Voices of the Spaghetti Western – “Kill the Wicked”

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 “Kill the Wicked”

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

Hudecek/Benny Hudson – Larry Ward (I) Silvano Tranquilli, (G) Willi Röbke

Randall/Wyatt - Robert Mark (I) Pino Colizzi, (G) Arnim André

Laglen/Lester - Max Dean (I) Renato Izzo, (G) Pierre Franckh,

Braddock - Men Fury (I) Alessandro Sperli, (G) Wolfgang Hess

Willi Röbke  (1946 -    )

Willi Röbke was born on December 27, 1946, and grew up in the Allgäu region of Germany and completed a three-year acting training course in Munich. After various theater engagements, including at the Bavarian State Theater and the Rational Theater in the early 1970s, he shifted his professional focus to dubbing in the mid-1970s. Röbke also played supporting roles in television series such as Derrick and Der Alte.

His best-known dubbing roles include the dog Scooby-Doo in the animated series of the same name, Optimus Prime in the animated series ‘Transformers’, and the petty criminal Snake and the mafia boss Fat Tony in the series ‘The Simpsons’. From the mid-1970s to the early 1980s, Röbke frequently dubbed the Italian actor Alvaro Vitali. In the German version of the video game Mafia II, he lent his voice to the character Don Frank Vinci.