Olaf Wijnants

Olaf Wijnants (b. 1948) is a Dutch voice actor who provided voices for De Freggels (the Dutch dub of Fraggle Rock, both puppet and animated series) and Sesamstraat, the Dutch co-production of Sesame Street. 
Wijnants dubbed Wembley Fraggle, Philo, and Convincing John on De Freggels (and the same roles on the animated series dub). For Sesamstraat, he provided occasional secondary voices. In DVD releases, live shows and other projects outside the TV series, Wijnants lends Big Bird his Dutch voice, including The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland where he also dubbed Bug. He later voiced Link Hogthrob in the Dutch dub of Muppets Most Wanted and Muppets Now.
Wijnants has worked on several Disney projects including the second dubs of Pinocchio (Jiminy Cricket) and One Hundred and One Dalmatians (Sgt. Tibbs) as well as dubbing Panchito in The Three Caballeros, the newsreel narrator in Up, Dale on Chip 'n' Dale Rescue Rangers, and Ma Beagle on DuckTales. Outside of Disney, he dubbed the Mayor on The Powerpuff Girls, the stadium announcer on Pokémon, Peewit on The Smurfs, and Allstar on The Snorks. He dubbed Asterix in Dutch for several animated features. For the live-action film Asterix and Obelix vs. Caesar, he dubbed Christian Clavier as Asterix in both Dutch and English (directing the latter dub and working with dialogue adaptor Terry Jones).
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