As we know most of the Euro-westerns were co-productions
from Italy, Spain, Germany and France which incorporated British and American
actors to gain a worldwide audience. The films were shot silent and then dubbed
into the various languages where they were sold for distribution. That means
Italian, Spanish, German, French and English voice actors were hired to dub the
films. Even actors from the countries where the film was to be shown were often
dubbed by voice actors for various reasons such as the actors were already busy
making another film, they wanted to paid additional salaries for dubbing their
voices, the actor’s voice didn’t fit the character they were playing, accidents
to the actors and in some cases even death before the film could be dubbed.
I’ll list a Euro-western and the (I) Italian, (S)
Spanish, (G) German and (F) French, (E) English voices that I can find and once
in a while a bio on a specific voice actor as in Europe these actors are as
well-known as the actors they voiced.
We’ll start off with “A Fistful of Dollars”
Clint Eastwood
– (I) Enrico Maria Salerno, (S) Jesús Nieto, (G) Klaus Kindler, (F) Jacques
Deschamps, (E) Clint Eastwood
John Wells (Gin
Maria Volonte) – (I) Nando Gazzolo, (S) Carlos Revilla, (G) Reiner Brandt, (F) Claude Joseph, (E) Bernard Grant
José Calvo –
(I) Luigi Pavese, (S) Francisco Sánchez, (G) Hans Hinrich, (F) Jean Martinelli,
(E) Jack Curtis
Margarita Lozano
– (I) Anna Miserocchi, (S) MariÁngeles Herranz, (G) ?, (F) Paule Emanuele, (E) Anna
Miserocchi
Marianne Koch
– (I) Rita Svagnone, (S) Ana María Saizar, (G) Marianne Koch, (F) ?, (E) Joyce
Gordon
Benny Reeves
(Benito Stefanelli) – (I) Sergio Graziani, (S) ?, (G) Wolfgang Hess, (F) ?,
(E) ?
Wolfgang Lukschy
– (I) Giorgio Capecchi, (S) Benjamin Domingo, (G) Wolfgang Lukschy, (F) Yves
Furet, (E) Bernard Grant
Antonio Prieto
– (I) Mario Pisu, (S) Joaquín Vidriales, (G) Klaus W. Krause, (F) Gérard Férat,
(E) George Gonneau
Sieghardt Rupp
– (I) Bruno Persa, (S) Francisco Arenzana, (G) Sieghardt Rupp, (F) Jacques
Balutin, (E) Bernard Grant
Josef Egger –
(I) Lauro Gazzolo, (S) Manuel De Juan, (G) Josef Egger, (F) ?, (E) Robert Dryden
Richard Stuyvesant
(Mario Brega) – (I) Rento Turi, (S) Rafael Calvo Revilla, (G) Werner Lieven,
(F) Claude Bertrand, (E) Ray Owens
BERNARD GRANT [1920
– 2004]
Bernard Grant was born in The Bronx, New York City, New
York October 10, 1920. As a youth he came to acting through church groups. He then
attended New York City College while acting for neighborhood theaters. He
belonged to a comedy trio that performed at nightclubs and then became a radio
announcer at WPAT-AM in New York and studied acting at the American Theater
Wing. He served for three years in the United States Army during World War II,
entertaining troops and reaching the rank of staff sergeant. In 1947 Bernie
started appearing in radio dramas, sometimes as many as four a day. He often
played two people in the same show, one with a high voice and one with a low
voice. In the early 1950's he made the
transition to television, appearing in shows like ''Kraft Theater'' and
''Omnibus.'' Later he became a soap opera star, for two decades, Mr. Grant was
a fixture of daytime dramas on television, most notably as the mellow Dr. Paul
Fletcher in ''The Guiding Light'' for 13 years and as Steve Burke, a more
brusque type, in ''One Life to Live'' during the 1970's. An acting career that
included radio, summer stock and Broadway, Mr. Grant got steady work speaking
for stars in foreign films translated into English. He was the voice of
Marcello Mastroianni, Yves Montand and Jean Gabin, among many others, and was
the English-language heavy voice for all of Sergio Leone's spaghetti westerns.
Bernard was married to actress and voice dubber Joyce
Gordon [1919-2020] who voiced Marianne Koch’s Marisol in “A Fistful of
Dollars”. The couple had two children Mark and Melissa.
Bernard Grant died in Manhattan, New York City, New York
on June 30, 2004.
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