Dubbed in Rome

  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...