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- Carletto Bonomi
- Carlo Bonomi was born on March 12, 1937 in Milan, Italy. He was an actor, known for Goosebumps (1995), Pingu (1980) and Mr. Rossi Looks for Happiness (1976). He died on August 6, 2022 in Milan, Italy.
- In Italy, generations of children have grown up with the voice of Carlo Bonomi. From the late 1950s until well into the 1970s, he performed the voices of characters in numerous children's series and cartoons, both Italian and foreign, on the Italian public broadcaster RAI.
- American cartoonist Travis Bickerstaff paid tribute to Bonomi in a tweet, saying the "noot noot" would live on.
- The language of noises he had developed and used for the earlier Osvaldo Cavandoli's La Linea from 1971 to 1986 was reinterpreted for the acclaimed TV series Pingu on SF DRS during its first four seasons produced between 1990 and 2000.
- He did all the original "voices" for "Pingu" without a script. He was influenced by the commedia dell'arte tradition of nonsense language, "grammelot".
- He is an Italian clown and voice actor.
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