Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
3/13/1924
Place of Birth
Palermo, Sicily, Italy
Corrado Gaipa
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.
Known For
The Godfather
as Don Tommasino - Sicilian Sequence
The Monsters
as Batachi (segment "Il povero soldato") / Outspoken Critic (segmento "La musa") (voice) (uncredited)
Illustrious Corpses
as Sospettato mafioso
Tony Arzenta
as Arzenta's Father
1931: Once Upon a Time in New York
as Mob Boss
Metello
as Badolati
The Sicilian Connection
as Calogero
Giordano Bruno
Unknown Role
All for the Moral Majority!
as Ministro Euclide (voce)
The Boss
as Lawyer Rizzo
The Valdez Horses
as Padre
Without Family
as Giudice
The Four Days of Naples
as Direttore del riformatorio (voice)
The Red Nights of the Gestapo
as Udo Kassbaum
Anna: the Pleasure, the Torment
as Doctor
Family Killer
as Don Emilio Grisanti
The Godfather: The Complete Epic 1901–1959
as Don Tmmasino
My Dear Killer
as Head of Insurance Company
The Three of Us
as Narrator (voice)
That Splendid November
as Alfio