Heinz Giese

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Heinz Giese (born June 5, 1919 in Stettin , † October 19, 2010 in Berlin ) was a German actor and voice actor .

life and work

Heinz Giese was the son of the Stettin merchant Carl Giese and his wife Gertrud. After graduating from high school, he attended the drama school of the Deutsches Theater in Berlin, and in 1939 he made his debut at the Stadttheater Fürth . He played at the Städtische Bühnen Nürnberg from 1940 to 1945. At the end of the Second World War he was taken prisoner of war. After his release in 1947, he went to the Erfurt City Theater . From 1950 he played in the stands in Berlin.

Heinz Giese has appeared in film and television since 1952. Initially in smaller roles, for example in the war film July 20 from 1955, after several Shakespeare film adaptations for television, Giese became a popular supporting and character actor in the ambitious documentaries and theater adaptations of the 60s and 70s, including as a witness in The investigation according to Peter Weiss . His sonorous voice, coupled with its upright, respectable appearance predestined him for striking supporting roles, and until 1983 was followed by numerous television appearances, including in the role of German national in Egon Monk's film The siblings Oppermann and the defense in the miniseries farmers, big shots and bombs to Hans Fallada . After 1983 there is only work as a voice actor.

Heinz Giese was active in the dubbing industry since 1947 at the latest. By the mid-1990s he was heard in almost 500 different film roles, for example for Yul Brynner in The Magnificent Seven or Taras Bulba , as the standard voice for George Nader until 1958, for George Kennedy in The Dirty Dozen or for Arthur Kennedy in Lawrence of Arabia . He spoke u. a. for Jean Marais or Joey Bishop , but from the mid-1970s Giese shifted the focus of his work to series dubbing; TV viewers know him as the German voice of Howard Keel in his leading role as Clayton Farlow in the cult series Dallas . He also spoke Kevin McCarthy in The Colbys , Cesar Romero in Murder Is Her Hobby and Trio with Four Fists , Johnny Cash in Torches by Storm and many other well-known actors and the like. a. in Matlock , Hotel , Love Boat , The Waltons , Hawaii 5-0 and most importantly Bonanza . He also spoke Raymond Burr as Perry Mason both in the first dubbing of the series from the 60s, as well as standard in the television films of the 80s and 90s.

Heinz Giese was also often heard in radio play productions. In addition to his work for the radio, he was the regular spokesman for the popular children's series Bibi Blocksberg and Benjamin Blümchen . Even after he said goodbye to film and television dubbing in 1995, Giese spoke the role he began in 1980 and 1985 until 2007 and 2008. Generations of radio play fans will remember him as a dumb, but no less know-it-all and slightly corrupt mayor of Neustadt.

Heinz Giese was married to the actress Ingeborg Wellmann , who occasionally appeared at his side on television and in the radio plays mentioned. Heinz Giese died on October 19, 2010 at the age of 91. He was buried in the Zehlendorf forest cemetery in Berlin-Nikolassee (field 032, community of rest).

Filmography (selection)

theatre

Radio plays (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary in the Berliner Tagesspiegel from October 24, 2010
  2. ↑ German synchronous index: German synchronous index | Voice actor | Heinz Giese. Retrieved May 13, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Giese, Heinz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gies, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH June 5, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Szczecin
DATE OF DEATH October 19, 2010
Place of death Berlin