Ulrich Frank (voice actor)
Ulrich Frank (born February 2, 1943 in Strasbourg , Alsace ; † April 17, 2017 in Gauting , Bavaria ) was a German voice actor and actor .
Life
Ulrich Frank took acting lessons from Hans Baur . Frank worked as an actor since 1963. He played the role of Leonce in Leonce and Lena and Sherlock Holmes in The Hound of Baskerville , among others . In the mid-1980s, Frank moved to Munich . Here he found employment as a voice actor. The most famous role he dubbed is that of the German voice of Ned Flanders from the series The Simpsons , which he played for 25 years between 1991 and 2015. Frank is on TV in productions like Big Mäc , Der Fahnder , Hidden Cameraand the Francis Durbridge two-part The Chain occurred. He was also the German voice actor for Gecko Moria in the anime series One Piece ; Alexander Brem has been doing this since 2014 . Since 2009 Frank has dubbed the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot in the British television series Agatha Christie's Poirot for their German DVD releases.
In 1999 Frank dubbed the role of Herr von Boden in the animated film Das große Krabbeln . He also gave Fungus his voice in the children's film Die Monster AG and Van in the animated film Cars .
In 2016 he gave up the role of Ned Flanders in the series The Simpsons and went into retirement. He died in April 2017 at the age of 74. Frank was cremated and the urn was buried on April 27 at the Gauting forest cemetery.
Filmography (selection)
- 1977: The Chain (two-part TV series)
- 1985: Big Mäc
- 1985: The Crime Lesson (TV series, an episode)
- 1989: Tango and Cash (dubbing voice)
- 1990: Miller's Crossing (dubbing voice)
- 1991: Court marriages (TV series, episode)
- 1991-2016: The Simpsons (dubbing voice, 25 seasons)
- 1993: Then with violence (TV movie)
- 1998: Guest of the Counts of Montfort (TV film)
- 1999: A True Crime (dubbing voice)
- 1999: The Great Crawling (dubbing voice)
- 2000: The widow of Saint-Pierre (dubbing voice)
- 2001: Die Monster AG (dubbing voice)
- 2003: Till Eulenspiegel (dubbing voice)
- 2006: Cars (dubbing voice)
- 2010: Habermann (dubbing voice)
- 2011: Witch Lilli - The Journey to Mandolan (dubbing voice)
- 2013: Ritter Rost - Eisenhart and fully dented (dubbing voice)
Radio plays / radio features / documentations
- 2001: The little girl and the big hero - From the correspondence between Marie Hannes and Karl May - Author: Thomas Gaevert - Bayern2Radio - history and stories, 25 min.
- 2016: The Simpsons - The original radio play for the TV series, the complete season 23. Edel Germany.
Web links
- The little girl and the big hero ...
- Ulrich Frank in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Ulrich Frank in the German dubbing index
- Audio interview with Ulrich Frank
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ulrich Frank's memorial page. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . April 22, 2017. Retrieved April 22, 2017 .
- ^ Audio player: Ulrich Frank. In: hoerspieler-muenchen.de , accessed on April 23, 2017.
- ↑ Tobias Kestin: Homer Simpson: Christoph Jablonka is the new voice actor. In: Westdeutsche Zeitung . August 26, 2016. Retrieved April 22, 2017.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Frank, Ulrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Frank, Ulli |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actor and voice actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 2, 1943 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Strasbourg , Alsace , German Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | 17th April 2017 |
| Place of death | Gauting , Bavaria , Germany |