Rainer Basedow
{{Short description|German film, television, and voice actor (1938–2022)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2022}}
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| name = Rainer Basedow
| image = Rainer Basedow.JPG
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| birth_date = 20 May 1938
| birth_place = Mühlhausen, Saxony, Prussia, Germany (now Thuringia, Germany)
| death_date = 15 May 2022 (aged 83)
| death_place = Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
| othername =
| occupation = Actor
| spouse = {{marriage|Mathilde Basedow|1971}}
| children = 4
}}
Rainer Basedow (20 May 1938 – 15 May 2022) was a German film, television, and voice actor.{{sfn|Goble|1999|p=375}} He is known for having provided the voice of Pumbaa in the German dub of The Lion King franchise,{{Cite web |last=Bretzel |first=Julius |date=17 May 2022 |title=Schauspieler Rainer Basedow ist tot |website=Augsburger Allgemeine |url=https://www.augsburger-allgemeine.de/panorama/serienstar-und-pumbaa-stimme-rainer-basedow-ist-tot-2022-id62708596.html |language=de |access-date=17 May 2022}} up until his replacement with Jürgen Kluckert in The Lion Guard. He also dubbed John Belushi as Jake Blues in The Blues Brothers and Ron Donachie as Sergeant Harley in The Jungle Book.{{cite web | title=Synchronsprecher – Rainer Basedow | website=Deutsche Synchronkartei | date=17 May 2022 | url=https://www.synchronkartei.de/sprecher/35/2 | language=de | access-date=17 May 2022}}
Biography
Born in Mühlhausen, Saxony (now Thuringia),{{cite web | title=Trauer um Schauspieler Rainer Basedow | website=weser-kurier-de | date=17 May 2022 | url=https://www.weser-kurier.de/kultur/film/trauer-um-schauspieler-rainer-basedow-doc7l11paoiok6wp83yd59 | language=de | access-date=17 May 2022}} Basedow graduated from high school in Magdeburg in 1956.{{cite web | title=Schauspieler Rainer Basedow ist tot – Rollen in "Tatort" und "Küstenwache" machen ihn unvergessen | website=Volksstimme | date=17 May 2022 | url=https://www.volksstimme.de/kultur/tv-und-streaming/schauspieler-rainer-basedow-ist-tot-rollen-in-tatort-und-kuestenwache-machen-ihn-unvergessen-3379596 | language=de | access-date=17 May 2022}} As he was not allowed to study in East Germany due to "political unreliability",{{cite web | last=Steil | first=Wolfgang | title=Erlebte Geschichten mit Kabarettist Rainer Basedow | website=WDR | date=22 June 2016 | url=https://www1.wdr.de/radio/wdr5/sendungen/erlebtegeschichten/rainerbasedow101.html | language=de | access-date=17 May 2022}} he fled to West Germany in 1956.{{cite web | title=Schauspieler Rainer Basedow stirbt nach schwerer Krankheit | website=Focus | date=17 May 2022 | url=https://www.focus.de/kultur/kino_tv/bekannt-aus-der-zdf-kuestenwache-schauspieler-rainer-basedow-stirbt-nach-schwerer-krankheit_id_100545514.html | language=de | access-date=17 May 2022}}{{cite web | title=Schauspieler und Kabarettist Rainer Basedow ist tot | website=Der Spiegel | date=17 May 2022 | url=https://www.spiegel.de/kultur/tv/schauspieler-und-kabarettist-rainer-basedow-ist-tot-a-22664bb4-ed37-479d-acf0-4d8180d4797c | language=de | access-date=17 May 2022}} He studied to be a teacher, German and sports at the {{ill|Pädagogische Hochschule Braunschweig|de}}. He went then for a half year to an acting school in Munich.{{cite web | title=Rainer Basedow | website=Munzinger Biographie | url=https://www.munzinger.de/search/portrait/Rainer+Basedow/0/16179.html | language=de | access-date=17 May 2022}} In 1961, he found his first leading role in the Beckett play Waiting for Godot in a small theatre at the Siegestor.{{cite web |last=Huber |first=Joachim | title=Rainer Basedow ist gestorben | website=Der Tagesspiegel | date=17 May 2022 | url=https://www.tagesspiegel.de/gesellschaft/medien/kabarettist-schauspieler-synchronsprecher-rainer-basedow-ist-gestorben/28347862.html | language=de | access-date=17 May 2022}} Followed by engagements in Bern, Düsseldorf, at the {{ill|Schaubühne am Halleschen Ufer|de}}, and again in Munich. From 1962, he played at the Münchner Volkstheater.{{cite news | title=Im Alter von 83 Jahren: Schauspieler Rainer Basedow gestorben | website=FAZ.NET | date=17 May 2022 | url=https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/medien/rainer-basedow-schauspieler-im-alter-von-83-jahren-gestorben-18037052.html | language=de | access-date=17 May 2022}}
