Lutz Mackensy

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Lutz Werner Mackensy (born March 11, 1944 in Hameln ) is a German actor , radio play and voice actor .

Life

theatre

After leaving school, Mackensy attended the Max Reinhardt School for Drama in Berlin . There he made his stage debut at the Schiller Theater under Boleslaw Barlog in Valentin Petrovich Katajews Squaring the Circle . Various engagements followed in Berlin, Hamburg and Wilhelmshaven .

Movie and TV

Mackensy made his feature film debut in Alfred Vohrer's My 99 Brides in 1958 . It would be almost ten years before he shifted his artistic focus more and more to film and television productions. First, predominantly occupied in comic roles, Mackensy could in literary films like Fyodor Dostoevsky's demons and Martin Stade The king and his jester , stage adaptations, like Schiller's Intrigue and Love and productions such as Egon Monk's border-Drama price of freedom and Reinhard Hauff The brutalization of the Franz Blum an deliver a significantly wider range of his skills. Nevertheless, Mackensy remained loyal to comical and parodistic characters, such as in Otto - The Film . Mackensy is also a popular guest in television series. He played in Tatort , Polizeiruf 110 , Unser Charly , These Drombuschs and Rosa Roth . In the science fiction series The Andro Hunter , he played the lead role of the lovable, bumbling alien who searches for androids on earth in order to send them back to their home planet. In the series checkout please! He also played the main role as a stressed store manager of a supermarket. He also played recurring roles in the ZDF series Der Landarzt and Stubbe - From Case to Case , in which he has been making life difficult for the main character Stubbe ( Wolfgang Stumph ) since 1995 as the meticulous and arrogant Bernd Zimmermann . He played a similar role as a self-righteous and inadequate superior as Kriminalrat Iversen in the ARD series Großstadtrevier .

radio play

In addition, Lutz Mackensy is active as a speaker and is involved in numerous radio plays for young people, for example he worked for Europe as a leading role in Flash Gordon and had appearances in the radio play series TKKG and Die drei ??? . He is the constant narrator in the radio plays by the Fünf Freunde and Burg Schreckenstein , as well as in some of the Hanni and Nanni radio plays. He was also heard in Elea Eluanda and Die Hexe Schrumpeldei . In the pastiche of the youth radio play series Die Ferienbande , he parodies himself as a speaker in the first part, “Die Ferienbande and the appalling holidays” (2003). He also speaks in the successful adult radio play series Revelation 23 and the comedy horror radio play series Jack Slaughter . He is also a neurologist Dr. Jack Seward can be heard in the Titania radio play Dracula. In the radio play series Monster 1983 he speaks Dan Bruce. In the audible radio play series Locke & Key (2016) he speaks Joe Ridgeway, in Kill Shakespeare (2016), also an audible production, he lends his voice to the ghost (Hamlet's father).

synchronization

Mackensy also works extensively in synchronization. His first major dubbed role was Romeo in Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo & Juliet in 1968. Since then he has lent his memorable voice to numerous internationally known colleagues, often for comedic ( e.g. Rowan Atkinson in Bean - The Ultimate Disaster Film and Blackadder and in Johnny English - The Spy who screwed it up ) or vicious roles ( e.g. Gary Oldman in Hannibal ). He also dubbed Pierce Brosnan ( Around the World in 80 Days ), Christopher Lloyd (for example in Back to the Future ), Malcolm McDowell ( Caligula ), Al Pacino (among others The Godfather ), Jonathan Pryce ( Tomorrow Never Dies , Ronin ), Stanley Tucci ( Lucky Number Slevin , The Hunger Games ), Alan Rickman ( Die Hard ) and Geoffrey Rush (for example Shakespeare in Love ). He also lent Philip Michael Thomas in the crime series Miami Vice and David Caruso in the series New York Cops - NYPD Blue and CSI: Miami his voice and Miguel Ferrer in Crossing Jordan - Pathologist with profile , Bionic Woman and Navy CIS: LA Also Gregory Itzin , who plays President Charles Logan in the fourth through sixth and eighth seasons in 24 and the head of the California Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in the television series The Mentalist , he dubbed. He also lent his voice to Bob McGrath (Bob) from Sesame Street . In 2018 he dubbed Steve Coogan ( Stan Laurel ) in the movie Stan & Ollie .

He also lent Jesus the voice twice : He spoke to Robert Powell in 1977 in Jesus of Nazareth and in 1988 Willem Dafoe in The Last Temptation of Christ . In the PC game Crazy Machines II - cm² he speaks the professor. In the cartoon series The School of Little Vampires he speaks the clumsy vampire hunter Polidori (second season), the helpful cat Sir Hubert in Billy the Cat and the sorcerer Salem turned into a cat in the cartoon series Simsalabim Sabrina . He also spoke to Doc Emmet Brown in the cartoon version of Back to the Future for both the real-life scenes with Christopher Lloyd and the cartoon character. He also gave VJ Spalding his voice in the series Moonlight .

In the series Star Wars: The Clone Wars (episode: Areas of Influence ) Mackensy lent the character Baron Papanoida his voice, who was embodied in Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith by George Lucas personally.

He also spoke a five-part documentary series in the series Unknown Africa on NDR television.

Filmography (selection)

Synchronous rollers (selection)

Geoffrey Rush

Stanley Tucci

Movies

Series

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ivar Leon Menger's Monster 1983 | Occupation. Retrieved September 12, 2019 (German).
  2. ↑ http://www.fernsehserien.de/die-rettungsflieger/haben/auf-knall-und-fall-136387
  3. ↑ Information on the website of the production company.
personal data
SURNAME Mackensy, Lutz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mackensy, Lutz Werner (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and voice actor
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Hameln , Lower Saxony , Germany