Randolf Kronberg

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Randolf Schmitt-Kronberg (born September 23, 1942 in Breslau ; † March 2, 2007 in Munich ) was a German actor , dubbing and radio play speaker . He was known to a wide audience as the German voice of Eddie Murphy , whom he dubbed in more than 30 cinema productions from 1982 to 2007.

Act

Theater, film and television

Kronberg trained as an actor with Herbert Maisch in Frankfurt am Main and at the Actors Studio New York . Engagements took him from 1964 to the Berlin Schiller- und Schlossparktheater , where he appeared in productions such as The Soldiers of Lenz , directed by Niels-Peter Rudolph (1970) and in Shakespeare's tragedy Julius Caesar , directed by Hans Hollmann (1972) . From 1974 to 1981 he was also active at Kurt Huebner's Freier Volksbühne , including in Heinrich von Kleist's knight play Das Käthchen von Heilbronn , in Peter Shaffer's drama Equus , as Tybalt in Romeo and Juliet and as Luigi in the farce Will Not Be Paid! by Dario Fo . The drama Urfaust by Goethe , performed in Hessian dialect , in which Randolf Kronberg acted alongside Liesel Christ , was recorded for television in an open-air performance at the Frankfurt Volkstheater and published on VHS . Together with Joachim Tennstedt , Randolf Kronberg also appeared in the cabaret theater Die Wühlmäuse .

Kronberg has appeared in front of the camera in, among others, Die Versöhnung (ZDF, 1971) by Jochen Ziem , in Der Aufrechte Gang (1976) by Christian Ziewer , in the literary adaptation Star Without Sky (1980) by Ottokar Runze and as a guest actor in the ZDF series To see Derrick , Siska and Der Alte .

synchronization

Movies

Randolf Kronberg entered the synchronous business in 1965. He took on the first leading roles as the German voice of Bruce Dern in the youth film Die wilden Engel (1966), Humphrey Bogart in the gangster film Who owns the city? (1936, dubbed 1967), John Phillip Law in Spaghetti Western Von Mann zu Mann (1967), John Lennon in the animated music film Yellow Submarine (1968) and Ryan O'Neal in the melodrama Love Story (1970) and in the road movie Paper Moon (1973) . From the beginning of the 1980s it was used repeatedly for Oscar winner William Hurt , for example in Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985), God's Forgotten Children (1986) and The Good Shepherd (2006). In cinema productions such as Mississippi Burning - Die Wurzel des Hasses (1988), Tom & Viv (1994) or in his Oscar-nominated role as Max Schreck in Shadow of the Vampire (2000), he also translated Willem Dafoe into German several times .

In 1982, Randolf Kronberg dubbed the American actor Eddie Murphy for the first time in the action comedy Just 48 Hours . He was cast by dubbing director Jürgen Clausen after Kronberg had demonstrated his talent in speaking quickly in the Simpl artist's pub in Munich . Due to his ability to overdrive his otherwise deeper and more mature sounding voice and to adapt to Murphy's rapid flow of speech, Kronberg remained his regular German speaker until his death in 2007 and thus shaped the image of the comedian in German-speaking countries. He dubbed Murphy in more than 30 cinema productions over a period of 25 years, most recently in the slapstick comedy Norbit . In a radio interview from 2002, Kronberg stated that he was not particularly happy with his star role. The required charging had increasingly burdened his voice with advancing age, and he had not been able to identify with Murphy's films for a long time.

Randolf Kronberg died before the start of the voice recordings for Shrek the Third , in which, as in the previous films Shrek - The daring hero (2001) and Shrek 2 - The daring hero returns (2004), he was intended for the dubbing of the donkey. Dennis Schmidt-Foss was his successor .

Series

Randolf Kronberg's voice was present in the German series landscape of the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s through numerous leading roles.

As the successor to Horst Stark , he lent his voice to Pernell Roberts as Adam Cartwright in the ZDF dubbed version of the western television series Bonanza . Viewers also associated him with Michael Landon as Charles Ingalls in the ARD dubbed version of Our Little Farm (1976–1985) and as Jonathan Smith in the ZDF dubbed version of An Angel on Earth (1984–1989).

With Robert Foxworth as Chase Gioberti in Falcon Crest (1983–1989) and Kevin Dobson as Mack MacKenzie in Under the California Sun (1988–1995), he booked several years of engagements in US soap operas . In the science fiction genre, Kronberg was primarily as the German voice of DeForest Kelley as Dr. McCoy in the Sat1 dubbed Starship Enterprise (1985) and Cleavant Derricks known as Rembrandt Brown in Sliders (1997).

In the 275-part sitcom Cheers , which was broadcast in a new language version on RTL from 1995 to 1996, he dubbed Kelsey Grammer as psychiatrist Dr. Frasier Crane. His best-known cartoon characters included Mayor Quimby in The Simpsons and Mr. Mackey in South Park .

radio play

As early as the 1960s, Randolf Kronberg was involved in radio plays for public broadcasters, including in Snow from Hong Kong by Louis C. Thomas, directed by Rolf von Goth ( SFB , 1969), and Bei Ribbeck im Havellande by Günter Bruno Fuchs , directed by Hans Lietzau ( SDR / WDR / RIAS / DW , 1971) and Ein Fun für Engel by Ken Whitmore, directed by Gert Westphal ( BR , 1982). He also took on guest roles in radio play productions such as Das Bernsteinzimmer (2005) and Die Gutachterin (2005) by Heinz G. Konsalik , in the episode Der Kopf des Caesar from the series Pater Brown published by maritim-Verlag and in the trilogy The Undead Live by Russell & Brandon Company.

death

Kronberg died on March 2, 2007 after a long and serious illness at the age of 64 in Munich , where he last lived, and was buried on March 7, 2007 in Neubiberg .

Filmography (selection)

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Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituaries of Randolf Schmitt-Kronberg | trauer.merkur.de. Accessed December 18, 2019 (German).
  2. ↑ Radio interview with Randolf Kronberg at SF-Radio, 2002
  3. ↑ Randolf Kronberg died at 64
  4. ^ Obituary for Randolf Kronberg in: Die Welt
personal data
SURNAME Kronberg, Randolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schmitt, Randolf (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and voice actor
DATE OF BIRTH September 23, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH March 2, 2007
Place of death Munich