Leo Gullotta

Acting

Leo Gullotta

Born

1946-01-09 (80)

Place of birth

Catania, Sicily, Italy

Known for

Acting

Credits

72 titles

Salvatore Leopoldo "Leo" Gullotta (born 9 January 1946) is an Italian actor, voice actor, comedian and writer. Born in Catania and the last of six children, Gullotta started his career as an extra in Teatro Massimo Bellini. In his long career as actor, Gullotta has starred in about 100 films and has participated in numerous shows and drama series for television. In 1987 he won his first David di Donatello for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Il Camorrista by Giuseppe Tornatore, and later worked with Tornatore four more times. In 1997 and 2000 he won two more David di Donatello for Best Supporting Actor, for the Maurizio Zaccaro films Il carniere and Un uomo perbene. He has also won two…

Known for

Cinema Paradiso poster
8.4

A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with the movies at his village's theater and formed a deep friendship with the theater's projectionist.

Cinema Paradiso

1988

Ciao Darwin poster
7.9

Ciao Darwin is a variety game show format from Italy sold under licence to several countries, including Romania, Hungary, Poland, Serbia, Canada, USA, China and Greece. There are two competing teams of about 50 people each, usually made up of people who fit certain opposing stereotypes. In each game two members of the audience are selected at random, one from each team, indicated by a light in front of them which remains illuminated when all the other team members' lights have gone off. The games involve contestants competing in acts of bravery, style and talent, some of which are designed to humiliate the contestants, especially an assault course which was introduced with the Italian version in 2010, and the Finale which is a water tank game.

Ciao Darwin

1998

It’s the Law poster
6.6

A small Sicilian town elects a new, honest major but quickly learns that playing by the rules is not as easy as it seems.

It’s the Law

2017

Il camorrista - Una serie di Giuseppe Tornatore poster
5.7

No synopsis available yet.

Il camorrista - Una serie di Giuseppe Tornatore

2025

Framed! A Sicilian Murder Mystery poster
7.0

After two hapless TV technicians stumble upon a murder scene, every step they take to avoid becoming suspects lands them in deeper trouble.

Framed! A Sicilian Murder Mystery

2022

The Professor poster
7.1

Young Franco is imprisoned for murder and rises to become the feared and powerful 'Professor', taking control of Naples' underworld from behind bars.

The Professor

1986

Film credits

2020s · 5 titles

2010s · 5 titles

It’s the Law poster
6.6

A small Sicilian town elects a new, honest major but quickly learns that playing by the rules is not as easy as it seems.

It’s the Law

2017

I futurieri poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

I futurieri

2019

Sono solo fantasmi poster
5.2

Thomas, a struggling former magician, and Carlo, a Neapolitan submissive to his Northern wife and father-in-law, are two half-brothers who reunite after years in Naples following the death of their father, Vittorio, an inveterate gambler and womanizer. They discover they have a third brother, Ugo, who appears a bit dim-witted but is actually a genius. The inheritance Thomas and Carlo covet disappears due to their father's debts, and the three have a brilliant idea: to exploit Neapolitan superstition and credulity by becoming "ghostbusters." Just when their business seems to be unexpectedly successful, the spirit of their father, Vittorio, takes possession of Carlo's body. Thomas and Carlo become convinced that ghosts really do exist. Meanwhile, the ghosts captured by the trio break free and go to awaken the ghost of a witch who threatens to destroy Naples. With their father's help, the three brothers try to save the city.

Sono solo fantasmi

2019

In arte Nino poster
7.1

Biopic about Italian actor Nino Manfredi, focusing on the period between 1939 and 1959, depicting his difficult beginnings, his passion for acting and the encounter with the love of his life, Erminia.

In arte Nino

2016

The Father and the Foreigner poster
6.0

Diego, Italian, and Waid, Syrian, live in Rome and are both fathers of disabled children. They become friends, but Waid mysteriously disappears and Diego is targeted by the Secret Service.

The Father and the Foreigner

2011

2000s · 11 titles

Baaria poster
7.2

In 1920s Bagheria, Giuseppe 'Peppino' Torrenuova works as a shepherd to financially help his poor family. Over the next fifty years, Giuseppe's life, as well as the life of the village, is observed. Giuseppe grows up, joins the Communist Party, marries a local girl, has children, and forges a political career for himself.

