Arnold Marquis

Arnold Marquis (born April 6, 1921 in Dortmund , † November 24, 1990 in Berlin ) was a German actor and voice actor . He was one of the busiest German voice actors and synchronized with his distinctive voice a. a. John Wayne , Robert Mitchum , Richard Widmark , James Coburn and Kirk Douglas regularly.

Life

Marquis graduated from the drama school attached to the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus by theater director Louise Dumont . The Schauspielhaus Bochum hired him as an understudy. During the Second World War he was drafted into the Wehrmacht . After 1945 he went to Berlin. There he appeared in productions by Boleslaw Barlog at the Schlosspark Theater in Berlin-Steglitz .

A year later he took on his first dubbing role at the Berlin-based Phoenix-Synchron , which was to be followed by over 1,400 more. Marquis was due to its unmistakable timbre a. a. the German voice of Humphrey Bogart , John Wayne , Robert Mitchum , Kirk Douglas , Richard Widmark , James Coburn , Charles Bronson , George C. Scott , Anthony Quinn , Yves Montand , Lino Ventura , Trevor Howard , Bourvil , Bud Spencer , Geoffrey Keen , Jack Klugman , Lee Marvin , Lionel Stander , Max from the TV series Hart but cordially and James Arness as Marshal Matt Dillon in the TV series Smoking Colts .

Marquis' identification with his dubbing projects was extraordinary. Sound engineers who worked with him reverently called him and his colleague Gert Günther Hoffmann "kings of voice actors". After the death of John Wayne in 1979 he produced at Wayne honor the Single John Wayne, the hero in the chant , he called him "the greatest of the Cowboys, John Wayne, my friend."

Theater engagements took him to Munich , Frankfurt am Main , Hamburg and finally back to Berlin. In addition to the Schlosspark Theater , he appeared at the Renaissance Theater , in the Comedy on Kurfürstendamm and in the stands . In the 1940s he was seen in the DEFA productions And again 48 and Quartet to five . In several Asterix cartoons, e.g. B. Asterix - Victory over Caesar , Arnold Marquis lent his deep voice to the druid Miraculix . In the Star Wars saga he spoke the rebel admiral Ackbar and in Grisu, the little dragon , he gave his voice to the dragon Fumé.

His distinctive voice has also been used in numerous radio plays. In 1973 he spoke a leading role in the modern radio play classic "Demolition", one of the first productions in artificial head stereophony . In the 1970s he appeared in several Raymond Chandler crime novels. There he mostly played the main role of the investigator, but occasionally also other roles. In the radio play thriller by Hans Gruhl he took on the role of Commissioner Nogees ("Nogees with two E").

Marquis' last appearance as an actor was in the film Otto - Der Ausserfriesische , in which he plays the Baron von Platt . In 1990 he died of lung cancer and was buried in the Dahlem forest cemetery. The grave has since been abandoned.

Arnold Marquis was married three times. He had a daughter.

Radio plays

• 1955: Rudolf Bayr : Agamemnon must die (Agamemnon) - Director: Hans Conrad Fischer (radio play - SFB )
• 1956: Heinz Oskar Wuttig : Der Nachtprinz - director: Curt Goetz-Pflug (radio play - SFB )
• 1958: Dieter Meichsner : On the way to D. (Oberleutnant Zimmermann) - Director: Curt Goetz-Pflug (radio play - SFB)
• 1964: Hans Gruhl : Take a seat and die - Director: Curt Goetz-Pflug
• 1965: Hans Gruhl: Five dead old ladies - Director: Curt Goetz-Pflug
• 1966: Hans Gruhl: The fourth scalpel - Director: Curt Goetz-Pflug
• 1969: Hans Gruhl: The Last Visite - Director: Friedhelm von Petersson
• 1971: Heim zu Beulah - Director: Hermann Naber
• 1973: Target - Director: Hermann Naber
• 1973: Demolition - Director: Ulrich Gerhardt
• 1983: The Dead in the Lake - Director: Hermann Naber
• 1986: Richard Hughes : Danger - Director: Bärbel Jarchow-Frey ( original radio play - RIAS )

Filmography (selection)

