Voices of the Spaghetti Western ~ “Light the Fuse... Sartana Is Coming”

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 “Light the Fuse... Sartana Is Coming”

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

Sartana – Gianni Garko (I) Sergio Graziani, (S) Simón Ramírez, (G) Arnold Marquis

Belle Manassas – Nieves Navarro (I) Rita Savagnone, (S) Mari Ángeles Herranz, (G) Renate Küster  

Sheriff Jim Manassas – Massimo Serato (I) Nando Gazzolo, (S) Ángel María Baltanás, (G) Friedrich Schoenfelder

Grand Full – Piero Lulli (I) Sergio Tedesco, (S) José María Cordero, (G) Michael Chevalier

Sam Puttnam – Bruno Corazzari (I) Gianfranco Bellini, (S) José Ángel Juanes, (G) Klaus Sonnenschein

Plon Plon – Franco Pesce (I) Stefano Sibaldi, (S) José Casín, (G) Gerd Duwner

Simón Ramírez (1932–1997)

Simón Ramírez Fernández was born on August 27, 1932 in Alcázar de San Juan, Ciudad Real, Spain. He was a film, television actor and film dubber. He started his dubbing career in 1954, he was the Spanish voice of Robert De Niro in Sergio Leone's classic “Once Upon a Time in America” (1984), the voice of Dennis Weaver in “Duel” (1972) and the Spanish voice of Sean Connery in his James Bond movies.