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Glauco Onorato (December 7, 1936 - December 31, 2009) was an Italian actor and voice actor. He was born in Turin, Italy. His father was Giovanni Onorato, also an actor, and his brother was cinematographer Marco Onorato. He was also the father of voice actors Riccardo Niseem Onorato and Sara Onorato.

Active in film, theater, and television. Among his most notable roles were as a man haunted by the supernatural in Mario Bava's masterpiece Black Sabbath, a soldier returning from the Russian front in Vittorio De Sica's Sunflower, and as a ruthless gangster in the crime film The Big Racket. He worked consistently from the late 1950s until shortly before his death.

With a deep, booming, yet comical voice, he gained his greatest fame as a voice actor. He provided the Italian voice for actors such as Danny Glover, Arnold Schwarzenegger in his earlier films, Anthony Quinn and Charles Bronson. He may however be best known for dubbing Italian actor Bud Spencer (whose heavy Neapolitan accent was considered unsuitable for his roles) in nearly all of his movies.

In 2000, his son Riccardo Onorato took a trip to India and adopted the middle name Niseem.

In Futurama, he provided the Italian voice of Morbo in Season 1 before being replaced by Sandro Sardone.

He died on New Years Eve of 2009 at the San Camillo Hospital in Rome, Italy at the age of 73 after battling an undisclosed serious illness for some time.

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