In the 1970s, Cecchetto attended the
Silvio d'Amico National Academy of Dramatic Arts and began his career working with
film directors like
Mario Monicelli and
Carlo Vanzina. Cecchetto was best known as a voice actor, who gave his voice to
Shrek in the Italian dub of the
Shrek franchise and to nearly all the
Disney Pixar characters originally voiced by
John Ratzenberger, including
Hamm from the
Toy Story since
first until
forth movie film series, then
Ambrogio Colombo was passed the role starting since the
fifth movie, Mack from the
Cars film series,
Yeti the Abominable Snowman from the
Monsters, Inc. film series, and P.T. Flea from ''
A Bug's Life. Additionally, Cecchetto served as the voice of Meow Meow Fuzzyface in the Italian dub of BoJack Horseman and from seasons 12 to 19, he was the Italian voice of Cleveland Brown on Family Guy'', replacing Luciano Marchitiello. In Cecchetto's live action roles, he dubbed over the voices of
John Candy as the title character in
Uncle Buck,
Temuera Morrison as Axel Hood in
Barb Wire and
Jeffrey Tambor as Sid Garner in
The Hangover film trilogy.
Personal life Cecchetto was married to the actress and theatrical director Miriam Spera. They had one son. == Death ==