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Dan Keller

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Dan Keller was part of the English dubbing scene in Rome from roughly 1967 to 1971, during which time he dubbed hundreds of male child voices. At the time, very few English-speaking children were available for dubbing, so if you ever hear an authentic male child voice in an Italian film from that period, chances are it’s Dan’s voice. Check out the video below for some examples of his dubbing work:       The son of celebrated painter, printmaker and cartoonist Charles Keller and his wife Judith, Dan was born in Newburgh, NY in 1954 and spent his early childhood years with his parents and two sisters, Marthe and Katy, at Danskammer Farm, a cooperative farm near the small town of Roseton. A committed member of the Communist Party USA since the early 1940s, Charles Keller came under political pressure during the climate of McCarthyism, thus prompting the Keller family to leave America and head for Rome in 1961. Initially intending to stay for just one year, the Kellers fell in love wit