Holger Hagen

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Holger Hagen (born August 27, 1915 in Halle (Saale) , † November 16, 1996 in Munich ) was a German actor and voice actor .

Life

As the son of the art historian and opera conductor Oskar Hagen and the opera singer Thyra Leisner, Hagen came to the USA on September 4, 1924 . He graduated from the University of Wisconsin in Madison with an acting degree and made his debut on Broadway .

In 1945, in contrast to his younger sister Uta Hagen , who also became an actress, he returned to Germany as an officer in the US Army . Here he was theater and music commissioner for the US military government until 1948 . Afterwards, Holger Hagen started acting again himself; he appeared on the theaters of Frankfurt am Main , Hamburg , Berlin and Munich.

In the early 1950s, Hagen began his extensive work as a voice actor. He loaned Richard Burton  (e.g. in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? ), James Garner  ( Broken Chains ), William Holden  ( The Wild Bunch ), Burt Lancaster  ( Violence and Passion ), Dean Martin  ( Rio Bravo ), Marcello Mastroianni  ( 8½ ) and Tony Randall  ( Marrakech ) his distinctive but unobtrusive voice. Over the years, Holger Hagen has dubbed more than 200 film and at least as many series roles. In the US western series Big Valley , for example, he spoke Richard Long as Jarrod Barcley . In Raumschiff Enterprise he can be heard as a speaker in the opening credits (“Space, infinite widths ...”), in the classic film Casablanca he can be heard as the narrator at the beginning of the film. He acted as a narrator in the Oscar-winning documentary Serengeti Must Not Die by Michael and Bernhard Grzimek and in The Funny World of Animals by Jamie Uys .

In addition to dubbing, Holger Hagen remained active as an actor, also in film and television. In Der Hauptmann von Köpenick  (1956) he can be seen in a small role. His other films include Secret Files M  (1960) and Treason on Orders  (1962) starring William Holden.

Hagen was married to actress Bruni Löbel since 1971 , with whom he also appeared several times on stage and on television (e.g. in the pilot for the ZDF series Das Traumschiff ). Hagen is buried in Rattenkirchen , Ramering / Mühldorf am Inn district, next to his wife in an urn grave on his farm.

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SURNAME Hagen, Holger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and voice actor
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Halle (Saale)
DATE OF DEATH November 16, 1996
Place of death Munich