• 1948: And again 48
• 1949: Quartet of five
• 1953: ... and now sails ahead of the wind (TV)
• 1953: little brother and sister
• 1954: The devil rides in 3rd class (TV)
• 1954: John Walker writes to his mother (TV)
• 1954: News from the sixth floor (TV)
• 1955: The Titanic's Last Night (TV)
• 1955: The Bad Men (TV)
• 1955: A handful of shillings (TV)
• 1956: No death is so sweet (TV)
• 1957: Midnight (TV)
• 1961: An eyewitness (TV)
• 1962: Theory and Practice (TV)
• 1971: The lustful Turk
• 1973: Crime scene : Cherchez la femme or the ghosts from Mummelsee (TV series)
• 1976: Everyone dies for himself alone
• 1977: Three ladies from the grill - Episode 2: Hurdles
• 1987: Crime scene : Death in the elephant house (TV)
• 1989: Otto - The Extra-Frisian

Synchronous rollers (selection)

Bourvil

• 1956: as Marcel Martin in Zwei Mann, ein Schwein und die Nacht von Paris
• 1961: as Dumont / Mathieu / Toine / Martial in All Gold in this World
• 1967/1974: as Augustin Bouvet in Drei Bruchpiloten in Paris
• 1969: as Monsieur Dupont in the Monte Carlo rally
• 1969: as Anatole in Das Superhirn

Brian Keith

• 1964: as Paul Barton in Three Girls in Madrid
• 1966: as Jonas Cord in Nevada Smith
• 1966: as Alexander Bowen in Rancho River
• 1966: Coming to Die Russen as Chief Link Mattocks ! The Russians are Coming!
• 1968: as Jake Iverson in The Man in Mammi's Bed
• 1977: as HJ Cobb in Nickelodeon
• 1985–1986: as Milton C. Hardcastle in Hardcastle & McCormick (TV series)

Bud Spencer

• 1969: as Hutch Bessy in Four for an Ave Maria
• 1978: as a mosquito in you called him mosquito
• 1979: as Sheriff Hall in Der Große with his alien little one
• 1979: as Tom in The Crocodile and His Hippo
• 1980: as inspector "Flatfoot" Rizzo in Flatfoot on the Nile
• 1981: as Buddy in A Fist Goes West
• 1982: as Bud Graziano in The Bomber
• 1984: as Greg Wonder / Antonio Coimbra de la Coronilla y Azevedo in Four Fists against Rio
• 1986: as a ghost in Aladin

Charles Bronson

• 1962: as Lew Nyack in Kid Galahad - Hard Fists, Hot Love
• 1964: as Janos Colescou in Die Unbrechlichen (TV series)
• 1967: as Joszef Wladislaw in The Dirty Dozen
• 1968: as Franz Propp in Bei Bullen, friends don't "sing"
• 1968: as Harry Starr in Bonanza (TV series)
• 1968: as Earl Clayton in FBI (TV series)
• 1974: as Paul Kersey in A Man Sees Red
• 1975: as Nick Colton in The Man Without a Nerve
• 1977: as Wild Bill Hickok in The White Buffalo
• 1982: as Paul Kersey in The Man Without Mercy

Darren McGavin

• 1964: when Sam meets Warden in The Last Bullet
• 1970: as Peter Kilian in affair in Berlin
• 1990: as Bill Brown in Murphy Brown (TV series)
• 1991: as General Fleming in Captain America

Ernest Borgnine

• 1969: as Dutch Engstrom in The Wild Bunch - You knew no law
• 1975: as Santuro in Streets of the Night
• 1984: as Fletcher in Secret Code: Wild Geese
• 1984: as Ben Robeson in Never Say Again Indio
• 1989: as Colonel Tom Cody in Jake and McCabe (TV series)

Fred Gwynne

• 1985: as Franklin Spender in Wasser - The Film
• 1987: as Arthur in A Fateful Affair
• 1987: as Donald Davenport in The Secret of My Success
• 1989: as Jud Crandall in the cuddly toy cemetery

Geoffrey Keen

• 1954: as a policeman in Die fierige Isabella
• 1954: as Dean in Aber, Herr Doktor ...
• 1955: as Ernie, "Ike" in A Woman comes on board
• 1956: as Colonel Burleigh in In the Talons of the Gangsters
• 1959: as Graham in The Black Museum
• 1972: as judge Thayer in Sacco and Vanzetti

George C. Scott

• 1964: as General Turgidson in Dr. Strange or: How I Learned to Love the Bomb
• 1967: as " Tank" Martin in hands off my wife
• 1970: as Gen. George S. Patton Jr. in Patton - rebel in uniform
• 1971: when Harry Garmes rushes the pack in Wen
• 1973: as Dr. Jake Terrell in Dolphin's Day
• 1981: as General Harlan Bache in The Cadets of Bunker Hill
• 1984: as John Rainbird in The Fire Devil

