Voices of the Spaghetti Westerns “Ringo’s Big Night”

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’s Big Night”

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

Jack Balman – William Berger (I) Sergio Graziani, (S) José Martinez Blanco

Annette – Adriana Ambesi (I) Vittoria Febbi, (S) ?

Joseph Finley – Eduardo Fajardo (I) Emilio Cigoli, (S) Eduardo Fajardo

Black Norton - Paco Morán (I) Sergio Tedesco, (S) Paco Morán

Jim Bailey – George Rigaud (I) Bruno Persa, (S) Pedro Sempson

Sheriff Sam - José Bódalo (I) Gualtiero De Angelis, (S) Salvador Arias

Gualtiero De Angelis  (1899 – 1980)

Gualtiero De Angelis November 22, 1899. in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was the father of actor Manlio De Angelis [1935-2017] and the grandfather of actor Vittorio De Angelis [1962-2015] and producer, actress Eleonora De Angelis [1967- ]. Gualtiero was one of the most famous "voices" of Italian cinema. He dubbed among others, such actors as: James Stewart, Errol Flynn, Dean Martin, Kirk DouglasWhit Bissell, Cary Grant, Henry Fonda, John Wayne, and William Holden. The sound of Mr. De Angelis voice was unique, warm and very distinguishable. De Angelis died on June 6, 1980, in Rome. He was 80.