{"id":1422,"date":"2009-08-04T12:57:42","date_gmt":"2009-08-04T12:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1422"},"modified":"2010-04-08T13:12:28","modified_gmt":"2010-04-08T13:12:28","slug":"rip-renato-izzo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/latest-news\/rip-renato-izzo\/","title":{"rendered":"R.I.P. Renato Izzo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>News just trickling through the grapevine that Renato Izzo has died.\u00a0 Sr. Izzo was known in Italy as one of the most prominent dubbers in the country, voicing parts for the likes of Paul Newman, Jean Louis Trintignant and Dennis Hopper.\u00a0 He was also, though, a scriptwriter, working on a number of films from the mid sixties to the mid seventies.\u00a0 Unsurprisingly, given his dubbing work, his speciality was dialogue, and he was often relied upon to flesh out the characters for stories that other writers had come up with.\u00a0 According to Gianfranco Parolini, for whom he worked on several films (<strong>If You Meet Sartana, Pray for your Death<\/strong>, <strong>Sabata<\/strong>, <strong>Five for Hell<\/strong>):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal<\/w:View> <w:Zoom>0<\/w:Zoom> <w:PunctuationKerning \/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas \/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false<\/w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false<\/w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false<\/w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables \/> <w:SnapToGridInCell \/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct \/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules \/> <w:DontGrowAutofit \/> <\/w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4<\/w:BrowserLevel> <\/w:WordDocument> <\/xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState=\"false\" LatentStyleCount=\"156\"> <\/w:LatentStyles> <\/xml><![endif]--> <span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Izzo was one of the major dubbing directors in the country and a very effective scriptwriter, especially for dialogue. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">There&#8217;s surprisingly little biographcal information around about him, but I did find this neat little tribute film on YouTube<\/span><\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\" data=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ruwATs9IBhs&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ruwATs9IBhs&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News just trickling through the grapevine that Renato Izzo has died.\u00a0 Sr. Izzo was known in Italy as one of the most prominent dubbers&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[639],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1422"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1935,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422\/revisions\/1935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}