Carlos Petrel

Carlos Petrel was a Spanish-born Mexican voice actor and bass-baritone singer.

Biography[]

Carlos Petrel was born on March 30, 1924, in the Spanish province of A Coruña. He emigrated to France because of the Spanish Civil War, where he spent his youth and began his career as a singer. His parents fled to Mexico, where he later joined them and was recommended to the famous composer Augustín Lara, for whom Petrel interpreted several of his songs in French. He then toured the cabarets and nightclubs of Mexico City for several years.

He later went into radio, became one of the pioneers of Mexican television and completed several tours as an actor and singer.

Carlos Petrel and others, during the dubbing of Star Wars.

From 1955, he appeared as a voice actor for foreign films, for example in the first projects of the newly founded CLADSA. From 1977 to 1984, he moved to Los Angeles and dubbed for Sono-Mex Hollywood/ESM International Dubbing. He then returned to Mexico and continued working there.

During his time in LA, he voiced Darth Vader in the first dub of Star Wars, among others.

Petrel died on September 17, 2000, from liver cirrhosis after contracting hepatitis.

Dubbing roles[]

Films[]

Character		Dub
	Gato Ruso (Singing)	The Aristocats
Narrador		Asterix le Gaulois (Audiomaster 3000 dub)
Narrador		Asterix and Cleopatra (Audiomaster 3000 dub)
	Ginfis
Contable de Grissom		Batman (1989)
	Lumiere	Beauty and the Beast (1991)
	Monsieur D'Arque
	Baltazar	Ben-Hur (1959) (SISSA – Oruga dub)
	Dolmanstein	Doraemon: Nobita's Dinosaur (SISSA dub)
Presenter		The Exorcist (SISSA – Oruga dub)
Narrador		The Fearless Vampire Killers (SISSA – Oruga dub)
	Gerald O'Hara	Gone with the Wind (SISSA – Oruga dub)
	Stevens	The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (SISSA – Oruga dub)
	Scar	The Lion King (1994)
	Spock	Star Trek: The Motion Picture (second dub)
	Darth Vader	Star Wars (1977) (Sono-Mex Hollywood dub)