Horst Gentzen

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Horst Gentzen (born March 14, 1930 in Berlin ; † August 9, 1985 there ) was a German actor and voice actor .

Life

Between 1946 and 1949 Horst Gentzen took acting lessons at Leonore Ehn's school in Berlin. In 1946 he made his theatrical debut as a little stoker in Marcel Pagnol's Der goldene Anker in the Schlosspark-Theater in Berlin, where he also received his first stage engagement from 1946 to 1948. From 1949 he played for two years with Lil Dagover in a touring theater.

As early as 1947 he made his feature film debut alongside Paul Dahlke in And we'll find each other again ... While he appeared as a theater actor mainly on West Berlin stages, he also worked in the film in the DEFA productions in the eastern part of the city, such as in Once is never directed by Konrad Wolf and in Slatan Dudow's drama Our daily bread . In addition, he played in some comedies by the director and cabaret artist Hans Deppe in the West , but also one of Horst Buchholz 's friends in Endstation Liebe (based on the model by Will Tremper ). From the 1960s, the film and television appearances of the always youthful Gentzen became rare. Instead, he shifted his artistic focus from stage and film more and more to another area of ​​performance, work as a speaker.

As early as 1952 he worked as a spokesperson for RIAS radio productions and worked primarily in the dubbing of foreign films. Due to his high-pitched, sometimes pecking voice, he was predestined for comedic roles and is known to a wide audience, especially as the German standard speaker of Jerry Lewis and as the voice of Kermit the frog from the Muppet Show (Kermit was spoken by Andreas von der Meden on Sesame Street ) known. In a recast of the dubbing of We Are From the Scottish Infantry Regiment (1966) he dubbed Stan Laurel . He also lent his voice to numerous prominent actors such as Roman Polański ( Dance of the Vampires ), Danny DeVito ( Scalawag ), Gérard Depardieu ( The Dominici Affair ), Gene Wilder ( Quackser Fortune has a cousin in the Bronx ) and Peter Lorre (in the Recast Casablanca and Adventure in Panama as well as in his eight films as detective Mr. Moto ). In the Beatles' first two films , A Hard Day's Night (1964) and Help! (1965), he spoke to Ringo Starr .

He achieved one of his greatest successes with his participation in the 7th James Bond film in 1971 ( Diamond Fever ), for which he lent Mr. Kidd, a killer played by Putter Smith , his voice.

One of his last works was the dubbing of the British comedian Kenneth Williams for new versions of some comedies in the carry-on… film series , which ZDF broadcasted between 1984 and 1986 in a loose series under the title Ist ja crazy… . Horst Gentzen Williams lent his distinctive voice for the first seven films in the series, then he had to be replaced by Stefan Behrens .

Horst Gentzen died of cirrhosis of the liver in his hometown of Berlin in 1985 at the age of 55 . He was buried in the Schöneberg III cemetery in Berlin-Friedenau . The grave is no longer there.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fried Park Cemetery Schöneberg III - Horst Gentzen. In: berlin.friedparks.de. Retrieved March 25, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Gentzen, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and voice actor
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH August 9, 1985
Place of death Berlin