Voices of the Spaghetti Western ~ “Wanted Johnny Texas”

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 “Wanted Johnny Texas”

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

Johnny Texas – Willi Colombini (I) Giuseppe Rinaldi, (S) Antonio Esquivias, (G) Ivar Combrinck

Lucia Cansino – Monika Bruger (I) Vittoria Febbi, (S) Marisa Marco, (G) Monika Bruger

O’Connor – Howard Ross (I) Massimo Foschi, (S) Fernando De Luis, (G) Willi Röbke

Sam Moore – Dante Maggio (I) Carlo Romano, (S) Paco Hernández, (G) ?

Colonel Steward – Fernando Sancho (I) Arturo Dominici, (S) Estanis González, (G) Norbert Gastell

Sergeant Mills - Isarco Ravaioli (I) Romano Malaspina, (S) Miguel Zúñiga, (G) ?

Antonio Esquivias  (1964 -    )

Antonio Doncel Esquivias Rodríguez, simply known as Antonio Esquivias was born on January 4, 1964. He is a Spanish voice actor who provided additional voices in the European Spanish dub of “The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: A VeggieTales Movie”.

He also provided dubbing for TV Shows and Movies such as ‘The Simpsons’, ‘Sesame Street’, ‘Chicken Little’, “Frozen”, “Frozen 2”, ‘Family Guy’, “Tom and Jerry: The Movie” and “Pokemon”.

Obviously, his dubbing of Willi Colombini for “Wanted Johnny Texas” must have been for a video or DVD release as he would have been only three years old when the move was released.