Voices of the Spaghetti Western ~ “Tequila”

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 “Tequila”

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

Shoshena – Anthony Steffen (I) Anthony Steffen, (S) Rafael De Penagos, (G) Klaus Kindler

Corgan – Eduardo Fajardo (I) ?, (S) Eduardo Fajardo, (G) Klaus Miedel, (E) Anthony La Penna

Fuzzy – Roberto Camardiel (I) ?, (S) Vicente Bañó, (G) ?

Ingrid Cogan - Ágata Lys (I) Agata Lys, (I) Maite Santamarina, (G) ?

Beatrice Rush - María Elena Arpón (I) ?, (S) María Luisa Rubio, (G) ?

Vicente Bano (1926 – 1978)

Gifted, with a very deep voice, Vicente Baño Gomis had developed in the Alicante theater scene, where he was born in 1926 and later moved to Madrid when he was 25 to seek his fortune in the world of acting.

A radio producer signed him to perform radio dubbing. His great voice and good looks did not go unnoticed, and he was soon offered to double foreign films. In total, he worked on more than 1,000 movies. Some of the most outstanding cinema characters he dubbed were John Wayne, Gary Cooper, Groucho Marx, Orson Welles, Burt Lancaster, Anthony Quinn, Victor Mature and the famous talking mule Francis.

He also worked on television series, highlighting his role on ‘Ironside’ and ‘Kojak’ where he doubled stars Raymond Burr and Telly Savalas respectively.

From the end of the 1960s he did voiceovers for many TVE programs. He became one of the most representative voices on the public network.

Although he lived for the rest of his life in Madrid, he often returned to Alicante. In his hometown, he died suddenly at just 52 years of age from an intestinal perforation.