Dario Penne (17 February 1938 – 15 February 2023) was an Italian actor and voice actor.

[1] Born in Trieste, Penne acted in theatre, television, cinema and radio.

He was heavily active as a voice actor and dubbed many characters in Italian: among the most popular actors he dubbed include Michael Caine, Anthony Hopkins, Christopher Lloyd, Tommy Lee Jones and Ben Kingsley;[2] one of the roles he remains best known for is the character Bender Bending Rodríguez in the Italian-language version of the animated series Futurama; he also dubbed Sentinel Prime in Transformers: Dark of the Moon and the narrator in the Goofy shorts Tomorrow We Diet and Teachers Are People.

Penne died in Rome on 15 February 2023, two days shy of his 85th birthday.

[3][4] Media related to Dario Penne at Wikimedia Commons