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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