Carlo Bonomi lent his voice to all the characters in ‘Pingu’ from 1990 to 2000.

Carlo Bonomi, the voice actor who introduced Pingu to life on tv, died on the age of 85. Mr Bonomi hailed from Milan. He lent his voice to the claymation penguin and all the characters within the TV present from 1990 to 2000. 

The reason for his dying has not but been revealed, however followers of Pingu flooded social media with tributes recalling his iconic catchphrase “noot noot”. American cartoonist Travis Bickerstaff said that Bonomi’s “noot noot” would reside on. 

“If you’re wondering if this will be the end of Pingu, it’s not,” Bickerstaff mentioned, including, “Other voice actors in the Pingu franchise had carried on Bonomi’s legacy, since he established the ‘Penguinese’ language for the series.” 

Another mentioned, “That man (Mr Bonomi) had not only made millions of people’s childhood by giving us the voice of Pingu, but he also screamed multiple Noots to our heart’s content. Farewell Carlo, Noot Noot.” A 3rd added, “Rest easy, Carlo Bonomi. Nobody can do literally all the voices in Pingu like you did.” 

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According to Evening Standard, Mr Bonomi created the Penguinease language for the kids’s claymation present based mostly on the Milan dialect. He took inspiration from his work on the Italian animated sequence, La Linea. 

Pingu was co-created by Otmar Gutmann and Erika Brueggeman. The kids’s present adopted the lifetime of a cheeky penguin. Voicing for the present earned Mr Bonomi a world following. 

The actor additionally voiced Italian variations of well-liked cartoon characters comparable to Mickey Mouse and Fred Flinstone. Moreover, Mr Bonomi did bulletins at Milan’s Central Station and Florence’s Santa Maria Central Station.