Rolf Heydel
Rolf Otto Heydel (born September 22, 1918 in Hamburg , † December 3, 2010 in Mill Valley , California ) was a German-American actor and voice actor .
Life
Heydel worked as a theater actor on various Berlin theaters. Since 1939 he also worked as a film actor. During the Second World War he played alongside film greats of that time such as Zarah Leander in The Song of the Desert , Heinz Rühmann in Request Concert and Marika Rökk in Women Are Better Diplomats . After the war, Heydel appeared in film productions in both the Federal Republic and the GDR. For DEFA he played in Wolfgang Schleif's comedy Saure Wochen - frohe Feste , in the West under the direction of Helmut Käutner in the crime drama Epilog or Das Ende der Orplid , as detective inspector “Bludau” in the thriller The Trace Leads to Berlin and in the detective comedy Knall und Case as detectives .
As a voice actor, he voiced Jack Beutel in The Rose of Cimarron , Rory Calhoun in the Red River , Jon Hall in Curse of the Temple Gods , Ben Johnson in Panic for King Kong , Glenn Miller in Adopted Happiness and Robert Ryan in The Terror from Texas .
In the mid-1950s, Heydel withdrew from the film and dubbing business. He spent his final years in California, where he died in 2010.
Filmography (selection)
- 1939: The Song of the Desert
- 1940: request concert
- 1941: Women are better diplomats
- 1950: Epilogue - The Secret of the Orplid
- 1950: Sour Weeks - Happy Holidays
- 1952: The trail leads to Berlin
- 1953: Bang and Fall as detectives
Radio plays (selection)
- 1948: Undine , Berliner Rundfunk
- 1952: The Glowing Robert , NWDR
- 1953: Snow White and the Beauty Queen , NWDR
Web links
- Rolf Heydel in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Rolf Heydel in the synchronous database
- Rolf Heydel at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Date and place of birth according to Piet Hein Honig, Hanns-Georg Rodek : 100001. The show business encyclopedia of the 20th century. Showbiz-Data-Verlag, Villingen-Schwenningen 1992, ISBN 3-929009-01-5 , p. 435. Both are identical to the obituaries of Heydel, who died in Mill Valley in 2010.
- ↑ http://www.tributes.com/show/Rolf-Heydel-90375672
- ↑ Proof of naturalization
- ↑ Hans Joachim Reichhardt: 25 years of theater in Berlin , series of publications on contemporary history in Berlin , Volume 7, Spitzing 1972, pp. 225 and 268.
- ↑ In the obituary in the Marin Independent Journal of December 8, 2010, his acting was not discussed.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Heydel, Rolf |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Heydel, Rolf Otto (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-American actor and voice actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 22, 1918 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 3, 2010 |
| Place of death | Mill Valley , California |