Baaria

2009

Scarlet Diva poster
4.8

A young Italian actress embarks on a self-destructive spree of sex, drugs and other excess while doing some soul searching to find the path for redemption.

Scarlet Diva

2000

Vajont poster
6.6

On October 9th, 1963, at 10:39 pm, 260 million cubic meters of rock fell down from Mount Toc to the artificial lake formed by the Vajont dam, the higher dam in the world. The landslide formed a 250-meters wave and 50 million cubic meters of water completely destroied all the below towns, killing more than 2000 people. Planned by engineer Semenza, Vajont dam (263 meters) had to carry the electricity in all the houses of the country. Tina Merlin, a journalist from 'L'Unitá', tried for years to denounce the danger to build a dam near the Mount Toc and expecially to denounce all the omissions by the corrupted politicians and workers in charge of the dam construction. They preferred to trust in old geologist Dal Piaz instead to hear engineer Semenza young son's alarming analysis. No one seemed to understand the high danger until that October fatal night.

Vajont

2001

Leo the Lion poster
3.2

It’s a hard life for young Leo: his family just doesn’t understand why he’s a vegetarian lion. His solitude ends when he meets Avoria, the elephant queen, who has recently given birth to two calves with braided tails. Mysteriously widowed, Avoria is courted by dapper Zanco. By a series of misfortunes she is separated from her young. Leo steps in to take care of them: thus begins his search for legendary Milk Lake, during which he experiences all sorts of incredible adventures. This fable with a happy ending handles the themes of diversity and racism with engaging originality.

Leo the Lion

2005

La stella dei re poster
6.0

A celestial map, made of precious stones and hidden in an ancient temple, predicts an extraordinary event when the planets align according to an old scroll. This audiovisual adaptation, based on the work of novelist Emmanuel Exitu, offers a new perspective on the story of the Three Wise Men.

La stella dei re

2007

The Prince of the Dinosaurs poster
3.8

Join Rakhal, Prince of the Land of Ice, and his five dinosaur friends on a journey to find the meaning of an ancient parchment. The friends must free Princess Aura and bring peace back to the land in this high quality animated feature.

The Prince of the Dinosaurs

2003

In This World of Thieves poster
5.4

A group of middle-aged time-share investors get ripped off and their desire for revenge is well-timed for them to be recruited by a bank clerk who feels the same about his employers.

In This World of Thieves

2004

Domani è un'altra truffa poster
4.2

The plot focuses on the classic "Italian scams", where those who deceive are in turn duped by other individuals. The amount lost increases from time to time and from the initial thousand euros it reaches a figure equal to two million.

Domani è un'altra truffa

2005

Guardians of the Clouds poster
4.3

In a small town in the province of Naples, in 1962, Batino, the eldest son of a goat farmer, challenges Dr. La Rocca, a corrupt politician and wheeler-dealer, who had promised him a job in exchange for a bribe and then disappeared without keeping his word.

Guardians of the Clouds

2004

Fatti della banda della Magliana poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

Fatti della banda della Magliana

2005

Di che peccato sei? poster
3.2

No synopsis available yet.

Di che peccato sei?

2007

1990s · 15 titles

The Escort poster
6.6

The film shows the difficulties of an honest, imperiled judge and his bodyguard of four men, trying to clean up a Sicilian town. Corrupt local politicians, working hand-in-hand with the Mafia, will stop at nothing to prevent exposure of their rackets.

The Escort

1993

The Star Maker poster
7.0

In 1950s Sicily, con artist Joe Moretti does screen tests for the big studios, accepting money or favours for his efforts. A young illiterate novitiate named Beata desperately wants to change her life and falls for him; belatedly, he realizes his feelings for her. However, their love affair is doomed when he's arrested.

The Star Maker

1995

Everybody's Fine poster
7.2

Matteo Scuro is a retired Sicilian bureaucrat, a widower with five children, all of whom live on the mainland and hold responsible jobs. He decides to surprise each with a visit and finds none as he imagined.

Everybody's Fine

1990

Un uomo perbene poster
5.8

In June 1983 the journalist and TV presenter Enzo Tortora was arrested on charges of drug trafficking and belonging to the Camorra.

Un uomo perbene

1999

In The Rose Garden poster
4.7

An advertiser who lives in Milan learns from a former teacher that his mother is dying. He leaves immediately in his car; as he drives thinks back to his childhood and the time he believed his mother had a relationship with the teacher.

