{{short description|Italian actor (1926–2011)}} {{Infobox person | name = Armando Bandini | image = File:Armando Bandini.png | alt = <!-- descriptive text for use by speech synthesis (text-to-speech) software --> | caption = Bandini in ''The Sex Machine'' (1975) | birth_name = Armando Burlando | birth_date = {{birth date|1926|6|5|df=y}} | birth_place = Genoa, Italy | death_date = {{death date and age|2011|5|27|1926|6|5|df=y}} | death_place = Rome, Italy | occupation = {{hlist|Actor|voice actor}} | years_active = 1955–2011 | spouse = {{plainlist| * {{marriage|Emma Fedeli|1950|1980|end=died}} * Daniela Igliozzi }} }}
'''Armando Bandini''' (born '''Armando Burlando'''; 5 June 1926 – 27 May 2011) was an Italian actor and voice actor.
==Biography== Born in Genoa, Bandini began his career as an actor after the war at the Teatro Sperimentale Luigi Pirandello.<ref name="bio">{{cite book |last1=Lancia |first1=Enrico |title=Dizionario del cinema italiano. Gli artisti : Vol. 3, Gli attori dal 1930 ai giorni nostri |date=2003 |publisher=Gremese Editore |isbn=978-88-8440-213-4 |pages=44–5 |language=it |chapter=Bandini, Armando}}</ref> In the 1950s he moved to Rome, where he was the protagonist of the revue ''Il dente senza giudizio'' and started working in films and on television.<ref name="bio" /> Bandini even worked as a voice dubber.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.antoniogenna.net/doppiaggio/voci/vociaban.htm |title=Armando Bandini's dubbing contributions|publisher=Antoniogenna.net |date= |accessdate=5 August 2019}}</ref> He performed the Italian voices of some major Hollywood stars in at least one of two of their films. Among his most prominent dubbing roles, he was the Italian voice of Chi-Fu in the 1998 animated film ''Mulan''.
===Personal life=== In the late 1940s, Bandini married stage actress Emma Fedeli and they were together until her death in 1980. He then married actress Daniela Igliozzi.
==Death== Bandini died in Rome on 27 May 2011, nine days before his 85th birthday.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://antoniogenna.com/2011/05/30/addio-allattore-e-doppiatore-armando-bandini/| title=Addio all'attore e doppiatore Armando Bandini|publisher= Il mondo dei doppiatori|lang=it|date= 30 May 2011|accessdate=5 August 2019}}</ref> His wife Daniela Igliozzi survived him.
==Filmography== ===Cinema=== {{Div col}} *''Tipi da spiaggia'' (1959) — Prince Joakim's Assistant *''Love and Larceny'' (1960) — Il ragioniere *''Tu che ne dici?'' (1960) — Gangster 'Tritolo Joe' *''Bellezze sulla spiaggia'' (1961) — Ciccio *''Don Camillo: Monsignor'' (1961) — Don Carlino *''His Women'' (1961) — Bandini *''The Success'' (1961) — Romanelli (uncredited) *''La pupa'' (1963) *''Latin Lovers'' (1965) *''The Mandrake'' (1965) — Il servo de Ligurio *''Maigret a Pigalle'' (1966) — Il portiere del Picrate *''Ace High'' (1968) — Bank Cashier *''Togli le gambe dal parabrezza'' (1969) *''The Eroticist'' (1972) — Bartolino, Maravidi's Secretary *''Giovannona Long-Thigh'' (1973) — Gay Train Passenger *''The Lady Has Been Raped'' (1973) — Lama *''The Sex Machine'' (1975) — Antique Dealer *''Son tornate a fiorire le rose'' (1975) — Commissario *''Pure as a Lily'' (1976) — Sandro Scibetta *''Per amore di Cesarina'' (1976) — L'impiegato del Grand Hotel *''Ride bene... chi ride ultimo'' (1977) — Armandino (segment "La visita di controllo") *''Ridendo e scherzando'' (1978) — Il commissario *''Fontamara'' (1980) *''A Proper Scandal'' (1984) — Orlando Gastaldelli *''Here's My Brother'' (1985) — Il preside *''Una casa in bilico'' (1987) — Tonino, portiere *''A Violent Life'' (1990) — Treasurer {{div col end}}
==Dubbing roles== ===Animation=== *Chi-Fu in ''Mulan'' *Doctor Mouse in ''The Rescuers Down Under'' *Barney Rubble in ''The New Fred and Barney Show'' *Mr. Piccolo in ''Porco Rosso''
===Live action=== *Otis in ''Superman'' *Frank McCallister in ''Home Alone'' *Frank McCallister in ''Home Alone 2: Lost in New York''
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== {{commonscat-inline}} *{{IMDb name|0051736|Armando Bandini}} *{{discogs artist}} *[http://armandobandini.it/ Official Website]
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Bandini, Armando}} Category:1926 births Category:2011 deaths Category:Male actors from Genoa Category:Italian male film actors Category:Italian male stage actors Category:Italian male television actors Category:Italian male voice actors Category:20th-century Italian male actors