Voices of the Spaghetti Western– “Bullets Don’t Argue”

 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 be 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 “Bullets Don’t Argue”

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

Sheriff Pat Garrett - Rod Cameron (I) Sergio Rossi, (S) Claudio Rodríguez, (G) Heinz Engelmann, (E) Rod Cameron

Billy Clanton/Clayton - Horst Frank (I) Luciano Melani, (S) José Martínez Blanco, (G)

Helmo Kindermann

George Clanton/Clayton - Ángel Aranda (I) ?, (S) Juan Logar, (G) Wolfgang Draeger

Agnes Goddard - Vivi Bach (I) ?, (S) Ángela González, (G) Claudia Brodzins

Santero - Dick Palmer (I) Roberto Bertea, (S) Teófilo Martínez, (G) Arnold Marquis

Mike Goddard - Luis Durán (I) ?, (S) Mari Pe Castro, (G) ?

Luciano Melani  (1928-2013)

Luciano Melani was an Italian actor, a voice dubber and a director of dubbing. He was born Pistoia, Italy on July 18, 1928. As a performer on television he was a member of the cast of the miniseries “The Queen of Hearts” (1969), in which he played the role of Callum, and “The Queen of Spades” (1972), in which he played the role of Captain Blanco.

At the beginning of his career he was involved in dubbing and had long been a member of the SAS - Company of Actors, synchronizers and was later one of the founders of CVD - Cine Video voice actors with so many other actors. His voice dubbing including Giancarlo Giannini, Oreste Lionello, Corrado Gaipa, Giancarlo Masters, Jack Nicholson and Clint Eastwood.

Melani was the Italian voice for Luigi Pistili in "The Great Silence" (1967) and Sal Borgese in "Sartana the Gravedigger (1969)

Melani died on November 12, 2013 in Rome, Italy. He was 85.