Renato Cecchetto

Renato Cecchetto (28 October 1951 – 23 January 2022) was an Italian actor and voice actor.

Biography In the 1970s, Cecchetto attended the Silvio d'Amico National Academy of Dramatic Arts and began his career working with film directors like Mario Monicelli and Carlo Vanzina.

Cecchetto was best known as a voice actor, who gave his voice to Shrek in the Italian dub of the Shrek franchise and to nearly all the Disney Pixar characters originally voiced by John Ratzenberger, including Hamm in the first four Toy Story films, Mack from the Cars film series, Yeti the Abominable Snowman from the Monsters, Inc. film series, and P.T. Flea from A Bug's Life. Additionally, Cecchetto served as the voice of Meow Meow Fuzzyface in the Italian dub of BoJack Horseman and from seasons 12 to 19, he was the Italian voice of Cleveland Brown on Family Guy, replacing Luciano Marchitiello.

In Cecchetto's live action roles, he dubbed over the voices of John Candy as the title character in Uncle Buck, Temuera Morrison as Axel Hood in Barb Wire and Jeffrey Tambor as Sid Garner in The Hangover film trilogy.

Personal life Cecchetto was married to the actress and theatrical director Miriam Spera. They had one son.

Death Cecchetto died of complications from injuries sustained in a scooter accident at the San Camillo Hospital in Rome on 23 January 2022, at the age of 70.

Filmography Cinema

Television

Dubbing Film (Animation, Italian dub)

Films (Live action, Italian dub)

Television (Animation, Italian dub)

Television (Live action, Italian dub)

Video games (Italian dub)