Corrado Gaipa
Italian actor

Corrado Gaipa

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Italian actor
Gender:
Male
Places:
Italy
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ActorStage actor
Work field:
Film, TV, Stage & Radio
Birth:
13 March 1924(Palermo, Province of Palermo, Sicily, Italy)
Death:
21 September 1989(Rome, Province of Rome, Lazio, Italy)
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Corrado Gaipa (March 13, 1924 - September 21, 1989) was an Italian actor and voice actor.

Born in Palermo, Sicily, Gaipa enrolled in the Silvio d’Amico Academy of Dramatic Arts, graduating in 1946. He appeared in many Italian films, notably playing Don Tommasino in Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather. Also active on stage, radio and television, he was mainly active as a voice actor and a dubber. He was in a wheelchair.At the time of his death, he had just signed to reprise the role of Don Tommasino in The Godfather Part III.

Selected filmography

  • The Leopard (1963)
  • West and Soda (1965) - (voice)
  • Shoot Twice (1968) - Sheriff (voice, uncredited)
  • VIP my Brother Superman (1968) - Colonel (voice)
  • That Splendid November (1969) - Uncle Alfio
  • The Pizza Triangle (1970) - President of tribunal
  • Metello (1970) - Badolati
  • The Man with Icy Eyes (1971) - Isaac Thetman
  • The Fifth Cord (1971) - Editor
  • 1931: Once Upon a Time in New York (1972) - Bruno
  • My Dear Killer (1972) - Head of Insurance Company
  • Execution Squad (1972) - Lawyer Armani
  • The Godfather (1972) - Don Tommasino - Sicilian Sequence
  • The Eroticist (1972) - Don Gesualdo
  • Shadows Unseen (1972) - Günther Rosenthal
  • Without Family (1972) - Giudice
  • Il caso Pisciotta (1972) - Direttore del carcere
  • The Sicilian Connection (1972) - Don Calogero
  • Il Boss (1973) - Lawyer Rizzo
  • I Kiss the Hand (1973) - Don Emilio Grisanti
  • The Black Hand (The Birth of the Mafia) (1973) - Avvocato
  • Tony Arzenta (1973) - Arzenta's Father
  • Chino (1973) - Padre
  • Anna, quel particolare piacere (1973) - Doctor
  • Giordano Bruno (1973)
  • The Sinful Nuns of Saint Valentine (1974) - Father Onorio
  • What Have They Done to Your Daughters? (1974) - DA
  • Prigione di donne (1974)
  • Ritratto di donna velata (1975) - Il Nebbia
  • Il marsigliese (1975) - Tanino Sciacca
  • Illustrious Corpses (1976) - Supposed Mafioso
  • Le lunghe notti della Gestapo (1977) - Udo Kassbaum
  • I vizi morbosi di una governante (1977) - The Inspector
  • La malavita attacca... la polizia risponde! (1977) - Dottore
  • A Spiral of Mist (1977) - Pietro San Germano
  • Giuseppe Fava: Siciliano come me (1984) - (final film role)