Norbert Langer (voice actor)
Norbert Langer (born March 9, 1941 in Silesia ) is a German actor , voice actor , director and dialogue book author .
Life
After graduating from school in Hamburg and training as an industrial clerk, Langer completed an acting training at Hildburg Frese's Hamburg drama studio . Before serving in the army, he fled to Berlin on August 13, 1962. He received theater engagements between 1962 and 1972 at the State Drama Theaters and also at the Grips Theater and the Small Theater on the Southwest Corso . He was rarely seen in the cinema and television. There he appeared in the socially critical film Dear Mother, I'm Fine (1972) and in the school television series Who invented bureaucracy? emerged as a staunch opponent of the modern typewriter.
Voice actor
As early as 1962, Langer worked as a radio and voice actor. At the beginning of the 1970s, he completely shifted his artistic focus to dubbing. Since then he has been used as a speaker in over 1000 productions. He has become particularly popular as the spokesman for Tom Selleck since his role as private detective Thomas Magnum in the Magnum series . He also synchronized this role in the RTL synchronization again, as the ARD had not secured the broadcasting rights, which expired towards the end of the 1980s. RTL bought the broadcasting rights, but ARD did not want to hand over the synchronization, so the series was re-synchronized.
Since he also acted as an off-speaker in every episode of this series, he received many similar narrative roles in the following years , including in the youth series Wonderful Years , and was often used as a commentator on documentaries such as Planet Earth . The city of Augsburg hired Langer as the spokesman for the city administration's telephone hotline.
He also lent his distinctive voice to numerous prominent fellow actors; very often Burt Reynolds (including in Rent-a-Cop and in the crime series Dan Oakland ), also Sean Bean in James Bond 007 - Goldeneye , Jeff Bridges in The Knife , Graham Chapman in Monty Python's The Meaning of Life , Alain Delon in Airport '80 - The Concorde and Robert Duvall in The Godfather . His voice for Clark Gable was used on numerous re-dubbing of older American films, including It Happened in a Night and Saratoga . He dubbed Peter Strauss in the series Rich and Poor , Cary Grant in The Bride's Sister , Jean-Louis Trintignant in The Net of a Thousand Eyes and Michael Landon as Little Joe in the classic western series Bonanza .
In the dubbed version of the British crime series Inspector Barnaby ( Midsomer Murders ), Langer John Nettles (DCI Tom Barnaby) voiced his voice. On TV series 24 , he spoke to CTU chief Bill Buchanan ( James Morrison ). He can also be heard in the US series Pushing Daisies and Coco, the curious monkey, as the narrator's voice and the voiceover in the knowledge show The Great Show of Natural Wonders .
Langer's voice was also used for commercials and radio plays . He was best known as the He-Man of the radio play series Masters of the Universe . In 2014 he set the episode The Hudson Code to the audio book series Porterville .
Langer is also active as a dialogue book author and dubbing director, for example, he directed the dubbing for the X-Files - The FBI's uncanny cases , The Narrow Ridge, and sometimes for Magnum .
