Philipp Moog

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Philipp Moog (2012)

Philipp Moog (born August 29, 1961 in Munich ) is a German actor , voice actor , author and screenwriter .

Life

Movie and TV

Philipp Moog completed his acting studies from 1980 to 1983 at the Zinner Studio in Munich. In 1983, director George Roy Hill discovered him and hired him for his US movie The Dragonfly alongside Diane Keaton and Klaus Kinski . Moog then emigrated to the USA and, from 1984 to 1986, took up further studies at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theater and at the Juilliard School in New York. In 1987 he was a member of Joanne Woodwards' theater group Actor's and Director's Lab .

After his return from the USA, numerous engagements for German television followed since the late 1980s. Philipp Moog often appeared in crime series such as Derrick , Der Alte or Tatort . At the side of Dieter Pfaff , he was a permanent member of the ZDF crime series Sperling from 2000 to 2007 , for which he also wrote two scripts together with his colleague Frank Röth . In the ORF series Schnell determined , Moog played the mysterious neighbor of Commissioner Angelika Schnell, played by Ursula Strauss, in the first two seasons . Beyond the crime genre, he took on roles in comedies such as A Case for Thimble and Pilgrimage to Padua . Directed by Dominik Graf , he worked in the award-winning adaptation of the novel the south and the air guitarist of Friedrich Ani with.

Philipp Moog (2017)

The current project is the film adaptation of the bestseller The Puppeteers by Tanja Kinkel . After Maria's last trip with Monika Bleibtreu , the crime scene Der Wüstensohn and Polizeiruf 110 - Nachtdienst, this production is the fourth joint work with director Rainer Kaufmann . In The Puppeteers Moog portrays the historical figure of Heinrich Kramer , who significantly influenced the witch hunt in Germany with the Hexenhammer he wrote at the end of the 15th century until the 17th century.

Activity as an author

Together with his colleague and co-author Frank Röth, Moog developed and wrote the RTL series SK-Babies , which was nominated for the 1997 Adolf Grimme Prize in the “Best Series” category. In addition, as screenwriters they are responsible for several episodes of the ZDF series Sperling and Der Alte . From January to May 2010 the world premiere of the play The Needle of Cleopatra , which was written by Philipp Moog and Frank Röth, ran in Dieter Hallervordens Schlossparktheater in Berlin . Cosma Shiva Hagen and Ingrid van Bergen played the leading roles .

In the autumn of 2008, Philipp Moog's debut novel Lifetime was published by DuMont Verlag , which he also read in as an audio book .

synchronization

In addition to his work in front of the camera and as a writer, Philipp Moog has been a voice actor since the early 1980s. He is best known as the German party voice of Ewan McGregor , for whom he was first cast in the black film comedy Kleine Morde unter Freunde (1994). He also dubbed Obi-Wan Kenobi, played by Ewan McGregor in Star Wars episodes 1–3 (1999–2005), and he also dubbed the character in the animated series Clone Wars (2005), The Clone Wars (2008–2014) and Star Wars Rebels (2014-2017) lent his voice. He can also be heard as Obi-Wan Kenobi in the film Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015).

He is also the voice of Owen Wilson . He also dubbed recurring film actors such as Orlando Bloom , Matthew Modine and Guy Pearce . TV viewers know Philipp Moog as the German voice of Neil Patrick Harris in the US sitcom How I Met Your Mother (2005-2014), Mikael Persbrandt in the Swedish-German crime series Kommissar Beck - The New Cases (1998-2009), Jamie Bamber in the science fiction series Battlestar Galactica (2006-2010) or Robert Floyd in the series Sliders - The Gate into a Foreign Dimension (1999-2000). A selection of other roles include the synchronization of Christian Slater in The Name of the Rose (1986) and Robin Hood - King of Thieves (1991) and Peter Facinelli as Dr. Carlisle Cullen in the Twilight saga (2008-2012). In addition to Grant Show as Spence Westmore in the series Devious Maids (2014), he lent his voice to Pedro Pascal as Oberyn Martell in the series Game of Thrones and Greg Bryk in the role as Jeremy Danvers in Bitten . In Life of Pi: Shipwreck with Tiger by director Ang Lee , he dubbed Rafe Spall , who played a Canadian writer. As early as 2005 he spoke the role of Rodney Copperbottom in the animated film Robots , in the 3D animated film Die Legende der Wächter he was the German voice of the owl "Digger".

speaker

Moog also uses his voice to set documentaries, commercials and computer games to music, including as Obi-Wan Kenobi in almost all Star Wars video games , as Targon in Legend: Hand of God , and as Larry Laffer in Leisure Suit Larry: Wet Dreams Don't dry . Philipp Moog was the protagonist Tore Poulsen in the radio play series Goldagengården by Marco Göllner , which was nominated for the German Audio Book Prize 2012 and was awarded the Ohrkanus 2011 .

In 2013 he spoke the role of Peter Munk in the cartoon The Cold Heart .

Filmography (selection)

As an actor

Movies

Series

As a screenwriter

  • 1996–1999: SK-Babies (with Frank Röth, idea, concept, pilot film and episodes 1–10)
  • 2001: Sparrow and the crocodile in the trash (with Frank Röth)
  • 2003: Sperling and the man on the sidelines (with Frank Röth)
  • 2008: The Old One - The Second Cross (with Frank Röth)

As voice actor (selection)

Ewan McGregor
Owen Wilson
Guy Pearce
Further

Works

Radio plays

Audio books

Nominations

Awards

  • 1997: Adolf Grimme Prize as an ensemble member of the four-part television series Die Elsässer
  • 2006: Adolf Grimme Prize with gold as an ensemble member of the television film Maria's Last Journey
  • 2011: Die Silhouette (Audience Award) in the category “Dubbing Actor / Series - Leading Role” as the German voice of Neil Patrick Harris in How I Met Your Mother
  • 2016: German audio book award as best speaker entertainment for Aunt Poldi and the Sicilian lions

Web links

Commons : Philipp Moog  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Schlossparktheater: World premiere of Cleopatra's Needle . In: Berliner Zeitung , December 18, 2009
  2. ↑ German Prize for Dubbing: Nominations 2008 (PDF; 483 kB) bvdsp.de, accessed on July 28, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Moog, Philipp
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and voice actor
DATE OF BIRTH August 29, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich