Voices of the Euro-western ~ The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

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 “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly”

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

Clint Eastwood – (I) Enrico Maria Salerno, (S) Francisco Valladares, (G) Gert Günther Hoffmann, (F) Jacques Deschamps, (E) Clint Estwood

Lee Van Cleef – (I) Emilio Cigoli, (S) José María Cordero, (G) Heinz Petruo, (F) Georges Atlas, (E) Lee Van Cleef

Eli Wallach – (I) Carlo Romano, (S) Félix Acaso, (G) Otto Preuss, (F) Claude Bertrand, (E) Eli Wallach

Luigi Pistilli – (I) Nando Gazzolo, (S) Benjamín Domingo, (G) Rolf Schult, (F) René Bériard, (E) ?

Aldo Giuffre – (I) Pino Locchi, (S) José Martínez Blanco, (G) Harald Juhnke, (F) André Valmy, (E) Bernie Grant

Mario Brega – (I) Renato Turi, (S) Pedro Sempson, (G) Hans Schwarz, (F) ?, (E) ?

Livio Lorenzon – (I) Mario Pisu, (S) ?, (G) Hans Hessling, (F) Paul Bonifas, (E) ?

Rada Rassimov – (I) Rita Savagnone, (S) Lola Cervantes, (G) Beate Hasenau, (F) Anne Carrère, (E) Joyce Gordon

JOYCE GORDON [1919-2020]

Joyce Gordon enjoyed a successful career as a working actress in all aspects of film, television and radio for over 50 years. She was a voiceover legend, heard on thousands of commercials and also seen on camera as a standup spokeswoman for P&G and Duncan Hines.  She was also an on camera spokeswoman on the Tonight Show with Jack Paar, Steve Allen and Johnny Carson. She has dubbed many foreign films as the voice of Claudia Cardinale, Jeanne Moreau, and Annie Girardot, among others. She is still heard on many telephone systems nationwide as well as being the telephone voice of the SAG-AFTRA P&H Plans.

Joyce led the New York Branch of the Screen Actors Guild as the first female president of SAG and was one of the original architects of their residuals system. She served on their National Board of Directors for 25 years and as a National Vice President, and as a Trustee of the SAG Pension and Health Plans for 35 years as Board Chairman and now as Emeritus Trustee. She was also a Trustee of the Screen Actors Guild Motion Picture Players Welfare Fund, the John L. Dales Scholarship Fund, and The Actors Fund of America.

Joyce and husband Bernard Grant [1920-2004] met in the NBC actors' lounge and it was love almost at first sight. They married Jan. 7, 1951. They have two children Mark Grant [1953-    ] and Melissa Grant [1956-    ].