Marco Kroeger

Marco Kröger (born August 14, 1963 in Berlin ) is a German actor and voice actor .

Life

Kröger is the son of the dancer Renate Bärbel Kröger (1937–2002). Among other things, he had various roles in the television series Großstadtrevier and appeared several times in A Case for TKKG ; his filmography also recorded numerous other television appearances. Kröger has also been seen in movies. In 1979, for example, he played Mick in the soft sex film The Schoolgirls from Treffpunkt Zoo . Marco Kröger also works as a voice actor for numerous real and cartoon series. In King of Queens he took over the dubbing of Supervisor O'Boyle.

He lent Patrick Star his voice in Spongebob SquarePants . On May 29, 2011 it was announced that he had been dismissed from MTV as a voice actor because he had demanded compensation from the broadcaster based on the amount of money earned by the series. Since then, the station has been looking for a replacement, on November 16, 2011 the name of the successor, Fritz Rott , was published by SpongePedia. In 2017 he was allowed to give his voice again in the series (episode 214 season 10); There he didn't speak Patrick Star but an Ice King, who is also a starfish and has a very identical character to Patrick Star (still spoken by Fritz Rott).

In xXx - Triple X and Saving Private Ryan , he dubbed Vin Diesel . For the video games Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic and its sequel Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords , he lent the character Canderous Ordo his voice. Kröger's voice can also be heard in numerous radio plays for children as well as in commercials. Well-known products and clients were Tchibo, Mercedes-Benz and AOL. He is also the German voice of the actor Liev Schreiber .

He has also been on stage as a theater actor, for example in the play Irma la Douce in Bisang's production in Kaiserslautern 1986/87 and at the Karl May Festival in Bad Segeberg .

His son David-Benedict Kröger also worked as a voice actor.

Synchronous rollers (selection)

Liev Schreiber

• 1997: Scream 2 as Cotton Weary
• 1997: Hands off, darling! as Glenn
• 1998: Phantoms as Deputy Stuart Wargle
• 2000: Scream 3 as Cotton Weary
• 2001: Kate & Leopold as Stuart Besser
• 2002: The Attack as John Clark
• 2003: Hitler - Rise of Evil as Ernst Hanfstaengl
• 2004: The Manchurian Candidate as Raymond Shaw
• 2006: The Omen as Robert Thorn
• 2009: The 10 Commandments Movie as Ray Johnson
• 2008: Defiance - For my brothers who never gave up as Zus Bielski
• 2009: X-Men Origins: Wolverine as Victor Creed / Sabretooth
• 2010: Repo Men as Frank Mercer
• 2013: Movie 43 as Robert Miller
• 2016: Chuck as Chuck Wepner

Movies

• 1998: Saving Private Ryan - Vin Diesel as Pvt. Adrian Caparzo
• 2004: The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie - Bill Fagerbakke as Patrick Star
• 2011: Thor - Idris Elba as Heimdall
• 2011: The Zoo Keeper - Donnie Wahlberg as Shane
• 2013: Thor - The Dark Kingdom - Idris Elba as Heimdall
• 2014: Transformers 4: Age of Extinction - John DiMaggio as Crosshairs
• 2015: The Avengers 2: Age of Ultron - Idris Elba as Heimdall
• 2017: Thor: Decision Day - Idris Elba as Heimdall
• 2019: Joker - Bill Camp as Detective Garrity

Series

• 1997-2000: Pretender - Michael T. Weiss as Jarod
• 2001–2002: Dragon Ball Z - Kôzô Shioya as Guldo
• 2001–2006: King of Queens - Sam McMurray as supervisor Patrick O'Boyle (1st voice)
• 2002–2011: SpongeBob SquarePants - Bill Fagerbakke as Patrick Star (1st voice)
• 2005–2012: Desperate Housewives - Ricardo Chavira as Carlos Solis
• 2005–2008: Camp Lazlo - as Chip and Skip
• 2007-2010: Heroes - Greg Grunberg as Matt Parkman
• 2007–2011: Sea Patrol - John Batchelor as Andrew "Andy" Thorpe
• 2008: Ghost Whisperer - Voices From Beyond - Dash Mihok as Det David Campbell.
• 2008–2010: The Wire - Wendell Pierce as Det. William "Bunk" Moreland
• 2010: Ghost Whisperer - Voices from Beyond - Stephen Lee as George
• 2012–2014: Treme - Wendell Pierce as Antoine Batiste
• 2013–2016: Sanjay and Craig - Remington Tufflips as Remington Tufflips
• 2014–2017: Uncle Grandpa - Peter Browngardt as Uncle Grandpa
• 2014–2018: The Last Ship - Eric Dane as CO CDR Tom Chandler
• 2016–2017: Aquarius - Chance Kelly as Detective Ed Cutler
• since 2017: The Orville - Peter Macon as Bortus
• since 2019: The Walking Dead - Ryan Hurst as beta

Prizes and awards

• Starbuckawards 2001 (dubbing award for the role in Pretender )
• German Synchron Award 2009 (Synchron award for the Spongebob SquarePants series )

Web links

• Marco Kröger in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Marco Kröger at filmportal.de
• Marco Kröger in the German dubbing file
• Marco Kröger homepage

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Article on Fritz Rott on spongepedia.org