Karl Hanft
Charles Hanft ( born July 24, 1904 in Vienna, † February 2nd 1982 in Munich) was an Austrian actor, voice actor and radio speaker.
Life and work
Hanft attended after high school, the Academy for the Performing Arts in Vienna. In 1929 he became a member of the cooperative German national stage. Since 1939 he was engaged at the Bavarian State Theatre. On April 13, 1943, he met with other members of the ensemble in Paris to act as Arcas in a guest performance at the Comédie - Française on 14 and 15 April in the play Iphigenia in Tauris. In 1956, he was seen at the Residenz Theater IV as Bardolph in Shakespeare's King Henry. Hanft, who bore the title of state actors, in the 1950s, was the first on the Bavarian State Theatre character -Charge players.
From 1929 he starred in radio plays, especially at the Bayerischer Rundfunk, so in 1946 a detective radio play by Helmuth M. Backhaus. Hanft was seen since 1931 in several films, besides he dubbed a number of British and American films. Most recently, he worked especially for television.