Voices of the Spaghetti Westerns– “Taste of Vengeance”

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 “Taste of Vengeance”

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

Bryan Clarke – Gianni Garko (I) Sergio Graziani, (S) Jesus Nieto, (G) Klaus Kindler

Daniel – Sean Todd (I) Cesare Barbetti, (S) Angel Maria Baltanas, (G) Wolfgang Hess

Julie – Elisa Montes (I) Vittoria Febbi, (S) Anna Maria Saizar, (G) ?

Robert – Jerry Wilson (I) Massimo Turci, (S) Carlos Revilla, (G) Jürgen Clausen

Phil, 'Filthy Bottom' - José Jaspe (I) Roberto Bertea, (S) José Jaspe, (G) ?

Saloon owner – Maria Mizar (I) Melina Martello, (S) Delia Luna, (G) ?

Anna Maria Saizar  (1924 – 2013)

Ana María Saizar was born in San Sebastian, Guipúzcoa, Spain. She began her professional career as a dubbing actress in 1948 at the Sevilla Film Studios. In the 1950s, in Madrid she began to work in the larger dubbing studios in the country and specifically, from 1956, in Oro Films, where she remained until the mid-1980s. She dubbed into Spanish the voice of some of the most important Hollywood film stars of the time, such as Sofia Loren, Anne Baxter, Grace Kelly and Carole Lombard.

For television, she highlighted her work as Miss Rottenmeier in the cartoon series ‘Heidi’ (1975). Although she also voiced Miss Cassandra in ‘Maya the Bee’, Flower in ‘Once Upon a Time... the man’, Barbara Bain (Helen Russell) in ‘Space 1999’, Doris Roberts (Mildred Krebbs) in ‘Remington Steele’ or Peg Phillips (Ruth Miller) in ‘Doctor in Alaska’.

Anna Maria retired in the late 1990s, dying in Madrid on December 19, 2013.