Voices of the Spaghetti Western – “The Ruthless Colt of the Gringo”

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 “Ruthless Colt of the Gringo”

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

Sol Lester/Clark Harrison – Luigi Giuliano (I) Renato Izzo, (S) Rafael Navarro

Lois Duval – Marta Padovan (I) Mirella Pace, (S) María Luisa Solá

Cora Grant – Germana Monteverdi (I) Mirella Pace, (S) ?

Halloway - César Ojinaga (I) ?, (S) César Ojinaga

Bliss – Carlos Otero (I) Nino Dal Fabbro, (S) Dionisio Macías

Coleman – Indio Gaspar González (I) Alessandro Sperli, (S) ?

Judge Wilker – Gustavo Re (I) ?, (S) José Maria Santos