Voices of the Spaghetti Western - “Bandidos”

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 “Bandidos”

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

Richard Martin - Enrico Maria Salerno (I) Enrico Maria Salerno, (S) José María Cordero, (G) Jürgen Thormann, (F) Jean Violette

Ricky Shot – Terry Jenkins (I) Adalberto Maria Merli, (S) Francisco Valladares, (G) Christian Brückner, (F) Richard Leblond

Betty Starr - María Martín (I) ?, (S) María Martín, (G) ?, (F) ?

Billy Kane - Venantino Venantini (I) Riccardo Cucciolla, (S) Benjamín Domingo, (G) Heinz Petruo, (F) Michel Barbey

Vigonza - Cris Huerta (I) ?, (S) José Martínez Blanco, (G) ?, (F) Claude Bertrand

Kramer - Marco Guglielmi (I) Silvano Tranquilli, (S) Salvador Arias, (G) Arnold Marquis, (F) Pierre Garin

Jean Violette  (1921 – 1995)

Jean Maurice Raymond Émile Violette was born on April 10, 1921, in Petit-Quevilly, Normandy France. He was a French film and TV actor specializing in dubbing. He occasionally lent his voice to such great actors as Anthony Quinn, Ernest Borgnine and Brian Keith. Violette is the father of actor and dubber Vincent Violett [1948- ], Jean Violette died in Paris on December 23, 1995, at the age of 74.