Alberto Sordi

Alberto Sordi was born in Rome's working class quarter of Trastevere in 1920 (1919, according to some sources). He studied recitation at Milan's Academia dei Filodrammatici but was apparently dismissed because of his thick Roman accent and use of dialect. In 1937, he won a contest organized by MGM to find the dubbing voice of Oliver Hardy, which opened the door to regular professional dubbing work of American movies (actors he would later lend his voice to included… (több)