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 “Cavalry Charge”
[(I) Italian, (S) Spanish, (G) German, (F) French, (E)
English]
Commander Inspector John Bedford – Alan Scott (S) Paco
Valladares
Corporal Paul White – Frank Latimore (S) Félix Acaso
Flower of the Mountains – Diana Lorys (S) Josefina de
Luna
Valerie Jackson – Maria Silva (S) Maria Silva
Sergeant Custer – Alfonso Rojas (S) Claudio Rodríguez
Trapper Don Halsey – Barta Barri (S) Benjamin Domingo
Benjamin Domingo
(19??-deceased)
Benjamin Domingo began on radio in 1958 and then entered
dubbing, starting with a small role in “Viva Zapata”. He usually dubbed
serious, authoritative types, such as William Conrad on TV's ‘Cannon’ and Lorne
Greene in the first dub of ‘Bonanza’, Henry Fonda in “Meteor”, Desmon Llewellyn
as Q in three James Bond movies, Harry Andrews in “Superman: The Movie” and
elsewhere, and Raymond Burr as Pope John Pope John XXIII in the TV movie
Portrait: ‘A Man Whose Name Was John’. He dubbed Jackie Gleason in the first
two Smokey and the Bandit movies, Broderick Crawford in “All the King's Men”,
Ray Collins in “Citizen Kane”, Roscoe Lee Browne in “Logan's Run”, Ward Bond in
“It's a Wonderful Life”, Donald Crisp in “How Green Was My Valley”, and an
assortment of judges, clergy, doctors, and police chiefs.