Voices of the Spaghetti Western ~ “Viva Django”

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 “Viva Django”

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

Django – Anthony Steffen (I) Anthony Steffen, (S) Manuel Cano, (G) Günther

     Ungeheuer, (F) Jean-Claude Michel, (E) Marc Smith

Jeff – Stelio Candelli (I) Stelio Candelli, (S) Constantino Romero, (G) K.E. Ludwig

Carranza – Glauco Onorato (I) Glauco Onorato, (S) Miguel Alonso, (G) Günther

     Sauer, (E) Edward Mannix

Captain Gomez – Cris Avram (I) Cris Avram, (S) Antonio Crespo, (G) Alexander

     Allerson

Lola – Esmeralda Barros (I) ?, (S) Rosario Cavallé, (G) ?

Ibanez – Benito Stefanelli (I) Benito Stefanelli, (S) Francisco Garriga, (G) ? 

Marc Smith  [1945-2006]

Marc Smith was born in St. Louis, Missouri on January 21, 1945. He played Hig Hurtenflurst in the Secondary Phase of the radio series “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, and who also played a minor role in the 1981 television series of the same name. Smith also appeared in many films, including roles in “Live and Let Die” (1973), “Trail of the Pink Panther” (1982), “Slaughter High” (1986), “Whoops Apocalypse” (1988), and “The Pope Must Die” (1991). His voice work included narrations and English dubs of Japanese animated cartoons. Marc died in London, England on December 24, 2006.