You can hear Steve's voice here...naturally deep...2 min. 30 seconds in...
http://ltvreal.liketelevision.com/ramgen/lt60/jailbaitprev.rm Here is another link to watch
Jailbait. Click on the play button to watch/hear Steve:
http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:ItvsdiPOgkEJ:tesla.liketelevision.com/liketelevision/tuner.php%3Fchannel%3D885%26format%3Dmovie%26theme%3Dguide+steve+reeves+video+clip&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=54&gl=usSteve had a very nice voice. He sang and played the guitar well. He trained with the great bass-baritone George London in NY in 1954. I have video tapes/dvds of his voice...maybe I will make them into clips to share. You can hear his real voice in
Jailbait, Athena and Long Ride from Hell.Steve made 14 european movies back to back...one directly after the other in Europe declining to take the time to redub his own voice because it wasn't in his contract to do so. He saved time by allowing someone with a similiar voice to do it. He was the highest paid actor in the world at one point earning $250,000/film. America's highest paid actor, John Wayne, made only $100,000 in comparison.
All of the actors' voices were redubbed later in Steve's european films because of the variey of languages spoken by the actors. For instance, in
White Warrior, there is a scene with seven people sitting around a campfire. Steve spoke english, the person next to him spoke spanish, the person on the other side of him spoke italian, another person spoke yugoslav, another spoke serb and the the 7th spoke french. Steve knew the meanings of their translated lines and how to react to them but he didn't know exactly when they were going to end their sentence. In order to have the timing of when to come in, Steve looked for a foot stomp or grunt by the actor--that was the cue for him to come in with the english line.
In
Hercules, Steve was the only actor speaking english. The rest of the cast spoke italian. So Steve had to really concentrate on the language as well as the emotions. Sergio Fantoni (Eteocles) was one of the few who spoke just a little english. By the time Steve finished making movies, he spoke italian, french and spanish, but it was a challenge in the beginning when he started.