Peter Capell
Peter Capell ( born September 3, 1912 in Berlin, † March 3, 1986 in Munich) was a German voice actor and actor.
He took acting lessons with Walter Franck in Berlin and gained his first experiences at the local Reinhardt theaters. After the seizure of power by the Nazis in 1933, he emigrated to the United States.
There he played at various theaters and went 1940/41, with Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler on tour. His New York debut was in 1947 in Lamp at Midnight. He was also assistant director Gottfried Reinhardt, the son of Max Reinhardt. In addition, worked for the radio and since 1949 also for television. Capell also appeared in several American films, where he primarily represented opaque aliens and villains.
In 1955 he returned to Germany and received numerous, usually, however, only minor tasks at domestic and international film. In Billy Wilder's One, two, three, he played in 1961 a Soviet emissary. Since the 1960s, Capell was involved in many German television productions, where he usually respected, but sometimes seedy old men posed as doctors, church dignitaries, high officials and rich businessmen.
In addition, Capell was still on the stage, especially with the Munich Chamber Play, Theater Kleine Freiheit, the intimate theater and the modern theater in Munich. At the Berlin Freie Volksbühne he played in 1965 in the determination of Peter Weiss, and at the Hamburg Chamber of games, he also served as a director. In the popular Muppet Show, he was responsible for the synchronization of the figure pops.
Capell was buried in the East Cemetery in Munich.