Voices of the Spaghetti western – “God Made Them... I Kill Them”

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 “God Made Them--- I Kill Them”

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

Slim Corbett/Compton – Dean Reed (I) Gino La Monica, (G) Klaus Kindler

Don Luis del la Vega/Rod Douglas – Peter Martell (I) Luigi Vannucchi, (G) Manfred Schott

Sheriff Lancaster – Piero Lulli (I) Carlo D'Angelo, (G) Til Kiwe

Doris - Agnès Spaak (I) Melina Martello, (G) ?

Suzanne - Linda Veras (I) Flaminia Jandolo, (G) ?

Judge Kincaid - Ivano Staccioli (I) Renato Turi, (G) Thomas Reiner

Gino La Monica  (1944-    )

Luigi La Monica, known as Gino was born in Portici, Taly on March 14, 1944). He is an Italian actor, voice actor and dubbing director.

Gino graduated from the National Academy of Dramatic Art in the seventies, he worked as a theater and television actor, directed by directors such as Luchino Visconti, Ettore Giannini, Sandro Bolchi and Anton Giulio Majano, while in the cinema he starred alongside Bud Spencer in “Charleston” (1977). In 1989 he also hosted the game show ‘Il sicario’ on Rai 2.

As a voice actor, he is known for voicing actors such as Martin Sheen, Christopher Walken, William Hurt, Sam Neill, Richard Gere, Dustin Hoffman in “The Graduate” and David Hemmings in “Deep Red”. Among the actors dubbed on several occasions there are also Robert Redford, Harrison Ford, Michael Caine, Alan Rickman, Jack Nicholson, Jonathan Pryce in the “Pirates of the Caribbean” trilogy and in the television series ‘Game of Thrones’, Richard Roxburgh in “The Legend of Extraordinary Men”, Steve Martin in “Parenthood” On television he voiced Chris Noth in several roles.

In 2010 he was awarded the Golden Lectern for dubbing Joe Mantegna in the series ‘Criminal Minds’. The following year, acting in English, he played the role of Cardinal Altamirano in the international musical “The Mission”, inspired by the film of the same name directed by Roland Joffé and written by Robert Bolt, after he had already dubbed Jeremy Irons in the role of Father Gabriel in the Italian edition of the film.

In 2021 he was hired as the original voice of the character of Tommaso in the animated feature film “Luca”, produced by Walt Disney Pictures and Pixar Animation Studios, which he then also dubbed in the Italian edition. In the same year he also received the Lifetime Achievement Award during the Voices in the Shadows Dubbing Festival.

Gino is the father of voice actresses Alessia La Monica [1970- ] with Julie Gilardin and he is married to director and dialogue writer Emanuela Giovannini [1975- ] and the father of actress Carolina La Monica [2913- ]