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 Ugly Ones”
[(I) Italian, (S) Spanish, (G) German, (F) French, (E) English]
Luke Chilson – Richard Wyler (I) Giuseppe Rinaldi, S) Felix Acaso, (G) Rolf Schult, (F) Jean-Claude Michel
José Gómez – Tomas Milian (I) Massimo Turci, (S) Juan Logar, (G) Thomas Danneberg, (F) Pierre Trabaud
Eden - Halina Zalewska (I) Fiorella Betti, (S) Mercedes Mireya, (G) Grit Böttcher, (F) ?
Novak - Enzo Fiermonte (I) Massimo Foschi, (S) Pedro Sempson, (G) Paul Esser, (F) ?
Miguel – Mario Brega (I) Carlo Romano, (S) Joaquin Vidriales, (G) Reinhard Kolldehoff, (F) ?
Marty Hefner – Manuel Zarzo (I) Cesare Barbetti (S)
Jesus Nieto, (G) Christian Brückner, (F) Pierre Fromont
Rolf Schult (1927 – 2013)
Rolf Schult was born on April 16, 1927, in Berlin, Germany. Schult was an actor and one of the biggest and busiest of the German dubbing voices. Schult completed his training at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media. After his theatre debut there, engagements took him to Bochum, Cologne and the Schiller Theatre in Berlin. In 1970, Schult was appointed Berlin State Actor. In addition to his stage work, there were only a few appearances in film and television.
Schult became known for his distinctive voice. Beginning in 1965 he was active in dubbing and the German standard voice of Robert Redford, Anthony Hopkins, Donald Sutherland and Patrick Stewart; He dubbed the latter primarily as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in ‘Star Trek: The Next Century’, but was later replaced by Ernst Meincke from the middle of the fourth season. Schult continued to voice Stewart as Picard in the Star Trek movies. In addition, he also dubbed Marlon Brando, Yul Brynner, Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Peter Sellers. He is also best known as the narrator in “Dance of the Vampires”; in the original version, Ferdy Mayne voices the narrator and plays the role of Count Krolock. In addition, he has also worked as a narrator for audio books, commercials, radio plays and television reports. He was also featured in the music project E Nomine.
After Schult dubbed the trailer for “Lions for Lambs” in 2007, an American supervisor found the voice too deep for Redford, so he was dubbed by Kaspar Eichel. Schult can still be heard in the first trailer as a dubbing voice for Redford.
His son Christian [1954- ], whose voice is very similar
to his father's, is also active as a speaker. Schult's cousin was actor and
voice actor Peer Augustinski [1940-2014]. Schult last lived in Horhausen in the
Westerwald, where he died on March 13, 2013, at the age of 85.
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