Kaspar Eichel

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Kaspar Eichel (born November 27, 1942 in Berlin ) is a German actor and voice actor .

Life

Family and education

Kaspar Eichel's father was the writer Wito Eichel (1913–2002), later artistic director of the DEFA studio for dubbing and director of artistic training at the Babelsberg film school . From 1960 to 1963, Kaspar Eichel completed an acting training at the State Drama School in Berlin-Schöneweide , from 1981 the "Ernst Busch" Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin .

theatre

He had his first theater engagement from 1963 to 1968 at the miners' theater in Senftenberg . Here he stayed for three seasons, where he played the title role in Hamlet and Truffaldino in the comedy The Servant of Two Masters . After a season at the Hans Otto Theater in Potsdam , he was engaged at the Deutsche Theater Berlin (1968–1970). In the following years, Eichel played repeatedly on stages in Berlin, a. a. at the Maxim-Gorki-Theater (1972–1975), at the Theater im Palais (1976–1979), at the Small Stage “Das Ei” (1980–1983) and at the Schauspielhaus Berlin (1987–1989; in the Fritz Kreisler Review If the dog ).

In 1990 he took over the monk in Götz von Berlichingen at the Jagsthausen Castle Festival . In 1991/1992 Eichel performed with Theatermanufaktur Berlin in the Schaubühne on Halleschen Ufer . There he played the executioner in An Angel Comes to Babylon (1991) and the Emperor in Brecht's Turandot or The Congress of the White Washer (1992). In the 1993/1994 season he was a guest chamberlain in Die Wildente (director: Katja Paryla ) at the Schillertheater Berlin . In 2004 he appeared at the Comödie Dresden , at the side with Helga Piur and Renate Blume , in the tabloid play The girlfriend of my wife by Ralph Wiener ; Eichel also went on tour with this piece .

Eichel has been working as an actor and director at the Berlin Criminal Theater since 2001 . He appeared there in the Agatha Christie classics Die Mausefalle (as Paravinci), Witness for the Prosecution (in various roles) and in Ten Little Negroes (as Judge Wargrave).

Film, television, dubbing

In 1964 he played the main role, the cobbler boy Klaus, in the DEFA fairy tale film The Golden Goose . He had bigger roles in the 1965 film adaptation of the novel, Deep Furchen, and in the film drama Berlin around the corner , which could not be shown in the GDR until 1987. Eichel has been part of the actors' ensemble of German TV broadcasters since 1969 . After the fall of the Berlin Wall he was also featured in West German television productions. He took on continuous series roles, recurring episode roles and guest roles. From 2002 to 2009 he had a constant series role as Fischer Dietmar in the ZDF series Hallo Robbie! .

Eichel also works as a voice actor. He dubbed Franco Nero , James Doohan , Ron Rifkin and Rick Warden as well as William Shatner in the movie Ab through the hedge . In 2007, Eichel replaced Robert Redford's longtime spokesman Rolf Schult in Von Löwen und Lammern . This decision was made by a US supervisor who found Schult, who had already dubbed the first trailer, "unsuitable". After Schult's death in 2013, Eichel has already dubbed Redford in four films and is now his new regular speaker. Kaspar Eichel is also the new spokesman for Patrick Stewart , for example as Charles Xavier in the films Wolverine: Weg des Kriegers , X-Men: Future is Past and Logan - The Wolverine .

Filmography (selection)

Synchronized work (selection)

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theatre

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Computer games

literature

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personal data
SURNAME Acorn, Kaspar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film actor and voice actor
DATE OF BIRTH November 27, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin