years active1908–1950

Corrado Racca (14 November 1889 – 12 May 1950) was an Italian actor and voice actor.[1]

Biography

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Corrado began his career on stage when he moved to Florence in 1908. He later worked alongside other stage actors such as Ruggero Ruggeri, Emma Gramatica and Italia Almirante Manzini. On the radio, he acted for the Ente Italiano per le Audizioni Radiofoniche in Rome since the early 1930s. On screen, Racca appeared in more than twenty films during his career. He played the male lead in the 1933 film Villafranca.[2][3]

Racca also worked as a voice actor, dubbing international films for release in Italy.[4] He worked for the Cooperativa Doppiatori Cinematografici and he often dubbed actors such as Edward G. Robinson, Walter Huston, Henry Travers, Charles Bickford, Donald Crisp, Gene Lockhart and many more in some of their films.[citation needed]

Filmography

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Cinema

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Dubbing roles

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Live action

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References

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  1. ^ "Corrado Racca's dubbing contributions". Antoniogenna.net. Retrieved 3 April 2019.
  2. ^ "Corrado Racca". MYmovies. Retrieved 17 May 2020.
  3. ^ Goble p.164
  4. ^ Cronologia fondamentale dell'epoca d'oro del doppiaggio italiano Dagli albori agli anni 1970 (in Italian)

Bibliography

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  • Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
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