Kaspar Eichel

**Kaspar Eichel** (born November 27, 1942 in Berlin) is a German actor and voice actor.

## Life

### Family and education

Kaspar Eichel's father was the writer Wito Eichel (1913-2002), later artistic director of the DEFA studio for dubbing and director for artistic education at the Babelsberg film school. From 1960 to 1963 Kaspar Eichel completed his acting training at the State Drama School in Berlin-Schöneweide, from 1981 the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Art in Berlin.

### Theater

From 1963 to 1968, he had his first theater engagement at the Miners' Theater in Senftenberg. Here he stayed for three seasons and played, among other things, the title role in Hamlet and the Truffaldino in the comedy The Servant of Two Gentlemen. After a season at the Hans Otto Theater in Potsdam, he was hired to the German Theater Berlin (1968-1970). In the years that followed, Eichel played again and again on Berlin stages. a. at the Maxim Gorki Theater (1972–1975), at the Theater im Palais (1976–1979), on the small stage “Das Ei” (1980–1983) and at the Schauspielhaus Berlin (1987–1989; in the Fritz Kreisler Revue If the dog).

In 1990 he took over the monk in Götz von Berlichingen at the Jagsthausen Castle Festival. In 1991/1992, Eichel performed with the Berlin Theatermanufaktur in the Schaubühne on Halleschen Ufer. There he played the hangman in An Angel Comes to Babylon (1991) and the Emperor in Brechts Turandot or The Congress of the White Washers (1992). At the Schillertheater Berlin he made guest appearances in Die Wildente in the 1993/1994 season (directed by Katja Paryla). In 2004 he appeared on the comedy Dresden, alongside Helga Piur and Renate Blume, in the tabloid The girlfriend of my wife by Ralph Wiener; Eichel also went on tour with this piece.

Eichel has been working as an actor and director at the Berlin Criminal Theater since 2001. There he appeared in the Agatha Christie classics Die Mausefalle (as Paravinci), witness to the prosecution (in various roles) and in Ten Little Negroes (as Judge Wargrave).

### Film, television, dubbing

In 1964 he played the leading role, the cobbler boy Klaus, in the DEFA fairy tale film The Golden Goose. He had major roles in 1965 in the novel Deep Furrows and in the film drama Berlin around the corner, which could not be performed in the GDR until 1987. Since 1969, Eichel has been part of the German TV Radio Actors' Ensemble. After the fall of the wall, he was also seen in West German television production. He took on continuous series roles, recurring episode roles and guest roles. From 2002 to 2009 he had a permanent series role in the ZDF series Hallo Robbie! As Fischer Dietmar.

Eichel also works as a voice actor. He dubbed Franco Nero, James Doohan, Ron Rifkin and Rick Warden as well as in the movie Ab by the hedge William Shatner. In 2007, Eichel replaced Robert Redford's long-time spokesman Rolf Schult in Von Löwen und Lämmern. This decision was made by a US supervisor who found Schult, who had already dubbed the first trailer, "inappropriate". After the death of Schul in 2013, Eichel Redford has already dubbed in four films and is now his new main speaker. For Patrick Stewart, too, Kaspar Eichel is the new speaker, as Charles Xavier in the films Wolverine: Way of the Warrior, X-Men: Future is Past and Logan - The Wolverine.

## Involvement in *Duluth*

In the German dub of *Duluth*, he voices John J. Boland.