Rainer Basedow

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Rainer Basedow , also known as Reiner Basedow , (born May 20, 1938 in Mühlhausen / Thuringia ) is a German stage and film actor , voice actor and cabaret artist .

Life

Rainer Basedow graduated from high school in 1956 in Magdeburg . Because of “political unreliability” he was not allowed to study in the GDR. After fleeing the GDR , he began teaching German and sport at the Braunschweig University of Education . Rainer Basedow has been married to his wife Mathilde, whom he met on the set , since 1971 . The couple have four children.

Stage and cabaret

Before the second state examination, he went to a drama school in Munich and was brought to the small theater at the Siegestor by the actor Wilfried Klaus , where he played his first leading role in Waiting for Godot . He then performed on stage from 1962 to 1976 in the Ateliertheater in Bern , at the Schaubühne am Halleschen Ufer (Berlin) and at the Volkstheater and the Kleine Komödie in Munich . From 1976 to 1995 he was a permanent member of the Munich Lach- und Schießgesellschaft and went on a total of 19 tours with over 4000 performances. His partners here were mainly Jochen Busse , Henning Venske and Renate Küster . He made several appearances on the television program Windshield Wiper . Until December 2009 Basedow played together with Hans-Günther Pölitz and Marion Bach (until 2006 with Lothar Bölck ) in the cabaret show Die Drei von der Zankstelle, produced by Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk four times a year in the cabaret Magdeburger Zwickmühle . In 2010 he was seen in the Feuchtwangen Cloister Play as Sir John Falstaff in The Funny Wives of Windsor .

Movie and TV

Rainer Basedow's first film role was in the strip Wilder Reiter GmbH (1967). He became famous in May Spil's film Down to the Point, Honey . The photo in which he was shown as a uniformed policeman next to Uschi Glas standing in a corset went through the entire German-language press.

Another well-known police officer, Wachtmeister Dimpfelmoser, played Basedow in 1974 in the children's film classic The Robber Hotzenplotz at the side of Gert Fröbe and Josef Meinrad . On television he had guest appearances in many series, including Tatort , Der Alte , Derrick , Der Kommissar , Der Bulle von Tölz and Alpha Team . In the ZDF series Coast Guard he played since episode 1 in 1997 the role of the meanwhile former Smutje and paramedic Kalle Schneidewind, who now owned a pub. He was part of the main cast until season 8 of the series, and has since appeared as a supporting role every now and then. The series was discontinued in 2016.

He also works as a voice actor . He lends his voice to cartoons (Warthog Pumbaa in The Lion King ; Hai Jaws in Help! I'm a Fish! ) As well as internationally known colleagues such as John Belushi ( Blues Brothers ), Ned Beatty ( Everyone is the first to die ) , David Hemmings ( 18 hours to eternity ) and Jerry Lewis ( A Frogman on a Hook ). He also dubbed Al in Toy Story 2 .

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