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Carol Danell

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  Carol Danell (1926-1995) was an American singer and lyricist who enjoyed a highly successful career in Italy in the 1950s and 60s, collaborating with such esteemed composers as Piero Umiliani, Armando Trovajoli, Piero Piccioni and Ennio Morricone, and participating on the soundtracks of a number of well-known Italian films. Like so many other Americans living in Rome during those days, Carol also moonlighted as a dubbing actress, and in the mid to late 1960s in particular, she lent her voice to leading ladies in countless spaghetti westerns, Eurospy adventures and horror movies. Check out the video below to view some clips from some of Carol’s most famous dubbing performances:     Carol was born as Carol Ann Ostrow on November 17, 1926 in Buffalo, Erie, New York. She was the only child of Louis B. Ostrow (1901-1988), a US Army officer who served during both world wars, and his first wife Bertha (1906-2001), though Carol later had a younger half-brother named Gerald ...
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Rolf Tasna

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  Rolf Tasna (1920-1997) was a German-Italian actor whose authoritative voice and proficiency in several languages made him in great demand for dubbing, voice-over narrations and radio speaker gigs in Rome throughout the 1950s, 60s and 70s. His work as an Italian language dubber has been well documented, but not many are aware that Rolf was also frequently called on to dub in English. With his imposingly resonant voice and his refined and articulate English, tinged with a faint Germanic accent, he sounded like a classical James Bond villain, and he was perfectly cast as a number of bad guys in English dubs of many Italian peplum, Eurospy, horror and WW2 films. In the video below, you can watch clips of some of Rolf’s most famous English dubbing roles:   Rolf Tasna was born as Rolf Hohenemser on December 11, 1920 in Braunschweig, Germany. His parents were Ernst Hohenemser (1870-1940), an aphorist and translator, and Helly Steglich-Hohenemser (1892-1977), an art historian an...
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