Friday, April 25, 2025

RIP Axel Scholtz

 


Veteran German film, radio, TV and voice actor Axel Scholtz died on April 21st he was 90. Born in, Schweidnitz, Lower Silesia, Germany on March 1, 1935, as a child, he took on a role in the theatre adaptation of “Emil and the Detectives” at the Munich Kammerspiele, later he played at the Volkstheater. As a twelve-year-old, he appeared in a film for the first time in 1947’s “Zwischen gestern und morgen”. After his schooling, he completed a photographer's training course and took acting lessons from Friedrich Domin and finally at the Otto-Falckenberg-Schule in Munich. This took him to the Munich cabaret Die Zwiebel and to the Stachela in Berlin. Scholtz participated in many films and television productions, and he also worked in dubbing and numerous radio plays. He worked as a voice dubber on two Euro-westerns:”Killer Adios” in 1986 he was the German voice of Fabián Conde and voiced both Jack Caffrey and Yom Connor in 1994’s “Troublemakers” with Bud Spencer and Terence Hill.

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