Saturday, March 21, 2026

Voices of the Spaghetti Western – “If You Meet Sartana… Pray for Your Death”

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.









Today we’ll cover “If You Meet Sartana… Pray for Your Death”

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

Sartana – Gianni Garko (I) Adalberto Maria Merli, (S) Juan Antonio Castro, (G) Claus Jurichs

Lasky – William Berger (I) Giorgio Piazza, (S) Juan Miguel Cuesta, (G) Michael Chevalier

Jeff Stewal – Sydney Chaplin (I) Sergio Rossi, (S) Antolín García (G) Friedrich Schoenfelder

Alman – Gianni Rizzo (I) Antonio Guidi, (S) Eduardo Moreno, (G) Friedrich W. Bauschulte

Morgan – Klaus Kinski (I) Renato Izzo, (S) Luis Varela, (G) Fred Maire

Jose Manuel Mendoza – Fernando Sancho (I) Mario Bardella, (S) José María Cordero (G) Arnold Marquis









Juan Antonio Castro  (19??-    )

Juan Antonio Castro is renowned a Spanish film, TV and voice actor. He appeared in 21 films and television appearance between 1974 and 2016. Known for his mid-range voice, he has participated in numerous film, television, and video game productions, including work on the video game “infamous” (voice of Rosco Laroche) and various animated titles.


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