Udo Schenk

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Udo Schenk during the ear canoes -Verleihung 2010

Udo Schenk (born April 11, 1953 in Wittenberge ) is a German actor , dubbing and radio play speaker . He is known to the public primarily for his role in the ARD series In allerfreund . A wide audience knows his voice mainly through recurring dubbing by the US actors Ray Liotta and Kevin Bacon and the British actors Ralph Fiennes and Gary Oldman .

Life

After studying acting at the Leipzig Theater School , Schenk made his debut in a fairytale production on a stage in Karl-Marx-Stadt and later moved to Berlin , where he was engaged at the Maxim-Gorki-Theater from 1975 to 1985 . At the same time he was a guest at the Deutsches Theater Berlin . Schenk took on several leading roles in film productions for East German television and also appeared in DEFA feature films , including Dach überm Kopf (1980), directed by Ulrich Thein .

During a theater guest performance in the Federal Republic of Germany in 1985, Schenk left the rest of the ensemble and left the GDR . He then began a new career in Germany. This was followed by theater engagements at theaters in Cologne and Berlin. In the further course he took on numerous film and television roles, in the context of which he mostly mimed the slippery villain or villain . Since 2007, Schenk has been playing the role of Dr. Kaminski is one of the main characters in the ARD series In all friendship . Furthermore, he embodied Kaiser Wilhelm II in various documentaries, for example in Die Deutschen .

Udo Schenk lives in Berlin and is married to actress Marina Krogull . From 1977 to 1979 he was married to the actress Cornelia Lippert . They have a daughter together.

Synchronized work

In addition, Udo Schenk has been working extensively in film dubbing since 1985 . In several hundred productions he has lent his distinctive voice to Kevin Bacon ( among others in Sleepers and Mystic River ), Ralph Fiennes (among others in The English Patient , Roter Drache , Harry Potter and Grand Budapest Hotel ), Gary Oldman (among others in The Dark Knight , Air Force One , The Fifth Element, and The Darkest Hour ), Brad Dourif in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers , Kevin Spacey in The Usual Suspects , Kenneth Branagh in Gingerbread Man , Jeffrey Combs (as Weyoun in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine as well as Thy'lek Shran in Star Trek: Enterprise ), Batiatus in the series Spartacus (1st season), Michael Emerson as Henry Gale or Benjamin Linus in Lost and Harold Finch in Person of Interest and Fredric Lehne as yellow-eyed Demon / Azael in Supernatural and David Morrissey as Philip "The Governor" Blake in the television series The Walking Dead .

Udo Schenk is the German voice of Ray Liotta . He has spoken in GoodFellas - Three Decades in the Mafia (1990, directed by Martin Scorsese ), Cop Land (1997, directed by James Mangold ) and Killing Them Softly (2012).

Audio books, audio and computer games

Udo Schenk also gained popularity as the German voice of the computer game character Raziel in the computer games Soul Reaver 2 and Legacy of Kain: Defiance . He could be heard as Doctor T. in the PC adventure Jack Keane and in 2012 took over the role of the male witch doctor in Diablo III . In Far Cry 3 , Far Cry 4 and Far Cry 5 , he took over the German voice of agent Willis Huntley. Also the German voice of "Reznov" in Call of Duty: World at War as well as Call of Duty: Black Ops and Black Ops II .

In the radio play series John Sinclair Edition 2000 Udo Schenk appears in changing characters, in the radio play series Revelation 23 he acted in episode 12 in the role of the protagonist Jack Roth. He took on other guest roles in the series Horror Cabinet, Sherlock Holmes of Maritim Verlag and Tony Ballard of Dreamland Productions. For Zaubermond Audio He said a perfidious serial killer in the award-winning series 2009/2010 Goldagengården of Marco Göllner .

Schenk gave voice and character to the private detective Yevgeny Marlov , a character in a novel by David Zane Mairowitz, for WDR . So far, nine productions have been made between 2006 and 2016.

As an audio book interpreter , Schenk set to music, among others, Nacht über den Wassern by Ken Follett (2000), Stand by me by Stephen King (2002), In Feuer der Smaragde by Patricia Shaw (2004) and Level 26: Dark Origins by Anthony E. Zuiker and Duane Swierczynski ( Lübbe Audio , 2009).

Filmography (selection)

Radio plays

Awards

On June 5, 2019, Schenk was granted honorary citizenship of his hometown Wittenberge.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see film mirror. No. 20, 1980, p. 18.
  2. ^ Frank-Burkhard Habel , Volker Wachter : The great lexicon of the GDR stars. The actors from film and television. Extended new edition. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-89602-391-8 .
  3. ↑ http://filmmakers.de/udo-schenk Udo Schenk
  4. ↑ Revelation 23, Volume 12: The Pirate's Treasure ( Memento April 11, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ http://quatsch-film.de/#5thpage Official homepage of the film Quatsch und die Nasenbärbande
  6. ↑ http://diedreifragezeichen.wikia.com/wiki/Der_dreiTag#Ssprecher
  7. ↑ https://www.dreifragezeichen.de/www/ddf-produkt-detail/product/hoerspiel-die-drei-fragezeichen-toedliches-eis/
  8. ↑ Review of the 2nd audio book box in the Porterville series, accessed on August 13, 2014
  9. ↑ https://www.dreifragezeichen.de/www/ddf-produkt-detail/product/hoerspiel-die-drei-fragezeichen-173-daemon-der-rache
  10. ↑ https://www.capella-antiqua.de/konzert/pracht-mythos/?archive=1. Retrieved April 27, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Schenk, Udo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, dubbing and radio play speaker
DATE OF BIRTH April 11, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Wittenberg