Rolf Becker

Rolf Becker (b. 1935) is a German actor and voice artist who narrated the 1998 Sesamstrasse documentary Samson und das Krümelmonster. His son, actor Ben Becker, later guest starred on Sesamstrasse.
Becker made his German television debut in 1962, appearing in TV movies (playing Charles Lindbergh in a dramatization of the Lindbergh baby kidnapping) and in the 1974 French co-produced anthology Les grands détectives (as Sherlock Holmes in "The Sign of Four," with Roger Lumont as Watson). He appeared over a dozen times on Tatort, including a recurring stint as prosecutor Maurer in the installments with Manfred Krug as investigator Stoever. His film credits include starring roles in Cardillac and Ich liebe dich, ich töte dich (I Love You, I Kill You), as well as supporting Diane Keaton in The Little Drummer Girl and a prominent role in the Hungarian co-production Gloomy Sunday.
He acted on German radio beginning in 1960 and remaining active intermittently as late as 2020. He was heard in adaptations of stage plays such as Major Barbara, A Night Out, and Tom Stoppard's The Dog It Was That Died (with Peter Capell), as well as a 1974 adaptation of Pablo Neruda's poetry collection Canto General and mysteries by Dorothy L. Sayers and Dick Francis. 
As a voice actor beginning in the 1980s, Becker dubbed Burgess Meredith as the Penguin on Batman, continuing to voice the animated versions in the Filmation series, Batman: The Animated Series, and Mystery of the Batwoman. He dubbed the title role on Nelvana's Babar series, while live-action dubbing included Claude Rains in The Invisible Man, Tim Daly on Wings, and Jeremy Irons in Brideshead Revisited and Tales from Hollywood.
==External links==
*IMDb
*German dubbing credits
Category:International Voice Actors