Rolf Schult

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Rolf Schult (born April 16, 1927 in Berlin ; † March 13, 2013 in Horhausen ) was a German actor and voice actor . Until his death he was one of the most prominent and busiest voice actors in German-speaking countries and was the standard speaker for Robert Redford , Anthony Hopkins , Donald Sutherland and Patrick Stewart .

Live and act

Schult completed his training at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media . After his theater debut there, engagements took him to Bochum, Cologne and the Schillertheater in Berlin. In 1970 Schult was named Berlin State Actor . In addition to his stage work, there were only a few appearances in film and television, such as in his role as Joachim Herrmann in the television film Who comes too late ... , which deals with the days of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Schult became known for his distinctive voice. Since 1965 he was active in dubbing and the German standard voice of Robert Redford , Anthony Hopkins , Donald Sutherland and Patrick Stewart ; he dubbed the latter mainly as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Starship Enterprise - The Next Century , but was later replaced by Ernst Meincke from the middle of the fourth season . Schult continued to dub Stewart as Picard in the Star Trek movies . He also dubbed Marlon Brando ( Superman ), Yul Brynner ( Catlow ), Clint Eastwood ( Dirty Harry , Sadistico ), Gene Hackman ( No Way Out , Poseidon's Hell ), Peter Sellers ( Let me kiss yours Butterfly ) or Barry Newman ( Petrocelli ). He also achieved particular fame as a narrator in Dance of the Vampires ; in the original version Ferdy Mayne speaks the narrator and plays the role of Count Krolock . He also worked as a speaker for audio books , commercials , radio plays and television reports. He was also heard in the music project E Nomine .

Together with his colleague Jürgen Thormann , Rolf Schult received the German Synchronous Award in 2007 for his complete work in synchronizing.

After Schult had dubbed the trailer for Von Löwen und Lammern in 2007, an American supervisor found the voice for Redford too low, so that it was dubbed by Kaspar Eichel . Schult can still be heard in the first trailer as the dubbing voice for Redford.

His son Christian , whose voice is very similar to his father, is also active as a speaker. Schult's cousin was the actor and voice actor Peer Augustinski . Rolf Schult's grave is located in the Solln forest cemetery in Munich.

Filmography (selection)

TV reports (selection)

Video games (selection)

  • 2003: as The Mongoose in XIII

Radio plays

  • 1980: JRR Tolkien : The Little Hobbit (Dori, Fili, Kili, Bard, Kommandant, Flösser and others) - Director: Heinz Dieter Köhler (radio play - WDR )
  • 1996: Alfred Marquart : Sherlock Holmes and the Whitechapel Murders (Mycroft Holmes) - Director: Patrick Blank (radio play - SWF )
  • 2005: Lloyd Alexander : Taran and the Magic Sword (Dallben) - Director: Robert Schoen (children's radio play - SWR )
  • 2005: Lloyd Alexander: Taran and the Magic Mirror (Dallben) - Director: Robert Schoen (Children's radio play - SWR)

Awards (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Clint Eastwood's German voice: voice actor Rolf Schult is dead , Spiegel Online from March 15, 2013 (accessed March 15, 2013).
  2. ↑ Rolf Schult died ( Memento from October 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), Münsterland newspaper from March 15, 2013 (accessed on October 22, 2013)
personal data
SURNAME Schult, Rolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and voice actor
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH 13th March 2013
Place of death Horhausen (Westerwald) , Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany