Corrado Gaipa

Corrado Gaipa

Born:March 13, 1924

Place of Birth:Palermo, Sicily, Italy

Died:September 21, 1989

Known For: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.

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Corrado Gaipa
Corrado Gaipa

Filmography

Acting

The Godfather

The Godfather

Don Tommasino - Sicilian Sequence

1972

Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attempt on his life, his youngest son, Michael steps in to take care of the would-be killers, launching a campaign of bloody revenge.