French voice actor and dubber Michel Barbey was active in
French film beginning in the 1940s, with supporting roles in comedies and
dramas and a rare starring part as the title character in 1950's Dominique. He
died in France on January 24th. Born in Drucourt, Eure, France on
April 23, 1927. He played a doctor in the 1964 Jean-Paul Belmondo war film
Week-end à Zuydcoote (with Raoul Delfosse) but by the seventies and eighties
was busiest as a voice actor, dubbing several Spaghetti Westerns and lending
his voice to French animated features like The Time Masters and Asterix Versus
Caesar (as one of the centurions). He also dubbed Xanatos on Gargoyles, the
cyclops in Hercules, Mon-Star on Silverhawks, Roach Coach and other villains on
The Powerpuff Girls, Taurus Bulba on Darkwing Duck, and leads on various anime
series.
Barbey was the French voice of Bud Spencer in several of
his films.
Michel Barbey’s Spaghetti westerns – voice dubber:
The Brute and the Beast – 1966 [French voice of Franco
Nero]
Johnny Yuma – 1966 [French voice of Luigi Vannucchi]
Three Graves for a Winchester – 1966 [French voice of
Mickey Hargitay]
$10,000 for a Massacre – 1967 [French voice of Gianni
Garko]
Viva Django! – 1968 [French voice of Terence Hill]
Cemetery Without Crosses – 1969 [French voice of Benito
Stefanelli]
They Call Me Trinity – 1970 [French voice of Bud Spencer]
The Price of Death – 1971 [French voice of Gianni Garko]
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