Benno Hoffmann

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Benno Hoffmann , actually Bernhard Adolf Bodmann (born May 30, 1919 in Süderbrarup ; † March 9, 2005 in Vomp , Austria ) was a German ballet master , voice actor and actor .

Life

Bernhard Adolf Bodmann was born out of wedlock in Süderbrarup in Schleswig-Holstein. The mother later married and moved to Essen, where her son did an internship at Friedrich Krupp AG from 1934 to 1936 . His passion, however, belonged to the theater, which is why he trained in acting and dance from 1936 at the renowned Folkwang School. In 1939 he worked as a dancer and ballet master in Wuppertal, Coburg, at the Deutsches Theater Göttingen , in Bielefeld and Karlsruhe. After his military service in the Navy from 1941 to 1945 he was employed as a solo dancer at the State Theater in Munich from 1948/1949 . It was not until 1951 that Hoffmann worked mainly as an actor, often impersonating rough to comic characters.

From the 1960s onwards, Hoffmann became known nationwide through numerous film and television roles. He played in the Edgar Wallace film Zimmer 13 (1964), in Die Nibelungen (1966), Lina Braake (1975), Wehe, if Schwarzenbeck comes (1979) or embodied the role of Paul Plaschke , the advertising character of ARD - Glücksspirale , which he even continued to play in his own series, Trautes Heim (1990). He was also popular in the ARD pre-evening series 6 correct . Hoffmann, unmistakable with his strong figure and bald, massive skull, was a regular TV actor until the 1990s.

One of his most popular roles was that of gangster Cliff Fletcher in the three-part thriller The Keys by Francis Durbridge , which first aired in January 1965. He even set a fashion trend with the black lacquer coat he wore in this series. Articles appeared in several newspapers and magazines in which, among other things, it was pointed out that Hoffmann had nothing in common with Cliff Fletcher in his private life.

In addition, Hoffmann worked many times as a voice actor between 1955 and 1984, including for Zero Mostel ( Toll drove the old Romans ) , Boris Karloff (Frankenstein) or Clifton James as Sheriff J. W. Pepper in the two James Bond films Live and Let Die and The Man with the Golden Gun . In the Werner - cartoons he said the policeman Bruno and in the animated series The Animals of the forest left the vicious blue fox Scarface. Before that, he spoke the role of Sir Hector in the Walt Disney productions The Witch and the Magician and the hunter Amos Slade in Cap and Capper .

In 1994/1995 he gave Dr. Wily in the series Mega Man his voice.

Hoffmann was also a busy stage actor. He was able to prove his skills as a singer and dancer, especially in operettas and musicals . His star role was Alfred P. Doolittle in My Fair Lady , whom he played over a thousand times.

Benno Hoffmann had two sons and was married to the actress Anna Smolik in their third marriage since 1964 . Benno Hoffmann died on March 9, 2005 after a long illness at the age of 85 in a nursing home in his Austrian place of residence, Vomp, Tyrol . He was buried in the Gralsgemeinde cemetery in Vomperberg, a district of Vomp.

Filmography

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ German synchronous index | Series | Mega man. Retrieved February 15, 2020 .
  2. ^ The grave of Benno Hoffmann. In: knerger.de. Retrieved February 15, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Hoffmann, Benno
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bodmann, Bernhard Adolf (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ballet master, voice actor and actor
DATE OF BIRTH May 30, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Süderbrarup
DATE OF DEATH March 9, 2005
Place of death Vomp , Austria