Voices of the Spaghetti Western ~ “Too Much Gold for One Gringo”

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 “Too Much Gold for One Gringo”

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

Trash Benson – Anthony Steffen (I) Anthony Steffen, (S) Rogelio Hernández

Paco – Daniel Martin (I) ?, (S) Ricardo Solans

Jonathan Carver - Manuel Guitián (I) ?, (S) Luis Posada Mendoza

Preacher - Indio González (I) ?, (S) Antonio Fernández

Jed Spotless - Ricardo Moyán (I) ?, (S) César Ojinaga

Maria - Tanya Alvorado (I) ?, (S) Tanya Alvorado

Ricardo Solans (1939 -    )

Ricardo Solans was born in Barcelona, Spain on September 8, 1939. He debuted in the theater with Merecedes Sampietro in Tennessee Williams “The Crystal Zoo”. He made his mark in dubbing with his Spanish voice for Dustin Hoffman in 1967’s “The Graduate”. He went on to be the usual voice in Spanish of: Robert De Niro, Silverster Stallone, Al Pacino, Danny DeVito, John Hurt, Richard Gere, Derek Jacobi, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Bill Murray, Jeremy Irons, Harvey Keitel, Jon Voight, Mickey Rourke. He was also the voice of the Big Bad Wolf in the Spanish version of Disney's short film “The Three Little Pigs”. In 1989, he doubled Michael Keaton in director Tim Burton's blockbuster commercial hit “Batman”.