Voices of the Spaghetti Western – “Full House for the Devil”

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 “Full House for the Devil”

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

Johnny King – George Hilton (I) Sergio Graziani, (S) Ricardo Solans, (G) Thomas Danneberg

Meredith – Paolo Gozlino (I) ?, (S) Antonio Fernández Sánchez, (G) Jürgen Kluckert

Liz – Claudie Lang (I) ?, (S) Glòria Roig, (G) ?

Ernest Ward - Gérard Herter (I) ?, (S) José Maria Santos, (G) Jürgen Thormann

George Ward – Paul Muller (I) Gianfranco Bellini, (S) Antonio Gómez de Vicente, (G) Lothar

     Blumhagen

Gary – Carlo Gaddi (I) ?, (S) José Antonio Rodríguez, (G) ?,

Antonio Fernández Sánchez (19?? - 2007)

Antonio Fernández Sánchez was considered one of the best character and supporting actors in Spanish radio and dubbing.

Gifted with a superb deep voice, Fernández Sánchez began and developed his career in radio in Barcelona and later came to Madrid, where he settled permanently. His voice became one of the classic and essential voices in Spanish dubbing, both in films and television series.

He was the voice of "Deep Throat" in the X-Files series. Sánchez was also a television actor.