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 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 “Those Dirty Dogs”
[(I) Italian, (S) Spanish, (G) German, (F) French, (E)
English]
Korano – John Garko
(I) Sergio Graziani, (S) Manuel Cano, (G) Harald Leipnitz
Captain Chadwell Willer – Stephen Boyd (I) Michele Gammino, (S) Arsenio
Corsellas, (G) Klaus Kindler
Lieutenant Younger – Howard Ross (I) Mamlio De Angelis, (S) Antonio García Moral,
(G) Wolf Goldan
Angel Sanchez – Simón Andreu (I) Pino Colizzi, (S) Constantino Romero, (G)
Klaus Löwitsch
Sergeant Washington Smith – Harry Baird (I) ?, (S) Juan Comellos, (G) Fred
Klaus
Maria/Melissa Adams – Teresa Gimpera (I) Serena Verdirosi, (S) ?, (G)?
‘El Supremo’ – Alfredo Mayo (I) Carlo Croccolo, (S) Felipe Peña, (G)
Eduard Linkers
MANUEL CANO [1926 –
1994]
Manuel Cano García
was born in Zaragoza, Spain on April 5, 1926. He
began his career as a radio announcer on
Radio Zaragoza, in
1947 . Years
later, in 1951, Cano moved to Barcelona,
where he began his artistic career as a dubbing actor. After having worked
at RNS and Radio Barcelona, he decided to leave radio in 1965 to dedicate
himself fully to dubbing films, in which he had started in 1952, at the Voz de
España SA studios in Barcelona. His
first major role was voicing Stephen Boyd
in "Beh-Hur” (1959). After the lack of
work in Barcelona and his disputes with some
studios in Barcelona, in the mid-70s, he decided
to move to Madrid, where he would double until
the end of his career (sometimes returning to Barcelona to dub). His quiet, medium, and
supple "handsome boy" voice was just right for dubbing the Hollywood hunk of the 1960s and 1970s. Internationally renowned
stars like Steve McQueen, Warren Beatty, Anthony Perkins, George Peppard, Yul
Brynner, Sidney Poitier, Glenn Ford, Alain Delon, Lex Barker, Henry Fonda,
Michael Caine, Gary Cooper, Tony Curtis, James Garner, Richard Harris, Franco
Nero, Gregory Peck, James Caan or Robert Redford. He dubbed Max von Sydow as
Jesus of Nazareth in “The Greatest Story Ever Told” in 1965. Cano considered
Jack Nicholson the best actor of all time he voiced. He was considered by his
colleagues as the voice of the leading man and possibly the most beautiful
voice that dubbing has created. At the end of the 1980s he was diagnosed with
lung cancer and died on April 14, 1994. in Barcelona, Spain.
