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 Brute and the Beast”
[(I) Italian, (S) Spanish, (G) German, (F) French, (E) English]
Tom Corbett – Franco Nero (I) Nando Gazzolo, (S) Luis Porcar, (G) Gert Günther Hoffmann, (F) Michel Barbey
Jeff ‘Slim’ Corbett – Geroge Hilton (I) Sergio Grazziani, (S) Fernando Mateo, (G) Arnold Marquis, (F) Serge Sauvion
Jason ‘Junior’ Scott – Nino Castelnuovo (I) Oreste Lionello, (S) Juan Antonio Castro, (G) Joachim Ansorge, (F) Claude Mercutio
Mr. Scott – Giuseppe Addobbati (I) Mario Felliciani, (S) José María Cordero, (G) Curt Ackermann, (F) Gérard Ferrat
Murray – Tom Felleghy (I) Renato Turi, (S) Benjamín
Domingo, (G) Toni Herbert, (F) Claude Mercutio)
Michel Barbey (1927 - )
Michel Barbey was born André Robert Eugène Barbey on April 23, 1927 in Drucourt, Eure, France. During a very busy career, Michel Barbey rubbed shoulders with the greatest: Jean Gabin, Michel Simon, Gérard Philipe, Jean Vilar, Jean-Louis Barrault, etc.
In 1961, he appeared as a star in the photo-novel directed by Hubert Serra "The Marquis of the Golden Islands"
His last film role dates back to 2002 when he played the "failed writer" in Mama Aloko directed by Jean Odoutan.
He also appeared in several television series: he was notably the "villain" Dajou in ‘Janique Aimée’ (1963), Judge Daniel Legrand in ‘Cas de divorce’ (1991). He also filmed episodes of the series ‘Van Loc: un grand flic de Marseille’ (1993) and ‘Jamais deux sans toi... T’ (1996).
Barbey is also a theatre actor: he played for a long time at the Comédie-Française before performing many plays at the Théâtre privé.
His dubbing career included films and animated series: he
notably voiced Mammoth in the Nicky Larson series and was one of the voices of
the Grand Pope in “The Knights of the Zodiac”. He’s voiced such Spaghetti
western actors as Gianni Garko, Bud Spencer, Mickey Hargitay, Terence Hill, Rik
Battaglia and Luigi Vannucchi.
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