title: Massimo Venturiello
text: # Massimo Venturiello
  
  Massimo Venturiello (born 4 August 1957) is an Italian actor and voice actor.
  
  ## Biography
  
  Born in Roccadaspide, Province of Salerno, in 1982 Venturiello graduated at the Silvio D'Amico Academy of dramatic Arts in Rome and the same year he made his stage debut in an adaptation of William Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus directed by Gabriele Lavia. From then, he started an intense theatrical activity, which includes experimental and avant-garde works and a long collaboration with the director Giampiero Solari. Particularly, Venturiello was critically acclaimed for his performances in The Rose Tattoo, alongside Valeria Moriconi, and in Masaniello directed by Armando Pugliese [it]. Also active in films and on television, he is well known for the role of Rudy in Gabriele Salvatores' Marrakech Express.
  
  As a voice actor, Venturiello performed the Italian voice of Gary Oldman as Sirius Black in his first three appearances in the Harry Potter film franchise and as Commissioner James Gordon in Batman Begins. In his animated roles, he dubbed Hades VS Dr. Phillium Benedict in the 1997-2001 film Hercules and Recess: School's Out.
  
  ## Filmography
  
  ### Cinema
  
  * My First Forty Years (1987)
  * Good Morning, Babylon (1987)
  * The Strangeness of Life (1987)
  * Marrakech Express (1991)
  * The Wicked (1991)
  * Vietato ai minori (1992)
  
  ### Television
  
  * Distretto di Polizia 6 (2006)
  * Our Land (2007)
  * Il Capo dei Capi (2007)
  * Intelligence – Servizi & segreti (2009)
  * Il peccato e la vergogna (2010)
  
  ## Dubbing roles
  
  ### Animation
  
  * Hades in Hercules
  * Hades in Hercules: Zero to Hero
  * Hades in Hercules: The Animated Series
  * Hades in Disney's House of Mouse
  * Benedict in Recess: School's Out
  * C-3PO in Star Wars: Droids
  
  ### Live action
  
  * Sirius Black in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
  * Sirius Black in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
  * Sirius Black in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
  * James Gordon in Batman Begins
  * Father Solomon in Red Riding Hood
  * Nicholas Wyatt in Paranoia
  * KITT in Knight Rider (seasons 2-4)
  * Lester Diamond in Casino
  * Byron De La Beckwith in Ghosts of Mississippi
  * Father John Fielding in The Mission
  * Jean Valjean in Les Misérables
  * Snake Plissken in Escape from L.A.
  * Jackie Elliot in Billy Elliot
  * Bowen in Dragonheart
  * Richard Chance in To Live and Die in L.A.
  * Kevin in Gloria
  * The Jackal in The Jackal
  * George Emerson in A Room with a View
  