Voices of the Spaghetti Western “Kill Them All and Come Back Alone”

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 “Kill Them All and Come Back Alone”

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

Clyde McKay – Chuck Connors (I) Emilio Cigoli, (S) Félix Acaso, (G) Wolfgang Hess

Captain Lynch – Frank Wolff (I) Renzo Palmer, (S) Jesús Puente, (G) Herbert Weicker

Hoagy – Franco Citti (I) Pierangelo Civera, (S) Rafael Arcos, (G) Ivar Combrinck

Deker - Leo Anchóriz (I) Giorgio Gusso, (S) Julio Núñez, (G) ?

Blade – Ken Wood (I) Silvio Noto, (S) Alfonso Santigosa, (G) Werner Abrolat

The Kid - Alberto Dell'Acqua (I) Alberto Dell'Acqua, (S) Eduardo Moreno, (G) Jürgen Clausen

Bogard - Hércules Cortés (I) Carlo Croccolo, (S) José Martínez, (G) Gernot Duda

Herbert Weicker  (1921 – 1997)

Herbert Weicker was born in Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany on September 4, 1921. He was a German actor and voice actor.

Weicker played his first film role in 1948 in Kurt Hoffmann's film “Das verlorene Gesicht”, where he portrayed Dr. Hasan. In the 1950s and 1960s, a number of smaller supporting roles followed in films by directors such as Karl Georg Külb, John Reinhardt, Werner Jacobs, Yves Allégret, Harald Philipp, Rudolf Jugert, Jürgen Roland and Harald Reinl.

Weicker is best known as the distinctive voice of Leonard Nimoy alias Spock in the U.S.A. television series ‘Star Trek’ and also in the subsequent cinema successes of the Star Trek series in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. In total, he voiced the role 108 times in 23 years.

He dubbed actor Herbert Lom in several films, in which Lom played Inspector Dreyfus in the Pink Panther series created by director Blake Edwards, as well as Walter Gotell as Soviet KGB general Anatol Gogol in several James Bond film adaptations.

In addition, he often voiced Sidney Poitier and Christopher Lee as well as countless film and series roles in the 1960s to 1980s, such as the pirate Dirk Taylor (Michel Charrel) in the 1966 ZDF adventure four-parter Treasure Island or the Green King in the adventure multi-parter Der Mondschimmel. He worked closely with Eberhard Storeck in particular (Vicky the Viking, Muppet Show and The Fraggles).

In addition to film dubbings, Herbert Weicker also voiced parts of the radio play production “Der Weltensegler” – an "audiophile event", as the makers call it.

This was his last work, shortly after the recordings he died in a car accident in Munich on May 29, 1997 at the age of 75.