Georges Wilson

• 1960: as a spiritual in the sacrifice of a nun
• 1969: as Francesco Cenci in The Naked and the Cardinal
• 1971: as chief inspector in Das Mädchen und der Kommissar

Jack Palance

• 1957: as Jacob Wade in Der Einsame
• 1961: as Torvald in Barabbas
• 1969: as Fidel Castro in Che!
• 1969: as pastor Josiah Galt in The Death Rider
• 1970: as Chet Rollins in Monte Walsh
• 1971: as John in Zwei Companeros
• 1972: as Sonny Bronston in Hallelujah ... Amigo
• 1973: as Buck Santini in Te Deum - every blow is a blow
• 1976: as Robert Preston in Africa Express
• 1988: as Lawrence G. Murphy in Young Guns

James Coburn

• 1963: as Cpl. Henshaw in Biting the Grass
• 1963: as Tex Pantholow in Charade
• 1967: as Lewton Cole in waterhole no.3
• 1973: as sheriff Pat Garrett in Pat Garrett, Billy the Kid chases
• 1980: as Nick Casey in Der Abstauber

Jason Robards

• 1968: as Cheyenne in Play Me a Song of Death

John Wayne

• 1958: as Col. Jim Shannon in jet fighters
• 1959: as Col. John Marlowe in The Last Command
• 1962: as General William T. Sherman in That Was the Wild West
• 1962: as Sean Mercer in Hatari!
• 1962: as Lt. Col. Benjamin Vandervoort in The Longest Day
• 1962: as Tom Doniphon in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
• 1964/1968: as Thomas Dunson in Red River
• 1964: as George Washington McLintock in MacLintock
• 1964: as Matt Masters in Circus World
• 1965: As a Roman on the cross in The Greatest Story of All Time
• 1969: as Marshall Reuben J. "Rooster" Cogburn in The Marshal
• 1970: as John Simpson Chisum in Chisum
• 1970: as Col. Cord McNally in Rio Lobo
• 1971: as Jacob McCandles in Big Jake
• 1972: as Wil Andersen in The Cowboys
• 1973: as Lane in Dirty Gold
• 1973: as US Marshal JD Cahill in Geier know no mercy
• 1974: as Det. Lt. Lon McQ in McQ strikes
• 1975: as Lt. Jim Brannigan in Brannigan - A man of steel
• 1975: as Rooster Cogburn in With Dynamite and Pious Sayings
• 1976: as John Bernard Books in The Last Sniper
• 1986: when John Wayne lives in number 5!
• 1988: as voice John Wayne in number 5 does not give up

Joseph Cotten

• 1957: as Kirk Denbow in The Day of Retribution
• 1966: as Kenneth Regan in ... because nobody is without guilt
• 1968: as Colonel Jonas in Die Grausamen
• 1971: as Dr. Vesalius in The Cabinet of Horrors of Dr. Phibes
• 1984: as Paternò in Flash Solo

Kirk Douglas

• 1958: as Einar in The Vikings
• 1960: as Marshal Matt Morgan in Gun Hill's Last Train
• 1960: as Spartacus in Spartacus
• 1961: as Brendan "Bren" O'Malley in El Perdido
• 1962: as John W. "Jack" Burns in Lonely are the brave
• 1964: as Col. Martin "Jiggs" Casey in Seven Days in May
• 1965: as Commander Paul Eddington Jr. in First Victory
• 1966: as Gen. George S. Patton Jr. in Is Paris Burning?
• 1966: as Col. David "Mickey" Marcus in The Giant's Shadow
• 1967: as Lomax in The Powerful
• 1967: as Sen. William J. Tadlock in The Road to the West
• 1968: as Jim Schuyler in The Fastest Path to the Hereafter
• 1971: as Will Denton in The Light at the End of the World
• 1971: as Will Tenneray in Death's Rivals
• 1972: as Steve Wallace in An Honorable Man
• 1975: as Howard Nightingale in Men of the Law
• 1976: as Hershel Vilnofsky in Entebbe
• 1979: as Kaktus Jack in Kaktus Jack
• 1983: as Carl "Buster" Marzack in headhunting
• 1986: as Archie Long in Archie and Harry - you can't help it

