Voices of the Spaghetti Western ~ “Sheriff was a Lady”

 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 “Sheriff was a Lady”

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

Black Bill/John Burns/Freddy – Freddy Quinn (G) Freddy Quinn

Steve Perkins - Rik Battaglia (G) Rainer Brandt

Anita - Beba Lončar (G) Ursula Heyer

Sheriff Mickey Stanton - Carlo Croccolo (G) Arnold Marquis

Olivia - Mamie van Doren (G) Margot Leonard

Old Joe - Otto Waldis (G) Walter Bluhm

Murdock - Vladimir Medar (G) Jochen Brockmann

Ursula Heyer (1940 -    )

Ursula Heyer was born in Berlin, Germany on February 15, 1940. She trained as an actor and had her first significant cinema role at the age of 18 in “The Man Who Couldn't Say No” alongside Heinz Rühmann. Since the early 1960s, she has appeared in numerous TV productions, such as ‘Rinaldo Rinaldini’, ‘Mein Gott’, ‘Willi!’, ‘Wolffs Revier’, ‘Tatort’ and the series ‘Die Nervensäge’. She gained greater fame as the voice actress of Joan Collins in the American television series ‘Dynasty’. She also appeared in feature films such as “Twelve Girls and a Man”, “Comrade Munchausen” and “Beautiful Gigolo, Poor Gigolo”. In 2008 she appeared as "Annegret Wittkamp" in the soap opera ‘Verbotene Liebe’. Ursula Heyer lives in Berlin, where she works mainly as a theatre actress. She is married to the actor, voice dubber Rainer Brandt [1936-    ], their daughter is the actress Judith Brandt [1965].