Tonino Accolla

Antonino "Tonino" Accolla (6 july 1949 – 14 July 2013) was an Italian actor, voice actor and dubbing director. He was a well-known voice dubber, with the public mainly identifying him as the Italian voice of actor Eddie Murphy and Homer Simpson in The Simpsons. He also served as the Italian voice of Timon in The Lion King, and Mike Wazowski in Monsters, Inc..

He also directed the dubs for several episodes of The Simpsons as well as films such as The Silence of the Lambs, Speed, True Lies, Romeo + Juliet, Independence Day, Titanic, Legally Blonde, The Devil Wears Prada, Borat, V for Vendetta, Hairspray, The Simpsons Movie, and Avatar.

Biography Accolla was born in Syracuse, Italy. He began his career in the early 1970s acting in theatre, film and radio shows, making one of his earliest prominent dubbing contributions in the 1979 film Apocalypse Now. Accolla was notable for providing the Italian voice of Eddie Murphy in all his live-action roles until 2009. Other actors he dubbed over were Kenneth Branagh, Tom Hanks, Mickey Rourke, Ralph Fiennes, Jim Carrey, Ben Stiller, O. J. Simpson, Bill Paxton, Gary Oldman, Christopher Lambert and Billy Crystal in a select number of their films.

In Accolla’s animated roles, he was best known for providing the voice of the animated character Homer Simpson in the Italian version of The Simpsons until his death in 2013.

Death Accolla died on 14 July 2013, aged 64, after suffering a long illness. The role of Homer Simpson was passed on to voice actor and comedian Massimo Lopez.

Filmography Cinema

Television

Dubbing Films (Animation, Italian dub)

Films (Live action, Italian dub)

Television (Animation, Italian dub)

Television (Live action, Italian dub)

Video games (Italian dub)