Alfred Balthoff
Alfred Balthoff (born December 8, 1905 in Peiskretscham , Upper Silesia , today Pyskowice , † March 8, 1989 in Vienna ) was a German actor and voice actor .
Life
Alfred Balthoff completed his acting training in Vienna in the 1920s and made his stage debut in 1927 in Breslau . This was followed by theater engagements in Prague, Reichenberg and Berlin, where Balthoff played under the name of Alfred Israel Berliner at the Jüdischer Kulturbund during the National Socialist era . He was also involved in the last production by the Kulturbund before the forced closure in August 1941 ( play in the castle after Ferenc Molnár ). After that, Balthoff survived in the Berlin underground. After the Second World War he worked again at Berlin theater stages, later in Düsseldorf and from 1971 at the renowned Burgtheater in Vienna.
In 1947 Alfred Balthoff made his film debut in Kurt Maetzig's marriage in the shadow . In this DEFA production, he embodied a piece of his own life story as the persecuted Jewish actor Kurt Bernstein. Two more major post-war films at DEFA were to follow: Also in 1947 he played in Wozzeck and in 1949 in the drama Our daily bread . After that he was seen in numerous West German productions. Balthoff's specialty were subtle, broken and bizarre characters. He played in literary adaptations such as Lessing's heroines (next to Johanna von Koczian ) and B. Traven's dead ship (next to Mario Adorf and Horst Buchholz ), in Wolfgang Liebeneiner's music film The Trapp Family (with Ruth Leuwerik and Hans Holt ), and next to Giulietta Masina in Das kunstseidene Girls , in Josef von Báky's crime film Do You Confess, Dr. Corda! (with Hardy Krüger ), in Robert Siodmak's escape drama Tunnel 28 and in the Simmel film adaptation of All People Become Brothers . In addition, he often took on guest roles in television productions such as Okay SIR , All Dogs Love Theobald and Der Kommissar . In 1959 he played the leading role under director Falk Harnack in the television play Der Fall Pinedust with Franz Schafheitlin , Fritz Tillmann and Hans Christian Blech . In 1972 he played the main character of a retired inspector in the six-part television series Hauptbahnhof München .
Alfred Balthoff has worked in numerous radio play productions since the late 1940s, mainly in leading roles. In 1949 he was heard in the radio play versions of George Bernard Shaw's Die Heilige Johanna as Dauphin and in 1954 by Molières Tartuffe as Orgone. In 1970 he spoke the role of Prof. Faber in the WDR production Fahrenheit 451 .
Between 1949 and 1967 Alfred Balthoff was also active in around 380 synchronizations. With his high, gentle and easily brittle voice he often spoke ironic, profound and fate-marked characters. He dubbed famous fellow actors like Fernandel (among others in the Guareschi films Don Camillo and Peppone , Don Camillo's return and comrade Don Camillo ), Charlie Chaplin (in the first dubbed version of Limelight ), Joe E. Brown in the musical adaptation Show Boat Mississippi- Melodie , Louis de Funès ( The Great American ), Alec Guinness ( Hotel Paradiso ), Herbert Lom (including Spartacus ), Joe E. Brown ( some like it hot ), Peter Lorre (including 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea ), Groucho Marx ( Scandal in opera ), Anthony Quinn ( Prisoners of the Jungle ), Claude Rains (among others notorious ), Edward G. Robinson (among others Cheyenne and Cincinnati Kid and Seven against Chicago ) and Peter Ustinov (among others as Nero in Quo vadis? ) . His last dubbed role was vampire hunter Prof. Abronsius ( Jack MacGowran ) in Roman Polański's Dance of the Vampires .
Alfred Balthoff died of heart failure on March 8, 1989 at the age of 83 in Vienna and was buried in the cemetery in Mödling near Vienna.
Filmography (selection)
- 1947: Marriage in the shadows
- 1947: Wozzeck
- 1949: Our daily bread
- 1949: Figaro's wedding
- 1953: love awakening
- 1954: Happy journey
- 1954: your big exam
- 1956: Nathan the Wise (TV movie)
- 1956: Ship without a port (TV movie)
- 1956: The Trapp family
- 1957: Seven times a week
- 1957: Dreams of the South Seas
- 1958: The Money That Lies on the Street (TV movie)
- 1958: Black star in a white night
- 1958: Confess, Dr. Corda!
