Voices of the Spaghetti Western – “Poker With Pistols”

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 “Poker With Pistols”

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

Ponson – George Hilton (I) Stefano Satta Flores, (G) Herbert Stass, (F) Gabriel Cattand

Lucas – George Eastman (I) Pino Colizzi, (G) Christian Brückner, (F) Marc de Georgi

Lola - Annabella Incontrera (I) Benita Martini, (G) ?, (F) ?

Master - Dick Palmer (I) Silvano Tranquilli, (G) Heinz Petruo, (F) Georges Aminel

Lazar - José Torres (I) Nino Dal Fabbro, (G) Gerd Martienzen, (F) William Sabatier

Stefano Satta Flores  (1937 – 1985)

Stefano Satta Flores was born in Naples, Italy on January 14, 1937. He was an Italian actor, voice actor and playwright.

In addition to his film successes (“The Girl with the Gun”, 1968; “We Loved Each Other So Much”, 1974; “The Iron Prefect”, 1977) Stefano Satta Flores was also active in theater and television, for which he played the screenplay Luisa Sanfelice in 1966.

He enrolled in the Faculty of Law in Naples. He dropped out of university to attend the Experimental Center of Cinematography in Rome, where he graduated in acting in 1962 appearing in a documentary by Marco Bellocchio, who was a classmate. He began acting in amateur shows and, having obtained a contract at the Piccolo Teatro in Milan, between 1966 and 1968. After leaving the Piccolo Teatro, he joined the theatrical cooperative I compagni di scena with Cristiano Censi and Isabella Del Bianco; The group, politically engaged, carried out research work and followed the policy of decentralization, staging shows in spaces other than the traditional ones in order to intercept a new audience.

Parallel to cinema, theater and television he also had an intense radio activity, in 1973 he participated in the broadcast “Il girasole”, in 1974 on the National Program Radiorai he was the host of “Ma guarda che tipo” (But Look What Kind) typical and atypical types of the time. The radio show was with the participation of big names in show buisness who interacted with the presenter, in March 1975.

Satta Flores died in Rome on October 22, 1985, at the age of 48, due to a severe form of leukemia. He left two daughters: Francesca an actress, director, playwright and screenwriter, by his wife, and Margherita, a voice actress, by actress and voice actress Teresa Ricci.