Little Known Spaghetti Western Actors ~ Anthony Caruso

 [These daily posts will cover little known actors or people that have appeared in more recent films and TV series. Various degrees of information that I was able to find will be given and anything that you can add would be appreciated.]

Anthony Caruso, not to be confused with the Italian/American film and TV actor of the same name (1916-2003), is/was an Italian character actor. His only film role that I can find was his oly Spaghetti western film: “30 Winchester per El Diablo” (Gold Train) - 1965

CARUSO, Anthony [Italian] – film actor.

Gold Train – 1965

New Double CD Release – “Una pistola per Ringo” / “Il ritorno di Ringo”

 

“Una pistola per Ringo” / “Il ritorno di Ringo”

(A Pistol for Ringo / The Return of Ringo)

(1965 / 1965)

 

Composer: Ennio Morricone

 

Country: Spain

Label” Quartet Records

#QR550

Tracks: 48

Listening time: 1:29:17

 

Quartet Records, in collaboration with GDM and Universal Music Publishing Italia, presents a revised, remastered edition of two iconic western scores by Ennio Morricone for the for the classic RINGO diptych, directed by Duccio Tessari in 1965 and starring Giuliano Gemma.

This 2-CD deluxe edition brings together all the previously released material from both RINGO movies with programs that were originally put together for RCA and GDM Music.

Disc 1 contains the stereo program of both RINGO movies, with the cues selected by Morricone for the original RCA release. We have also included the very rare 1965 album originally entitled “La Storia, I Dialoghi, Le Canzoni di Il Ritorno Di Ringo.” This soundtrack was a dialogue/music hybrid that featured Morricone’s music interspersed with newly recorded narration and even included sound effects to retell the whole story in about half an hour. This album also notably includes some short cues that can only be heard in that program.

Also included is a clean take of “L’incontro con la figlia” Although originally composed for his rejected score for THE BIBLE, and later used in THE SECRET OF THE SAHARA, Morricone also used this cue in IL RITORNO DI RINGO, and it even appeared on the 1965 dialog album.

Disc 2 includes the first version released by GDM on CD in 2004 with cues once again selected by the composer, which was entirely in mono. It is interesting because some takes are different from the previous stereo version, as well as the fact that the program was expanded.

Restored and mastered by Chris Malone and supervised by Claudio Fuiano, the richly illustrated 16-page booklet contains in-depth liner notes by the much-missed Gergely Hubai discussing the film and the score. -QUARTET

 

DISC ONE

UNA PISTOLA PER RINGO (Stereo)

1. Angel Face 2:18

2. Honky Tonky 0:42

3. Suspence Grottesca 1:40

4. Rag Sospeso 1:24

5. Messico Eroico 1:35

6. Bamba Bambina 1:31

7. La Strage 1:58

8. L’attesa 2:36

9. Lo Scontro 1:23

10. Una Pistola per Ringo 2:17

 

IL RITORNO DI RINGO (Stereo)

11. Il Ritorno di Ringo 2:16

12. Il Travestimento 2:23

13. Lo Sceriffo Carson 1:20

14. Dai Fuentes 1:08

15. L’incontro con la figlia 2:45

16. La Bamba di Barnaba 2:34

17. Il Matrimonio e la Vendetta 1:28

18. Il Funerale 2:03

19. La Pace Torna a Mimbres 2:20

 

LA STORIA, I DIALOGUI, LE CANZONI DI IL RITORNO DI RINGO (Mono)

20. La storia, I dialogui, le canzoni di Il Ritorno di Ringo Part I 17:47

21. La storia, I dialogui, le canzoni di Il Ritorno di Ringo Part II 18:58

 

Total Disc Time: 73:49

 

DISC TWO

UNA PISTOLA PER RINGO (Mono)

 

1. Angel Face (Titoli di testa) 2:18

2. Honky Tonky 0:41

3. Suspence Grottesca 1:40

4. Lo Scontro 1:58

5. Rag Sospeso 1:24

6. Messico Eroico 1:35

7. Una pistola per Ringo (Instrumental) 2:17

8. Bamba Bambina 1:31

9. La Strage 1:58

10. L’attesa 2:36

11. Lo Scontro (#2) 1:30

12. Rag Sospeso (#2) 1:13

13. Messico Eroico (#2) 1:00

14. Angel Face (Titoli di coda) 1:40

15. Una pistola per Ringo Suite 3:53

 

IL RITORNO DI RINGO (Mono)

 

16. Il ritorno di Ringo (Titoli di testa) 2:15

17. Il Travestimento 2:23

18. Il ritorno di Ringo (Mariachi #1) 1:51

19. Il ritorno di Ringo (Violenza) 5:54

20. Lo Sceriffo Carson 1:20

21. Dai Fuentes 1:07

22. Il ritorno di Ringo (Mariachi #2) 2:03

23. Il ritorno di Ringo (Instrumental) 1:26

24. La Bamba di Barnaba 2:33

25. Il Matrimonio e la Vendetta 1:27

26. Il Funerale 2:01

27. La Pace Torna a Mimbres 2:20

Total Disc Time: 55:28

Special Birthdays

Jack Ary (writer, actor) would have been 105 today but died in 1974.

