Andrew Sachs

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Sachs in 2004
Andrew Sachs' voice (English)

Andrew Sachs (born April 7, 1930 in Berlin , † November 23, 2016 in London ) was a German - British actor .

Life

Sachs was born in Berlin as Andreas Siegfried Sachs . His family fled to England in 1938 to escape the Nazi persecution of the Jews .

Sachs is known for his role as Manuel, the Spanish waiter in the sitcom Fawlty Towers (1975 and 1979) and has occasionally been heard as a narrator of television and radio documentaries and audio books. He was married to Melody Lang, who appeared in an episode of Fawlty Towers , Basil the Rat, as Mrs. Taylor. His stepson is John Sachs , former Capital Radio DJ and Gladiators commentator, a 1990s game show. Andrew's brother Thomas Sachs now lives in Toronto .

From 1984 to 1986, Sachs played Father Brown on a BBC radio series based on the stories of Gilbert Keith Chesterton . Sachs spoke all the voices in the English version of Jan Švankmajer's film Faust .

Sachs has also appeared on many children's television programs such as William's Wish Wellingtons, Starhill Ponies, and AlfTales. He has also been the narrator in several television documentaries, including ITV's … From Hell series and the Eyewitness videos.

In 2002 and 2004 he played the Dr. John Watson in two seasons of new Sherlock Holmes stories for BBC Radio 4 , in which Clive Merrison played the famous detective. These episodes were broadcast as The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and are available on CD and MC.

On April 9, 2006, Sachs appeared in the BBC Radio 4 adaptation of the classic The Code of the Woosters as Jeeves with Marcus Brigstocke as Bertie Wooster.

He also had guest appearances on at least two "unusual" BBC series. In a role related to his work in Fawlty Towers , he was the hotel manager in the 1977 film Are You Being Served? . He later starred in the audio version of the Doctor Who story Shada, which was produced by Big Finish Productions , as Skagra .

Andrew Sachs has released four singles as Manuel. The first was Manuel's Good Food Guide in 1977 , in a photo sleeve with Manuel on the cover. Andrew Sachs contributed by writing or adapting the lyrics. The second single was O Cheryl in 1979 with the Ode to England on the B-side. It was recorded under the name Manuel and Los Por Favors . The lyrics are by Andrew Sachs and B. Wade.

In 1981 Manuel released a cover version of Joe Dolce's UK number one hit Shaddap You Face under the same title. On the B-side was Waiter, there's a Flea in my Soup. Andrew Sachs also translated Shaddap You Face into Spanish. Dolce objected and his intervention delayed the single. It reached number 138 on the British charts.

Joe Dolce noted, however, that Manuel's cover version was the third best for him, namely after the Aboriginal version he wrote with the help of an Aboriginal elder, and an Italian version that Joe Dolce for "out of this world" - "not of this world ”.

In October 2008, messages perceived as obscene on Sachs ' answering machine, left by moderators Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross , in which Brand boasted that he had had sex with Sachs' granddaughter Georgina Baillie , caused a lot of media coverage and led to the leave of absence Moderators, a public debate in which Prime Minister Gordon Brown took part , and an Ofcom investigation.

Web links

Commons : Andrew Sachs  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tammy Hughes, Clemmie Moodie: Fawlty Towers star Andrew Sachs dies 86: Widow pays emotional farewell as she reveals his secret four-year battle with dementia - and how she almost died caring for him . Mail Online , December 1, 2016, accessed December 4, 2016.
  2. ^ The Jewish Chronicle (ed.): Variety Club - Jewish Chronicle color supplement "350 years" . December 15, 2006, pp. 28-29.
  3. ^ Brand and Ross suspended by BBC . BBC , October 29, 2008, accessed December 4, 2016.
    Matthew Taylor: 'Living this way makes me happy'. The Guardian , October 30, 2008; archived from the original on November 2, 2008 ; accessed on November 1, 2008 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Sachs, Andrew
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sachs, Andreas Siegfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-British actor
DATE OF BIRTH April 7, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 23rd November 2016
Place of death London