Voices of the Spaghetti Western ~ “Apocalypse Joe”

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 “Apocalypse Joe”

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

Joe Clifford – Anthony Steffen (I) Anthony Steffen, (S) Claudio Rodríguez, (G) Klaus Kindler

Berg – Eduardo Fajardo (I) ?, (S) Eduardo Fajardo, (G) Arnold Marquis

Rita - Mary Paz Pondal (I) ?, (S) Mari de los Ángeles Herranz (G) ?

Doc Clan – Fernando Cerulli (I) ?, (S) Manuel De Juan, (G) Gerd Martienzen

Sheriff Floyd – Giulio Bargaghini (I) Giulio Baraghini, (S) Luis María Lasala, (G) Edgar Ott

Bodo – Fernando Bilbao (I) ?, (S) Fernando Bilbao, (G) Hans Walter Clasen

Mari de los Ángeles Herranz  (1917-2012)

Mari Ángeles Herranz was one of the leading voice dubbers in the Spanish film industry. She was the voice of several Bond girls including Pussy Galore (Honor Blackman) in "Goldfinger", Daniele Bianchi in "From Russia with Love", Claudine Auger in "Thunderball" and as the "bad girl" in  Dr. No" and "You Only live Twice ". Mari’s voice dubbing included the Spanish voice of Margarita Lozano in “Fistful of Dollars” (1964), Alexandra Nila in “The Christmas Kid” (1966), Anna Orso in “Day of Anger”, Dianik Zurakowska in “A Few Bullets More” (both 1967), Nieves Navarro in “Light the Fuse... Sartana Is Coming” (aka “Gunman in Town”) (1970) and many more.