Frank Röth

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Frank Röth (born July 7, 1959 in Weinheim ) is a German actor , voice actor and author .

Live and act

Frank Röth was born and raised in Weinheim an der Bergstrasse. After graduating from high school in 1978 at the Old Electoral High School, he was followed by 15 months in the Bundeswehr in Mittenwald . He then studied veterinary medicine for three semesters , then several semesters of German , theater studies and history in Munich . There he came into contact with the film and theater industry and trained as an assistant editor . At the same time, he took acting lessons from Wolfgang Büttner and trained in language and singing with Erika Zeiß.

His career began at the age of 25. In the absence of interesting offers for actors, he quickly produced his first film himself. In addition to the script, he also took on the lead role in the post-war drama Kolp - Black Market, Swing and Big Dreams . He cast the remaining roles with his - then still unknown - friends Katja Flint , Heiner Lauterbach and Ottfried Fischer , while he assigned the direction to Roland Suso Richter . There were no fees, but invitations to various film festivals and the entrance ticket to the film business. In 1985 Kolp was the official German contribution to the Semaine de la Critique series at the Cannes Film Festival . In the same year, the then Federal German Minister for Family Affairs, Rita Süssmuth Kolp, awarded the German Youth Video Prize .

Movie and TV

Röth played in more than 100 national and international television and cinema productions. In 1988, he was in the American MGM - Series Dirty Dozen to see and in the second home , the second part of the home trilogy by Edgar Reitz , 1992 he was one of the protagonists. He is also a frequent guest in episodes in series such as Tatort , Der Alte or SOKO 5113 . The short fiction film Goosebumps , in which Röth played the leading role, received the Golden Leopard as best newcomer film at the Locarno Film Festival . Outsourcing , another short film in which Röth played the lead role, was also shown at various international festivals and received several awards, including the renowned Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Short Film Award in 2006 .

In 2011 Frank Röth played in the BR / Arte / ORF production of Europe last summer , directed by Bernd Fischerauer . The film describes the immediate events before the outbreak of the First World War, in which Frank Röth plays Chancellor Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg in a leading role . Röth played continuous roles in Der Dicke , which has continued under the title Die Kanzlei since Dieter Pfaff's death , and in the ZDF series Lotta &… as Meinolf Brinkhammer , the father of the protagonist Lotta ( Josefine Preuß ). In 2014 he played the role of the public prosecutor Joachim Foers in the series Blochin - Die Lebenden und die Toten under the direction of Matthias Glasner .

synchronization

Frank Röth has worked as a voice actor for more than 1000 films and series, such as Professor Remus Lupine ( David Thewlis ) in the Harry Potter film adaptations, Det.Stabler ( Christopher Meloni ) in the series Law & Order: New York (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit), Philippe Pozzo di Borgo François Cluzet in the film Pretty Best Friends , Abraham Lincoln ( Daniel Day-Lewis ) in Steven Spielberg's film Lincoln , Martin Rohde ( Kim Bodnia ) in the series Die Brücke - Transit in den Tod , President Garrett Walker ( Michel Gill ) in the series House of Cards , as VM Varga (David Thewlis) in the series Fargo or Richard Lintern as Dr. Thomas Chamberlain in the series Silent Witness (from season 17).

In autumn 2006 he supported the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra on several evenings as a speaker (together with Julia Stemberger and Frank Arnold ) on the occasion of the concert event Mozart 1791 - The Path to Requiem

theatre

After a long absence from theater since his beginnings in Munich cellar theaters, Frank Röth played the role of Ortwin von Metz in the play The Last Days of Burgundy in the summer of 2007 at the Nibelungen Festival in Worms, directed by Dieter Wedel .

author

Together with his friend and colleague Philipp Moog , he wrote various episodes of the ZDF crime series Sperling and Der Alte . They also developed the successful RTL youth series SK-Babies , for whose first season they received a Grimme Prize nomination.

The duo's first play, Cleopatra's Needle , premiered on January 14, 2010 in the Schlosspark Theater Berlin. The main roles were played by Cosma Shiva Hagen and Ingrid van Bergen . “Cleopatra's Needle” has been staged several times in Germany, Austria and Switzerland and has been translated into other languages.

Filmography (selection)

Synchronous rollers (selection)

Daniel Day-Lewis

  • 2012: as Abraham Lincoln in Lincoln

Benoît Poelvoorde

Mark Rylance

Christopher Meloni

David Arquette

  • 1996: as Deputy Sheriff Dwight 'Dewey' Riley in Scream
  • 2000: as Dwight 'Dewey' Riley in Scream 3
  • 2011: as Sheriff 'Dewey' Riley in Scream 4

David Thewlis

François Cluzet

Hippolyte Girardot

Ulrich Thomsen

Audio productions

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personal data
SURNAME Röth, Frank
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, voice actor and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH July 7, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Weinheim , Baden-Württemberg , Germany