Thursday, January 30, 2025

Spaghetti Western Voices ~ “Death at Owell Rock”

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 “Death at Owell Rock”

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

Harry Boyd/Jeffries - Mark Damon (I) Pino Locchi, (S) Jordi Brau, (G) Harald Juhnke

Lawrence White - Stephen Forsyth (I) Cesare Barbetti, (S) Salvador Vives, (G) Reinhard Glemnitz

Jane White – Luciana Gilli (I) Rita Savagnone (S) Mercedes Montalà, (G)           ?

Lisabeth - Pamela Tudor (I) Maria Pia Di Meo, (S) Concha García Valero, (G) Helga Trümper

Judge Warren – Luciano Pigozzi (I) Ennio Balbo, (S) Eduardo Muntada, (G) Leo Bardischewski

Doc Lester - Giovanni Pazzafini (I) Arturo Dominici, (S) Camillo García, (G) Wolfgang Hess

Pablo/Pedro Rodriguez - Pedro Sanchez (I) Bruno Persa, (S) Pepe Mediavilla, (G) Bruno W. Pantel









Jordi Brau  (1958 -

Jordi Brau Riera was born in Barcelona, Spain on April 18, 1958, so obviously his dubbing of Mark Damon was for a video or DVD release not the original film which was released in 1967. He was rained at l'Institut del Teatre de Barcelona. He initially worked mainly in film, television and theater.His first experiences with dubbing films took place in the 1980s. First when he voiced himself in “El vicari d'Olot” and then when he did background voices for the film “Tokyo Story.” Brau also dubbed in French (Vicky Cristina Barcelona) and did the English voice-over for Delta Airlines. He was awarded the prize of the APEI (Associació Professional Espanyola d'Informadors de Premsa, Ràdio i Televisió) for his achievements. In 2013, he, Luis Posada and Óscar Barberán founded their own studio, Polford. Since then, he has also trained new voice actors at the Polford studios. His son David is also a voice actor.


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