Voices of the Spaghetti Wester “The Desperados”

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 “The Desperados”

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

David Galt ~ Vince Edwards (E) Vince Edwards, (G) Michael Chevalier

Parson Josiah Galt ~ Jack Palance (E) Jack Palance, (G) Arnold Marquis

Laura Galt ~ Sylvia Syms (E) Sylvia Syms, (G) Brigitte Grothum

Jacob Galt ~ George Maharis (E) George Maharis, (G) Christian Brückner

Marshal Kilpatrick ~ Neville Brand (E) Neville Brand, (G) Alexander Welbat

Adam Galt ~ Christian Roberts (E) Christian Roberts, (G) Lutz Mackensy

Brigitte Grothum  (1935 -    )

 

Brigitte Kaethe Grothum was born on February 26, 1935 in Dessau, Germany. She is a German actress, voice actress, film producer and director. Since the mid-1950s, she has been involved in around 120 film and television productions. She became known to a wide audience in the 1960s through several Edgar Wallace film adaptations and from 1976 to 1991 as one of the Three Ladies from the Grill in the ARD series of the same name. From 1987 to 2014 she worked as a producer and director of the Berlin Everyman Festival.

Grothum is the daughter of the chief engineer Friedrich Wilhelm "Fritz" Grothum and his wife Margarete Grothum, née Autenrieth. At the age of 15, she moved to Berlin. She completed her Abitur at the Ricarda-Huch-Schule in Berlin-Charlottenburg and then began acting training with Marlise Ludwig and Herma Clement.

From 1957, the actress was active in dubbing and lent her voice to prominent colleagues such as Lee Remick, Diane Keaton, Barbara Eden, Virginia Mayo, Diana Rigg and Debbie Watson.