Voices of the Spaghetti Westerns ~ “Dollar of Fire”

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 “Dollar of Fire”

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

Sheriff Sid/Kelly Brady - Miguel de la Riva (S) Jose Maria Santos

Nora Kenton - Dada Gallotti (S) Rosario Cavalle

Senator Dana Harper - Alberto Farnese (S) Joaquin Diaz

Blacky 'Spider' Kendall - Gaspar Gonzalez (S) Cesar Ojinaga

Postmaster Gennor - Gustavo Re (S) Fernando Ulloa

Joaquín Díaz  (1930 - 2013)

Joaquín Díaz was born on August 26, 1930, and made ​​his first dubbing work as a child and since the 1950s he became a vital voice for the film. While he was able to tackle any role, Joaquin always had a talent for comedy, especially prominent roles and managed to make people laugh openly both with comic characters, and with others with much more content. He has the Spanish voice of such actors as Jack Lemmon, Peter Ustinov, Telly Savalas, Danny DeVito, Max Von Sydow, Ian Holm, Eli Wallach and Bob Hoskins just to mention a few of an endless list. Díaz also worked as a dubbing director, especially in the 1970s and 1980s, during which he directed more than fifty films. He died in Madrid on September 4, 2013. He was 83.