Heinz Engelmann (actor)

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Heinrich Georg Ludwig "Heinz" Engelmann (born January 14, 1911 in Berlin ; † September 25, 1996 in Tutzing ) was a German actor and voice actor .

Life

After graduating from high school , he first worked as a businessman and came to film in the 1930s . During National Socialism he was featured as an angular, blond man in propaganda films with titles such as Pour le Mérite (1938), Drei Unteroffiziere (1939) and U-Boats westward! (1941) used. Engelmann was actually a soldier from 1941 and was taken prisoner by the US . In 1946 he continued his acting career in film and theater . Engelmann became particularly well known from the 1950s onwards as a commissioner in the successful television series Stahlnetz (director: Jürgen Roland , screenplay : Wolfgang Menge ) and Das Kriminalmuseum . In the 1960s he was one of the most successful German series actors (including young man on an old farm , forester Horn , four women in the house ). During this time he made an advertisement for the Overstolz cigarette brand . In the early 1970s, his career in front of the camera petered out.

The actor, who was increasingly suffering from health problems at the time, was kept afloat by his extremely distinctive voice. Engelmann was one of the busiest German voice actors between 1951 and 1996 (he had his last role - according to "Synchro-Forum" - in 1996 as a spokesman for "Law & Order"). He dubbed John Wayne (with whom he also had a striking mimic similarity; inter alia in Alamo, To the Last Man or The Intrepid ), William Holden ( inter alia in Ashanti, The Last Command or Sabrina ), Stewart Granger ( inter alia in Old Surehand and Under Vultures ), Randolph Scott (including in Thundering Hooves or His Colt Was Faster ), Gregory Peck (including Bravados or Far Land ) and Gary Cooper (including in The Man from the West or the Bloody South ). As a voice actor (including Dr. med. Marcus Welby , The Man in the Mountains ) and as an author (translation of dialog scripts) he also worked for television ( Bonanza , Waltons ).

Heinz Engelmann probably had his last TV appearance on November 1, 1984 in the ARD anniversary show Wer bin ich? . He performed together with TV greats like Rudi Carrell , Heidi Kabel , Hans-Joachim Kulenkampff , Jürgen Roland and the original team from Was bin ich? So Marianne Koch , Annette von Aretin , Guido Baumann , Hans Sachs and Robert Lembke .

Engelmann's first wife was the actress and voice actress Gertrud Meyen . Heinz Engelmann died on September 25, 1996 after a long illness of heart failure . He was buried in the new cemetery in Tutzing , Starnberg district in Bavaria .

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Advertising face for Overstolz , accessed on September 25, 2011
  2. Hörzu 43/1984
  3. knerger.de: The grave of Heinz Engelmann