Alf Marholm

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Alf Marholm during an Edgar Wallace meeting

Alf Marholm (born May 31, 1918 in Oberhausen as Alf Marholm-Stoffels ; † February 24, 2006 in Ittenbach ) was a German actor , radio play , audio book and voice actor .

life and work

Alf Marholm's best-known role was administrative director Mühlmann in the ZDF series Die Schwarzwaldklinik (1985–1989). In 1952 Marholm began his career as an actor and voice actor with the film Postlagernd Turteltaube . For many years he was the German voice of Graf Zahl on Sesame Street .

Many of his films and television series are already considered classics, such as The Dead Ship (1959), the Edgar Wallace films The Red Circle (1960) and The Gang of Terror (1960), the Durbridge - Street Sweeper The Scarf (1962), the Simmel film The Stuff Dreams Are Made of (1972), the Wilkie Collins multi-part series Die Frau in Weiß (1971), the ZDF four-part series The Strange Life Story of Friedrich Freiherrn von der Trenck (1972) or the multi-part series Die Powenzbande ( 1973). In 1981 he starred in the film Prussian Night .

In addition to the Black Forest Clinic , he also appeared as a guest in countless series, such as Percy Stuart , Cliff Dexter , Eurogang , Sherlock Holmes , Derrick , Der Alte , Tatort or Friends for Life (1992).

Almost even better known, however, was the distinctive voice of Alf Marholm, which he called Guy Trejean as Ludwig XIII. in The Three Musketeers (1961), Ivor Dean , whose Cockney accent he set to music in the role of Long John Silver in the adventure four-part Die Schatzinsel (1966), or Robert Morley in Das Körderschiff (1971), Leo McKern as Bill MacGuire in The Day on which the Earth caught fire (1961), as well as Howard Da Silva , Bernard Blier , Brian Aherne , Michel Simon and around two dozen other international actors. He could also be heard in numerous radio plays , such as in some Paul Temple radio plays produced by the NWDR and later by the WDR .

For the anniversary episode of the Black Forest Clinic , Marholm was planned in 2005, like the other regular actors, in his role as administrative director Mühlmann. However, shortly before shooting began, he suffered a stroke , so that he could not participate in the film. Alf Marholm died on February 24, 2006 at the age of 87. He was buried in the Waldbreitbach cemetery ( Neuwied district ).

Radio plays / publications

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ knerger.de: The grave of Alf Marholm
personal data
SURNAME Marholm, Alf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Marholm-Stoffels, Alf (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, radio play, audio book and voice actor
DATE OF BIRTH May 31, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberhausen
DATE OF DEATH February 24, 2006
Place of death Ittenbach