Voices of the Spaghetti Westerns - “Rebels in Canada”

 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 “Rebels in Canada”

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

Victor DeFrois - George Martin (I) Renzo Palmer, (S) Claudio Rodríguez, (F) Roger Rudel

Swa/Muia, - Pamela Tudor (I) Gabriella Genta, (S) Josefina de Luna, (F) ?

Capitan Robert Doyle – Mirko Ellis (I) Giancarlo Maestri, (S) Francisco Arenzana, (F) ?

Nela – Diana Lorys (I) ?, (S) Ana Maria Saizar, (F) ?

Leo Limoux – Franco Fantasia (I) Aldo Giuffrè (S) Benjamín Domingo, (F) ?

Ana Maria Saizar  (1924 – 2013)

Ana Maria Saizar was a film actress, costume designer and an assistant camera operator. She was born in San Sebastián, Pais Vasco, Spain in 1924. She began her professional career as a dubbing actress in 1948 at Sevilla Film Studios. In the 1950s, in Madrid, she began to work in the country's major dubbing studios and specifically, from 1956, at Oro Films, where she remained until the mid-1980s. She dubbed into Spanish the voices of some of the most important Hollywood film stars of the time, such as Sofia Loren, Anne Baxter, Grace Kelly and Carole Lombard.

For television, she starred as Miss Rottenmeier in the animated series ‘Heidi’ (1975). Although she also voiced Miss Cassandra in ‘Maya the Bee’, Flor in ‘Once Upon a Time... the Man’, Barbara Bain (Hellen Russell) in ‘Space 1999’, Doris Roberts (Mildred Krebbs) in ‘Remington Steele’ and Peg Phillips (Ruth Miller) in ‘Doctor in Alaska’.

She retired in the late 1990s and died in Madrid on December 19, 2013, at the age of 89.