Tuesday, December 31, 2024

Voices of the Spaghetti Western – “Christmas Kid”

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 “Buckaroo: The Christmas Kid”

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

Joe Novak – Jeffrey Hunter (E) Jeffrey Hunter, (S) Jesús Nieto 

Mike Culligan – Louis Hayward (E) Louis Hayward, (S) Francisco Sánchez

Mayor Louis Carillo – Gustavo Rojo (E) ?, (S) Carlos Revilla

Marie Lefleur – Perla Cristal (E) ?, (S) Ana María Saizar

Judge George Perkins – Luis Prendes (E) ?, (S) Ángel María Baltanás

Jud Walters – Fernando Hilbeck (E) ?, (S) Fernando Hilbeck









Ana María Saizar (1924 - 2013)

Ana María Saizar was a Spanish voice dubber born in San Sebastián, Provincia de Guipuzcoa, País Vasco, Spain born on March 25, 1924. She began her professional career as a dubbing actress in 1948 at the Sevilla Film Studios. In the 1950s, in Madrid, she began to work in the larger dubbing studios in the country and specifically, from 1956, in Oro Films, where she remained until the mid-1980s. She dubbed into Spanish the voice of some of the most important Hollywood film stars of the time, such as Sofia Loren, Anne Baxter, Grace Kelly and Carole Lombard.

For television, she highlighted her work as Miss Rottenmeier in the cartoon series ‘Heidi’ (1975). Although she also voiced Miss Cassandra in ‘Maya the Bee’, Flower in ‘Once Upon a Time... the man’, Barbara Bain (Helen Russell) in ‘Space 1999’, Doris Roberts (Mildred Krebbs) in ‘Remington Steele’ and Peg Phillips (Ruth Miller) in ‘Doctor in Alaska’.

She retired in the late 1990 and died in Madrid, Spain on December 19, 2023, she was 89.


1 comment:

  1. Grandes actores de doblaje en el reino de españa. Rafael Luis Calvo = John Wayne

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