Wolfgang Kieling

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

Biography
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 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 ,

Kieling 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
 *  (1941) - Hotelpage im "Tivoli" (uncredited)
 * Genesung (1956) - Friedel Walter
 * Damals in Paris (1956) - René
 * Duped Till Doomsday (1957) - Gefreiter Lick
 *  (1958) - Untersuchungsrichter
 *  (1959) - Dr. Stein
 *  (1960) - Philip
 * The Marriage of Mr. Mississippi (1961) - Narrator (voice, uncredited)
 * The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (1961) - Dimanche
 *  (1961) - Kriminalinspektor Arnold
 *  (1963) - Schwarzkopf
 * Time of the Innocent (1964)
 *  (1964) - Hauptwachtmeister Glantz
 * The House in Karp Lane (1965) - Karl Marek
 * Hotel der toten Gäste (1965) - Jack Courtney
 *  (1965) - Barran
 * Our Man in Jamaica (1965) - Elmer Hayes / Nick
 * Duel at Sundown (1965) - Punch
 *  (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
 *  (1970) - Böttcher (segment "Das Duell")
 * Das Loch zur Welt (1970)
 * Goya or the Hard Way to Enlightenment (1971) - Godoy
 * $ (1971) - Granich
 *  (1972) - Ferencz
 *  (1973, TV miniseries) - Gebhardt
 * Vreemde Wêreld (1974) - Iwan Elzer
 * Härte 10 (1974, TV miniseries) - Martin Melchior
 * Die Kette (1977, TV film) - Heaton
 *  (1979) - Edmund Gabriel
 * A Guru Comes (1980, TV film) - Rechtsanwalt / Narrator
 * Exil (1981, TV miniseries) - Gingold
 *  (1981, TV film) - Prof. Jakob Paul von Gundling
 * Der Spot oder Fast eine Karriere (1981, TV film) - Ingelmann
 * 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
 *  (1985) - Notar Prätorius