Claus Wilcke

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Claus Wilcke (2008)
Claus Wilcke with Lore Duwe at a theater performance in Wuppertal (2016)

Claus Wilcke (born August 12, 1939 in Bremen ) is a German actor and voice actor .

Life

After training to be an actor, Wilcke received his first stage engagement from Albert Lippert in Bremen. Theater stations in Oldenburg , Lübeck , at the Münchner Kammerspiele , Aachen , Hamburg , Frankfurt and Bamberg followed .

In 1958 Wilcke made his film debut in Alfred Vohrer's feature film My 99 Brides . In the following years he played small roles in productions such as Via Mala (with Gert Fröbe ) and Freddy and the Millionaire (with Freddy Quinn ). He achieved nationwide fame through the film adaptation of the penny novel, first published in 1913, about the daring and daring millionaire Percy Stuart . Wilcke played the leading role between 1969 and 1972 in a total of 52 episodes of the television series of the same name . To this day, Wilcke is a constant guest in film and television productions (including SOKO 5113 , Der Alte , Die Männer vom K3 , Sylt stories and Balko ). At the beginning of the 1980s he took part in the Karl May Games in Bad Segeberg (1980 in the role of Juan Cortinez in In the Valley of Death ) and the Karl May Festival Elspe (1981 as Old Firehand ).

In addition, since 1959 he has been lending his distinctive voice as a voice actor to many internationally known fellow actors. He synchronized u. a. Warren Beatty ( Mrs. Stone's Roman Spring ), Terry Carter ( Battlestar Galactica ), George Hamilton ( Love at First Bite ), Rutger Hauer ( Mysteries ), Michael Landon ( Our Little Farm ), Elvis Presley (including Acapulco , Blue Hawaii ), Omar Sharif (among others Lawrence of Arabia ) and William Shatner ( The Abduction of the President ).

In addition, he spoke numerous roles for radio plays , for example King Julius 111. in the series Hui Buh or William Jacobs in The Cursed House by Edward Bulwer-Lytton in the Horror Cabinet series by Titania Medien, or in audio books such as Der Magnetiseur after Edgar Allan Poe or Sherlock Holmes - The House at the Blood Book according to Arthur Conan Doyle . Wilcke is also the spokesperson for the first season of Planet Earth .

Since November 2007 he can be seen in the commercial for Maggi Sonntagssuppe . From 2011 to 2012 he was seen on the television series Forbidden Love . In 2012 he made a brief guest appearance on Iron Sky .

Wilcke married for the fifth time in 2018. His children Nicolas Böll and Alexandra Wilcke are also active in the acting profession.

Awards

  • 1970 Bronze Bravo Otto
  • 1971 Bronze Bravo Otto
  • 1972 Golden Bravo Otto
  • 2005 Scharlih - the oldest award associated with Karl May for his work on Karl May radio plays

Filmography (selection)

As an actor

As a voice actor

Movies

Series

Ron Perlman as Vincent in Beauty and the Beast (TV series) 1987–1990

For Ian McElhinney on Ripper Street as Theodore P. Swift

Web links

Commons : Claus Wilcke  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Karl May Wiki [1]
  2. ↑ Elspe Festival Fanpage [2]
  3. ↑ dpa: Claus Wilcke married for the fifth time, in: t-online.de , May 9, 2019, online , accessed on July 6, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Wilcke, Claus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and voice actor
DATE OF BIRTH August 12, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen