Douglas Welbat

Douglas Welbat (born April 25, 1957 in Berlin ) is a German film producer , actor , director , voice actor and screenwriter . He is also the managing director of movieCompany and Zipfelmützenfilm GmbH .

Life

Welbat is the son of the actor couple Alexander Welbat and Siegrid Hackenberg . He is married to the actress Katja Brügger . The couple have a son named Daniel Welbat , who works as a blues-rock musician, film composer and voice actor.

After graduating from high school in 1975, Welbat took three years of acting lessons from Karl Paryla . In 1981 he wrote the screenplays for the Dan Shocker novel series Larry Brent and Macabros together with Katja Brügger and Bertram von Boxberg . These were implemented as radio plays by the Europa label under the direction of Heikedine Körting . The tapes became a great success, although (or precisely because) Welbat included humorous elements in the scripts that were not present in the novels. However, the brutality in some episodes came under fire. This even resulted in a Larry Brent radio play ( The Snakeheads of Doctor Gorgon ) being indexed . From 2000 both series were reissued in a censored form and some new episodes were produced, in which Welbat was no longer involved. He also lent the inspector his voice in the radio plays for the children's book series Kommissar Kugelblitz by Ursel Scheffler .

Among other things, Welbat was also in many episodes of the series The three ??? can be heard, including episodes 34, 35, 55, 56, 96, 125 and 164. Today he is known as the spokesman for the Cookie Monster on Sesame Street , which his father Alexander had lent the voice 30 years earlier. Welbat also speaks commercials for radio and television.

He also works as a voice actor. He lent his voice u. a. William Hurt ( King of Queens: Psycho-Kisten ), Richard Karn (in the first dubbed version of Listen, Who Hammers ) and Rolf Lassgård in the Wallander films.

Filmography (selection)

As an actor

• 1975: Blameworthy & Wolff
• 1978: Winterspelt 1944
• 1979: a chapter of its own
• 1982: St. Pauli Landungsbrücken
• 1985: The Black Forest Clinic
• 1985: Those Drombuschs
• 1993: Bella Block: The Commissioner
• 2000: forklift driver Klaus
• 2003: crime scene - fathers
• 2003: The Duo - Silent Death
• 2004: 7 dwarfs - men alone in the forest
• 2006: 7 dwarfs - the forest is not enough
• 2010: father Morgana

As a screenwriter

• 1994: Hello, Uncle Doc!
• 1997: Wild times
• 2014: The 7th dwarf

As a producer

• 2004: 7 dwarfs - men alone in the forest
• 2006: 7 dwarfs - the forest is not enough
• 2010: father Morgana
• 2014: The 7th dwarf

Radio plays

• Elisabeth Herrmann : Schlick . Director: Sven Stricker . Radio-Tatort , NDR 2010.

Audio books

• Ursel Scheffler : Commissioner Kugelblitz : The yellow suitcase , Audio Media Verlag, ISBN 978-3-95639-265-8

Web links

• Douglas Welbat in theInternet Movie Database(English)
• Douglas Welbat in the German dubbing file
• Douglas Welbat in Hörspielland
• Literature by and about Douglas Welbat in the catalog of the German National Library