Voices of the Spaghetti Western –“The Forgotten Pistolero”

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 Forgotten Pistolero”

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

Sebastian Carrasco – Leonard Mann (I) Pino Colizzi, (S) Juan Miguel Cuesta, (G) Joachim Ansorge, (F) Roland Giraud

Anna Carrasco - Luciana Paluzzi (I) Rita Savagnone, (S) Mercedes Mireya, (G) Eva Katharina Schultz, (F) Catherine Dagand

Rafael Garcia – Peter Martell (I) Pino Locchi, (S) Juan Logar, (G) Michael Chevalier, (F) Denis Savignat

Tomas - Alberto de Mendoza (I) Sergio Graziani, (S) Claudio Rodríguez, (G) Heinz Petruo, (F) Gabriel Cattand

Isabella Carrasco - Pilar Velazquez (I) Micaela Esdra, (S) Josefina De Luna, (G) Traudel Haas, (F) Martine Sarcey

General Juan Carrasco - José Suárez (I) Luigi Vannucchi, (S) José Suárez, (G) Friedrich Schoenfelder, (F) Henri Poirier)

Francisco - Piero Lulli (I) Renato Turi, (S) Teofilo Martinez, (G) Martin Hirthe, (F) Georges Atlas

Juanito - Luciano Rossi (I) Ferruccio Amendola, (S) Fernando Mateo, (G) Jürgen Thormann (F) Claude Mercutio)

 

Joachim Ansorge  (1939 – 1980)

Joachim Ansorge was a German actor and voice actor known for his extensive work in West German television during the 1960s and 1970s, as well as his contributions to German film dubbing for international productions. Born on September 19, 1939, in Berlin, Germany, Ansorge appeared in numerous television series and movies, including notable roles in ‘John Gabriel Borkman’ (1967), ‘Eine halbe Stunde’ (1968), and episodes of ‘Der Kommissar’.

Among his notable dubbing assignments was voicing Alain Delon in the title role of the thriller "Monsieur Klein" (1976). He also dubbed Guy Michel as Heinrich III in multiple episodes of the historical miniseries ‘Heinrich, der gute König’ (1979). Other film roles included Brad Harris as Don Fernando Hidalgo in the comedy "Zwei tolle Käfer räumen auf" (1979) and Franco Pastorino as Eugenio in "Arme Leute - reiche Leute. He also provided dubbing voices for actors such as Rutger Hauer in several films and series, Terence Hill in ‘Flaming Frontier’, and others in prominent international titles. Ansorge's career was cut short when he died by suicide on April 1, 1980, in West Berlin at the age of 40.