Trivia

Besides Sean Connery, he is the only actor to appear in both Thunderball (1965) and the remake Never Say Never Again (1983).

He dubbed part of his old friend Orson Welles's performance in Treasure Island (1972), so subtly that the imposture went almost entirely unnoticed. He also re-voiced part of Christopher Plummer's performance in The Royal Hunt of the Sun (1969) without anyone noticing.

He was honored by the Italian Government with the title of Officer Knight of Merit for his services to the Italian Theatre and film industry together with his father Victor Rietti on the same day.

Very close friend of Orson Welles with whom he did the entire series of radio shows Black Museum and Harry Lime (The Third Man) which ran from 1951-1952.

With Jack Hawkins's approval, he often dubbed his voice, after Hawkins's entire larynx was removed in January 1966 because of throat cancer. Another actor who also dubbed Hawkins, had been Charles Gray. In the completely restored edition of Lawrence of Arabia (1962) in 1989, Gray also dubbed Hawkins's voice for the sound restoration in scenes which had been deleted from previous editions of the film. In the same film, Rietty had also dubbed Gamil Ratib's voice at first place.

Was placed in internment camp while on tour in England during World War II along with his father Victor Rietti and brother Ronald Rietti being Italians.

Cousin of Actor Paul Muni.

His son, Jonathan Rietti, is an Orthodox Jewish rabbi.

Grandfather of Actress Zoe Rietti.

Son of actor Victor Rietti.

Brother of Producer/Director Ronald Rietti.

Cousin of Actress Teresa Pascarelli.

Although he dubs several continental actors, mostly uncredited ones, in "Doctor Zhivago", he does NOT dub Klaus Kinski in the role of Kostyed, the anarchist. That's Kinski's own voice that is heard.

He dubbed the characters of Emilio Largo and Tiger Tanaka in the Bond films, "Thunderball" and "You Only Live Twice.".

The 1971 film "Deep End", directed by Jerzy Skolimowski, gave Rietty a lot of work. Although set entirely in London, the film was mostly shot in Munich with German actors in supporting roles. Almost all the male roles in the film are provided by Robert Rietty.

As providing dubbed voices in the James Bond films, he in fact spoke the first line in the first Bond film Dr. No (1962), providing the dubbed voice of Tim Moxon's character.