Lee Marvin

• 1966: as Det. Lt. Frank Ballinger in Dezernat M (TV series)
• 1969: as The Americans in Hell we are
• 1973: as Ace No. 1 in A Train for Two Scoundrels
• 1976: as Col. Flynn O'Flynn in Roar to the devil
• 1979: as Colonel Harry Wargrave in Avalanche Express
• 1983: as Jack Osborne in Gorky Park
• 1986: as Col. Nick Alexander in Delta Force

Lino Ventura

• 1963: as Fernand Naudin in My Uncle, the Gangster
• 1964: as El Lutos in Cordoba
• 1964: as Francis Lagneau in Recipes for Murder by the Barbouzes
• 1965: as Alphonse Maréchal in Ganoven settle accounts
• 1966: as Pascal Fabre in The Skin of the Other
• 1966: as Antoine Beretto in Take it easy, take dynamite
• 1966: as Gustave "Gu" Minda in The Second Breath
• 1967: as Roland in The Adventurers
• 1973: as Ralf Milan in Die Filzlaus
• 1975: as Julien in The Marriage Cage
• 1976: as Inspector Amerigo Rogas in Power and its Price
• 1980: as Inspector Brunel in The Terror of Medusa
• 1986: as dad in Law of Terror

Lionel Stander

• 1961: as a narrator in Explosion of Silence
• 1968: as Monk in The Gates of Paradise
• 1972: as Mangafuoco in Pinocchio
• 1977: as Doctor Higgins in The Redcoats
• 1978: as Mamy in The Hill of Bloody Boots
• 1983–1990: as Max in Hart but cordially (TV series)
• 1989: as Enzo Della Testa in Cookie
• 1990: as Max in Das Model und der Schnüffler (TV series)

Piero Lulli

• 1964: as Red in That Was Buffalo Bill
• 1967: as Collins in Lanky Fellow - The Lonely Avenger
• 1967: as Oaks in Kill, Django
• 1969: as El Tigre in Django - crosses in the bloody sand
• 1970: as Sam Spencer in Django and Sabata - like bloody vultures
• 1973: as sheriff in My Name Is Nobody

Richard Boone

• 1957: as Frank Usher in Um Kopf und Kragen
• 1970: as Ward in The Letter to the Kremlin

Richard Widmark

• 1950: as Harry Fabian in The Rat from Soho
• 1950: as Lt. Cmdr. Clinton "Clint" Reed in Under Secret Orders
• 1952: as Cliff Mason in The Fire Jumpers of Montana
• 1959: as Johnny Gannon in Warlock
• 1960: as Jim Bowie in the Alamo
• 1961: as Michael Reynolds in Secret Paths
• 1961: as Col. Tad Lawson in The Judgment of Nuremberg
• 1961: as First Lt. Jim Gary in two rode together
• 1964: as Rolf in the Viking raid
• 1964: as Captain Thomas Archer in Cheyenne
• 1966: as Captain Eric Finlander USN in an incident in the Atlantic
• 1968: as Madigan in Just 72 Hours
• 1969: as Marshal Frank Patch in Frank Patch - your hours are numbered
• 1974: as Ratchett / Cassetti in Murder on the Orient Express
• 1977: as Thomas Hoyt in a roller coaster
• 1978: as Dr. George A. Harris in Coma
• 1978: as Major General Thalius Slater in The Deadly Swarm
• 1979: as Otto Gerran in Bear Island in the Hell of the Arctic
• 1984: as Ben Caxton in Against Every Chance

Robert Mitchum

• 1960: as Charles Delacro in Front of House Friends Is Warned
• 1962: as Max Cady in A Bait for the Beast
• 1964: as Rod Anderson, Jr. in Always With Another
• 1966: as Sheriff JP Harrah in El Dorado
• 1968: as Albert in The Woman from Nowhere
• 1968: when Lee Arnold rides in Pancho Villa
• 1968: as Rev. Jonathan Rudd in Mortal Enemies
• 1970: as Marshal James Flagg in The Last of the Red River
• 1972: as Father Oliver Van Horne in To the Devil with Hosanna
• 1976: as Pat Brady in The Last Tycoon
• 1976: as Vice Adm. William F. "Bull" Halsey Jr. in Battle for Midway
• 1979: as Major Rogers in Steiner - The Iron Cross II
• 1988: as Preston Rhinelander in The Spirits I Called ...

