The actor lent his voice to Christopher Plummer – most recently in “Knives Out” – and Roger Moore in “The 2”.
The actor and voice actor Lothar Blumhagen died in Berlin on Tuesday at the age of 95. Blumhagen was the German voice of many international stars. His dark, rough timbre was unmistakable and perfectly underlined the demeanor of a British gentleman.
For example, he was very often the voice of Christopher Plummer, most recently in the Netflix-Comedy “Knives Out” (2020). Blumhagen spoke the German dubbing for Roger Moore several times, for example in the 70s action series “The 2” as Lord Brett Sinclair. In the Oscar-winning media thriller “The Untouchables” (1976), Blumhagen might be heard in German as “Deep Throat”: an informant who, without ever being seen, provided US investigative reporters Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward with information in a dark underground car park. Blumhagen provided further dubbing work for Christopher Lee, Alan Rickman (“Actually… Love”) and the Swede Erland Josephson (“Scenes from a Marriage”). Radio play fans know him as a frequent guest of the RIAS series “Professor van Dusen”.
But Blumhagen was also always in front of the camera for television films and was also seen on theater stages. He lived in Berlin. His son told dpa that he had “slept peacefully in the presence of his family” in a hospital there. “His family mourns the loss of a humorous, warm-hearted and generous father, father-in-law and grandfather. We will remember him as an open-minded, art and literature-loving person.”
(APA/dpa)
