Ted Rusoff

Ted Rusoff (born 1939 in Winnipeg) is an American actor, voice dubbing artist and dubbing director known for his extensive work in the English language dubbing of foreign films (mostly Italian ones).

He is the son of writer/producer Lou Rusoff, the brother-in-law of Samuel Z. Arkoff, and he is the husband of actress/voice dubber Carolyn De Fonseca, who he frequently works with.

Rusoff traveled to Italy in the 1960s and started working on overseeing the English dubbing of various European films produced by American International Pictures, which had been founded by Rusoff's brother-in-law, Samuel Z. Arkoff. Since 1963, he has worked as sync-adapter and dubbing director of more than 500 films, and as a voice-dubber he has dubbed more than 1000 films - providing the English-dubbed voices of numerous leading men as well as several villains in a number of Italian cult favorites such as The Whip and the Body (1963), Deep Red (1975), Beyond the Darkness (1979) and many others.

Since the early 1980s, Rusoff has also done much work as an actor in film and television. He started out with supporting roles - often playing authority figures or religious characters such as priests, rabbis or monks. His earliest film roles were in Joe d'Amato's gory horror film Absurd (1981) and in Marco Ferreri's Tales of Ordinary Madness (1981), based on the works of Charles Bukowski. He also acted together with his wife, Carolyn De Fonseca, in the Pia Zadora starring vehicle The Lonely Lady (1983), and he and Fonseca played the parents of Claretta Petacci in the tv mini series Mussolini and I (1985).

Throughout the rest of the 1980s and 1990s, Rusoff acted in some low-budget B-movies such as Catacombs (1988), where he plays a monk; Sinbad of the Seven Seas (1989) with Lou Ferrigno, where he plays the keeper of the torture chamber; and the Jean-Claude Van Damme flick Double Team (1997), where he again plays a monk. However, he also had small roles in many acclaimed films such as Martin Scorsese's The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), the tv movie Cellini: A Violent Life (1991), in which he played Pope Paul III, and Tinto Brass' The Voyeur (1994). Rusoff also played the chief elder in Mel Gibson's controversial epic The Passion of the Christ (2004) and played the character Strabo in two episodes of the first season of the popular tv series Rome (2005-2007).

List of dubbing roles (incomplete)

Year	Film	Role	Actor
1963	The Whip and the Body	Christian Menliff	Tony Kendall
1968	The Battle of El Alamein	Lt. Giorgio Borri	Frederick Stafford
1969	The Battle of the Last Panzer	Lt. Hunter	Stelvio Rosi
1970	When the Bell Tolls	Tego	Gino Turini
1971	The Bloodstained Butterfly	Police Inspector	Silvano Tranquilli
1971	Cannibal Man	Marcos	Vicente Parra
1971	Four Pistols for Trinity	Quinn	Umberto Raho
1971	Slaughter Hotel	Dr. Francis Clay	Klaus Kinski
1971	The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh	George Corro	George Hilton
1972	The Case of the Bloody Iris	Andrea Barto	George Hilton
1972	Milano Calibro 9	Chino	Philippe Leroy
1972	The Red Queen Kills Seven Times	Police Inspector	Marino Masé
1972	Seven Blood-Stained Orchids	The Priest	Renato Romano
1973	Seven Deaths in the Cat's Eye	Dr. Franz	Anton Diffring
1974	Almost Human	Grandi's Assistant	Mario Piave
1974	The Eerie Midnight Horror Show	Carlo	Gianrico Tondinelli
1974	The Last Desperate Hours	Paolo Mancuso	Antonio Sabàto
1975	Deep Red	Superintendent Calcabrini	Eros Pagni
1975	Eyeball	Martinez	Raf Baldassarre
1975	Syndicate Sadists	Pino Scalia	Mario Piave
1976	Apache Woman	Tommy	Al Cliver
1976	The Big Racket	Sgt. Salvatore Velasci	Sal Borgese
1976	Black Emanuelle 2	Paul	Angelo Infanti
1976	Colt 38 Special Squad	Inspector Vanni	Marcel Bozzuffi
1976	Gestapo's Last Orgy	Camp Doctor	Fulvio Ricciardi
1976	The Last Round	Rico Manzetti	Luc Merenda
1976	My Father's Wife	Claudio	Cesare Barro
1976	Plot of Fear	Chief Inspector	Tom Skerritt
1976	SS Camp 5 - Women's Hell	Dr. Karl	?
1977	Death Hunt	Inspector Ettore Moretti	Al Cliver
1977	The Desert Tigers	Major Lexman	Richard Harrison
1978	The Killer Nun	Dr. Patrick Roland	Joe Dallesandro
1978	The Uranium Conspiracy	Renzo	Fabio Testi
1979	Beyond the Darkness	Frank Wyler	Kieran Canter
1979	Hotel Paradise	Juan Laredo	Anthony Steffen
1979	Terror Express!	Mike	Venantino Venantini
1980	Anthropophagus	Andy	Saverio Vallone
1980	Cannibal Apocalypse	Dr. Phil Mendez	Ramiro Olivares
1980	Erotic Nights of the Living Dead	Larry O'Hara	George Eastman
1980	Hell of the Living Dead	Vincent	Selan Karay
1980	Inferno	John the butler	Leopoldo Mastelloni
1981	Burial Ground: The Nights of Terror	Mark	Gianluigi Chirizzi
1981	The House by the Cemetery	Mr. Wheatley	Carlo De Mejo
1982	Pieces	Professor Arthur Brown	Jack Taylor
1982	The Sword of the Barbarians	Sangraal	Pietro Torrisi
1982	Violence in a Women's Prison	Chief Inspector	Jacques Stany
1983	Escape From the Bronx	Governor Biddle	?
1983	The Final Executioner	Alan Tanner	William Mang
1983	Hercules	Valcheus	Gianni Garko
1983	Rush	Rush	Conrad Nichols
1983	Women's Prison Massacre	Crazy Boy Henderson	Gabriele Tinti
1984	Monster Dog	Vincent Raven	Alice Cooper
1984	Monster Shark	Dr. Davis Barker	?
1985	Jungle Raiders	Tiger	Protacio Dee
1985	Miami Golem	Craig Milford	David Warbeck
1986	Bridge to Hell	Pazilbo	Carlo Mucari
1986	Days of Hell	Captain Williamson	Conrad Nichols
1987	The Cross of Seven Jewels	Marco Sartori	Marco Antonio Andolfi
1988	Touch of Death	Lester Parson	Brett Halsey
1989	Alien From the Deep	Bob	Daniel Bosch
1989	The House of Lost Souls	Massimo	Matteo Gazzolo
1989	The House of Witchcraft	Luke Palmer	Andy J. Forest
1995	The Strange Story of Olga O.	Paolo Roli	David Brandon
2003	Cannibal World	Bob Manson	Claudio Morales

External link

• Ted Rusoff at IMDb