Voices of the Spaghetti Western – “Rampage at Apache Wells”

 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 “Rampage at Apache Wells”

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

Old Surehand – Stewart Granger (G) Helmo Kindermann, (F) Michel Gudin, (S) Juan Carlos Gustems

Winnetou – Pierre Brice (G) Thomas Edkelmann, (F) Marc Cassot, (S) Albert Roig

The Oil Prince – Harald Leipnitz (G) Harald Leipnitz, (F) Henry Djanik, (S) Paco Gázquez

Lizzy – Macha Meril (G) Marion Hartmann, (F) ?, (S) ?

Richard Forsythe - Mario Girotti (G) Christian Wolff, (F) Claude Bertrand, (S) Xavier Fernández

Bill Campbell – Walter Barnes (G) Arnold Marquis, (F) Jean Berton, (S) Jordi Royo

Old Wabble - Paddy Fox (G) Hugo Schrader, (F) ?, (S) ?

Michel Gudin  (1916 – 1994)

Michel Gudin was born in Paris, France on April 17, 1916. He was a French theater, film and TV actor and singer. Gudin specialized in dubbing, he was notably the French voice of Dean Martin in most of his films with Jerry Lewis and that of Chief Inspector Craddock in the Miss Marple film series (1961-1964), as well as that of General Alcazar in the 1991 series of “The Adventures of Tintin”. Gudin died in Le Chesnay, France on July 31, 1994.