Voices of the Spaghetti Western “Django Kills Silently”

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 “Django Kills Silently”

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

Bill – George Eastman (I) Pino Locchi, (G) Rainer Brandt

Linda – Lina Orfei (I) Rita Savagnone, (G) Ursula Heyer

Dr. Thompson – Edwin G. Ross (I) Sergio Tedesco, (G) Michael Chevalier

El Santo – Mimmo Maggio (I) Glauco Onorato, (G) Arnold Marquis

Rosson - Peter Hellman (I) Luigi Vannucchi, (G) Horst Niendorf

The Nervous One - Rick Boyd (I) Daniele Tedeschi, (G) Gerd Martienzen

Susy – Patrizia (I) Fiorella Betti, (G) Ursula Herwig

Daniele Tedeschi  (1931 -    )

Daniele Tedeschi was born in Milan, Lombardy, Italy on December 31, 1931. He is a film, television and voice actor. Born in Milan to a Florentine father and a Genoese mother but grew up in Livorno. He was very active in the radio and television prose on the RAI, from the mid-1950s. He was the protagonist of numerous episodes of ‘The Investigations of Commissioner Maigret’ in the role of Inspector Janvier. He has also worked as a voice actor, sometimes expressing himself with a Spanish accent, a language he has perfectly mastered. After interrupting this activity, he continued to act as an actor in Argentina, the country where he had started his film career.