Christian Weygand

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Christian Weygand (* thirtieth July 1967 ) is a German theater actor , voice actor , dialogue director and -author . He is best known as the German voice of Vincent D'Onofrio in Criminal Intent .

Career

Weygand attended the Zinner drama school in Munich and was active as a theater actor after graduating. His actual professional mainstay, however, was dubbing , which he joined through his school friend and theater colleague Matthias von Stegmann towards the end of the 1980s.

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Movies

Weygand's voice has been heard in many movies since the mid-1990s, for example in 1995 he spoke Christopher Eccleston in the British comedy Little Murders Among Friends , Anthony LaPaglia in Lifesavers , in 1997 he dubbed Jon Favreau in Swingers , and in 1999 Brendan Fraser in Eve and the last gentleman . In the political thriller Thirteen Days (2001), which describes the events of the Cuban Missile Crisis, he lent his voice to Steven Culp as Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy , in 2003 he was heard in the agent thriller Cypher for Jeremy Northam and in 2006 in the film comedies Bierfest for Paul Soter and in Happy endings for Steve Coogan . Other leading roles followed, for example he dubbed John Leguizamo in the disaster film The Happening (2008), Anatole Taubmann in the historical drama Die Päpstin (2009), Jay Mohr in the film drama Hereafter (2010), Benedict Cumberbatch in the Canadian-German thriller Whistleblower - In Dangerous Mission (2011 ) and Marton Csokas as the young Mossad agent Stephan in the agent thriller An Open Account (2011). In 2015 he again voiced Vincent D'Onofrio as Hoskins in the commercially successful science fiction film Jurassic World .

Series

Since the beginning of the 1990s Christian Weygand was offered leading series roles. From 1993 to 1994 he was heard as Neil Winters in the US soap Shadow of Passion , in 1994 for Matt LeBlanc in the sitcom Verducci and Son , a spin-off from A Terribly Nice Family , from 1998 to 1999 for Eddie Cibrian as Cole Deschanel in Sunset Beach . In 2004 he took on the role of Detective Robert Goren, played by Vincent D'Onofrio , in the primetime series Criminal Intent , other leading roles in crime series were for Michael Cudlitz as Frank Rogers in Standoff (2008), for Noah Bean as David Connor in Damages (2008–2010), for Daniel Sunjata (as Franco Rivera) in Rescue Me (2009–2012). Since 2012 he has also spoken the role of Dean Pelton in the sitcom community .

Cartoon / Anime

He also set animated characters to music, so he had his first episode appearance in the German version of the cartoon series Die Schnorchels in the late 1980s. In the comic series New Spider-Man , which was broadcast on RTL from 1994 to 1998, he spoke the protagonist Peter Parker and in the children's series Masako Nozawa (as 'Bumpety Boo', the yellow one) in Bumpety Boo - the little yellow super speedster (1995) you could hear him as a talking car. In 1999 he took on the supporting role of Mr. Hankey in the satirical animation series South Park .

Dialogue script and direction

He first worked as a dialogue director for the voice recordings for the American animated series New Spider-Man from 1994 to 1998, where he also spoke the protagonist. The German versions of the films 9 Songs (2004), I will always know what you did last summer (2006), Pumpkinhead: Asche zu Asche (2007), Outsourced - Auf Umwegen zum Glück (2008), were created under his direction , Adventureland (2009) and From Paris with Love (2010) as well as the series Rescue Me (2006–2012), Damages - Im Netz der Macht (2008–2010) in which he also plays the role of David Connor, Zeke and Luther (since 2010), as well as the prime-time series Hawthorne (2010-2011) and White Collar (since 2011).

He gave stage directions on the basis of his self-written dubbing books, among others for the films Michael Bay's Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003), Street Style (2004), Invisible - Between Two Worlds (2007) and Winter Solstice - The Hunt for the Six Signs of Light (2007) and the series Worst Week (2011) and Sue Thomas: FBI (2011–2012).

Audio productions

Christian Weygand appeared in Die rosarote Brille in summer 2009 as a member of the live radio drama group “HörSpieler München” . He also took part in the live radio play Sherlock Holmes , which was performed in June 2011 in the "Bavaria Music Studios".

He was recruited as a radio play speaker by the publishing house Titania Medien in 2012. In the horror cabinet radio play series he spoke in episode 61 The Ring of Thoth by Arthur Conan Doyle and in episode 63 Obsessed by Robert E. Howard .

Weygand was also involved in the audio editing of computer games . In 2001, the PC game Aquanox appeared in German retail as the successor to the submarine computer simulation Creeping , in which he spoke the main character, the mercenary Emerald "Dead-Eye" Flint. In the video game Criminal Intent for the series of the same name , which was published in Germany in 2007, he could be heard again as Detective Robert Goren.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Speaker Christian Weygand. Titania Medien, accessed July 15, 2012 .
  2. ↑ a b c d radio player Munich - actors. hoerspieler-muenchen.de, accessed on July 14, 2012 .
  3. ↑ Sherlock Holmes - Live radio play on June 24th. Live Listener Munich, accessed on July 16, 2012 .
  4. ↑ AquaNox: Credits. mobygames.com, accessed July 16, 2012 .
  5. ↑ Criminal Intent - With professional dubbing. looki.de, April 23, 2007, accessed on July 15, 2012 .
personal data
SURNAME Weygand, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater actor, voice actor, dialogue director and writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 30, 1967