Voices of the Spaghetti Western “Count Bobby, the Terror of the Wild West”

 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 “Count Bobby, the Terror of the Wild West”

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

Count Bobby von Pichulsky – Peter Alexander (G) Peter Alexander

Milli Miller - Olga Schoberova (G) Ursula Herwig

Baron Mucki von Kalk – Gunther Philipp (G) Gunghter Philipp

Jezabel - Hanne Wieder (G) Hanne Wieder

Doc Ted W. Harper – Vladimir Medar (G) Erik Jelde

Sheriff Martin Miller – Dragomir Felba (G) Klaus W. Krause

Ursula Herwig  (1935 – 1977)

Ursula Herwig was a German film, TV and voice actress born in Berlin, Germany on July 12, 1935. Herwig first appeared as an actress in 1957 with the comedy “Der kühne Schwimmer”. Later she played in the cabaret “The Porcupines”. On television, she seen in space patrol and “Graf Yoster gibt sich die Here”.

Herwig was very busy as a dubbing actress, lending her voice to Jane Fonda in “Barbarella”, Joyce Jameson in “Ruhe Sanft GmbH”, Billie Whitelaw in “Frenzy:, Cheryl Miller in “Daktari”, Rosemary Nicols in “Department S” and as Cleopatra in “Asterix and Cleopatra”. She was also the German voice of Susan Clark and Marie Dubois on several occasions. In the 1960s and 1970s, she was one of the busiest voice actresses. She also worked as a dubbing writer and dialogue director, for example for the German version of “American Graffiti” (1973).

Ursula Herwig was married to her colleague Thomas Braut [1930-1979], with whom she had a daughter. The couple later separated. She was close friends with the Berlin comedy writer Curth Flatow. On December 5, 1977, Herwig was found dead at the age of 42 in West Berlin's Landwehr Canal – the circumstances of her death could never be clarified exactly.