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 Red Tent | Snowblind Di Nobile Crewmember | Donatas Banionis |
| 1969 | The Battle of the Last Panzer | Lt. Hunter | Stelvio Rosi |
| 1970 | Shadow of Illusion | Seth | Antonio Cantafora |
| 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 Paradine | 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 | Death Walks at Midnight | Gio Baldi | Simón Andreu |
| 1972 | Don't Torture a Duckling | Don Alberto Avallone | Marc Porel |
| 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 |
| 1972 | Shadows Unseen | Sgt. Mortesi | Elio Zamuto |
| 1973 | Seven Deaths in the Cat's Eye | Dr. Franz | Anton Diffring |
| 1973 | The Violent Professionals | Vice-Commissioner Del Buono | Chris Avram |
| 1974 | Almost Human | Grandi's Assistant | Mario Piave |
| 1974 | Beyond the Door | Robert Barrett | Gabriele Lavia |
| 1974 | The Eerie Midnight Horror Show | Carlo | Gianrico Tondinelli |
| 1974 | Identikit | Police Inspector | Maurizio Bonuglia |
| 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 | Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man | Fred | Marc Porel |
| 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 |
| 1977 | Fearless Fuzz | Walter 'Wally' Spada | Maurizio Merli |
| 1977 | Return of the 38 Gang | Commissioner Gino Varelli | Antonio Sabàto |
| 1978 | Blazing Flowers | Commissioner Morani | George Hilton |
| 1978 | The Killer Nun | Dr. Patrick Roland | Joe Dallesandro |
| 1978 | To Be Twenty | Inspector Zambo | Giorgio Bracardi |
| 1978 | The Uranium Conspiracy | Renzo | Fabio Testi |
| 1979 | Beyond the Darkness | Frank Wyler | Kieran Canter |
| 1979 | Escape From Hell | Dr. Farrell | Anthony Steffen |
| 1979 | From Corleone to Brooklyn | Lt. Danova | Venantino Venantini |
| 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 | Contamination | Dr. Hilton | Mike Morris |
| 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 |
| 1980 | The Rebel | Nick Rossi | Maurizio Merli |
| 1981 | Burial Ground: The Nights of Terror | Mark | Gianluigi Chirizzi |
| 1981 | The House by the Cemetery | Mr. Wheatley | Carlo De Mejo |
| 1982 | Nathalie | Stanley Warren | Roger Beach |
| 1982 | Panic | Captain Kirk | David Warbeck |
| 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 | The Ark of the Sun God | Prince Abdullah | Aytekin Akkaya |
| 1983 | Escape From the Bronx | Governor Biddle | ? |
| 1983 | The Final Executioner | Alan Tanner | William Mang |
| 1983 | Hercules | Valcheus | Gianni Garko |
| 1983 | Rats: Night of Terror | Kurt | Ottaviano Dell'Acqua |
| 1983 | Rush | Rush | Conrad Nichols |
| 1983 | Throne of Fire | Siegfried | Pietro Torrisi |
| 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 | After Death | David | Massimo Vanni |
| 1988 | Ratman | Fred | David Warbeck |
| 1988 | Touch of Death | Lester Parson | Brett Halsey |
| 1988 | Zombi 3 | General Morton | Mike Monty |
| 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 |
| 2003 | Land of Death | Romero | Claudio Morales |
| 2003 | Snuff Trap | Peter | Carlo Mucari |
External links
- Ted Rusoff at IMDb