Voices of the Spaghetti Western – “The Lost Treasure of the Aztecs”

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 “The Lost Treasure of the Aztecs”

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

Dr. Karl Sternau – Lex Barker (I) Sergio Rossi, (S) Antolín García, (G) Gert Günther Hoffmann

Count Alfonso di Rodriganda y Sevilla - Gérard Barray (I) Silvano Tranquilli, (S) Simón Ramírez, (G) Lothar Blumhagen

Captain Lazoro Verdoja – Rik Battaglia (I) Riccardo Cucciolla (S) Vicente Bañó, (G) Rainer Brandt

Josefa - Michèle Girardon (I) Benita Martini, (S) Celia Honrubia, (G) Claudia Brodzinska

Rosita Arbellez - Alessandra Panaro (I) ?, (S) Mari Pe Castro, (G) Marianne Lutz

Karja - Theresa Lorca (I) Mirella Pace, (S) Maria Del Puy, (G) Claudia Brodzinska

Don Pedro Arbellez – Hans Nielsen (I) ?, (S) Estanis González, (G) Hans Nielsen

Claudia Brodzinska  (1937 - )

Claudia Brodzinska was born on July 4, 1937, in Berlin, Germany. She is a German actress, radio play and voice actress.

She’s a graduate of the Max Reinhard School and was discovered by Hilde Körber and played important theatre roles for several years, especially with Boleslaw Barlog. In front of the camera, she was only seen in a few television plays. For about a decade she was a regular in Berlin dubbing, where she usually voiced central roles. With her husband, the musician Siegfried Behrend, she toured halfway around the world and concentrated on working with him. After the death of her husband, guitarist Siegfried Behrend, in 1990, she moved to Wall in Bavaria, Germany and has been supporting local theatre performances.