Otto Stoeckel

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Otto Stoeckel (center), 1907, with actresses at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus: Marinanne Kwast, Antonia Ernau, Elisabeth Huch, Hermine Körner , Fanny Ritter and Eva Speyer

Otto Stoeckel (born August 6, 1873 in Buttelstedt ; † November 17, 1958 in Berlin ; born Otto Hermann August Stoeckel ) was a German actor who mainly worked as a dubbing and radio play speaker after the Second World War .

Life

The son of a hairdresser attended a teachers' seminar after school and then took acting lessons at the Weimar court theater and privately with Dagobert Neuffer. His other theater stations were Hanau, Darmstadt, Freiburg im Breisgau, Munich, Düsseldorf, Leipzig, Dresden and at the Deutsches Theater in New York.

From 1930 he acted on the Berlin stages and also worked as a theater director. Stoeckel had already received a few roles in the silent film era, but it was only now that the over 60-year-old became a popular supporting actor in film . He mostly played directors and other gentlemen of rank, and his appearances were often very brief. Between 1921 and 1957 he played in more than 60 feature films, and in the 1950s he also appeared in a number of television films.

After 1945 he worked mainly as a dubbing and radio play speaker. In the latter position he was employed at the RIAS and SFB . As a voice actor, he mainly lent his voice to older character actors, including Henry Stephenson in Mutiny on the Bounty , C. Aubrey Smith in Little Brave Jo and James Gleason in Laugh and Cry with Me . Until shortly before his death he worked as a voice actor, for example for Francis Compton as a judge in the classic film witness for the prosecution .

He was initially married to the actress Eva Speyer , who also appeared under the name Eva Speyer-Stoeckel during this time. He later married the actress Claire Harten (1890–1972).

Grave of Otto Stoeckel in the Heerstraße cemetery in Berlin-Westend

Otto Stoeckel was in the middle of rehearsals for the television play Leihhauslegende when he suddenly died in Berlin on November 17, 1958 at the age of 85. His grave is in the Heerstraße cemetery in Berlin-Westend (grave location: II-Ur 6-129a). The widow Klare Stöckel was buried at his side in 1972.

Filmography

Radio plays

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Otto Stoeckel died . In: Hamburger Abendblatt . Tuesday / Wednesday, 18./19. November 1958. p. 16. Retrieved November 18, 2019.
  2. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin tombs . Haude & Spener, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-7759-0476-6 . P. 199.
  3. ^ Otto Hermann August Stoeckel. Actor, director, voice actor . Short biography at http://www.berlin.friedparks.de/ . Retrieved November 18, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Stoeckel, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stöckel, Otto; Stoeckel, Otto Hermann August (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Buttelstedt
DATE OF DEATH 17th November 1958
Place of death Berlin