Walter Bluhm

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Walter Bluhm (born August 5, 1907 in Berlin , † December 2, 1976 in Munich ), also known as Walter Blühm, was a German actor and voice actor . His voice was best known through the Laurel and Hardy films (as the voice of Stan Laurel ) and the British Miss Marple films (as the voice of Mr. Stringer ).

theatre

Walter Bluhm was born the son of the bookseller Wilhelm Bluhm and his wife Cordula, née Mathieu, in Berlin-Neukölln. After attending the Kaiser-Friedrich-Gymnasium, Bluhm first completed an apprenticeship as a bookseller . In 1924/25 he was finally trained as an actor at Max Reinhardt's seminar in Berlin. In 1924 he made his debut as a Moorish boy in a performance of William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice in Berlin. This was followed by stage stations in Stuttgart (Württembergische Wanderbühne), Darmstadt (Landestheater), Reussisches Theater Gera and Berlin (Dr.-Robert-Klein-Bühnen, Staatstheater , Volksbühne ). On March 31, 1937, he married Charlotte Hepprich (1908-2001).

After the Second World War , which Bluhm experienced as a soldier at the front from 1939 to 1945, he returned to the stage in Berlin in August 1945 in the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm. Bluhm also played both comic batch roles and tragic heroes on other Berlin theaters such as George in John Steinbeck's Von Mäusen und Menschen ( Schloßpark-Theater , 1948), the Schmock in Gustav Freytag's Journalisten ( Schillertheater , 1954) and the Mollfels in Christian Dietrich Grabbes Jokes, satire, irony and deeper meaning (Schloßpark-Theater, 1955).

Movie

After a few appearances in short films by Oskar Fischinger ( Study No. 10 ) and Leopold Lindtberg ( When Two Argue , 1932), Bluhm made his feature film debut in Robert A. Stemmle's literary adaptation Glückspilze in 1934 . In the following years he found a rich field of activity at UFA . Bluhm starred alongside Heinrich George in the Gerhart Hauptmann film adaptation of Biberpelz , alongside Ralph Arthur Roberts in Der Maulkorb (based on Heinrich Spoerl ), in Frank Wisbar's Gottfried Keller film adaptation of The Flag of the Seven Upright , directed by Boleslaw Barlog in his time in my time as well as directed by the controversial Karl Ritter in Pour le Mérite .

After the war ended, Bluhm was quickly given another job in film. At first he worked in DEFA productions such as Gerhard Lamprechts Irgendwo in Berlin and Kurt Maetzig's Die Buntkarierte , after 1949 only in German productions. Bluhm mostly embodied long-suffering, anxious and sensitive characters. Among his most famous films include Robert A. Stemmles post-war satire Berlin ballad (with Gert Fröbe as John Doe ), Robert Siodmak's film version Rats by Gerhart Hauptmann's eponymous drama (with Maria Schell and Curt Jurgens ), Josef von Bákys Drama Hotel Adlon , Eduard von Borsodys Adventure film Liane, the girl from the jungle , the Jerry Cotton thriller Murder Night in Manhattan and Harald Reinl's The Invisible Claws of Dr. Mabuse .

watch TV

From the mid-1960s, Bluhm increasingly turned to work in television . He played in TV versions of well-known plays such as Tirso de Molinas Don Gil von den green Hosen (director: Boleslaw Barlog), in sophisticated TV films such as Karl Fruchtmann's war drama Kaddisch after a living person , in literary adaptations such as Eugen York's Late Summer (based on Max Dreyer's novella Old Age ) and Wolfgang Staudtes Die Person (based on Manfred Bieler ), in the multi-part crime series The Red Scarf (based on Wilkie Collins ), in tabloid comedies like Don't Wake Up Madame! (Director: Wolfgang Spier ) and television series such as Derrick . In 1970 he played as a good-natured, albeit grouchy theater manager alongside Grethe Weiser, one of the leading roles in the early evening series Theatergarderobe . In Korbinian Köberle's television film Lord of the Creation (1976; inter alia with Michael Degen ) Bluhm was already clearly marked by his severe cancer . It was to be his last production - on December 2nd of the same year he succumbed to this disease in Munich.

synchronization

A broad audience will remember Bluhm not least for his high-pitched and nasal voice, which made him a sought-after and busy voice actor . In 1936 he was selected at a voice casting organized by the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer -Studios as voice actor for comedian Stan Laurel for the German version of Bonnie Scotland ( We are from the Scottish Infantry Regiment , later German title: The brave Scots ). From then on, Bluhm became the standard German speaker for Laurel. As with hardly any other pairing of Hollywood star and dubbing actor, Bluhm was used for all Germanizations of Laurel with a few exceptions, in the case of the film Way Out West ( Two rode to Texas , later German title: In the far west ) even for four different German versions, which were created 38 years apart (1937, 1952, 1965 and 1975).

In addition, Bluhm also loaned other internationally known actors such as Bourvil ( The Adventures of the Three Musketeers ), Jack Elam ( The 4th Man ), Buster Keaton ( Buster Keaton in Wild West ), Peter Lorre ( World of Sensations , Around the World in 80 Days ) and Burgess Meredith ( The Cardinal , Storming Over Washington ) his distinctive voice. He was also popular as the spokesman for Mr. Stringer ( Stringer Davis ) in a total of five crime films based on Agatha Christie ( 4:50 p.m. from Paddington , The Wax Bouquet , Murderer Ahoy ! , Four Women and a Murder and The Murders of Mr. ABC ) and as a hapless man Egyptian architect Numerobis in the cartoon Asterix and Cleopatra , as the mouse Jaques in Walt Disney's Cinderella and Professor Bienlein in Tim and the Shark Lake . He also lent his voice to the tin man in the feature films The Wizard of Oz and to the narrator and botanist William Brown in Mutiny on the Bounty .

Filmography (selection)

Movie

watch TV

  • 1964: Don Gil from the green pants
  • 1964: a long day
  • 1966: late summer (with Martin Held )
  • 1968: Country doctor Dr. Brock : Car marten
  • 1969: Kaddish for a living person
  • 1970: the person
  • 1970: Theater wardrobe
  • 1973: The red scarf
  • 1974: Don't wake Madame
  • 1974: Car rental Pistulla: The message in a bottle
  • 1975: The town in the valley
  • 1976: Derrick : Calcutta

Radio plays (selection)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ German synchronous index | Voice actor | Walter Bluhm. Retrieved July 20, 2019 .
  2. ↑ http://www.swp.de/crailsheim/lokales/region/Mehr-als-die-Stimme-von-Doof;art5533,3282071
  3. ↑ http://www.swp.de/crailsheim/lokales/region/Mehr-als-die-Stimme-von-Doof;art5533,3282071
  4. ↑ http://www.swp.de/crailsheim/lokales/region/Mehr-als-die-Stimme-von-Doof;art5533,3282071
personal data
SURNAME Bluhm, Walter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bloom, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and voice actor
DATE OF BIRTH 5th August 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 2nd December 1976
Place of death Munich