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Vittorio De Angelis (September 20, 1962 - June 11, 2015) was an Italian voice actor, dialogue writer and dubbing director. He was best known for voicing Joey Tribbiani in the Italian-Language version of Friends and the spin-off Joey.

His other foreign language voice roles have included Prince Eric in The Little Mermaid film series and Geordi La Forge in Star Trek: The Next Generation. His major film roles have included dubbing Billy Crudup in the Italian dub of the 2003 film Big Fish and dubbing Val Kilmer in Tombstone. He also voiced I.M. Weasel in the animated series I Am Weasel.

He was also the official voice actor for Matt LeBlanc, Kevin James, Stephen Dorff and Brendan Fraser.

In the Italian dub of Futurama, he has provided the Italian voices of Elzar, Roberto, Fatbot and various other characters. The role of Roberto was briefly passed on to Luca Dal Fabbro in Season 5.

He died of a heart attack on June 11th 2015 in Rome, Italy just three months short of his 53rd birthday. He was survived by his father Manlio De Angelis (who died two years later) and his sister Eleonora De Angelis, who are also voice actors and have also provided voice roles in the Italian version of Futurama.

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