Gottfried Kramer

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Gottfried Kramer (born May 3, 1925 in Hamburg ; † May 30, 1994 ) was a German actor , dubbing and radio play speaker .

actor

Kramer appeared in TV series such as Permit, My Name Is Cox and Hafenkrankenhaus in the 1960s . This was followed by a smaller role in the multi-part series The Gentlemen Ask To Cashier , in the feature film Perrak and in the television series Tatort and Onkel Bräsig . In various other television films, Kramer mostly had smaller, rather insignificant roles.

Filmography (selection)

Voice actor

Kramer had a very distinctive grating voice that became his trademark. For example, he became known as the voice of Oskar on Sesame Street . His most important synchronous works include:

Films (selection)

Series (selection)

Gottfried Kramer spoke various roles in the American sci-fi series The Six Million Dollar Man and The Seven Million Dollar Woman . He also dubbed the cartoon series Piggeldy and Frederick , in which he speaks both characters and the narrator. This series gained cult status in the 1970s and 1980s and is still occasionally broadcast as a story in Our Sandman today .

Radio play speaker

  • 1964: Statistics - Director: Hans Rosenhauer
  • 1965: The ghost ship in Dagger Bay - Director: Otto Kurth
  • 1965: Diamonds make you happy - author and director: Harald Vock
  • 1965: The Dragon Slayer - Director: Hans Bernd Müller
  • 1966: Philoctetes (based on Sophocles ) - Director: Fritz Schröder-Jahn
  • 1966: The disappointment (based on Siegfried Lenz ) - Director: Fritz Schröder-Jahn
  • 1967: Telephone counseling - Director: Jiri Horcicka
  • 1967: The Bridegroom - Director: Fritz Schröder-Jahn
  • 1967: The Wild Eye - Director: Heinz Hostnig
  • 1967: Die Geschworen - Director: Hans Rosenhauer
  • 1967: Pastorale 67 (by Otto Heinrich Kühner ) - Director: Fritz Schröder-Jahn
  • 1967: Death and Life in Severinian - Director: Heinz von Cramer
  • 1968: Forbush and the Penguins - Director: Hans Rosenhauer
  • 1970: Company Tick-Tack - Director: Hans Rosenhauer
  • 1970: Without End - Director: Fritz Schröder-Jahn
  • 1971: The assassination attempt on the horse of the Brazilian Joao Candia Bertoza - Director: Fritz Schröder-Jahn
  • 1976: Grandma Berne unpacks or something, my boy, now you know that too - Director: Hans Rosenhauer
  • 1979: Sheep headphones - Director: Heinz Hostnig
  • 1980: Great expectations (three-part series based on Charles Dickens ) - Director: Hans Rosenhauer
  • 1981: Kleine Freiheit or Kiez - Director: Gerlach Fiedler
  • 1981: A Christmas Memory (based on Truman Capote ) - Director: Hans Rosenhauer
  • 1985: Conversation in the sky - Director: Günter Bommert
  • 1986: The biscuit giant - author and director: Ursula Krechel
  • 1989: Im Moos - Director: Stephan Schwartz
  • 1994: Be my brain - author and director: Albrecht Kunze

Thanks to his distinctive voice, he was also a welcome guest in the radio play studios of the Hamburg record label Europa . Among other things, he inspired the fans of the Macabros series as the demon prince Molochos. One of his greatest roles was that of Captain Haddock in the Tintin series , which, however, appeared on Maritim . He also took on the role of narrator in "Columbus and Son" (also published by Maritim). He had many other roles in various radio play series, such as B. in:

Other activities

In 1989 Kramer lent his voice to the music project Der Komtur . In the techno song he recited text passages from the work The Black Spider by Jeremias Gotthelf .

He also gave his voice to the world's largest mobile flume. Even today, more than twenty years after his death, you can still hear his greeting voice at various fairs. In Heide-Park Soltau he welcomes the guests at the “Wichtelhausenbahn” as the parrot Cora and speaks “Wumbo” in the local electronic bird theater (the pitch of the voice was set a little higher here).

death

On May 30, 1994, Gottfried Kramer, who was always withdrawn, passed away by suicide because he could not get over the death of his wife Johanna.

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personal data
SURNAME Kramer, Gottfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, voice actor and actor in many radio plays
DATE OF BIRTH May 3, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH May 30, 1994
Place of death Hamburg