RIP Lucian Iancu

 

Romanian actor, director Lucian Iancu died in Bucharest, Romania on November 20^th. He was  84. Born in Constanţa, Romania on February 3, 1940. He graduated from the Theatre and Cinema Institute in Bucharest in 1940. He became one of Romania’s leading actors and the General Director of the Dramatic Theatre of Constanţa. Iancu performed roles in plays by Sophocles, Euripides, Rostand, Brecht, Ionescu, Sartre, Shakespeare, Moliere, Chekhov and many others. He’s appeared in over 20 films and has been awarded various prizes and recognition for his contributions to the dramatic arts. Iancu appeared in three Euro-westerns: “Apaches” in 1973 as Chico, “The Prophet, the Gold and the Transylvanians” in 1977 as Will Clanton and “The Oil, the Baby and the Transylvanians” in 1981as a McCallum henchman.

Little Known Spaghetti Western Actors ~ Armando Cartiglia

[These daily posts will cover little known actors or people that have appeared in more recent films and TV series. Various degrees of information that I was able to find will be given and anything that you can add would be appreciated.]

Armando Catiglia is/was an amateur actor who appeared in the film “Cowboy Story” in 1953 as the outlaw villain of the film. The film’s dialogue was supplied by Italian director and screenwriter Ernesto Gastaldi. Ernesto was a friend of the director of the film Giuseppe Sacchi and therefore helped in the production.

No other biographical information is available on Armando.

CARTIGLIA, Armando [1932, Biella, Piedmont, Italy -    ] – film actor.

Cowboy Story – 1953 (outlaw)

New German DVD “Winnetous Rückkehr”

 

“Winnetous Rückkehr”

(Winnetou’s Return)

(1998)

 

Director: Marijan David Vajda

Starring: Pierre Brice, Candice Daly, Pierre Semmler

 

Country: Germany

Label: Pidax

DVD

Language: Dolby Digital 2.0 German

Running time: 2 hours and 56 minutes

ASIN: ‎B0DHHHRGWP

Release date: November 21, 2024

Voices of the Spaghetti Western ~ “Yankee”

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 these actors are as well-known as the actors they voiced.

Today we’ll cover “Yankee”

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

Yankee - Philippe Leroy (I) Sergio Graziani, (S) Arsenio Corsellas, (G) Eckart Dux

Grande Concho – Adolfo Celi (I) Renato Turi, (S) Alfonso Santigosa, (G) Alf Marholm

Filosofo – Jacques Herlin (I) ?, (S) Antonio Gómez de Vicente, (G) Alois-Maria Giani

Luiz - Tomás Torres (I) Aldo Giuffrè, (S) Dionisio Macías, (G) Alois-Maria Giani

Consalvo - Paco Sanz (I) Gianni Bonagura, (S) José Maria Santos, (G) Wolfgang Spier

Rosita – Mirella Martin (I) Rita Savagnone, (S) María Luisa Solá, (G) Eva Ingeborg Scholz

Eckart Dux  (1926 – 2024)

Eckart Hermann „Ecki“ Dux was the son of the chief insurance inspector Eugen Dux. As a 17-year-old, he was drafted by the Wehrmacht, and after the end of the Second World War he caught up on his high school diploma. His first marriage was to the actress Gisela Peltzer [1926- ]. From 1970 he was married to the film editor Marlies Dux [1945- . This marriage produced a son. Dux lived in Dannenbüttel, where he died on April 9, 2024, at the age of 97.

From 1948 onwards, Dux was extensively active in dubbing and, together with Jürgen Thormann, was one of the longest-serving German voice actors in his old age. In the 1950s and 1960s he was the standard voice of Audie Murphy, from 1957 to 1991 the standard voice of Anthony Perkins, whom he voiced in the classic “Psycho”, among others. Dux also dubbed such well-known actors as Van Johnson, Steve Martin, Fred Astaire and the actor George Peppard in the action series ‘The A-Team’. From 2001 to 2007, he lent his voice to actor Jerry Stiller in the role of eccentric father-in-law Arthur Spooner in the sitcom ‘King of Queens’. After the death of Joachim Höppner in 2006, Dux took over the dubbing of Ian McKellen (Gandalf) in Peter Jackson's Hobbit trilogy (2012–2014). He also had this role in the films “The Lego Movie” (2014) and “The Lego Movie 2” (2019). In the series ‘Designated Survivor’ (2016–2019), he dubbed Geoff Pierson in the role of former president Cornelius Moss in 16 episodes. He can also be heard in the animated film “The Boss Baby”. In the animated series “Santa Claus & Co.KG”, which has been broadcast every year at Christmas time on Super RTL since 1997, he took on the role of Santa Claus.

Eckart Dux has also worked as a radio play narrator, for example as Flitze Feuerzahn in the radio play series of the same name von Europa (1984 to 1987), as Conni's grandfather in the radio plays for the children's book series ‘Meine Freundin Conni’, as narrator in the Maritim production ‘Edgar Wallace’ (from 2004) and in the audio book series Darkside Park (2009) by Ivar Leon Menger. In 2001, Dux voiced the audiobook of Blanker Unsinn by Steve Martin. He took on guest roles in several episodes of the detective series ‘Die drei ???’ (first in 1984 in the episode ‘Die drei ??? und der Höhlenmensch’) and ‘TKKG’ (first in 1984 in the episode ‘Wer raubte das Millionenpferd?’). From 2010, Dux regularly took on roles in Titania Medien's horror cabinet series.

Dux lived in Dannenbüttel, where he died on April 9, 2024, at the age of 97.