- 1958: Madeleine Tel. 13 62 11
- 1958: Happiness seeks its children (TV movie)
- 1959: One size too big ( A Hole in the Head , speaker role)
- 1959: Dorothea Angermann
- 1959: Wanted is murderer X (four-part TV series)
- 1959: The Pinedus Case (TV movie)
- 1959: 2x Adam - 1x Eva
- 1959: The death ship
- 1959: a thousand stars shine
- 1959: Penal Battalion 999
- 1960: The artificial silk girl
- 1960: heroines
- 1961: And that's called life
- 1961: The Complicated (TV Movie)
- 1961: The Oyster and the Pearl (TV movie)
- 1961: the hour you are happy
- 1961: In camera
- 1962: Tunnel 28
- 1962: Tevya and his daughters (TV movie)
- 1962: Der Rosenstock (TV movie)
- 1963: Preparations for a death (TV movie)
- 1964: Fog Killer
- 1964: The Man with the Top Hat (TV movie)
- 1964: Eurydice (TV movie)
- 1965: The houses of Mr. Sartorius (TV movie)
- 1965: At a train station near Dijon (TV film)
- 1965: The Candidate (TV movie)
- 1965: Das Landhaus (TV movie)
- 1965: Brooklyn Ballad (TV movie)
- 1966: The Pastor's Friends (TV movie)
- 1966: The Learned Women (TV movie)
- 1966: Where We Were Happy (TV Movie)
- 1966: Jacobowsky and the Colonel (TV movie)
- 1967: O'laherty (TV movie)
- 1967: is it good? Is he angry? (TV movie)
- 1967: All the riches of the world (TV movie)
- 1967: Sherlock Holmes - Six Times Napoleon (TV series)
- 1967: The Day the Children Disappeared (TV Movie)
- 1969: The Legacy (TV two-part)
- 1969: Escape to Egypt (TV movie)
- 1969: All dogs love Theobald - Barry and the butterflies
- 1969–71: Percy Stuart (TV series; 50 episodes)
- 1969: You Co-Write - Too Young To Be Old (TV series)
- 1969: You Co-Write - The Newspaper Seller (TV series)
- 1970: The Hostel (TV movie)
- 1970: A Quiet Home (TV Movie)
- 1970: Who's Next? (TV movie)
- 1970: Munich Central Station
- 1970: The Commissioner : The murder of Frau Klett
- 1970: Cancer ward (two-part TV series)
- 1971: News from Colebrook (TV movie)
- 1971: The strange adventures of the secret office secretary Tusmann
- 1972: The Commissioner : End of a Humorist
- 1973: All people become brothers
- 1974: You don't play with love (TV movie)
- 1974: Okay SIR - The counterpart
- 1978: Celia or the Overcomers (TV movie)
- 1980: Master Timpe (two-part TV series)
- 1981: Police Inspection 1 - The Night Guest (TV series)
- 1982: Somebody Has To Be The Stupid (TV Movie)
- 1982: Life in Winter (TV movie)
theatre
- 1947: L. Scheinin / Gebrüder Tur : Colonel Kusmin (German Communist) - Director: Robert Trösch ( Theater am Schiffbauerdamm Berlin )
Radio plays (selection)
- 1947: The strange city
- 1949: The deed and atonement of the student Radionomanowitsch Raskolnikoff
- 1949: The auditor
- 1949: George Bernard Shaw : The holy Johanna (Dauphin) - Director: Alfred Braun
- 1949: CB 200 secret file
- 1950: State secret
- 1950: three people
- 1950: the coat
- 1951: The lights are still on behind seven windows
- 1952: Jason's last night
- 1952: The gray one
- 1952: Aunt Voss
- 1953: Burned heart
- 1954: fear
- 1954: Tartuffe
- 1955: homecoming
- 1956: The house full of guests
- 1956: The star over the city
- 1956: As far as your feet can carry
- 1956: Ahasver
- 1957: America
- 1957: evening hour in late autumn
- 1958: focus
- 1958: Alexander in Athens
- 1959: The marriage
- 1959: Lohengrin
- 1960: Of rats and evangelists
- 1961: The suspension railway
- 1961: Eli
- 1961: The passenger
- 1961: Mr. Badin
- 1962: The foolish youth
- 1962: a burned-out case
- 1963: Allow me, my name is Cox - The Little Witch
- 1964: dreams
- 1964: Murder in Studio One
- 1965: The sound researcher
- 1967: Requiem for Josephine
- 1967: The certificate
- 1968: Salt roads
- 1969: The difficult task
- 1969: Dylan Thomas : Under the Milk Forest - Director: Raoul Wolfgang Schnell
- 1970: Faust - The third part of the tragedy
- 1970: Fahrenheit 451
- 1972: The game of chess
literature
- Frank-Burkhard Habel , Volker Wachter : The great lexicon of the GDR stars. The actors from film and television. Extended new edition. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-89602-391-8 .
Web links
- Alfred Balthoff in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Alfred Balthoff at filmportal.de
- DEFA star hours (with photo) ( Memento from February 10, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
- Alfred Balthoff in the German dubbing index
Individual evidence
- ↑ Fahrenheit 451 in the radio play archive of ARD ( Memento from July 24, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Balthoff, Alfred |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Berliner, Alfred |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actor and voice actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 8, 1905 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Peiskretscham , Upper Silesia |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 8, 1989 |
| Place of death | Vienna |