Gig Malzacher
Gig Malzacher (born July 4, 1931 in Oberwihl ; † August 17, 1980 ) was a German actor , voice actor and television producer .
Life
Gig Malzacher started his professional career as a journalist before learning to be an actor at the Otto Falckenberg School in Munich . He began his career as a cabaret artist, between 1964 and 1966 he played the leading role as Günther Wieland in 42 episodes of the series Der Nachtkurier reports… . This was one of the few works by Malzacher in front of the camera, mainly as a producer for what was then Südwestfunk , including some crime scene episodes.
In addition, Malzacher had been a busy voice actor since the late 1950s. He became popular in particular as the German voice of Larry Hagman in the series Beaubergende Jeannie .
Malzacher died of a heart attack in Austria at the age of 49. He was married to the actress Renate Redetzky-Malzacher and had two sons, of whom Axel (* 1962) also works as an actor and mainly as a voice actor and dialogue director.
Gig Malzacher is not identical to the actor Gunther Malzacher (1929–1995), even if the IMDb film database lists Gig Malzacher as another name of Gunther Malzacher and mixes the two films together.
Filmography
As an actor
- 1964–1966: The night courier reports ...
As a director
- 1978: My fat friend
As a producer
- 1970: Who's Next?
- 1970: To dictation, Miss Smith
- 1970: The Minister and the Duck
- 1972: Tatort - When stones speak
- 1972: Nasrin or The Art of Dreaming
- 1973: The philanthropist
- 1973: The crime scene - Cherchez la femme or the ghosts of Mummelsee
- 1973: Don't fall into Swan Lake
- 1974: just an affair
- 1974: Tatort - playback or the show goes on
- 1975: The passed out horse
- 1975: Crime scene - death of a burglar
- 1976: Grandpa Schulz
- 1977: the chain
- 1977: Tatort - Finder's reward
- 1978: robbers and gendarmes
- 1978: The unicorn
- 1978: Tatort - The man on the high seat
- 1979: The iron Gustav
- 1980: Tatort - The yellow petticoat
Synchronous roles
Movies
- 1959: Ricky Nelson in Rio Bravo
- 1959: Serge Rousseau in Maigret shows no mercy
- 1959: Gene Reynolds in Land of the Wicked (1st dubbed version)
- 1960: Frankie Avalon in He came, saw and conquered
- 1960: Giampiero Littera in Stop the bomb, darling
- 1961: Michael Callan in The Mysterious Island
- 1961: Mario Valdemarin in Deadly Vengeance
- 1962: Jacques Charrier in The Eye of Evil
- 1963: Don Spruance in The Merciless Killer
- 1969: William Henry in The Skinny Man
Series
- Lars Göran Carlson in holidays on the island of crows (unknown number of episodes)
- Larry Hagman in The Charming Jeannie (139 episodes)
- Gary Vinson in pistols and petticoats (26 episodes)
- Wally Cassell in Railway Detective Matt Clark (an episode)
- Jack Grimes in No Case for FBI (an episode)
- Warren Oates in West of Santa Fe (an episode)
- Robin Hunter in Richard the Lionheart (various episodes)
- Joseph Cuby, Edward de Souza , Charles Houston and David Saire each in an episode by Simon Templar
Web links
- Gig Malzacher in the Internet Movie Database (only the series Der Nachtkurier reports ... identifies Gig Malzacher as a performer.)
- Gig Malzacher in the German dubbing index
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b biography on steffi-line.de , accessed on May 21, 2016
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Malzacher, gig |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actor, voice actor and television producer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th July 1931 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Oberwihl |
| DATE OF DEATH | 17th August 1980 |