In The Rose Garden

1990

Snowball poster
5.1

Snowball, a dolphin, gets into trouble when it swallows a bottle with the records of pension payments owed to Billy Bolla, an aged cruise ship entertainer. If the performer cannot quickly catch Snowball and induce him to produce the papers, he will have no retirement.

Snowball

1995

Bruno aspetta in macchina poster
4.5

No synopsis available yet.

Bruno aspetta in macchina

1996

Cristallo di rocca - Una storia di Natale poster
8.0

Old Sanna lives in the mountain village of Gschaid. At Christmas, she receives a long-awaited visit: Sanna's son with his wife and children. At the same time, mountaineers make a gruesome discovery. The body of a man is recovered from the ice of the Alpine glacier. It is Martin, who saved the lives of Sanna and her brother many years ago. Sanna's grandchildren are eager to hear the whole story. And so Sanna tells them about the two hostile villages of Gschaid and Millsdorf and a miraculous rescue from the ice and snow at Christmas.

Cristallo di rocca - Una storia di Natale

1999

Carogne - Ciro and Me poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Carogne - Ciro and Me

1995

Simpatici & antipatici poster
5.4

In the Tiber sports club, Alberto, a ruthless property developer, the cynical surgeon who makes thirty million dollars after a prostate operation, the actor exhausted by failure and the failed salesman who sells caviar by discounting prices and who tries to make up for continuous overdrafts in the bank, meet. There is also the starlet with a Venetian accent and the hateful scion with a Ferrari, the waiter who dreams of being the scion and the jeweler who loses his house, wife and wealth because of the hot Spanish woman.

Simpatici & antipatici

1998

Savages poster
5.6

A group of Italian tourists on a Caribbean holiday finds itself stranded on a deserted island after a plane crash.

Savages

1995

Package, Double Package and Counterpackage poster
5.7

Life in Naples is tough, so Neapolitans invent ways to get by. Whatever works, conning mostly, tricking the IRS, the university, the landlord, cruise ship passengers, even conning victims three times with the same ruse.

Package, Double Package and Counterpackage

1993

Gole Ruggenti poster
5.1

In the run-up to a song festival, all kinds of intrigues and pressures are unleashed behind the scenes: the script must be continually adapted depending on who momentarily prevails in the backroom maneuvers, with record companies, politicians and schemers of various calibers intent on fighting each other without holds barred to grab victory in advance. In the meantime, the organization is falling apart. Having recruited the almost complete Bagaglino cast, under the parody of Sanremo we see yet another rehash of "Champagne" or "Bucce di banana".

Gole Ruggenti

1992

Ladri si diventa poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Ladri si diventa

1998

Oltremare - Non è l'America poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Oltremare - Non è l'America

1998

1980s · 20 titles

Cinema Paradiso poster
8.4

A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with the movies at his village's theater and formed a deep friendship with the theater's projectionist.

Cinema Paradiso

1988

The Professor poster
7.1

Young Franco is imprisoned for murder and rises to become the feared and powerful 'Professor', taking control of Naples' underworld from behind bars.

The Professor

1986

The Paramedic poster
4.5

At work, Mario Millio is the only male nurse not on strike. At home, his wife is more interested in calling the hot-line of a local TV-doctor. When Mario wins 15 million Lire in the lottery, he buys himself a new car and starts to live out his dreams in secret. All goes well until a criminal steals the car and Mario is blamed for the car thief's crimes

The Paramedic

1982

The Honorable with His Lover under the Bed poster
5.7

An unemployed teacher asks for help from her lover, an MP, and finds out that he is married.

The Honorable with His Lover under the Bed

1981

Sinbad of the Seven Seas poster
4.2

Sinbad returns from the sea to find his country subjected to the will of two unscrupulous sorcerers.

Sinbad of the Seven Seas

1989

Spaghetti House poster
6.3

Three black militants kidnap the waiters in an Italian restaurant in London. Soon the victims befriend their kidnappers.

Spaghetti House

1982

I Carabbinieri poster
5.5

No synopsis available yet.

I Carabbinieri

1981

Where's Picone? poster
6.8

During a debate in Naples' town hall in the early 1980s, Pasquale Picone, a former steel-worker who has recently lost his job, sets himself on fire in front of the Municipal Council.

Where's Picone?

