Tommy Morgenstern

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Tommy Morgenstern (* 28. March 1974 as Thomas Lührig in Osnabruck , Lower Saxony ) is a German voice actor and singer . He is best known for the speaking role of the adult Son-Goku in the anime series Dragon Ball Z , and as the German voice of Norman Reedus in The Walking Dead . He is, among others, the German fixed voice of Chris Hemsworth , TJ Miller and Ryan Gosling . Occasionally he also speaks to actor Benedict Cumberbatch .

Music career

In the early 1990s he performed with the band Sick for Toys. The band, consisting of Sven Stumpe on guitar, Andreas “Helmet” Müller on bass, Ralf Strotmann as drummer and Morgenstern as singer, released the album … are us in 1996 . During the recording of the second album, however, the band broke up. Morgenstern met Martin Irnich through Sven Stumpe. This enabled the band to record their first demo in a dubbing studio. In the same studio Morgenstern then auditioned for the butt-head voice of the MTV series Beavis and Butt-Head , where he prevailed among eight applicants and, together with Julien Haggége, gave the comic characters their peculiarities between 1995 and 1997 .

As the singer of the independent band CooCaChoo , he first appeared in September 1997 together with bassist Marcus Bechtel, guitarist Jörg Heybrock and drummer Jörg Dartmann in Osnabrück.

Meanwhile moved to Berlin , he released his first single Mitten in Berlin in March 2002 as Tommy Morgenstern & Band . From 2003 he joined the band Motomatic, which had its first appearance in December in the Columbia Fritz concert hall. Your song Sunrise was selected in 2007 by Intel Germany as a cebit image film.

Morgenstern also performed with Sven Stumpe, Andreas Müller and Deko Pellmann with the band Fats Meyers for some time.

synchronization

Anime

In 2001, the dubbing director Björn Schalla selected the right voices for the Japanese anime series Dragon Ball Z with the help of castings and thus helped Tommy Morgenstern to become well known as "Son-Goku", which he played in the series until 2002 and two years later spoke in the fourteen films. Also in the sequel Dragon Ball GT , which was dubbed in 2006, he gave the protagonist his voice. In 2015 he returned as "Son-Goku" in the movie Dragon Ball Z - Battle of the Gods . Morgenstern appeared as a singer in the outro Die Power der Dragon Balls for the film Dragon Ball Z - The Film ( Dragon Ball Z - The Film: Fusion and Dragon Ball Z - The Film: Drachenfaust combined). In the US cartoon series Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles , he got the lead role Leonardo in 2005 , again at the side of his former partner from Beavis and Butt-Head , Julien Haggége . In 2007 he could be heard as Samurai Yajiro Kojima in Grenadier and a year later as Kyohei Takano in Perfect Girl . From 2013 to 2014, Morgenstern took on the role of Shell Septinos in the three-part anime Mardock Scramble .

Series

From 2004, Morgenstern concentrated primarily on film dubbing . In well-known US series he was often used for male lead roles with a closed character. So he spoke for Benjamin McKenzie the teenager Ryan, who wants to give his public defender in OC, California (2004-2007) a new chance and since 2015 the police officer James Gordon in the series Gotham , or since 2009 the 17-year-old Ty Borden, who on Heartland has to spend his probation period or since 2010 for Paul Wesley in The Vampire Diaries the vampire Stefan Salvatore, who fights his evil side out of love for a human girl. As a rock musician he could be heard in Lost (2005–2012) for Dominic Monaghan as Charlie Pace and in One Tree Hill (2008–2009) for Tyler Hilton as Chris Keller. From 2014 to 2017 he dubbed Tom Hopper as pirate William "Billy Bones" Manderly in Black Sails .

He also had various leading roles in the genre of action and crime series, for example in 2007 he spoke in Angela Henson - Das Auge des FBI whose partner agent Leo Jetson, from 2007 to 2010 Michael Irby as a team member of the special unit The Unit and from 2008 to 2009 Michael K Williams as gangster Omar Little in The Wire . Since 2011 he has dubbed Benedict Cumberbatch both as master detective Sherlock Holmes in the BBC series Sherlock and in his role as Christopher Tietjens in Parade's End . Also Shawn Hatosy as Detective Sammy Bryant in Southland , since 2012 Matt Passmore as detective Jim Longworth in The Glades and Nate Corddry as Adam Branch in Harry's Law . Since 2018 he has been dubbing Chris O'Dowd in the US crime series Get Shorty .

