In 1976 he had been chosen by the same actor and director from "The Outlaw Josey Wales." “He said he had finally found his Italian voice”
la Republica
By the Spettacoli editorial staff
July 26, 2023
"I was chosen by Clint Eastwood himself, after he saw my audition for "The Outlaw Josey Wales," it was 1976, he enthusiastically said that he had finally found his Italian voice, and I have never left him since". So said Michele Kalamera, actor and voice actor of long experience who died yesterday, Tuesday 25 July, at the age of 84.
The theater with Projects
Michelino Calamera, better known as Michele Kalamera (the Greek surname had been Italianized during Fascism) was born in Conegliano, in the province of Treviso, on February 12, 1939. Known in particular as a dubber, he was also a stage actor: in 1963 he founded, together with Gigi Proietti, the permanent theater of L'Aquila. He also worked in radio.
The debut as a voice actor
In 1966 he made his debut as a voice actor, directed by a historical figure of dubbing as Fede Arnaud in Mark Damon's film “God, How I Love You!”. But Kalamera's notoriety is linked in particular to Clint Eastwood, to whom he has given his voice in all the films since 1976, except for a parenthesis that goes from 1986 "when they took him away for Gunny and I took him back in 1990 with “White Hunter Black Heart”.
Not just Clint Eastwood
During his long career, Kalamera has also made other great actors speak Italian, such as Steve Martin, Michael Caine, Robert Duvall, Donald Sutherland, Robert Redford, Roy Scheider, F. Murray Abraham, Christopher Plummer. And again: Burt Reynolds, Christopher Lee, Jack Palance, David Bowie, Ben Kingsley, Max von Sydow and Anthony Hopkins. A total of over 5,000 film and TV stars, 5,000 co-stars, 5,000 key characters in TV series, countless cameos.
"I have always rejected labels such as teacher and the like - Kalamera said of himself - I consider myself a dubber, indeed, as I like to define myself: an earworm".
Michele Kalamera (Michelino Calamera)
Born: 2/12/1938, Conegliano, Venero, Treviso, Italy
Died: 7/25/2023, Rome, Lazio, Italy
Michele Kalamera’s westerns – voice actor:
Two RRRingos from Texas – 1967 [Italian voice of unknown actor]
The Way West - 1967 [Italian voice of Kirk Douglas]
Beyond the Law – 1968 [Italian voice of Gordon Mitchell]
Shotgun – 1968 [Italian voice of Mimmo Palmara]
Sonora – 1968 [Italian voice of George Martin]
Zorro the Fox – 1968 [Italian voice of Giacomo Rossi Stuart]
Cemetery Without Crosses – 1969 [Italian voice of Robert Hossein]
El Puro – 1969 [Italian voice of Robert Woods]
Four Came to Kill Sartana – 1969 [Italian voice of Benito Pacifico]
God Will Forgive My Pistol – 1969 [Italian voice Wayde Preston]
Heaven With a Gun - 1969 [Italian voice of Glenn Ford]
I Am Sartana, Your Angel of Death – 1969 [Italian voice of Gianni Garko]
Sartana and His Shadow of Death – 1969 [Italian voice of Benito Pacifico]
Tell Them Willie Boy is Here – 1969 [Italian voice of Robert Redford]
True Grit – 1969 [Italian voice of Robert Duvall]
The Wild Bunch – 1969 [Italian voice of Robert Ryan]
Zorro the Lawman – 1969 [Italian voice of Fabio Testi]
Apocalypse Joe – 1970 [Italian voice of Anthony Steffen]
Ballad of Death Valley – 1970 [Italian voice of William Berger]
Catlow – 1971 [Italian voice of Richard Crenna]
Dead Men Ride – 1971 [Italian voice of Fabio Testi]
Vengeance Trail – 1971 [Italian voice of Ivan Rassimov]
Trinity and Sartana are Coming – 1972 [Italian voice of Harry Baird]
Fasthand is Still My Name – 1973 [Italian voice of Sergio Ciani]
Here We Go Again, Eh Providence – 1973 [Italian voice of Manuel Gallardo]
The Grand Duel – 1973 [Italian voice of Horst Frank]
White Fang – 1973 [Italian voice of John Steiner]
Blood River – 1974 [Italian voice of Fabio Testi]
Challenge to White Fang – 1974 [Italian voice of John Steiner]
The Four of the Apocalypse – 1975 [Italian voice of Fabio Testi]
Red Coat – 1975 [Italian voice of Fabio Testi]
Return of Shanghai Joe – 1975 [Italian voice of Klaus Kinski]
White Fang to the Rescue – 1975 [Italian voice of Henry Silva]
The Outlaw Josey Wales – 1976 [Italian voice of Clint Eastwood]
China 9, Liberty 37 – 1978 [Italian voice of Fabio Testi]
Bronco Billy – 1980 [Italian voice of Clint Eastwood]
Young Guns II – 1990 [Italian voice of James Coburn]
The Last of the Mohicans – 1992 [Italian voice of Russell Means, Maurice Roeves]
Unforgiven – 1992 [Italian voice of Clint Eastwood]
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – 1993 [Italian voice of Ron Perlman]
Davy Crockett (TV) – 1994 [Italian voice of Sheriff Carson]
And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself (TV) - 2003 [Italian voice of Alan Arkin
The Three Amigos – 2003 [Italian voice of Chevy Chase]
Deadwood (TV) – 2004 [Italian voice of Keith Carradine]
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford – 2007 [Italian voice of James
Carville]
The Salvation – 2014 [Italian voice of Danny Keough]
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