Voices of the Spaghetti Western ~ “Massacre at Fort Grant”

 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 “Massacre at Fort Grant”

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

Paul Driscoll – Germán Cobos (S) Ángel María Baltanás, (G) Herbert Stass

Joffren – Mariano Vidal Molina (S) Simón Ramírez, (G) Addi Furler

James – Aldo Sambrell (S) José María Prada, (G) ?

Judge de Paz – Luis Villar (S) Rafael Calvo Revilla, (G) ?

Arthur – Cris Huerta (S) Cris Huerta, (G) ?

John - Frank Braña (S) Francisco Braña (G) ?

Addi Furler  (1933 – 2000)

Addi Furler was born in Berlin, Germany on March 21, 1933. He joined Westdeutscher Rundfunk in 1959 as a news and program spokesman. From 1961, together with Günter Siefarth and Ernst Huberty, he was one of the first presenters of the ARD television show Sportschau, in whose 5000th edition he appeared for the last time in 1995. From 1962 to 1965 he was chief reporter at Deutsche Welle. The trotter breeder and with 39 victories successful amateur trotting driver Furler was a proven equestrian sports expert and inventor of the award Galloper of the Year. In addition, Furler was a speaker in numerous television documentaries, as a dubbing actor he was involved in about a hundred feature films.

On 12 June 1994 he received the Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Addi Furler suffered from severe kidney disease since 1968 and had to be connected to an artificial kidney three times a week until a donor kidney was found and successfully transplanted in March 1982. He died in Cologne, German on August 30, 2000, after intervertebral disc surgery of multiple organ failure. He was 67 years old.