Eberhard Mellies

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Eberhard Mellies (born June 8, 1929 in Schlawe , Pomerania ; † December 12, 2019 ) was a German actor , radio play speaker , voice actor and director .

life and career

Eberhard Mellies was born in Schlawe in June 1929. In 1938 the family moved to Stolp . His younger brother was Otto Mellies (1931-2020), who was also an actor and voice actor. Eberhard Mellies was drafted towards the end of the war; his mother, sister and their children committed suicide after the Red Army marched into Stolp in March 1945. His brother Otto Mellies only survived by chance and came to Schwerin after 1945 via Wismar and Freistatt . During this time he and his brother worked among other things as a groom for Russian soldiers.

Eberhard Mellies completed his studies at the State Drama School in Schwerin. He then worked from 1950 to 1960 at the Mecklenburg State Theater in Schwerin as an actor and director. This was followed by engagements at the Volkstheater Rostock (1960/61 and from 1966 to 1969) and from 1961 to 1965 he played at the Maxim-Gorki-Theater in Berlin.

In the 1960s he worked as a lecturer at the Rostock drama school. From 1960 he also worked as an actor for film and television and from 1969 belonged to the Ensemble of the German Television Broadcasting Corporation (DFF). In the DEFA film Spring Needs Time (1965) he played the non-party engineer Heinz Solter under the direction of Günter Stahnke . The fact-based film was banned shortly after it premiered. In addition to his work as an actor and director, he also lent his voice to international actors in over 1,000 speaking roles in cinema and television for over 60 years, including Jean Marais , Pjotr ​​Glebow , Gene Hackman , Jean Gabin and Michel Piccoli . His last dubbing was the role of the character Hershel Greene (played by Scott Wilson ) in 32 episodes of the popular American end-time series The Walking Dead .

He was married to the actress Ruth Langer-Mellies (born September 4, 1921 in Liegnitz , Lower Silesia; † July 1, 2014). The daughters Petra and Marion come from this marriage. Eberhard Mellies died on December 12, 2019 at the age of 90. He was buried in Rostock in January 2020 .

Filmography (selection)

theatre

Radio plays

Synchronous rollers (selection)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ We remember in Newsletter 6/2019 of the DEFA Foundation
  2. ↑ Otto Mellies: On a beautiful summer morning ... Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-360-01997-4 . (books.google.de , accessed April 29, 2020)
  3. ↑ Otto Mellie's biography at defa-stiftung.de ; accessed on April 28, 2020.
  4. ↑ Briefbrücke, interview article with Eberhard Mellies, FFdabei (as a supplement to TV TODAY), No. 9/97 (April 26-May 9, 1997), p. 6.
  5. ↑ Obituary in the Berliner Zeitung from 26./27. July 2014.
  6. ↑ F.-B. Habel : The word worker: Actor Eberhard Mellies found the last rest in Rostock on jungewelt.de on January 22, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Mellies, Eberhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, radio play speaker, voice actor and director
DATE OF BIRTH June 8, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Slack
DATE OF DEATH December 12, 2019