In 1968, he played a police officer in the cult film Go for It, Baby.{{cite web | title=Pumbaa von "König der Löwen": Schauspieler Rainer Basedow ist gestorben | website=RND.de | date=17 May 2022 | url=https://www.rnd.de/kultur/pumbaa-von-koenig-der-loewen-schauspieler-rainer-basedow-ist-gestorben-7ZAWBPHQCZDA7GL2FF24TFZLMA.html | language=de | access-date=17 May 2022}} Basedow played the Sergeant Dimpfelmoser in the 1974 children's film {{ill|The Robber Hotzenplotz (1974 film)|de|3=Der Räuber Hotzenplotz (1974)|lt=The Robber Hotzenplotz}}, based on the fictional character The Robber Hotzenplotz, at the side of Gert Fröbe and Josef Meinrad. Basedow's Dimpfelmoser had a lasting impact on the portrayal of this character, for example on puppet stages.{{cite web | title=Rainer Basedow | website=Film-Lexikon.de | date=16 May 2022 | url=https://www.film-lexikon.de/Rainer_Basedow | language=de | access-date=17 May 2022}} From 1976 to 1995, he was a permanent member of the Münchner Lach- und Schießgesellschaft. Dieter Hildebrandt's television cabaret Scheibenwischer hired him for several editions. Basedow was seen on television in Derrick, Tatort, Der Alte, Der Bulle von Tölz and Küstenwache.
He was married to Mathilde, whom he met on a set, since 1971. The couple had four children.
Death
Basedow died on 15 May 2022 in Salzburg, at the age of 83.{{cite web | title=Schauspieler Rainer Basedow ist tot | website=Sächsische.de | date=17 May 2022 | url=https://www.saechsische.de/kultur/schauspieler-rainer-basedow-mit-83-gestorben-5688513.html | language=de | access-date=17 May 2022}}{{cite web | title=Trauer: Rainer Basedow (83) | website=Salzburger Nachrichten | url=https://www.sn.at/trauer/rainer-basedow-83-121429936 | language=de | access-date=17 May 2022}}
Selected filmography
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- {{ill|Wilder Reiter GmbH|de}} (1967)
- Trace of a Girl (1967)
- Hot Pavements of Cologne (1967)
- {{ill|Jet Generation (film)|de|3=Jet Generation|lt=Jet Generation}} (1968){{cite web | title=Rainer Basedow | website=KINO | date=3 January 2006 | url=https://www.kino.de/star/rainer-basedow/ | language=de | access-date=17 May 2022}}
- {{ill|With Oak Leaves and Fig Leaf|de|Mit Eichenlaub und Feigenblatt}} (1968)
- Go for It, Baby (1968)
- Death and Diamonds (1968)
- {{ill|Quartett im Bett|de}} (1968)
- {{ill|Let It All Hang Out (film)|de|3=Der Mann mit dem goldenen Pinsel|lt=Let It All Hang Out}} (1969)
- Angels of the Street (1969)
- Why Did I Ever Say Yes Twice? (1969)
- {{ill|Kuckucksei im Gangsternest|de}} (1969)
- {{Ill|Love, Vampire Style|de|Beiß mich Liebling!}} (1970)
- When the Mad Aunts Arrive (1970)
- When You're With Me (1970)
- Aunt Trude from Buxtehude (1971)
- Tiger Gang (1971)
- Ore di terrore / Kreuzfahrt des Grauens (1971)
- Four Times That Night (1971)
- My Daughter, Your Daughter (1972)
- The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of (1972)
- Three Men in the Snow (1974)
- {{ill|The Robber Hotzenplotz (1974 film)|de|3=Der Räuber Hotzenplotz (1974)|lt=The Robber Hotzenplotz}} (1974){{cite web | title=Schauspieler und Pumbaa-Sprecher Rainer Basedow gestorben | website=stern.de | date=17 May 2022 | url=https://www.stern.de/kultur/film/rainer-basedow--die-deutsche-stimme-von-pumbaa-ist-gestorben-31866978.html | language=de | access-date=17 May 2022}}
- Lina Braake (1975)
- The Clown (1976)
- Caipiranha (1998)
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Citations
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General and cited references
- {{Cite book |last=Goble |first=Alan |date=1999 |title=The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film |location=London |publisher=Walter de Gruyter |isbn=978-3-11-095194-3 |oclc=868959494}}
External links
- {{IMDb name|0059704}}
- {{Discogs artist|Rainer Basedow}}
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Category:German male film actors
Category:German male television actors
Category:20th-century German male actors
Category:21st-century German male actors
Category:German male voice actors