Who Are Those Guys? ~ Larry Dolgin

 

Lawrence Maurice Dolgin was born in Toledo, Ohio on December 7, 1931. His film debut appears to have been a small part in 1957’s “Hot Rod Rumble”, a low-budget teen drama about drag racing that was shot at Hollywood Studios in two weeks. Larry then embarked on a music career, and during the late 1950s and early 1960s, he was second tenor in The Cables, a successful vocal and instrumental group based in San Francisco, California. In 1961, they released the songs "Choo-Choo" and "Midnight Roses" as a two-sided single on the RCA Victor label and toured successfully for several years.

Larry eventually left The Cables to begin a solo career, and in 1964, he served as emcee for an all-girl revue named Moulin Rouge. Somehow, he ended up in Rome - presumably in search of acting work. The earliest Italian films he's known to have appeared in are both from 1968: the western “Black Jack” and the crime movie “Quella carogna dell'ispettore Sterling”. In both movies he had fairly large, credited roles, but he didn't land any further significant on-screen roles after that. Instead, he seems to have shifted all of his efforts to working as a dubber on the English-language versions of Italian films - possibly because he found more steady work in that area, with native English speakers being in constant demand for dubbing jobs. As a dubber, Larry lent his voice to countless Italian films dubbed in Rome, but he also worked steadily as a dubbing actor and director for film sales company Atlas International Film, which was based in Munich, Germany.

In the 1980s, Larry acting career picked up he appeared in more on-screen roles, primarily small roles in American productions shot in Rome, but he also had reasonably large roles in some Italian movies such as “Ciao nemico and Caligola” and “La storia mai raccontata” (both 1982), and had  a particularly substantial roles in TV mini-series such as ‘L'ombra nera del Vesuvio’ (1986) and ‘Il principe del deserto’ (1991). Other roles, however, were typically small, and several were uncredited, too.

Larry came into a nice inheritance in the 1990s and retired to a villa in Sardinia with his girlfriend, an English dancer/choreographer named Daphne. Indeed, Larry's final known film appearance was in “Ancient Warriors”, an American action movie shot on location in Sardinia in 2001.

Larry and Daphne were married and had three children.

Larry Dolgin died in Ittiri, Sassari, Sardinia, Italy. He was 84 years old.

Dolgin appeared in two Spaghetti westerns: “Black Jack” in 1968 As Reb the outlaw who kissed Robert Woods and as a narrator in “Stay Away from Trinity When He Comes to Eldorado” in 1972.

DOLGIN, Larry (aka Lerry Dolchin, Larry Dolgen, Larry Maurice Dolgin) (Lawrence Maurice Dolgin) [12/7/1931, Toledo, Ohio, U.S.A. – 4/5/2016, Ittiri, Sassari, Sardinia, Italy] – model, director, assistant director, writer, film editor, film, TV, voice actor, dancer, singer, married to Daphne Dolgin father of three children, member of ‘The Cables’ singing group.

Black Jack – 1968 (Reb)

A Cry of Death! – 1971 [English voice of Giuseppe Cardillo]

Stay Away from Trinity When He Comes to Eldorado – 1972 [narrator]

A Bounty Killer in Trinity - 1972 [English voice of Antonio Cantafora]

Red Coats – 1975 [English voice of Guido Mannari]

Thunder Warrior – 1983 [English voice of Raimund Harmstorf]

Scalps – 1987 [English voice of Vassili Karis]