Voices of the Spaghetti Western ~ “God May Forgive You, Not Me”

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 “God May Forgive You, Not Me”

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

Cjamango McDonald – George Ardisson (I) Sergio Graziani, (G) Gert Günther Hoffmann

Dick Smart – Anthony Ghidra (I) Alessandro Sperlì, (G) Friedrich W. Bauschulte

Stuart – Luigi Pavese (I) Corrado Gaipa, (G) Kurt Mühlhardt

Virginia Stuart – Cristina Iosani (I) Fiorella Betti, (G) Renate Küster

Garcia Ramirez 'Barrica' – Pedro Sanchez (I) ?, (G) Alexander Welbat

Joe – Dante Maggio (I) Gino Baghetti, (G) Manfred Meurer

Gino Baghetti  (1901 – 1977)

Luigi Baghetti, known as Gino, was born in Pavia, Italy on October 13, 1901. He was an Italian film, radio and voice actor. He was the don of actors Aristide Baghetti and Tullia Ravelli, and was an actor beginning in the 1930s and a voice actor especially in the 1950s and 1960s.

Among his major roles was that of Lieutenant Baghetti in the film “Giarabub” by Goffredo Alessandrini and in 1946 he starred in the film “An American on Vacation” by Luigi Zampa in the part of Monsignor Caligaris.

He died on March 28, 1977, in Rome at the age of 75.