Voices of the Spaghetti Western - “Joe Dexter”

 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 “Joe Dexter”

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

Joe Dexter – George Martin (S) Rafael Arcos, (G) Michael Chevalier

Mary Blue – Katia Loritz (S) Roser Cavallé, (G) Sigrid Lagemann

Doctor - John MacDouglas (S) Fernando Ulloa, (G) Harald Wolff

John Randolph – Miguel de la Riva (S) José Maria Santos, (G) Alf Marholm

Jim – Stan Bart (S) Antonio Gómez de Vicente, (G) ?

Julia Brooks - Audrey Amber (S) Consuelo Vives, (G) Heidi Treutler

Rafael Arcos  (1926 – 1991)

Rafael Arcos Mandri was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1926. His father was the actor of the same name, Rafael Arcos [1878-1941] and his mother, the dancer Teresa Mandri [1900-1983]. As a Spanish actor he participated in about forty films and nearly sixty as a voice dubber, throughout his film career that spanned from 1948 to 1979. He also participated in televised plays in TVE programs such as ‘Novela, Estudio 1’, ‘Hora once’ and ‘Teatro de siempre’. He was part of the cast of the company of the Teatro Lara and the Teatro de la Comedia, he was even the first actor in the María Guerrero Theater. He premiered in important theatrical works in Spain, such as “La gata sobre el tejado de zinc”, by Tenesse Williams, and “Olvida los tambores”, by Ana Diosdado.​ His sister Teresa Arcos Mandri was the wife of filmmaker Mariano Ozores [1926- ]

Arcos died from a cerebral embolism in Madrid, Spain on January 28, 1991.