Spaghetti Western Voices – “Rattler Kid”

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 “Rattler Kid”

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

Anthony Garnett – Richard Wyler (S) José Guardiola, (G) Thomas Braut

Alex Turner - Jesús Puente (S) Jesús Puente, (G) Holger Hagen

Sheriff Bill Manners – Brad Harris (S) Francisco Valladares, (G) Eckart Dux

Inés – Aurora de Alba (S) Lola Cervantes, (G) ?

Riff - Guillermo Spoletini (S) José María Cordero, (G) Wolfgang Hess

Vic - Luis Induni (S) Jose Maria Caffarel, (G) Detlev Witte,

Helen – Femi Benussi (S) María Luisa Rubio, (G) Helga Trümper

 

Detlev Witte  (1926 – 2004)

Detlev Witte was born in Germany in 1926. He completed professional acting training and appeared in several DEFA feature film productions and in series on GDR television from 1964 to 1988. From 1967. Detlev was active as a radio play director and was a member of the cabaret group of the Konzert- und Gastspieldirektion in East Berlin.

Witte was also extensively active as a dubbing actor In 2001 he received the German Dubbing Award for outstanding male dubbing as the voice of Jason Robards in “Magnolia”.

Witte, who lived in Berlin and died there in 2004 at the age of 78.