Filmography (selection)
- 1967: Caviar and Lentils (TV movie)
- 1968: The crime museum (episode: the postal order )
- 1969: Spy Under the Hood (TV movie)
- 1969: Bischof Ketteler (TV movie)
- 1971/1972: Dear mother, I'm fine
- 1972: The powder men (episode: the Köbelbach shooting )
Synchronous rollers (selection)
- 1975: as Walker Ellis in Adventurer on the Lucky Lady
- 1975: as Lieutenant Phil Gaines in Streets of the Night
- 1981: as Buddy Evans in I Need an Heir
- 1983: as Stroker Ace in Der raging Gockel
- 1984: as Mike Murphy in City Heat - The Bull and the Snoop
- 1985: as Ernest 'Stick' Stickley in They called him Stick
- 1988: as Tony Church in Rent-a-Cop - a cop to rent
- 1992: as Burt Reynolds in The Player
- 1993: as Nick McKenna in A Cop and a Halber
- 1997: as General Newton in Bean - The Ultimate Disaster Movie
- 1997: as Connor in Big City Blues
- 1997: as Jack Horner in Boogie Nights
- 2006: As General Montgomery in End Game
- 2008: as Tommy Vinson in All In - All or Nothing
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- 1980–1988: as Thomas Magnum and narrator voice in Magnum
- 1994–2004: as Dr. Richard Burke in Friends
- 2005: as Jesse Stone in Jesse Stone: Ice Cold
- 2003–2008: as AJ Cooper in Las Vegas
- 2010: as Mr. Kornfeldt in Kiss & Kill
- since 2010: as Frank Reagan in Blue Bloods - Crime Scene New York
- 1931: as Mark Whitney in Everything for Your Luck
- 1931: as Nick in Herz at the Crossroads (dubbing: 1992)
- 1932: as Dennis Carson in a storm in the jungle
- 1933: as Patch Gallagher in I dance only for you (dubbing: 1986)
- 1934: as Peter Warne in It happened in one night (dubbing: 1979)
- 1934: as Jeffrey 'Jeff' / 'Jeffy' Williams in Never Marriage the First Time
- 1935: as Alan Gaskell in Adventure in the Yellow Sea
- 1936: as Larry Cain in Kain and Mabel (TV dubbing: 1997)
- 1936: as a van in his secretary (dubbing: 1988)
- 1937: as Duke Bradley in Saratoga (dubbing: 1988)
- 1938: as Christopher 'Chris' Hunter in Too Hot to Touch (dubbing: 1991)
- 1938: as Jim Lane in Der Werkpilot (dubbing: 1990)
- 1947: as Victor Albee Norman in The Greyhound and the Lady
- 2009: as Edward J. 'Blackie' Gallagher in Public Enemies ( Manhattan movie theater melodrama )
Movies
- 1941: For Regis Toomey in Here is John Doe as Bert Hansen (2nd dub)
- 1954: For Alan Ladd in Under Black Visor as John (2nd Synchro)
- 1960: For Laurence Olivier in Spartacus as Marcus Crassus (new scene)
- 1970: For Tom Kempinski in Die Abrechnung as Brunzy
- 1980: For Glynn Turman in Attica - Revolt Behind Bars as Raymond Franklin
- 1983: For Richard Hefer in Sherlock Holmes - The Sign of Four as Thaddeus Sholto
- 1984: For Jean-Claude Bouillon in Patrik Pacard as Monsieur Dimitri
- 1990: For Sherman Howard in Dark Angel - Reckoning Day as Manning
- 1997: For Robin Sachs in Forgotten World: Jurassic Park as Paul Bowman
- 2000: For David Dukes in Death at the End as Holden Avery
- 2010: For Julian Wadham in Double Identity as Sterling
Series
- 1971–1975: For Simon Williams in Das Haus am Eaton Place as James Bellamy
- 1972: For Burt Reynolds in Dan Oakland as Dan August
- 1988–1993: Wonderful Years (adult Kevin Arnold, narrator voice)
- 1992–1994: For Burt Reynolds in Daddy we all create as Wood Newton
- 1997–2011: For John Nettles in Inspector Barnaby as DCI Tom Barnaby
- 2005–2009: For James Morrison in 24 as Bill Buchanan
- 2007-2008: For Mike Farrell in Desperate Housewives as Milton Lang
- 2016–2019: For John Nettles in Poldark as Ray Penvenen
Web links
- Literature by and about Norbert Langer in the catalog of the German National Library
- Norbert Langer in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Norbert Langer in the German dubbing file
- Norbert Langer at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Norbert Langer in the synchronized files
- ↑ Interview with Wolfgang Weber, in: Der Sonntag (Karlsruhe) No. 21, May 25, 2014, p. 10.
- ↑ The media godparents: Interview with Norbert Langer - from 2:25. June 9, 2017. Retrieved July 21, 2019 .
- ↑ Popshot's review of “Porterville” , accessed on August 12, 2014.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Langer, Norbert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actor, voice actor, director and dialogue book author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 9, 1941 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Silesia |