Rolf Schult
Rolf Schult ( born April 16, 1927 in Berlin, † March 13, 2013 in Horhausen ) was a German actor and was one of the most prominent German voice actors. He gained particular notoriety as a spokesman for Robert Redford, Anthony Hopkins ( The Silence of the Lambs) and Patrick Stewart (Star Trek - The Next Generation). He attracted attention as a first person narrator of the German dubbed version of the classic horror dance of the vampires from the year 1967.
Life and work
Schult was trained at drama school in Hanover and the Academy of Music and Theatre. After his theater debut in the 1959 ibid awarded the Prize of North Rhine- Westphalia actor engagements led initially to Bochum and Cologne, and finally at the Schiller Theater in Berlin, where he remained for many years. 1970 Schult was named Berlin State actor. In addition to his extensive stage work rarely showed appearances in film and television, as in his role as Joachim Herrmann in the television game who comes too late ... on the day the Berlin Wall fell.
Schult was known for his distinctive voice. Since 1965 he was extensive in the synchronization automatically and the German standard voice for Robert Redford (almost always ), Patrick Stewart ( Professor X and Captain Picard, most recently in correspondence with Ernst Meincke ), David Hemmings in the spy thriller Charlie Muffin or Anthony Hopkins ( as in the Silence of the lambs, Hannibal since Hopkins is by Joachim Kerzel synchronized). In addition, he dubbed Marlon Brando ( Superman ), Yul Brynner ( Catlow ), Clint Eastwood (Dirty Harry, Sadistico ), Gene Hackman ( No Way Out or The Poseidon Adventure ), Peter Sellers ( Let me kiss your butterfly ) or Donald Sutherland ( among other things, in JFK - Tatort Dallas or Outbreak ). Last Rolf Schult had retired a few exceptions ( esp. Robert Redford ) from synchronizing.
His distinctive, slightly hoarse acting organ was heard Nomine in audiobooks, commercials, radio plays and television reports and the music project e.
His son, Christian Schult, whose voice has a similar timbre, is also active as a voice actor. Schult's cousin is the actor and voice actor Peer Augustinski. Together with his colleague Jürgen Thormann Rolf Schult received the 2007 German Prize for synchronous for his outstanding oeuvre in the synchronous work.
In 2007, was an American supervisor after Schult had already synchronized the trailer for Redford's latest film, his voice too deep, so that Robert Redford was synchronized in Lions for Lambs by Kaspar Eichel. Schult is therefore only be heard in the first trailer. 2009, Rolf Schult again performing as a voice of Patrick Stewart in X-Men Wolverine movie, which he is already up to the middle of the fourth season of Star Trek - had lent his voice The Next Generation and in the movies.
The tomb of Rolf Schult is located in the forest cemetery Solln in Munich.
Filmography (selection)
TV reports
Computer Games
- 2001: StarTopia (as VAL, the computer wizard )
- 2003: XIII ( voice actor in the role of the character The Mongoose )