Voices of the Spaghetti western~ “Dynamite Joe”

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 “Dynamite Joe”

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

‘Dynamite Joe’ Ford – Rik Van Nutter (I) Renato Izzo, (S) Francisco Valladares, (G) Thomas Braut

Betty - Halina Zalewska (I) Benita Martini, (S) Lola Cervantes, (G) Helga Trümper

Brunetta/Eva – Merce Castro (I) Mirella Pace, (S) Maite Santamarina, (G) ?

Jury Nelson – Renato Baldini (I) Riccardo Cucciolla, (S) José Martínez Blanco, (G) Christian Marschall

Cigno/Swan - Bernabé Barri (I) Roberto Bertea, (S) Salvador Arias, (G) Herbert Weicker

El Sol – Ricardo Palacios (I) Mario Bardella, (S) Luis María Lasala, (G) Hartmut Neugebauer

Helga Trümper  (1935 - )

Helga Trümper  was born in Grmany on March 6, 1936 After lending her voice to Angelica Ott, the wife of producer Karl Spiehs, in several productions of Lisa Film (such as for “Wenn du bei mir bist”), she has been the German voice of numerous international actresses since the 1970s: Catherine Deneuve, Faye Dunaway, Stéphane Audran, Lois Maxwell, Jacqueline Bisset, Annie Girardot, Gena Rowlands, Nicole Garcia, Raquel Welch, Ursula Andress, Julie Christie, Janet Munro and "Miss Moneypenny" Lois Maxwell in "To Live and Let Die", "Octopussy" and "A View to a Kill".

She is best known to television audiences as Anne Schedeen's voice (Kate Tanner) in ‘Alf’. She was also heard in commercials for "Tina", "Vizir", "Dato", "Ritter Sport" and "Apollinaris Apfelschorle".

As an actress, she appeared in the television film ‘Daphnis and Chloe’ (1957) and in the TV series ‘Ein Haus für uns’ (1977), ‘Goldene Zeiten – Bittere Zeiten’ (1981), ‘Polizeiinspektion 1’ (1982) as well as in the ZDF court show ‘Wie würde Sie entscheiden?’ (1982/1983).

In the 1980s, she also directed several radio plays, including the ‘Trixie Belden’ series of the Schneider Ton label and the ‘Knax’ radio plays of the Sparkasse. She can also be heard as a narrator in some productions.

German dubbing voice of German voice of "Miss Moneypenny" Lois Maxwell in "To Live and Let Die", "Octopussy" and "A View to a Kill".