Paul Edwin Roth

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Paul Edwin Roth (born October 22, 1918 in Hamburg ; † October 27, 1985 there ) was a German actor and voice actor .

biography

After graduating from the Johanneum in Hamburg , Roth attended the drama school of the Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg from 1937 to 1939 . He made his stage debut in 1939 as Gustave de Grignon in Eugène Scribes What the Ladies Like at the Heilbronn City Theater. Theater engagements followed. a. in Karlsruhe, Heidelberg, Darmstadt , Berlin ( Hebbel-Theater , Schillertheater ) at the Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen and at the Schauspielhaus Zürich .

In 1947 he made his feature film debut alongside Hans Albers in Josef von Bákys … and Above Us Heaven . His other films include Slatan Dudow's drama Our daily bread (at the same time his only work at DEFA ), Frank Wisbar's war drama Factory of Officers (based on Hans Hellmut Kirst ), Bernhard Wicki's satire The Miracle of Malachias , the Simmel adaptations and Jimmy went to Rainbow and The Stuff Dreams Are Made of , the internationally produced war film The Longest Day . His first major television role (1957) was that of Beckmann, returning from the war, in Draußen vor der Tür nach Wolfgang Borchert , a NDR production with Malte Jaeger directed by Rudolf Noelte . This was followed by the television satire Zwei Tote im Sender and Don Carlos im PoGl (on the 20th anniversary of the ZDF program start), crime novels such as Vier Schlüssel (director: Jürgen Roland ) and four Tatort films. He played the British mail robber Brian Field ( role name: Peter Masterson ) in the " Straßenfeger " The Gentlemen Ask To Cashier and in the ARD series Sherlock Holmes the Dr. Watson (alongside Erich Schellow in the title role). He has also made guest appearances in television series such as Gestatten, mein Name ist Cox (as Thomas Richardson , he was one of the main characters during season 2), Stahlnetz , Der Kommissar , Sonderdezernat K1 and Der Alte .

Roth also worked since 1950 as extensive as voice actor , lending his voice internationally renowned acting colleagues such as Jean-Paul Belmondo ( Two Women ), Dirk Bogarde (u. A. The Spanish Gardener ), Michel Bouquet (u. A. Between death and life , chickens in Vinegar ), Montgomery Clift (including Misfits - not socially acceptable ), Tony Curtis (including Trapez ), Peter Cushing ( Children of the Street ), Henry Fonda ( Rushed ), Glenn Ford ( Powder and Lead ), Jean Gabin ( The Great Illusion ), James Garner ( 36 hours ), Marcello Mastroianni ( Adua and her companions ), Yves Montand ( Let's do it in love ), Philippe Noiret ( The judge and the murderer ), Michel Piccoli ( The 10th day ), Tyrone Power ( Marie Antoinette ) and John Wayne ( The Long Road to Cardiff and The Gunslingers of Wyoming ). In the lavish international co-production The Longest Day , he also dubbed his French colleague Jean-Louis Barrault in the role of Father Roulland , although he himself played a smaller role (as Colonel Schiller ) in this production.

Paul Edwin Roth died in 1985 in his hometown at the age of 67. He was buried in the forest cemetery of Wedel , Pinneberg district .

Filmography (selection)

Radio plays

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. knerger.de: The grave of Paul Edwin Rot
  2. When Hitler stole the pink rabbit (Lemmi and the Schmöker, October 5, 1975). Retrieved January 9, 2020 .