Dirk Galuba

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Dirk Galuba (born August 28, 1940 in Schneidemühl , Pomerania Province ) is a German actor and voice actor .

education

Dirk Galuba grew up in Bremen and graduated from high school there . He then began studying medicine at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster , which he soon broke off in favor of studying drama. He then studied German literature and theater studies for four semesters before attending the Westphalian Drama School in Bochum .

Dirk Galuba has been married to an Italian for the third time since April 2019, has no children and lives near Munich .

Career

Galuba received his first stage engagement at the Schauspielhaus Bochum . This was followed by permanent theater positions at the theater of the city of Heidelberg and on the stages of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck until 1974 . His stage roles during this time included u. a. Ferdinand in Cabal and Love , Orsino in What You Will and Templar in Nathan the Wise . Since then, Galuba has been working as a freelance actor. He had other theater engagements at the Komödie Berlin (1977), at the Fritz-Rémond-Theater im Zoo in Frankfurt am Main , at the Kleine Komödie München (1979 and 1982), at the Düsseldorfer Kammerspiele (1982; in Play Macbeth by Pavel Kohout ) and at Theater Essen (1985; title role in Philoctet by Heiner Müller ). In 1981/1982 he appeared in a touring production alongside Maria Schell in the play Elisabeth von England by Ferdinand Bruckner .

Galuba has also been a busy performer in film and television since 1969. He played Ole Peters in the Schimmelreiter adaptation by Alfred Weidenmann , in Lili Marleen directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder and in five films from the Tatort series with the detective Flemming , Koch and Ballauf den Kriminalrat Tejung. In addition, he had numerous guest appearances in television series such as Mit Leib und Seele , Die Schwarzwaldklinik , In allerfreund , Ein Fall für Zwei , Der Alte , SOKO 5113 , Der Bulle von Tölz and in Steven Spielberg's historical miniseries Band of Brothers .

Galuba is known to a wide audience primarily for his portrayal of dodgy and unscrupulous characters, as embodied in a total of twenty-two episodes of the crime series Derrick and in the Sat.1 series Die Rote Meile as Kiez-König Kastor. In now over 3,300 episodes (as of January 2020) he has played the hotel director Werner Saalfeld in the ARD - Telenovela Sturm der Liebe since September 2005.

synchronization

In addition, Galuba lent his deep voice as a voice actor a. a. Malcolm McDowell (in I Spy ) , Bubba Smith , Fred Ward (in Road Trip ) and David Clennon (in The Agency - In the crosshairs of the CIA ) . He gave the character Nago in Hayao Miyazaki's anime film Princess Mononoke his voice as well as the tyrannical ruler of the kingdom of Drumm, King Wapol , in the anime series One Piece .

For a while he also spoke the voices of the cartoon characters Drederick Tatum and Fat Tony in The Simpsons .

Filmography (selection)

Theater (selection)

Radio plays

literature

  • Langen Müller's Acting Dictionary of the Present. Germany. Austria. Switzerland . Albert Langen. Georg Müller Publishing House. Munich Vienna 1986, p. 289, ISBN 3-7844-2058-3

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personal data
SURNAME Galuba, Dirk
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and voice actor
DATE OF BIRTH August 28, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Schneidemühl , Province of Pomerania