1984

Miss Right poster
4.2

After falling for Juliette, the woman of his dreams, a womanizing journalist in Rome must dump his numerous female lovers one by one.

Miss Right

1982

Stormtroopers II poster
5.1

A group of misfits form an army in an absurd war.

Stormtroopers II

1982

Scugnizzi poster
6.0

Everything revolves around a musical theater production staged by a modest Sicilian director who has to direct young inmates at the juvenile detention center in Nisida. However, the rehearsals, the performance at the San Carlo Theater in Naples, and the real and touching events of the city alternate without any consistency.

Scugnizzi

1989

I carabbimatti poster
3.1

Two fools eventually become Carabinieri, and jump from a trash situation to another.

I carabbimatti

1981

Café Express poster
7.1

An Italian laborer foils anyone who tries to stop him from selling espresso on the Milan-to-Naples night train.

Café Express

1980

Heads I Win, Tails You Lose poster
5.5

Two back-to-back stories that deals with two "taboo" themes, the celibacy of the clergy in the episode of Renato Pozzetto and the homosexuality in the one with Nino Manfredi.

Heads I Win, Tails You Lose

1982

Teste di quoio poster
5.7

A group of clumsy terrorists hold a strange group of inhabitants of a compartment block hostage.

Teste di quoio

1981

Half Right Half Left - 2 Footballers Without a Ball poster
5.1

The "Marchigiana" soccer team has been promoted to the Serie A of the national championship, but it is the last in the standings due mainly to two players, Gigi and Andrea.

Half Right Half Left - 2 Footballers Without a Ball

1985

Department Store poster
5.8

A series of skits involving customers and store personnel from several departments of the big department store.

Department Store

1986

L'insegnante di violoncello poster
4.6

Leo is a street vendor who, always accompanied by his dog Cagliostro, he entertains shoppers on the beach telling stories more or less agreeable to a group of guys who are really too busy to look for adventures chasing the tourists. Meanwhile Mario, a boy on vacation with his father, falls in love with his beautiful cello teacher but this, of course, prefers the father.

L'insegnante di violoncello

1989

Stark System poster
8.5

Armenia Balducci's film, featuring Gian Maria Volontè as Stark, a cop-movie actor that falls prey to paranoia because he fears his latest movie will be a failure.

Stark System

1980

Il Bi e il Ba poster
6.9

Despite being penniless, Antonino Scannapieco possesses a convincing eloquence. Having obtained money from friends to travel to Rome to consult a luminary about his dandruff problem, he sets off for the capital, where various misadventures await him.

Il Bi e il Ba

1986

1970s · 4 titles

Series credits

Ciao Darwin poster
7.9

Ciao Darwin is a variety game show format from Italy sold under licence to several countries, including Romania, Hungary, Poland, Serbia, Canada, USA, China and Greece. There are two competing teams of about 50 people each, usually made up of people who fit certain opposing stereotypes. In each game two members of the audience are selected at random, one from each team, indicated by a light in front of them which remains illuminated when all the other team members' lights have gone off. The games involve contestants competing in acts of bravery, style and talent, some of which are designed to humiliate the contestants, especially an assault course which was introduced with the Italian version in 2010, and the Finale which is a water tank game.

Ciao Darwin

1998

Il camorrista - Una serie di Giuseppe Tornatore poster
5.7

No synopsis available yet.

Il camorrista - Una serie di Giuseppe Tornatore

2025

Framed! A Sicilian Murder Mystery poster
7.0

After two hapless TV technicians stumble upon a murder scene, every step they take to avoid becoming suspects lands them in deeper trouble.

Framed! A Sicilian Murder Mystery

2022

A che punto è la notte poster
8.0

In Turin, a priest is killed by the explosion of a candle and Commissioner Santamaria has to unravel the problem.

A che punto è la notte

1994

C'è posta per te poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

C'è posta per te

2000

Catturandi - Nel Nome del Padre poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Catturandi - Nel Nome del Padre

2016

Italiani poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Italiani

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The Heart in the Well poster
10.0

April 1945. The German army is losing the war and Tito's Yugoslav partisans are rapidly gaining ground.

The Heart in the Well

2005

Le ragazze di Piazza di Spagna poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Le ragazze di Piazza di Spagna

1998

Mastro Don Gesualdo poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Mastro Don Gesualdo

1964

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Il ricatto

1989

Behind the camera