Wednesday, March 11, 2020

Voices of the Spaghetti Westerns ~ “Dead Men Don’t Count”


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 “Dead Men Don’t Count
[(I) Italian, (S) Spanish, (G) German, (F) French, (E) English]

Anthony Steffen - Fred Denton (I) Anthony Steffen, (S) Claudio Rodriguez, (G) Michael Chevalier
Mark Damon – Johnny (I) ?, (S) Jose Guardiola, (G) Fred Maire
Maria Martin - Mrs. Rogers (I) ?, (S) Lola Cervantes, (G) ?
Luis Induni – Steve Rogers (I) ? (S) Jose Maria Cordero, (G) Hans Wiegner
Piero Lulli – Sheriff Bob Watson (I) Piero Lulli, (S) Jose Martinez Blanco, (G) Edgar Ott
















MICHAEL CHEVALIER  (1933 – 2006)

Michael Chevalier was a German voice actor born in Berlin on May 14, 1933. He provided the German dub voices for Charles Bronson (Once Upon a Time in the West), Richard Harris (The Wild Geese), Omar Sharif (Doctor Zhivago), Oliver Reed (Gladiator), Steve McQueen (The Cincinnati Kid), Dan Blocker (Bonanza) and William Conrad (Jake and the Fatman). He also provided dubs for Marlon Brando, Paul Newman and Sean Connery. He also collaborated with the German trance/techno-band E Nomine on a number of their albums.
He was married to costume designer Susan Chevalier (Susan Ann Stanley) [1953-2019] from 1975-1995.

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