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Wolfgang Kieling (16 March 1924 – 7 October 1985) was a
Germanactor.
Biography
In
films since
childhood in his native
Germany, Kieling appeared in a few American films, notably in
Alfred Hitchcock's Torn Curtain (1966), where he played Gromek, an
East German agent brutally slain by
Paul Newman's character. He also played Gromek's brother in a scene that was deleted from the final print.[2]
Kieling had a small role in $ (aka, The Heist, 1971), starring
Warren Beatty. In a
British film, Amsterdam Affair (1968), he portrayed the fictional
Dutchdetective Van der Valk several years before
Barry Foster (another Hitchcock alumnus) was cast in the same role for
the British TV series. He did much work on West German TV, including the first episode of Derrick ("Waldweg", 1974).
The best of his later roles was in the film Out of Order (1984), originally titled Abwärts. In the German-language version of
DisneysAlice in Wonderland he dubbed the Mad Hatter.
Early on, Kieling also became a dubbing actor for West German dubs of foreign films, serving as the standard dubbing voice of
Glenn Ford,
Frank Sinatra (in his 1950s films), and he also dubbed
Charlton Heston in
the first part of the
Planet of the Apes franchise. Thanks to his voice's similarity to that of
Gert Günther Hoffmann, he would also replace Hoffmann as the dubbing voice of
Paul Newman when Hoffmann was not available. On TV, he was especially known as the German voice of Bert (see
Bert and Ernie) from Sesame Street up until his death in 1985.
In March 1968, he moved from
West Germany to
East Germany because of West German support for the
United States, which he became disillusioned with after witnessing the
Watts riots firsthand during the filming of Torn Curtain. After defecting he called the United States "the most dangerous enemy of humanity in the world today" with its "crimes against the Negro and the people of Vietnam".[5]
Selected filmography
Child actor
Die lustigen Weiber (1936) - Bit Part (uncredited)
Maria the Maid (1936) - Christoph - Marias little brother