Riccardo Garrone



Riccardo Garrone (November 1, 1926 - March 14, 2016) was an Italian actor, voice actor and film director. He was the younger brother of director and screenwriter Sergio Garrone. Garrone was one of the most popular actors in the Italian cinema, often portraying elegant, persuasive and nice characters in a variety of comedy and spaghetti-westerns. Garrone was also known for dubbing animated characters into the Italian language, For Pixar, he voiced Lots-o'-Huggin' Bear in the Italian version of Toy Story 3. In 2014, Garrone retired from his acting career after 65 years. He died in a hospital in Milan on March 14th 2016 at the age of 89.