Richard Craft

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Richard Friedrich Heinrich Handwerk (born May 16, 1894 in Bremen ; †?) Was a German actor , director and voice actor .

biography

After finishing school in 1917, Handwerk took acting lessons from Max Montor in Hamburg. In the same year he made his stage debut as "Julius Wolff" in a performance of Gerhart Hauptmann's crook comedy Biberpelz at the Stadttheater Flensburg. His other stage stations included the Schillertheater Hamburg (1920–1921), the Bremer Schauspielhaus (1925–1928), various theaters in Berlin (1928–1942; including Volksbühne, Lessing Theater, Theater am Schiffbauerdamm). As an actor, craft was mainly active in the character field and mostly embodied characters with a comical touch. He showed a wide range of performances from classics to the Low German Volksbühne. It was precisely in this area that he was the first to perform numerous pieces (by Karl Bunje and August Hinrichs, among others ) in Berlin.

In addition, Handwerk worked extensively as a stage director and was director of the Wallner Theater in Berlin from 1930 to 1931 and director of the comedy in Bremen from 1946 to 1948 and also acted as the editor of the programs of the respective theaters.

In 1934 Handwerk made his feature film debut in Hans Deppe's comedy Ferien vom Ich . This was followed by numerous appearances in film and television productions, where he mainly embodied characters with a comic influence. Handwerk played among other things in the cinema version of August Hinrichs' Krach um Jolanthe , in Wolfgang Liebeneiner's drama The Stronger (starring Gertrud Kückelmann ), in Stuart Rosenberg's war drama Question Seven , in Helmut Käutner's drama Epilog - The Secret of Orplid , alongside OE Hasse in the comedy Life begins at eight , directed by Günther Lüders in your 106th birthday and alongside Inge Meysel in the television film Stadtpark .

In addition, he worked extensively as a speaker for radio and film dubbing. He participated in numerous radio plays by the SFB (including The Apollo von Belac , 1955) and the RIAS (including Maigret & die terrible children , 1958), but also in many children's and youth radio plays such as Gulliver with the Giants (maritim 1972), Gulliver with the dwarfs (maritime 1972; as "Emperor of Liliput") and Michel puts the world in order (Fontana 1972).

As a dubbing actor , he took over 100 dubbing roles between 1948, e. B. that of the "Mr. Binnacle ”( Don Barclay ) in Walt Disney's Mary Poppins and that of“ Otto ”( J. Pat O'Malley ) in the Disney cartoon Robin Hood .

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SURNAME Craft, Richard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Handwerk, Richard Friedrich Heinrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, director and voice actor
DATE OF BIRTH May 16, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen
DATE OF DEATH after 1972