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 “A Coffin for the Sheriff”
[(I) Italian, (S) Spanish, (G) German]
Anthony Steffen –
(I) Paolo Ferrari, (S) Claudio Rodriguez,
(G) Horst Niendorf
Eduardo Fajardo –
(I) Alessandro Sperli, (S) Eduardo Fajardo, (G) Wolfgang Amerbacher
Arturo Dominici -
(I) Arturo Dominici, (S) Benjamin
Domingo, (G) Fritz Tillmann
Luciana Gilli –
(I) Luciana Gilli, (S) Anglea Gonzalez,
(G) Ursula Herwig
George Rigaud (I) Mario Bardella, (S) Antonio Garcia Quijada, (G) Curt Ackermann
Lucio De Santis –
(I) Adalberto Maria Merli, (S) Carlos Revilla, (G) Karlheinz Brunnemann
PAOLO FERRARI [1929 –
2018]
Paolo Ferrari was born Paolo Vitta in Brussels, Belgium on
February 26, 1929, his father was at the time the Italian consul in the Belgian
Congo, and was in Belgium for a diplomatic mission. His mother, Giulietta, was
a concert pianist. He made his acting debut at 9 years of age in Alessandro
Blasetti's Ettore “Fieramosca”
and he’d go on to appear in over 45 films between 1938 and 2018. He became
first known as "the balilla Paolo", a character he played in numerous
radio programs for children and teenagers during the fascist era. After the war
he studied at the Silvio
d’Amico Academy
of Dramatic Arts. Ferrari became a voice dubber and was the Italian voice of
Humphrey, Bogart Jean-Louis Trintignant
as well as many others.
Paolo married actress Marina Bonfigli in 1956 and they were
the parents of actor Fabio Ferrari and Daniele Ferrari. He then married Laura
Tavanti in 1970 and they had one child Stefano Ferrari.
Paolo Ferrari died in Monterotondo, Rome,
Italy on May 6,
2018
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