Voices of the Spaghetti Western “Shoot to Kill”

 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 “Shoot to Kill”

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

Jim James – Edmund Purdom (S) Paco Valladares

Lance Thompson – Frank Latimore (S) Félix Acaso

Pancho – Fernando Sancho (S) Luis María Lasala

Mary Thompson - María Silva (S) Ángela González

Thompson – Luis Induni (S) Salvador Arias

Kathrin – Laura Granados (S) María Romero

Colonel – Tomás Blanco (S) Benjamín Domingo

Luis María Lasala  (19?? – 1992)

Little information can be found on the voice actor Luis María Lasala. He was a film and television actor and a production manager as well as a voice actor and Spanish dubber. He was sometimes credited as Luis Mª La Sala. Luis died in Spain in October of 1992. Another overlooked and forgotten contributor to Spanish cinema.