Wednesday, November 18, 2020

RIP Horst Schön


German voice actor Horst Schön died in Berlin, Germany on November 10, 2020. He was a film, TV and voice actor.  On television, Schön made multiple appearances in the Berlin installments of ‘Tatprt’ (including three as Stegmüller, supervising lead Kommisar Bülow) and recurred on the soap opera ‘Der Landarzt’ (The Country Doctor) as the police commissioner. In the 1980s, he appeared in two German-Italian-American co-productions, the Western “Thunder III” and the thriller “Casablanca Express” (with Glenn Ford).

Schön was the primary German voice of Leslie Nielsen (including “The Naked Gun” movies, “Dracula: Dead and Loving It, and Mr. Magoo, as well as Spencer Tracy, Rock Hudson, and Richard Burton. He also dubbed Jackie Cooper in “Superman III, Martin Landau in “Meteor”, Ed McMahon in “The Last Remake of Beau Geste”, Peter O’Yoole in “Troy” and Clive Revill in “Charlie Muffin”.

Schon appeared in two Eurowesterns, the previously mentioned “Thunder III” (1983) as Bill and the 1973 DEFA western “Apaches” as Colonel Keanrey.

 

SCHON, Horst (Horst Schön)

Born:12/25/1925, Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Died: 11/10/2020, Berlin, Berlin, Germany

 

Horst Schön’s westerns – actor, voice dubber:

Smoky – 1966 [German voice of Fess Parker]

It Can be Done Amigo – 1971 [German voice of Luciano Bonanni]

Trinity is STILL My Name – 1971 [German voice of Jean Louis]

Deadly Trackers – 1972 [German voice of Rik Battaglia]

Apaches – 1973 (Colonel Keanrey)

The Sacketts (TV) – 1979 [German voice of Glenn Ford]

Rustlers’ Rhapsody – 1985 [German voice of Fernando Rey]

Thunder – 1983 [German voice of Bo Sveneson]

Thunder Warrior III – 1987 (Bill)

Gunsmoke: The Long Ride – 1963 [German voice of James Arness]

Timerider – 1982 [German voice of Macon McCalman]

Lucky Luke: The Daltons on the Run – 1983 [German voice of saloon patron]

Bad Girls – 1994 [German voice of Robert Loggia]

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