Trevor Howard

• 1958: as Captain Chris Ford in The Key
• 1958: as Morel in The Roots of Heaven
• 1960: as Walter Morel in Sons and Lovers
• 1962: as Capt. William Bligh in Mutiny on the Bounty
• 1962: as John Bullit in Patricia and the Lion
• 1965: as Professor Lindemann in the Crossbow secret operation
• 1965: as Major Statton in Morituri
• 1965: as Major Eric Fincham in Von Ryan's Express
• 1965: as Mostyn in L - The Silent One
• 1967: as Young in Der Kampf
• 1967: as an official Mr. X in spy between 2 fronts
• 1969: as Air Vice-Marshal Keith Park in the Battle of Britain
• 1970: as Father Collins in Ryan's daughter
• 1971: as William Cecil in Maria Stuart, Queen of Scotland
• 1973: as The Inspector in The Uncanny Visitor
• 1973: as Colonel Azarin in The Man of Metal
• 1973: as Lt. Cartwright in His Life in My Power
• 1976: as Lt. Silkin in battle in the clouds
• 1978: 1st Elder in Superman
• 1979: as Sir Michael Hughes in Meteor
• 1980: appearing as Jack Cartwright in The Sea Wolves
• 1982: as Judge Broomfield in Gandhi
• 1982: as Lord Henry Ames in The Missionary
• 1985: as Sir Albert Demerest in Love Boat (TV series)

Walter Barnes

• 1963: as Bill Jones in Winnetou 1st part
• 1964: as Baumann bear hunter in Unter Vultures
• 1965: as Bill Campbell in The Oil Prince
• 1966: as Mac Haller in Winnetou and the half-breed Apanatschi
• 1968: as Insp. Fred Lancaster in I'll Blow You All Up - Inspector Blomfield's Case # 1
• 1976: as Weatherby in Bonanza (TV series)
• 1977: as Foster in Another Man - Another Woman
• 1977: as a Ranger Tucker in Day of the Animals
• 1987: as Daniel Coleman in Stingray (TV series)

Yves Montand

• 1955: as Michel Rivière in The Heroes Are Tired
• 1966: as Diego in The War Is Over
• 1969: as Baron Cèsar de Maricorn in Pack the tiger fast by the tail
• 1969: as Z in Z
• 1970: as Artur London in The Confession
• 1970: as Jansen in four in the red circle
• 1972: as Philip Michael Santore in The Invisible Uprising
• 1975: as Martin in The Beautiful Wilds
• 1977: as Henri Savin in wages of the giants
• 1979: as Henri Volney in I for Icarus
• 1979: as Michel in A Woman's Love

Movies

• 1959: Jack Lambert as Tex in Outlaw Day
• 1959: Harry Andrews as Baltor in Solomon and the Queen of Sheba
• 1962: John Anderson as Jeremiah Burns in The Last Command
• 1965: Harry Andrews as Sgt. Major Bert Wilson in A Pile of Great Dogs
• 1966: Harry Andrews as Sir Gerald Tarrant in Modesty Blaise - The Deadly Lady
• 1976: as Mr. Engineer in Mr. Rossi is looking for happiness
• 1982: Paul Frees as Der Kater in The Last Unicorn
• 1983: as Admiral Ackbar in Return of the Jedi
• 1986: John Anderson as Arliss in Lance - Never Die Young

Series

• 1972–1973: as KHK Rautenberg in special department K1
• 1977: as Fumé in Grisu, the little dragon
• 1980: Claude Bertrand as a block in Once upon a time ... man
• 1987-1990: Tony Jay as John "Paracelsus" Pater in Beauty and the Beast
• 1990: Howard Duff as Harrigan in Charlie's Angels
• 1990–1993: as a guard in Alfred J. Kwak

Discography

• 1979: John Wayne, the Hero (Polydor 2042 159)

literature

• Martin Zehren: The voice of the rough legs. (Portrait of Arnold Marquis on his 90th birthday), in: Westfalenspiegel , issue 2/2011, p. 58.

Web links

• Arnold Marquis in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Arnold Marquis at filmportal.de
• Arnold Marquis in the German dubbing file
• Arnold Marquis in the voice actor database

Individual evidence

1. ^ German synchronous index , accessed on December 25, 2017
2. ↑ knerger.de: The grave of Arnold Marquis (accessed on February 17, 2017)