Giorgio Lopez (February 16, 1947-August 10, 2021) was an Italian voice actor.
He was the older brother of comedian and voice actor Massimo Lopez. His sons, Andrea Lopez and Gabriele Lopez, are also voice actors.
Some of his voice roles are:
Anime
- Cowboy Bebop:
- Goton (Ep.03); Chessmaster Hex (Ep.14)
- Mendelo al-Hedia/Rashid in The Movie
- Shinsaku Ban in Metropolis (2001)
- Dr. Torataro Shima in Paprika
- Cliff Caesar in Trigun
Film—Animated
- Itchy in All Dogs Go to Heaven
- Grandsanta in Arthur Christmas
- Dr. Elefun in Astro Boy
- Boris in Balto
- Boulanger in The Boxtrolls
- Buck Cluck in Chicken Little
- Genie in DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp
- Root in FernGully: The Last Rainforest
- Pegleg in Flushed Away
- Quasimodo in Hotel Transylvania
- Ooblar in Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius
- Narrator in The Land Before Time
- Albus Dumbledore in The LEGO Movie
- Mayor of Halloween Town in The Nightmare Before Christmas
- McSquizzy in Open Season
- Adventure in The Pagemaster
- Scamboli in Pinocchio 3000
- Kekata in Pocahontas
- King Harold in Shrek 2 and sequels
- Lord Rogers in The Swan Princess and sequels
- King Llort in A Troll in Central Park
- King Gristle Sr. in Trolls
- Clement Hedges in Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Film—Live-action
- Danny DeVito in multiple roles
- Dustin Hoffman in multiple roles
- John Cleese in several roles
- John Hurt in several roles
- Groucho Marx in several roles and redubs
- Ian Holm in several roles
- Wallace Shawn in several roles
- Bob Hoskins in a few roles
- Michael Jeter in a few roles
- James Cromwell in a few roles
- Baron Munchausen in The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
- Dr. Mason Wren in Alien: Resurrection
- Gustav Fiers in The Amazing Spider-Man and sequel
- Dennis Mansky in Bicentennial Man
- Robert the Elder in Braveheart
- Dr. Whiskers in Cool World
- Dr. Logan in Day of the Dead (1985)
- Joseph Yoshinobu Takagi in Die Hard
- Boolie Werthan in Driving Miss Daisy
- Harry Finley in Forever Young
- Peter Clemenza in The Godfather (redub)
- Irving Walsh in The Goonies
- Josef Fischer in The Illusionist (2006)
- Donald Cooper in Interstellar
- Doktor Richter in Iron Sky
- Mr. Miyagi in The Karate Kid series
- Brother Sum's adviser in Kung Fu Hustle
- Ricardo in La Comunidad
- "Uncle" Benny Chan in Lethal Weapon 4
- Wink Wilkinson in Little Shop of Horrors
- Pig Killer in Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome
- Vladimir Nekhorvich in Mission: Impossible II
- Ray Stuckey in Mississippi Burning
- Ubertino of Casale in The Name of the Rose
- Ignacio in Paulie
- Smee in Peter Pan
- Tony in The Professional
- Col. Sergei Podovsky in Rambo: First Blood Part II
- Ernie Kaltenbrunner in The Return of the Living Dead
- Donald Johnson in RoboCop (1987)
- Oscar Baldwin in Short Circuit 2
- Mendel Stromm in Spider-Man
- Leonard McCoy in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
- Montgomery Scott in Star Trek: Generations
- Splinter in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)
- Cyrus Kriticos in Thir13en Ghosts
- Dr. Edgemar in Total Recall (1990)
- Que in Transformers: Dark of the Moon
- Albert "Gib" Gibson in True Lies
- Horace in The Quick and the Dead
- Baby Herman in Who Framed Roger Rabbit
- "Mad" Basil in The World's End
Live-action TV
- Frank Reynolds in It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
- Geoffrey in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
- Quico in El Chavo del ocho
Western Animation
- Professor Calculus in The Adventures of Tintin (first dub)
- Grandpa Luong Lao-Shi in American Dragon: Jake Long
- Scruffy (seasons 6 and 7) and various minor characters in Futurama
- Scrooge McDuck from House of Mouse onwards until his death (except for DuckTales (2017))
- King Arthur in King Arthur's Disasters
- Phong in Reboot
- Uncle Jimbo in South Park (first dub)
His works provide examples of:
- Typecasting: Throughout his career three flavors kept popping out: mentor figures (Mr. Miyagi, Prof. Broom, Splinter, Gramps), snobs with a comically posh attitude (Geoffrey, Lord Rogers, King Arthur, several John Cleese roles he dubbed) and many, many Mr. Exposition types, bonus points if they happen to be scientists/doctors.
