Portrait of Corrado Gaipa

Corrado Gaipa

Acting

Biography

Corrado Gaipa 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.

Born: March 13, 1924

Place of Birth: Palermo, Sicily, Italy

Filmography

1984
The Three of Us

as Narrator (voice)

1984
All for the Moral Majority!

as Ministro Euclide (voce)

1983
A School Trip

as Voce Fuoricampo

1982
Marco Polo

as Consigliere

1981
Help Me Dream

as Narratore (uncredited)

1977
A Spiral of Mist

as Pietro Sangermano

1977
1976
Illustrious Corpses

as Sospettato mafioso

1975
1974
1974
Malombra

as Padre Tosi

1974
Malombra

as Padre Tosi

1974
The Sinful Nuns of Saint Valentine

as Honorio de Mendoza, l'Inquisitore

1973
1973
Tony Arzenta

as Arzenta's Father

1973
1973
Family Killer

as Don Emilio Grisanti

1973
The Boss

as Lawyer Rizzo

1972
Without Family

as Giudice

1972
Shadows Unseen

as Günther Rosenthal

1972
The Eroticist

as Don Gesualdo

1972
The Godfather

as Don Tommasino - Sicilian Sequence

1972
Execution Squad

as L'avvocato Armani

1972
My Dear Killer

as Head of Insurance Company

1971
1971
Birth of the Republic

as Giovanni Conti

1971
The Man with Icy Eyes

as Isaac Thetman

1970
Metello

as Badolati

1970
A Drama of Jealousy (and other things)

as Presidente del Tribunale

1968
The SuperVips

as The Colonel (voice)

1968
Perils of Problemina

as Puti Puti (voce)

1967
Idea di un'isola

as Narrator (voice)

1963
The Monsters

as Batachi (segment "Il povero soldato") / Outspoken Critic (segmento "La musa") (voice) (uncredited)

1962
The Four Days of Naples

as Direttore del riformatorio (voice)