Voices of the Spaghetti Westerns “A Pistol for 100 Coffins”

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 “A Pistol for 100 Coffins”

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

Jim Slade – Peter Lee Lawrence (I) Cesare Barbetti, (S) Jesus Nieto, (G) Hans-Georg Panczak

Douglas – John Ireland (I) Renato Turi, (S) Eduardo Fajardo, (G) Michael Eder

Marjorie - Gloria Osuna (I) Fiorella Betti, (S) Mari Angeles Baltanas, (G) ?

Chavel – Eduardo Fajardo (I) ?, (S) Eduardo Fajardo, (G) ?

Mayor - Julio Peña (I) Jose Martinez Blanco, (G) Thomas Reiner

J. Texas Corbett – Piero Lulli (I) Corrado Gaipa, (S) Angel Maria Baltanas, (G) Alexander Allerson

Old Ben – Franco Pesce (I) Carlo Romano, (S) Manuel De Juan, (G) Bruno W. Pantel

Hans-Georg Panczak  (1952 -     )

Hans-Georg Panczak was born July 19, 1952, in Düsseldorf, Germany. He is a German actor and voice actor and radio play announcer. Among other things, he is the German voice of Mark Hamill and also lends his voice to the character Luke Skywalker. His best-known role figures as voice actors include Waylon Smithers, Glenn Quagmire One Piece and Emporio Ivanko.

Panczak grew up in Berlin. He received his first role in 1961 as a child actor in the ARD television game ‘Aus Gründen der Sicherheit’ (For Security Reasons). In the same year, he began his stage career at the Renaissance Theatre, followed by further engagements, especially on Berlin stages. He took acting lessons with Marlise Ludwig.

In addition to his most outstanding roles as voice actor John Boy (Richard Thomas) in ‘The Waltons’ and Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) in “Star Wars”, his voice was also heard in animated series (Waylon Smithers in ‘The Simpsons’ and Glenn Quagmire in ‘Family Guy’) and in the computer animation film “Final Fantasy: Die Machten in dich” (Voice of General Hein) and in the animated film “Toy Story 2” as a little penguin “Wheezy”. As a voice actor, he also hired Jackie Chan (“Protector”, “Miracles”), George Clooney (“Combat Academy”), Richard Dreyfuss, Sam Neill (“My Brilliant Career”), Kurt Russell (“Tower of Secrets”), Dwight Schultz (“Howling Mad Murdock”) and Sam J. Jones as “Flash Gordon”.

Panczak's son Jan Makino is also working as a voice actor.