Wolfgang Völz

Wolfgang Völz
Born	(1930-08-16)16 August 1930 Danzig, Free City of Danzig
Died	2 May 2018(2018-05-02) (aged 87) Berlin, Germany
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1950–2018

Wolfgang Otto Völz (16 August 1930 – 2 May 2018) was a German actor. He is known for his roles in theatre plays, TV shows, feature films (especially German films based on Edgar Wallace works) and taped radio shows. He was also a very prolific voice actor.

Völz studied acting and consequently worked as a stage actor. After more than ten years of acting including a great deal of supporting roles in feature films and TV shows he became a popular cast member ("Lt. Mario de Monti") of Space Patrol – The Fantastic Adventures of the Spaceship Orion.^[1] He continued being successful on the TV screen by playing Ioan (German: Johann), the driver and bodyguard of Graf Yoster (and afterwards many other characters).

As a voice actor he dubbed American stars such as Walter Matthau, Peter Falk and Mel Brooks^[2] and people or animals in animated films like Impy's Island.

Selected filmography

• Paths in Twilight (1948)
• Fruit in the Neighbour's Garden (1956)
• The Fox of Paris (1957)
• The Girl Without Pyjamas (1957)
• Man in the River (1958)
• Carnival Confession (1960)
• The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (1961)
• My Husband, the Economic Miracle (1961)
• Street of Temptation (1962)
• The Lightship (1963)
• Murderer in the Fog (1964)
• Emil and the Detectives (1964)
• Raumpatrouille – Die phantastischen Abenteuer des Raumschiffes Orion (1966, TV series, 7 episodes)
• Graf Yoster (1967–1976, TV series, 62 episodes)
• Babeck [de] (1968, TV miniseries)
• Der Kommissar: Das Messer im Geldschrank (1969, TV series episode)
• Der Kommissar: Ende eines Humoristen (1972, TV series episode)
• Der Kommissar: Drei Brüder (1974, TV series episode)
• Sonderdezernat K1: Hafenhyänen (1974, TV series episode)
• Auch ich war nur ein mittelmäßiger Schüler (1974)
• Tatort: Kassensturz (1976, TV series episode)
• Wolffs Revier: Notwehr (1992, TV series episode)
• Pumuckl und der blaue Klabauter [de] (1994)
• Tatort: Falsches Alibi (1995, TV series episode)
• The Einstein of Sex (1999)
• Der blaue Vogel [de] (2001, TV film)
• Der Wixxer (2004)
• Impy's Island (2006, voice)
• Neues vom Wixxer [de] (2007)
• Mord ist mein Geschäft, Liebling (2009)

Further reading

• Ralph Keim: Benjamin und Wolfgang Völz – Eine Biografie, SWB Verlag, Stuttgart, August 2010, ISBN 3-938719-42-7

References

External links

• Wolfgang Völz at IMDb
• Wolfgang Völz as voice actor