Voices of the Spaghetti Westerns – “Shotgun”

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 “Shotgun”

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

Sheriff Durango - Tab Hunter (I) Giancarlo Maestri, (G) Gert Günther Hoffmann

Joana - Erika Blanc (I) Adriana De Roberto, (G) Ursula Herwig

John Kildare - Piero Lulli (I) Emilio Cigoli, (G) Wolfgang Lukschy

Doctor Frank Decker - Daniele Vargas (I) Michele Malaspina, (G)          Heinz Petruo

Jack Owen - Mimmo Palmara (I) Michele Kalamera, (G) Claus Biederstaedt

Adriana De Roberto  (1908 – 1996)

Adriana De Roberto was an Italian actress and voice dubber who was born in Palestrina on December 28, 1908. She began her career as a theatre actress, Adriana (called "Dana") was a young actress in 1943 and 1944 in the company of Sergio Tofano and in the following three years at various Roman companies, generally in brilliant roles.

She has also been dubbing since the late 1940s, first for the CDC cooperative, then moving on to ODI and finally to SAS, a company of which he was a founding member.

As a television actress she was part of the 1962 cast of the television script ‘An American Tragedy’.

Adriana died in Palestrina on December 30, 1996, two days after her 88th birthday.