Voices of the Spaghetti Western ~ “A Man Called Sledge”

 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 “A Man Called Sledge”

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

Luther Sledge – James (E) James Garner, (I) Sergio Graziani, (S) Arsenio Corsellas, (G) Michael Cramer, (F) René Arrieu

Erwin Ward – Dennis Weaver (E) Dennis Weaver, (I) Sergio Tedesco, (S) Constantino Romero, (G) Erich Ebert

Hooker – Claude Akins (E) Claude Akins, (I) Glauco Onorato, (S) Pepe Mediavilla, (G) Thomas Braut

The ‘Old Man’ – John Marley (E)John Marley, (I) Bruno Persa, (S) Felipe Peña, (G) ?

Ria – Laura Antonelli (E) ?, (I) Laura Antonelli, (S) Elsa Fábregas, (G) Heidi Treutler

Sheriff Ripley – Wayde Preston (E) Wayde Preston (I) Arturo Dominici, (S) José Maria Santos, (G) ?, (F) Michel Gatineau

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Michael Cramer (1930 – 2000)

Michael Cramer was born in Wickrath, Germany on March 1, 1930. Cramer entered German films in the 1950s, often playing cheerful young men in comedies, and also appeared in the Brigitte Bardot vehicle “Babette Goes to War” (1959). Cramer made the occasional sex comedy, such as “The Bellboy and the Playgirls”, noted chiefly for new American footage directed by Francis Ford Coppola. In 1973, he played a German colonel in the Richard Burton WWII movie “The Battle of Sutjeska”. He guest starred on the TV series ‘Paul Temple’, ‘Interpol’, and ‘Graf Yoster’, among several others.

He dubbed George Peppard in “Breakfast at Tiffany’s and others, Clint Eastwood in “Coogan’s Bluff” and “High Plains Drifter”, Tony Curtis in “The Great Race”, Gordon Jackson in “Cast a Giant Shadow”, and Jack Warden in “While You Were Sleeping”. For TV, he dubbed Judd Hirsch on ‘Taxi’, guest characters on ‘Poirot’ and Fred Willard on an episode of ‘Married with Children’.

Cramer died in Munich, Germany on November 28, 2000.