Overview
- Italian media reported that Colizzi died in Rome on February 15, 2026, at the age of 88.
- Born in Rome in 1937, he began on stage under Luchino Visconti and gained early TV prominence as the lead in Tom Jones.
- He became the Italian voice of Christopher Reeve’s Superman, Martin Sheen in Apocalypse Now, and Robert De Niro as young Vito Corleone in The Godfather – Part II.
- His dubbing work also covered stars such as Michael Douglas and Jack Nicholson, and included Disney’s Robin Hood (1973) and Patrick McGoohan in a later Italian edition of The Prisoner.
- As a dubbing director he supervised Italian versions of Pulp Fiction, The English Patient, Pierce Brosnan’s James Bond films, and the Matrix trilogy; he is survived by his wife Manuela Andrei and their children Carlo and Chiara.