Spaghetti Western voices - “Custer of the West”

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 “Custer of the West”

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

General George Armstrong Custer – Robert Shaw (S) Arsenio Corsellas, (G) Heinz Petruo, (F) Jacques Dacqmine

Elisabeth Custer – Mary Ure (S) Elsa Fábregas, (G) Rosemarie Fendel, (F) Martine Sarcey

Captain Benteen – Jeffrey Hunter (S) Manuel Caño, (G) Klaus Kindler, (F) ?

General Philip Sheridan – Lawrence Tierney (S) Rafel Luis Calvo, (G) Erik Jelde, (F) André Valmy

Major Marcus Redon – Ty Hardin (S) José Luis Sansalvador, (G) Holger Hagen, (F) Denis Savignat

Chief Dull Knife – Kieron Moore (S) Dionisio Macías, (G) ?, (F) ?

Jacques Dacqmine  (1924 – 2010)

Jacques Dacqmine, was born on November 30, 1924 in La Madeleine, Nord, France. Dacqmine was a stage, film and television actor, who also dubbed several actors in French, including James Mason in “The Hunt for Death” (1959) and George Sanders in “Village of the Damned” (1960) and Cameron Mitchell in Mario Bava’s “Blood and Black Lace”.

Among his four marriages was one with Odile Versois [1930-1980], then a young actress, on March 19, 1951. He divorced a few months later.

Jacques Dacqmine died on March 28, 2010, in Caen, Calvados, France. He was 85.