Ami Mandelman | |
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עמי מנדלמן | |
 Mandelman in 2012 | |
| Born | Amikam Mandelman August 24, 1950
Haifa, Israel |
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| Years active | 1975–present |
| Children | 3 |
Ami Mandelman ( Hebrew: עמי מנדלמן; born August 24, 1950) is an Israeli actor, voice actor and singer. [1]
Biography
Mandelman was born in Haifa, Israel to Polish-Jewish parents who immgirated and fled to Israel in the 1930s. Having grown up during the austerity period, his parents could not afford music lessons, so they sent him to study musical instruments with a private tutor, mainly the accordion and the guitar. Mandelman became more engaged in music during his teen years and was highly influenced by The Beatles. In 1975, Mandelman formed the band Hakol Over Habibi alongside Shlomit Aharon, Kiki Rothstein and Yuval Dor, which was active until 2002. [2]
Mandelman is also heavily active as a voice dubber. He is best known for providing the Hebrew voices of Vegeta in Dragon Ball Z and Dragon Ball Super, Pumbaa in The Lion King and Mr. Krabs in SpongeBob SquarePants. He also dubbed some characters in Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation until 2003 when these roles were passed on to Efron Etkin in the follow-up series. Other roles include dubbing Goofy since 1989 and some of the major Looney Tunes characters since Space Jam. He has also served as a dubbing director for the Hebrew dubbing of films such as Shrek.
As an actor, Mandelman has appeared in television shows such as Shemesh and A Wonderful Country. [3] His character was portrayed by Tal Friedman in a television parody about Hakol Over Habibi.
He has narrated on productions and projects in the Hebrew language, such as Popiz (Alongside Tzili Yanko) & Cuddlies (Alongside Bobby Lax) for BabyTV.
Personal life
Mandelman is married, and has three children who are also active in voice dubbing.
References
- ^ Ami Mandelman’s filmography (in Hebrew)
- ^ Ami Mandelman, zemer.nli.org.il. Retrieved October 21, 2019 (in Hebrew)
- ^ "הקריין מאחורי ווייז: "כשזוכים בפיס נותנים משהו גם לכרטיסן"" (in Hebrew). mako.co.il. June 12, 2013. Retrieved October 21, 2019.
External links
Media related to
Ami Mandelman at Wikimedia Commons
- Ami Mandelman at IMDb
- Ami Mandelman at Behind The Voice Actors
- Ami Mandelman discography at Discogs
- Ami Mandelman's channel on YouTube
| International | |
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- 1950 births
- Living people
- Eurovision Song Contest entrants for Israel
- Eurovision Song Contest entrants of 1981
- Israeli Ashkenazi Jews
- Israeli male film actors
- Israeli male stage actors
- Israeli male television actors
- Israeli male voice actors
- Israeli people of Polish-Jewish descent
- Jewish Israeli male actors
- Jewish Israeli musicians
- 20th-century Israeli Jews
- 21st-century Israeli Jews
- Male actors from Haifa
- Musicians from Haifa
- Israeli voice directors
- 20th-century Israeli male actors
- 21st-century Israeli male actors
- 20th-century Israeli male singers
- Jewish singers