Voices of the Spaghetti Western ~ “Have a Good Funeral”

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 “Have a Good Funeral”

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

Sartana - Gianni Garko (I) Sergio Graziani, (S) Manuel Cano, (G) Rainer Brandt
Ronald Hoffman - Antonio Vilar (I) Nando Gazzolo, (S) José Luis Sansalvador, (G) Siegmar Schneider
Jasmine/Abigail Benson - Daniela Giordana (I) Vittoria Febbi, (S) Rosa Guiñón (G) Renate Danz
Julie - Helga Line (I) Rita Savagnone, (S) María Luisa Solá (G) Ursula Heyer
Peng/Lee Tse Tung - George Wang (I) Carlo Romano, (S) José María Angelat (G) Gerd Duwner
Sheriff - Luis Induni (I) Glauco Onorato, (S) Felipe Peña, (G) Fritz Tillmann
Samuel Piggot - Franco Ressel (I) Sergio Tedesco, (S) José Maria Santos, (G) Christian Rode
Undertaker - Franco Pesce (I) Bruno Persa, (S) Carlos Ronda, (G) Klaus W. Krause

Rainer Brandt (1936 - )

               

Rainer Brandt was born in Berlin, Germany on January 19, 1936. He began dubbing in 1954 after being hired by director Alfred Vohrer. At the same time he completed his acting training at the Max Reinhardt Schoo. In 1958 he began dubbing for DEFA with larger roles following. He was the German voice of Elvis Presley in most of his films. Other major actors he dubbed were Tony Curtis, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Mario Adorf, Jack Lord, Tony Randall and Robert Wagner, In thw 1970s he founded his own company and wrote the German dubbing scripts for many Terence Hill and Bud Spencer films. He also wrote scripts for TV’s M*A*S*H as well as several others.

His wife is actress Ursula Heyer who dubbed Joan Collins and his daughter Judith Brandt is also a voice actress. His son Andrej has also worked as a voice dubber.