Herbert Weicker
Herbert Weicker (born September 4, 1921 in Darmstadt , † May 29, 1997 in Munich ) was a German actor and voice actor .
Life
Herbert Weicker played his first film role in Kurt Hoffmann's film The Lost Face in 1948 , where he won the Dr. Hasan embodied. In the 1950s and 1960s, a number of smaller supporting roles in films by directors such as Karl Georg Külb , John Reinhardt , Werner Jacobs , Yves Allégret , Harald Philipp , Rudolf Jugert , Jürgen Roland and Harald Reinl followed .
In 1954 Weicker had a small role as a bartender in Helmut Käutner's film Portrait of a Stranger . In 1957 he played the Hurtado in Kurt Hoffmann's film, Confessions of the Impostor Felix Krull, from Thomas Mann 's novel of the same name. In 1968 he slipped into the role of the ascetic in Karl Suter's comedy Bonditis . Since the early 1960s he also played in numerous roles in well-known and less well-known German television films.
Weicker was best known as the distinctive voice of Leonard Nimoy alias Spock in the US television series Raumschiff Enterprise and also in the subsequent successes of the Star Trek series in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. In total, he spoke the role 108 times in 23 years.
He dubbed the actor Herbert Lom in all episodes in which Lom played the Inspector Dreyfus in the Pink Panther series created by director Blake Edwards .
He also spoke often Sidney Poitier and Christopher Lee as well as numerous film and series roles in the 1960s to the 1980s, such as the 1966 Pirates Dirk Taylor ( Michel Charrel ) in the ZDF - Adventure Vierteiler Treasure Island or the Greens king in the adventure miniseries The Moon mold . He worked closely with Eberhard Storeck in particular ( Wickie and the Strong Men , Muppet Show and Die Fraggles ).
In addition to film dubbing, Herbert Weicker also spoke parts of the radio play production Der Weltensegler - what the makers call it, “audiophile event”.
This was his last work, shortly after the recordings he died on May 29, 1997 in a car accident in Munich. His grave is in the Munich North Cemetery .
Filmography (selection)
- 1948: The lost face
- 1950: The night without sin
- 1953: It's called love
- 1953: Street Serenade
- 1954: Portrait of a stranger
- 1955: Beloved enemy
- 1955: Oasis (Oasis)
- 1957: Confessions of the impostor Felix Krull
- 1958: Murder in the ring
- 1959: The Truth About Rosemary
- 1960: Blonde girls for Havana
- 1963: The Mississippi River Pirates
- 1964: Sergeant Dower must die
- 1965: Commissioner Freytag : Mrs. Tanner's will (TV series)
- 1966: Bonditis
- 1966: The night courier reports ...
- 1968: Count Yoster does the honors
- 1971: Chopin Express
- 1972: Strange Stories (TV Series, Episode 8: Three Hours of My Life )
- 1974: Tatort - 3-0 for Veigl
- 1976: The Whispering Death
- 1981: Death of a student
- 1982: Shalom Pharaoh
- 1985: Patrik Pacard
- 1985: Forget Mozart
- 1986: The stone of death
- 1992: The little ghost
As a speaker (selection)
- 1966: Treasure Island (voice actor for Dirk Taylor)
- 1967: The Snake Pit and the Pendulum (voice actor for Christopher Lee )
- 1982: Give the monkey sugar (voice actor for Adolfo Celi )
literature
- Thomas Groom : Herbert Weicker . In other words: Stars and their German voices. Lexicon of voice actors . Schüren, Marburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-89472-627-0 , p. 260
Web links
- Herbert Weicker in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Herbert Weicker in the German dubbing file
- Biography of Herbert Weicker on synchronsprecher.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Herbert Weicker in: Star Trek in Germany: How Captain Kirk Came to Germany , by Mike Hillenbrand, Thomas Höhl, Heel Verlag GmbH, 2008, page 236
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Weicker, Herbert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actor and voice actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 4, 1921 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Darmstadt |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 29, 1997 |
| Place of death | Munich |