Wolfgang Kieling

Wolfgang Kieling
Wolfgang Kieling (and his daughter), 20 March 1968
Born	(1924-03-16)March 16, 1924 Berlin, Germany
Died	October 7, 1985(1985-10-07) (aged 61) Hamburg, Germany
Occupation	Actor

Wolfgang Kieling (16 March 1924 – 7 October 1985) was a German actor.

In films since childhood in his native Germany, Kieling appeared in a few American films such as Alfred Hitchcock's Torn Curtain (1966), where he played an East German agent brutally slain by Paul Newman's character, and had a small role in $ (aka, The Heist, 1971), starring Warren Beatty. In a British film, Amsterdam Affair (1968), he portrayed the fictional Dutch detective 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 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 Disneys Alice in Wonderland he dubbed the Mad Hatter.

Early on, Kieling also became a dubbing actor for German dubs of foreign films, being 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 October 1952 his wife Jola Jobst (ex-wife of German Luftwaffe ace Hermann Graf), whom he had married in 1950, committed suicide.

Selected filmography

• Die lustigen Weiber (1936) - Bit Part (uncredited)
• Maria the Maid (1936) - Christoph - Marias little brother
• Die Kreutzersonate (1937) - Wassja
• Heimweh (1937) - Robby, Sohn des Bankpräsidenten
• Women for Golden Hill (1938) - Pat
• Altes Herz geht auf die Reise (1938) - Der Solist im Schulchor
• The Journey to Tilsit (1939) - Klein Franz
• Seitensprünge (1940) - Hotelboy
• Falstaff in Vienna (1940) - Loisl - Lehrling bei Meister Sturm
• Herz geht vor Anker (1940) - Schiffsjunge
• Somewhere in Berlin (1941) - Bürolehrling bei Dr. Horn
• Jenny und der Herr im Frack (1941) - Hotelpage im "Tivoli" (uncredited)
• Genesung (1956) - Friedel Walter
• Damals in Paris (1956) - René
• Duped Till Doomsday (1957) - Gefreiter Lick
• Der Mann, der nicht nein sagen konnte (1958) - Untersuchungsrichter
• Arzt ohne Gewissen (1959) - Dr. Stein
• Agatha, laß das Morden sein! (1960) - Philip
• The Marriage of Mr. Mississippi (1961) - Narrator (voice, uncredited)
• The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (1961) - Dimanche
• Mörderspiel (1961) - Kriminalinspektor Arnold
• Heute kündigt mir mein Mann (1963) - Schwarzkopf
• Time of the Innocent (1964)
• Polizeirevier Davidswache (1964) - Hauptwachtmeister Glantz
• The House in Karp Lane (1965) - Karl Marek
• Hotel der toten Gäste (1965) - Jack Courtney
• Die Banditen vom Rio Grande (1965) - Barran
• Our Man in Jamaica (1965) - Elmer Hayes / Nick
• Duel at Sundown (1965) - Punch
• Congress of Love (1966) - Napoleon's double
• Torn Curtain (1966) - Hermann Gromek
• Hotel Clausewitz (1967) - Stemmka
• The Vengeance of Fu Manchu (1967) - Dr. Lieberson
• Dead Run (1967) - Wolfgang
• The House of 1,000 Dolls (1967) - Inspector Emil
• Operazione San Pietro (1967) - Poulain
• Im Banne des Unheimlichen (1968) - Sir Cecil
• Tevye and His Seven Daughters (1968) - Poperilli
• Amsterdam Affair (1968) - Van Der Valk
• Das siebente Jahr (1969) - Günter Heim
• Jungfer, Sie gefällt mir (1969) - Adam
• Aus unserer Zeit (1970) - Böttcher (segment "Das Duell")
• Das Loch zur Welt (1970)
• Goya or the Hard Way to Enlightenment (1971) - Godoy
• $ (1971) - Granich
• Der Todesrächer von Soho (1972) - Ferencz
• Bauern, Bonzen und Bomben (1973, TV miniseries) - Gebhardt
• Vreemde Wêreld (1974) - Iwan Elzer
• A Guru Comes (1980, TV film) - Rechtsanwalt / Narrator
• Exil (1981, TV miniseries) - Gingold
• Der König und sein Narr (1981, TV film) - Prof. Jakob Paul von Gundling
• Die Geschwister Oppermann (1983, TV miniseries) - Martin Oppermann
• The Heart of the Matter (1983, TV film) - Yusef
• Patrik Pacard (1984, TV miniseries) - Professor Olaf Gunström
• Man Under Suspicion (1984) - Reporter 'Watergate'
• Out of Order (1984) - Gössmann
• Didi und die Rache der Enterbten (1985) - Notar Prätorius

External links

• Wolfgang Kieling at IMDb
• Wolfgang Kieling at Find a Grave