Many people will remember Francisco Valladares Barragán as (rather unflaterringly) the somewhat indifferent lead in Pierre Chevalier’s Orloff and the Invisible Man (1970) but then his heart was probably not in it. I once saw him being interviewed on TV, saying that his film career wasn’t much. But then, his main dedications were the stage and poetry reciting. He was also much active as a dubber, providing the Spanish voice for several performances by, among others, Alain Delon, Helmut Berger, Don Murray and Robert Wagner. Also the Duane Jones of Night of the Living Dead.
The Seville-born Valladares retired in 2008 on account of leukemia. Today, 17 March, he had died from this illness.
He dubbed several Spaghetti Western roles, as follows:
Marc Mazza in The Grand Duel
Luis Barboo in Vivi o, preferibilmente, morti
Manuel de Blas in Manos Torpes
Luciano Rossi in Run, Man, Run
John Steiner in Tepepa
Warren Vanders in The Price of Power
Rik Van Nutter in Dynamite Joe
Tomas Milian in Django Kill
Hugo Blanco in Texas, addio
Umberto Ceriani in Per un dollaro di gloria
Clint Eastwood in The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
Brad Harris in L’uomo venuto per uccidere
Mario Novelli in Due croci a Danger Pass
Gian Maria Volonté in Face to Face
Peter Lee Lawrence in Dove si spara di più
Mimmo Palmara in Johhny West il mancino
Hugo Blanco in Mestizo
Edmund Purdom in Gli eroi di Fort Worth
Antonio Molino Rojo in Finger on the Trigger
Edmund Purdom in Los cuatreros
Fernando Montes in Il vendicatore di Kansas City
