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 Tramplers”
[(I) Italian, (S) Spanish, (G) German, (F) French, (E) English]
Temple Cordeen – Joseph Cotton (E) Joseph Cotton, (I) Emilio Cigoli, (S) Vicente Bañó, (G) Curt Ackermann, (F) Georges Aminel
Lon Cordeen – Gordon Scott (E) Gordon Scott, (I) Giuseppe Rinaldi, (S) Antolín García, (G)Michael Chevalier, (F) Jean-Claude Michel
Hoby Cordeen – James Mitchum (E) James Mitchum, (I) Nando Gazzolo, (S) Luis Carrillo,(G) Lutz Moik, (F) Jacques Deschamps
Edith Wickett – Ilaria Occhini (I) Maria Pia Di Meo, (S) Mari Pe Castro, (G) Renate Küster,(F) Jacqueline Porel)
Charley Garvey – Franco Nero (I) Cesare Barbetti, (S) José Guardiola, (G) ThomasDanneberg, (F) Hubert Noël)
Fred Wickett – Claudio Gora (I) Pino Locchi, (S) Julio Goróstegui, (G) Kurt Mühlhardt, (F)Georges Hubert
Georges Aminel (1922 – 2207)
Jacques Georges Maline was born in Clichy, Hauts-de-Seine, France on October 11, 1922. Maline made his theatre debut in 1942 and chose Georges Aminel as his stage name. He worked with Gaston Baty and Jean Cocteau, for whom he created L'Aigle à deux têtes in 1946 alongside Jean Marais and Edwige Feuillère. On television, he starred in one of the very first soap operas, ‘Le Temps des copains’ by Robert Guez and Jean Canolle, in 1961. In one of the episodes, his character, musician Jess Blink, confides: "I chose this name to sound American, my real name is Aminel."
He joined the Comédie-Française in 1967, but resigned when he was appointed a member in 1972, dissatisfied with the roles entrusted to him: "I'm too white, too black, my hairs too frizzy or not enough. [...] It's quite simple, I spent my time smearing myself and taking on an accent. The facts are there: I started out in a role of a mute Polynesian and since then I haven't counted the characters of a Jewish, Brazilian or Arab camel driver that I have taken on. So, if because my father is West Indian, I have to play explosive South Americans or fanatical Indigenes all my life, I'd rather stop”.
From then on, he devoted himself almost exclusively to dubbing, which he had practiced since the mid-1950s, lending his deep voice to actors such as Yul Brynner, Lee Marvin, Orson Welles and Vittorio Gassman. However, he remained best known for having been the French voice of Darth Vader (James Earl Jones) in three episodes of the Star Wars saga: “The Empire Strikes Back” (1980), “Return of the Jedi” (1983) and “Revenge of the Sith” (2005), a film for which he came out of a seventeen-year retirement. He was also the French voice of Sylvestre the Cat in the Looney Tunes series and the Joker in the Batman television series (1966–1968).
Georges Aminel died on April 29, 2007, in the 17th
arrondissement of Paris at the age of 84.
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