Voices of the Spaghetti Western– “Cavalry Charge”

 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 “Cavalry Charge”

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

Commander Inspector John Bedford – Alan Scott (S) Paco Valladares

Corporal Paul White – Frank Latimore (S) Félix Acaso

Flower of the Mountains – Diana Lorys (S) Josefina de Luna

Valerie Jackson – Maria Silva (S) Maria Silva

Sergeant Custer – Alfonso Rojas (S) Claudio Rodríguez

Trapper Don Halsey – Barta Barri (S) Benjamin Domingo

Benjamin Domingo  (19??-deceased)

Benjamin Domingo began on radio in 1958 and then entered dubbing, starting with a small role in “Viva Zapata”. He usually dubbed serious, authoritative types, such as William Conrad on TV's ‘Cannon’ and Lorne Greene in the first dub of ‘Bonanza’, Henry Fonda in “Meteor”, Desmon Llewellyn as Q in three James Bond movies, Harry Andrews in “Superman: The Movie” and elsewhere, and Raymond Burr as Pope John Pope John XXIII in the TV movie Portrait: ‘A Man Whose Name Was John’. He dubbed Jackie Gleason in the first two Smokey and the Bandit movies, Broderick Crawford in “All the King's Men”, Ray Collins in “Citizen Kane”, Roscoe Lee Browne in “Logan's Run”, Ward Bond in “It's a Wonderful Life”, Donald Crisp in “How Green Was My Valley”, and an assortment of judges, clergy, doctors, and police chiefs.