Spaghetti Western Voices “Ringo the Lone Rider”

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 “Ringo the Lone Rider”

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

Dan Blake/Capt. Bly/Ringo – Peter Martell (I) Cesare Barbetti, (S) José Guardiola, (G) Viktor Neumann

Daniel G. Samuelson – Piero Lulli (I) Giuseppe Rinaldi, (S) José María Cordero, (G) Erich Räuker

Lucy Corbett - Dyanik Zurakowska (I) Vittoria Febbi, (S) Maite Santamarina, (G) ?

Kid Michael - Paolo Herzl (I) Massimo Turci, (S) Rafael Romero Marchent, (G) ?

Bill Anderson - Armando Calvo (I) Riccardo Mantoni, (S) Armando Calvo, (G) Jan Spitzer

Major Corbett - Jesús Puente (I) Luigi Vannucchi, (S) Jesús Puente, (G) Tilo Schmitz

Viktor Neumann  (1958 -    )

Viktor Neumann was born on August 14, 1958, in Cologne, Germany. He is a German actor and voice actor as well as a speaker of radio plays and audiobooks.

Neumann grew up in Schildgen and completed his training at the Folkwang University in Essen. He was then engaged for seven years at the Schauspielhaus Dortmund. Further engagements followed at the Stadttheater Trier and the Renaissance-Theater Berlin.

In the fantasy series “Merlin – The New Adventures” he was the voice of the character Sir Gwaine. He is frequently heard as the voice of Alan Cumming  in “The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas”, “Garfield – The Film”, “Ripley Under Ground” and the series ‘The L Word – When Women Love Women’ and Benoît Magimel (“The Purple Rivers 2 – The Angels of the Apocalypse”, “The Secret of the Geisha”). He’s also the German voice of Jon Cryer in shorts and in ‘Two and a Half Men’, and Andrew Lincoln in the television series ‘The Walking Dead’.