Voices of the Spaghetti Western - “Ringo and His Golden Pistol”

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 “Ringo and His Golden Pistol”

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

Johnny Oro/Johnny Ringo – Mark Damon (I) Adalberto Maria Merli, (S) Rogelio Hernández, (G) Eckart Dux, (F) Bernard Woringer

Sheriff Bill Norton – Ettore Manni (I) Sergio Rossi. (S) Ernesto Aura, (G) Horst Niendorf, (F) William Sabatier)

Margie – Valeria Fabrizi (I) Mirella Pace, (S) María Luisa Solá, (G) Ilse Kiewiet, (F) ?

Juanito Perez - Franco Derosa (I) Franco De Rosa, (S) Manuel Caño, (G) Joachim Pukaß, (F) Marcel Lestan

Jane Norton - Giulia Rubini (I) Luisella Visconti, (S) Rosario Cavallé, (G) ?, (F) Nelly Benedetti)

Stan Norton – Loris Loddi (I) Loris Loddi, (S) ? , (G) ?, (F)

Bernard Woringer  (1931 – 2014)

Bernard Jean-Pierre Woringer was born in Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France on October 4, 1931. A resident of the Comédie-Française from 1958 to 1960, he played Porthos in the 1961 version of “The Three Musketeers” directed by Bernard Borderie, alongside Gérard Barray (D'Artagnan), Georges Descrières (Athos) and Jacques Toja (Aramis), then he was friends with Jeoffrey de Peyrac (Robert Hossein) in “Angélique, marquise des anges”, also directed by B. Borderie. Also in the 1960s, he rubbed shoulders with Maurice Chevalier in Hollywood in a Disney production: “Monkeys, Go Home!”.

On television, he was seen regularly in ‘Au théâtre ce soir’ and in several soap operas, including ‘Anne jour après jour’. His voice could also be heard there, especially on ‘Dallas’: he was the "2nd voice" of Cliff Barnes (after Pierre Arditi).

Woringer died in Puteaux, Ile-de-France, France on May 22, 2014, at the age of 82 from cancer.