Heinz Petruo

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Heinz Petruo (born June 11, 1918 ; † November 12, 2001 in Coburg ) was a German broadcaster , actor , dubbing actor and dubbing director .

Life

Heinz Petruo began his artistic career as an actor. During the Second World War he was taken prisoner by the Soviets and suffered severe facial injuries from a branch, which is why he did not work as an actor again after his return to Germany. Instead, he began as a radio speaker , initially primarily in radio plays . Since 1951 he worked as a freelancer for the RIAS Berlin and summarized for the listeners a. a. Bundestag debates together. From 1954 until his retirement in 1981 he worked as a permanent newscaster at RIAS and with his announcement Hier ist Rias Berlin - a free voice of the free world, he developed into one of the most famous radio personalities on the border between the two German states, whose everyday togetherness he overlooks Annotated years on the radio. He always ended the news with the words: You heard the news, spoken by Heinz Petruo .

In film and television, he joined since the 1950s rarely in evidence and played minor roles in the Edgar Wallace - Mystery The Monster of Blackwood Castle and The Squeaker and the police series Directorate City .

In addition, he developed with his distinctive deep voice to one of the busiest voice actors of his time. Between 1953 and 1999 he dubbed internationally famous fellow actors such as Lee van Cleef (very often, including in the Western Barquero , Sabata and Zwei Glorious Scoundrels ), Charlton Heston ( year 2022 ... who want to survive ), Yul Brynner ( Adios, Sabata ), Sean Connery ( The Longest Day ), Burt Lancaster ( Entebbe ), Lloyd Bridges ( Roots , Battlestar Galactica ), James Coburn ( Maverick ), Glenn Ford ( Battle of Midway ), Richard Harris ( Hawaii ), Christopher Lee ( Bear Island in Hell of the Arctic ), Desmond Llewelyn (when he first appeared as Q / Major Boothroyd in James Bond 007 - From Moscow with Love ), Robert Shaw ( stops the subway 1-2-3 ), Max von Sydow ( The Quiller Memorandum ), Lino Ventura ( A Happy Year ), Richard Widmark ( The Domino Plot ) and Ricardo Montalbán ( Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan ). He achieved great popularity as a voice actor through the role of Darth Vader (originally James Earl Jones ) in the " Star Wars " trilogy by George Lucas .

His son Thomas Petruo was also an actor and voice actor. His granddaughter Vanessa Petruo became known as a singer through the girl group No Angels , which emerged from a casting show , and also works as an actress (including in the RTL series Wilde Engel or in the German comedy Wo ist Fred? ) And as a voice actress in several films.

Film and television (selection)

actor

Voice actor

Movies

Series

Radio plays (selection)

  • 1981: Michael Koser : Doctor Tschu Man Fu. Prof. Dr. Dr. Dr. van Dusen (episode 22) (Captain Ross from "Secret Service") - Director: Rainer Clute (RIAS Berlin)
  • 1984: Edelgard Abenstein / Werner Bäumel / Rainer Brieske / Günter Hermann / Detlef Klink / Wolfgang Schroeder / Xaver Schulze: It was the kangaroo and not the nightingale - director: Richard Hey (detective radio play - RIAS Berlin)
  • 1982: Michael Koser: The earth has him back. Prof. Dr. Dr. Dr. van Dusen (episode 24) (Lieutnant Gart) - Director: Rainer Clute (RIAS Berlin)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heinz Petruo. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on February 14, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Petruo, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German broadcaster, actor, dubbing actor and dubbing director
DATE OF BIRTH June 11, 1918
DATE OF DEATH November 12, 2001
Place of death Coburg