{"id":86,"date":"2009-02-19T10:52:53","date_gmt":"2009-02-19T15:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/henryalford.com\/?p=86"},"modified":"2009-03-01T08:03:18","modified_gmt":"2009-03-01T13:03:18","slug":"elderism-38","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/?p=86","title":{"rendered":"Elderism #38"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>81 year-old Italian actor and comedian Oreste Lionello passed away today in a Rome hospital after a long illness. Lionello achieved his greatest fame as a dubber of voices in American movies shown in Italy.<\/p>\n<p>A career as a dubber is rooted in a kind of self-deflection or self-abnegation&#8211;Lionello gave voice to, among others,\u00a0 Charlie Chaplin in <em>The Great Dictator, <\/em>Dick Van Dyke in <em>Mary Poppins<\/em>, Peter Sellers in<em> Dr. Strangelove<\/em>, and Gene Wilder in <em>Young Frankenstein. <\/em>So it&#8217;s a delightful\u00a0 irony that in Lionello&#8217;s case, all this self-asiding\u00a0 gave way to a rather bold act of self-definition. To wit, Lionello would sometimes answer his home phone,<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;I am the voice of Woody Allen.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/nationworld\/sns-ap-eu-italy-obit-movie-voice,0,200555.story\">Chicago Tribune<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>81 year-old Italian actor and comedian Oreste Lionello passed away today in a Rome hospital after a long illness. Lionello achieved his greatest fame as a dubber of voices in American movies shown in Italy. A career as a dubber is rooted in a kind of self-deflection or self-abnegation&#8211;Lionello gave voice to, among others,\u00a0 Charlie [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions\/149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}