Born in Genoa, Bandini began his career as an actor after the war at the Teatro Sperimentale Luigi Pirandello.

[1] In the 1950s he moved to Rome, where he was the protagonist of the revue Il dente senza giudizio and started working in films and on television.

[2] He performed the Italian voices of some major Hollywood stars in at least one of two of their films.

Among his most prominent dubbing roles, he was the Italian voice of Chi-Fu in the 1998 animated film Mulan.

In the late 1940s, Bandini married stage actress Emma Fedeli and they were together until her death in 1980.