Klaus Kindler

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Klaus Kindler (born January 1, 1930 in Heidelberg ; † April 16, 2001 in Pfaffenhofen an der Ilm ) was a German actor and voice actor . Kindler was, among other things, the standard voice actor for Clint Eastwood for decades .

life and career

After attending an acting school in his hometown of Heidelberg, Kindler made his debut in 1950 as Georg in Götz von Berlichingen at the Wiesbaden State Theater. This was followed by appearances on the stages of Hamburg, Dortmund and, from 1954, at the Deutsches Theater Göttingen under Heinz Hilpert . Initially subscribed to the youthful lover ( Romeo , Leonce , Mortimer ), roles like Andres in Woyzeck were later part of his repertoire.

From 1960 onwards, Klaus Kindler withdrew more and more from the stage. The modern theater did not meet his expectations, neither did German film at the time. He now concentrated almost exclusively on dubbing foreign films. Actors he dubbed frequently include Clint Eastwood (in For A Fistful Of Dollars , For A Few Dollars More, And All The Films From 1976 To Kindler's Death), Al Pacino (e.g., in Carlito's Way and The Scent Of Women ), Steve McQueen (e.g. in Broken Chains and Papillon ), George Segal (e.g. in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? ), Jean-Paul Belmondo (e.g. in Adventure in Rio ), and Alain Delon (e.g. in The Ice Cold Angel ). In the first James Bond film, Dr. No he spoke Sean Connery , in the western series Big Valley he lent both Lee Majors and - 25 years later - Richard Long his voice, in the western series The People of the Shiloh Ranch he was mainly heard as Trampas ( Doug McClure ). In the television series Nikita , Kindler was the voice actor for Don Francks for the first three seasons . Until 2005 he could be heard in a radio commercial for Liebherr refrigerators. He also gave the character Gruffi his voice from 1985 to 1991 in the children 's series Disney's Gummy Bear Gang.

In between, however, Kindler occasionally took on roles on television. In the multi-part series The Fifth Season , he himself was dubbed by his colleague Siegfried Rauch , as he had a better command of the necessary Tyrolean dialect.

Klaus Kindler was married to the actress Monika Dahlberg .

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SURNAME Kindler, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and voice actor
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidelberg
DATE OF DEATH April 16, 2001
Place of death Pfaffenhofen on the Ilm