Voices of the Euro-western ~ My Name is Nobody

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.

Today we’ll cover “My Name is Nobody”

[(I) Italian, (S) Spanish, (G) German (F) French, (E) English]

Terence Hill (I) Pino Locchi, (S) Héctor Cantolla, (G) Thomas Danneberg, (F) Jean Fontaine (E) ?

Henry Fonda (I) Nando Gazzolo, (S), Félix Acaso, (G) Wilhelm Borchert, (F) Raymond Loyer, (E) Henry Fonda

Jean Martin (I) Sergio Graziani, (S) Benjamín  Domingo, (G) Klaus Miedel, (F) Lui-même

Geoffrey Lewis (I) Renato Mori, (S) Hipólito de Diego, (G) Joachim Kemmer (F) Serge Sauvion, (E) Geoffrey Lewis

Benito Stefanelli (I) Gianni Marzocchi, (S) Estanis González, (G) Manfred Grote, (F) ?, (E) ?

PINO LOCCHI [1925-1994]

Giuseppe "Pino" Locchi was born in Rome, Italy on November 10, 1925. He was an Italian actor and voice actor. After starting his screen career as a child actor in the 1930s, Locchi later became a very prominent voice actor dubbing foreign films for release in the Italian market.

Locchi began his acting career in 1932 starring in the film The Last Adventure and he continued his acting career as a child until 1942. As a voice actor, he dubbed the voices of many actors. He was the official Italian voice of Sean Connery until his death in 1994. Other actors he dubbed included Tony Curtis, Roger Moore, Charles Bronson, Terence Hill, Sidney Poitier, Jean-Paul Belmondo and many more. Because Locchi was Sean Connery's official voice actor, he was the primary Italian voice of James Bond. Locchi continued to dub Bond while he was portrayed by George Lazenby and Roger Moore. In his animated film roles, he performed the Italian voices of characters in Disney Animated feature films. He was the voice of Baloo the Bear in the 1967 film The Jungle Book and Little John in the 1973 film Robin Hood (Both characters were voiced by Phil Harris). He also voiced King Triton in the Italian dub of The Little Mermaid.[4]

Locchi's daughter Marina Locchi works as a theater actress.

In the summer of 1994, Locchi suffered a heart attack followed by a stroke. He died from their effects on November 24, 1994.