Fritz Ley

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Fritz Wilhelm Ley (born March 23, 1901 in Berlin ; † December 1980 ) was a German stage and film actor as well as a voice actor .

Live and act

The son of the businessman Hermann Ley first attended secondary school, then a commercial school and finally an acting school. Ley started working at a touring theater shortly after the end of the First World War and performed in German provincial cities such as Gleiwitz, Lüneburg and Freiburg im Breisgau in the following years. A guest tour even took him to the German Theater in Milwaukee. Back in Berlin, Fritz Ley could be seen briefly at the Barnowsky Theaters, the Hebbel Theater and, most recently, at the beginning of the 1930s, for a season at the Berlin Theater on Kommandantenstrasse. Renewed tours also brought Ley together with Paul Wegener . In these early years Ley also worked in one or the other silent film, beginning with Nju , the production that gave the young Elisabeth Bergner and her in-house director Paul Czinner the breakthrough. Ley's film roles were consistently small.

At the beginning of the 1930s, Fritz Ley created a second, professional pillar and began to devote himself intensively to synchronizing work. In the war years (first half of the 1940s), when there was hardly any dubbing in the Reich, he temporarily returned to the theater and was again hired for touring stages, this time used to support the troops. After 1945 Fritz Ley resumed dubbing and became the German voice of well-known Anglo-American colleagues such as Henry Fonda , James Mason , Cary Grant , Boris Karloff , Karl Malden and Alan Ladd in individual films . But he also loaned lesser-known actors such as Hugh Williams (in Quiet Happiness Comes to You ), Frits van Dongen (in Girls in the Spotlight ), Paul Stewart (in The Eerie Window ), Barton MacLane (in Tarzan Is Hunted ) and Brian Donlevy (in chains around Cape Horn ) his German voice. Fritz Ley hardly appeared in front of the camera.

Filmography

Radio plays (selection)

literature

  • Johann Caspar Glenzdorf: Glenzdorf's international film lexicon. Biographical manual for the entire film industry. Volume 2: Hed – Peis. Prominent-Filmverlag, Bad Münder 1961, DNB 451560744 , p. 989 f.

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personal data
SURNAME Ley, Fritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ley, Fritz Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor for stage and film voice actor
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH December 1980