Robert Lydiard: Dubbing dolphins and Fellinis!
Out of all the countless films dubbed into English throughout the years, one of the most famous of them all is for sure Federico Fellini’s semi-autobiographical tale Amarcord (1973) which went on to win the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Many of the great English dubbers of Rome can be heard in the film, but the central role of the young schoolboy Titta (played on-screen by Bruno Zanin) was however not dubbed by any of the of the Rome regulars. Instead, Titta’s voice was provided by the very successful American theatre actor Robert Lydiard, and in this newspaper article from The Miami Herald (September 11, 1980) that I’ve managed to dig out, we get the full story on how Lydiard’s voice work on the bizarre talking-dolphins thriller The Day of the Dolphin (1973) brought him to the attention of Fellini. Enjoy! An Actor’s Resumé: ‘Speaks Dolphin in Five Languages’ by Bob Curtwright, Knight-Ridder News Service Bob Lydiard is an actor whose...