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 “The Hellbenders”
[(I) Italian, (S) Spanish, (G) German, (F) French, (E) English]
Colonel Jonas – Joseph Cotton (I) Emilio Cigoli, (S) Claudio Rodríguez, (G) Arnold Marquis
Claire – Norman Bengall (I) Gabriella Genta, (S) Josefina De Luna, (G) Beate Hasenau
Ben - Julián Mateos (I) Giancarlo Giannini, (S) Julián Mateos, (G) Thomas Danneberg
Jeff – Gino Pernice (I) Gigi Proietti, (S) Fernando Mateo, (G) Horst Naumann
Nat - Ángel Aranda (I) Giancarlo Maestri, (S) Juan Logar, (G) Claus Jurichs
Kitty - María Martín (I) Adriana de Roberto, (S) Mercedes Mireya, (G) Ursula Herwig
Beggar – Al Mullock (I) Roberto Bertea (S) Eduardo
Calvo (G) Gerd Martienzen
Giancarlo Giannini
Giancarlo Giannini was born in La Spezia, Liguria, Italy on 1August 1, 1942. He spent his childhood in the village of Pitelli (La Spezia) and in 1952 he moved with his family to Naples, where he graduated as an electronics expert at the "Alessandro Volta" technical institute. After graduating from high school, he moved to Rome, where he studied acting at the National Academy of Dramatic Art. In Rome he made his debut in the theater at the age of 18 with “In memoria di una signora amica” (In Memory of a Lady Friend) by Giuseppe Patroni Griffi, alongside Lilla Brignone.
Later the director Beppe Menegatti entrusted him with the part of the elf Puck in William Shakespeare's “A Midsummer Night's Dream”. It was the theater that gave him his first successes, especially thanks to Franco Zeffirelli's “Romeo and Juliet”, which even thrilled the refined audience of the Old Vic in London, and with “La lupa”, again under the direction of Zeffirelli, alongside Anna Magnani.
In his long career he played a wide range of characters: from the proletarian worker to the mafia boss, from the protagonist of Italian comedies to that of films with a more dramatic imprint, also using with ease numerous dialects, both southern and northern. Especially at the beginning of his career, he was also very active on television, as a brilliant actor, singer and dancer.
During his career he won the Prix d'interprétation masculine at the Cannes Film Festival in 1973 for Film “d'amore e d'anarchia” and in 1977 the Oscar nomination for best actor for his performance in “Pasqualino Settebellezze”, both films directed by Lina Wertmüller. He also won six David di Donatello, six Silver Ribbons and five Golden Globes. He is also known for playing René Mathis in the two James Bond films “Casino Royale” and “Quantum of Solace”.
Giannini, also one of the founders of C.V.D. in 1970, and has dubbed numerous famous foreign actors, including Al Pacino, Jack Nicholson, Michael Douglas, Gérard Depardieu, Dustin Hoffman, Ian McKellen and Ryan O'Neil. Also famous is his interpretation, in 2002, in the fiction Papa Giovanni - Ioannes XXIII by Giorgio Capitani, in which he lends his voice to Ed Asner, who plays the pontiff in old age.
On March 6, 2023, he received a star on the Hollywood
Walk of Fame in Los Angeles.
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