Voices of the Spaghetti Western ~ “Sartana Kills Them All”

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 “Sartana Kills Them All”

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

Sartana/Santana – Gianni Garko (S) José Guardiola, (G) Rainer Brandt

Marcos – Guglielmo Spoletini (S) Vicente Bañó, (G) Wolfgang Kieling

Maria Anderson – Maria Silva (S) Celia Honrubia, (G) Beate Hasenau

Richard Kirby – Andrés Mejuto (S) Estanis González (G) Martin Hirthe

Fred Burton – Raf Baldassare (S)  Fernando Mateo (G) Christian Rode

Adam Kirby – Charly Bravo (S) Ernesto Aura (G) ?

Donald Kirby – Carlos Romero Marchent (S) Carlos Romero Marchent (G) Arne Elsholtz

Estanis González (1925 – 1992)

Estanislao González León was born in Madrid, Spain on May 8, 1925. He began his career working for Radio Barcelona where he was co-host of the morning program Musica para el aperitivo. He then went to appear on Radio Nacional de Barcelona on which he played the role of Mieh Yang in the serial La mano moan de Dios.

He then became a theater actor in 1964 in the play Reinar After Dying with Alejandro Ulloa’s Company. His theater career flourished. Then in 1955 he moved into films with El Ceniciento, written and starring Miguel Gila. He participated in six films in five years. In 1960 he left films for television and theater. Starting in 1953 he became a voice actor in secondary roles for the next ten years.