Stan Limburg

**Cristiaan Willem Hendrik "Stan" Limburg** (born April 20, 1961 in Purmerend) is a Dutch actor, voice director of drawing and live action films, stage actor and voice actor. He is best known for speaking cartoons and animated films with a particularly cheerful voice. The singer-actor Frans Limburg is his brother.

## Career

### Theater

Limburg started his career in 1985 with the Dutch Folk Theater and played there in In Holland is a house, Boefje and Heimwee. Subsequently, he played in the musical comedy of Jos Brink and Bert Stoots Oude Nieuwe Vrienden, directed by Frank Sanders.

He was seen alongside Piet Bambergen and Rudi Falkenhagen in the farce Pappie, here I am and later played in the musicals Singin 'in the Rain, Annie, as James Milligan in Alone in the world and in Pietje Bell. In the 2009/2010 season, he appeared 23 times in the musical Op hoop van zegen when he replaced Arie Cupé in the roles of Kaps and Cobus.

Limburg worked as a comedian on two programs of theater-restaurant De Suikerhof and was seen 515 times in the Lido show MADley Amsterdam by Haye van der Heyden, in which he played, among others, André van Duin's brother.

For the Amsterdams Kleinkunst Festival he collaborated on projects about a cabaret overview of the twentieth century (For Eternity), a performance about Dirk Witte in which he played the roles of Jean-Louis Pisuisse and in 2007 on Things you no longer see. , a tribute to the cabaret group Don Quishocking.

For April 2010, the Amsterdams Kleinkunst Festival asked him again for the festival production A beautiful boy ("a cabaret-like journey through time in the struggle for gay emancipation"), which also included Astrid Nijgh and Brigitte Nijman. Songs by Theo Nijland, Purper, Jan Rot, Benny Neyman, Paul de Leeuw and Annie M.G. Schmidt.

In 2011 the Amsterdam Kleinkunst Festival made a performance about Snip and Snap under the title Yes, this is review in which Limburg played the role of Piet Muijselaar.

### Television

On television he was seen in series such as Medical Center West, Good times, bad times, On the way to Tomorrow, Say AAA, Gold Coast, Bureau Kruislaan, Lekker Lang Lusse, Babysitting !!! and Bonkers.

Together with Fred Butter and Lucie de Lange he took part in the television quiz Here Exam in 2002, where they competed against the Croiset family.

He has also appeared in commercials for McDonald's and Bol.com in 2007 and 2012.

### Dubbing

From 1989, Limburg worked as a voice actor for Bee Movie, Happy Feet, Toy Story, the Teletubbies, 101 Dalmatians, Aladdin, De Smurfen, Pokémon, Maple Town, Gummi Beren, Ice Age and Ice Age: Shrek 1, 2. and 3, TMNT and Monsters, Inc., and in the Harry Potter films he is the voice of Argus Filch and in 2009 in The Princess and the Frog.

He was also the official Dutch voice of Goofy between 1999 and 2009.

Limburg also gave voice to many characters in computer games, including Beyond Good & Evil (as Pey'j), Spyro: A Hero's Tail (as Sergeant Byrd and Oldest Magnus), Ratchet & Clank (as Clank), Harry Potter and Uncharted: Drake's Fortune.

### Radio plays

* 1991: Murder in Eldorado, written by Will Simon and edited by Bart Römer directed by Hero Muller for the AVRO. Including Piet Römer, Frits Lambrechts, Ben Hulsman and Maria Lindes.
* 1993: Mussorgsky, directed by Sylvia Liefrinck. With Arthur Japin, Jan Wegter, Ine Kuhr, Sjoerd Pleijsier et al.
* 1996: The Secret of the Maps, written by Jostein Gaarden and directed by Johan Donkers for the KRO. With, among others, Gees Linnebank, Lou Landré, Peter Aryans and Ingeborg Uyt den Boogaard.
* 1998: Carlos Gardel's Charred Smile, written by Nirav Christophe and directed by Marlies Cordia for the TROS. With Peter Aryans, Tanneke Hartzuiker and Willy Brill, among others.

### Director

As a dialogue director, he was responsible for films such as Barnyard, Chicken Run, Rio and Rio 2. He also made the translation for these films. He has also directed the series Bob de Bouwer, Fireman Sam, Chop Socky Chooks, Invader Zim, George of the Jungle, My Dad the Rock Star, De Boze Bevers, Buzz Lightyear of Star Command, but also the satirical Café de Wereld and the Efteling production of the Fairytale Tree.

In the game industry, Limburg provided the dialogue direction for Beyond Good & Evil, Ratchet and Clank and Uncharted: Drake's Fortune.

From 2009 he also directed the dialogues for the muppet scenes for Sesame Street, including the Bert and Ernie scenes with Paul Haenen and Wim T. Schippers.

### Teacher

Stan Limburg was affiliated with the Amsterdam Theater Academy as a teacher in the subjects theater making, scene study and text play.

## Involvement in *Duluth*

In the Dutch dub of *Duluth*, he voices Philip R. Clarke, Whitefish Bay and Federal Katsura (formerly).