His voice is also known from hospital series, such as in Scrubs (2007–2010) as Keith Dudemeister, in Private Practice (2010–2011) as Dr. Gabriel Fife or in Mercy (2011) as Ángel García. He is currently dubbing Norman Reedus as Daryl Dixon in the horror series The Walking Dead (since 2010), in 2011 Tyron Leitso as Ethan Wakefield in the first two seasons of the drama series Being Erica and Richard Flood as Tommy McConnel in the US TV series Crossing Lines (2013–2015). He also dubbed Raymond Cruz as Tuco Salamanca on Breaking Bad and its prequel Better Call Saul .

Since 2017 he has been dubbing Luke Hemsworth on the HBO television series Westworld . Hemsworth is the older brother of Chris Hemsworth, whose festive voice is Morgenstern too.

Movies

Morgenstern first dubbed a leading role in cinema productions in 2002, in the stoner comedy So High for Redman . In 2006 he could be heard in the comedy Jackass: Number Two as Chris Pontius and in the Australian horror film Wolf Creek as Ben Mitchell. In 2007 he dubbed Joe Anderson twice , once in the musical Across the Universe as a student Max Carrigan, who was drafted for the Vietnam War, and then in the biographical film Control as Peter Hook , bassist for the post-punk band Joy Division . In the disaster film Cloverfield (2008) produced by JJ Abrams , he spoke Mike Vogel as Jason Hawkins, in the episodic comedy comedy He's Just Not That Into You (2009) Kevin Connolly as real estate agent Conor and in the fantasy film Percy Jackson - Thieves in Olympus (2010) Jake Abel as Luke, the son of Hermes. In 2011, he was in the comic book adaptation Thor as a protagonist for Chris Hemsworth occupied in the relationship drama Country Strong for Garrett Hedlund as a talented country singer Beau Hutton and in the Oscar -nominated political thriller The Ides of March - Day of treason for Ryan Gosling as Governor Stephen Meyers campaign strategist. In the same year he was also heard as a narrator in the documentary Friedrich - Ein deutscher König . In 2012 he gave his voice to the cartoon character Pitch (Pitch Black / Boogeyman) in the 3D fantasy animated film The Guardians of Light .

In 2014 Morgenstern was the narrator for the National Geographic 3D documentary Jerusalem , for which Benedict Cumberbatch could be heard in the original . In 2016 he spoke and sang in the film Vaiana for the role of Tamatoa.

Games

Radio plays

In the radio play adaptations of well-known novel classics, which are published by the publisher Titania Medien in the series Horror Cabinet , he took on various supporting roles, for example in 2007 in The Werewolf by Alexandre Dumas and The Flying Dutchman by Heinrich Heine , in 2008 in Die Gespenster-Rikscha by Rudyard Kipling and also 2009 in Die Spinne by Hanns Heinz Ewers and Der Tempel by HP Lovecraft . In 2008 he also spoke the protagonists in the two-part radio play The Hunchback of Notre-Dame based on Victor Hugo's book. With the same label he also participated in radio play versions from the field of children's literature, for example in 2008 he spoke the eagle eye in Peter Pan at Julien Haggége's side as a fearful rabbit, and in 2009 he was heard in an episode of the Anne on Green Gables series.

In spring 2007 he and Joe Hill promoted his book Blind on three reading dates .

Synchronous rollers (selection)

Chris Hemsworth

Masako Nozawa

Ryan Gosling

TJ Miller

Benedict Cumberbatch

Garrett Hedlund

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Tommy Morgenstern in the online film database
  2. ↑ page 12
  3. ↑ Andreas Müller: tiefton.de - historical - Andreas Mueller, Mueller. Retrieved October 23, 2017 .
  4. ↑ ... Are Us. August 19, 1996. Retrieved October 23, 2017 .
  5. ↑ andreas müller: walt's. March 15, 2011, accessed October 23, 2017 .
  6. ↑ interview on pdbz.de . PerfectDragonballZ.de. Retrieved January 11, 2010.
  7. ^ In the middle of Berlin by Tommy Morgenstern . Amazon. Retrieved October 15, 2011.
  8. ↑ Homepage of the band Motomatic . motomatic.net. Retrieved October 15, 2011.
  9. ↑ http://www.holzhauser-leben.de/files/daten/stadtteilinformationen/sommer2008.pdf (page 13)
  10. ↑ Jerusalem | IMAX DOME cinema Speyer. Retrieved July 27, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Radio play roles by Tommy Morgenstern . hoerspiel3.de. Retrieved October 15, 2011.
  12. ↑ Joe Hill in Germany - KingWiki. Retrieved October 23, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Morgenstern, Tommy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lührig, Thomas (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German voice actor and singer
DATE OF BIRTH March 28, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Osnabrück