Oliver Rohrbeck (born March 21, 1965 in

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) is a German television and

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. His television career includes appearances in shows like ''

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'', '' Derrick'' and ''

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''. He is better known for his work as a voice actor, his most famous role being ''Justus Jonas'' (Jupiter Jones) in the German version of the audio drama series " Three Investigators". He was cast for this role in 1978 and still provides the voice for this character, as well as his fellows Jens Wawrczek and Andreas Fröhlich (who dub ''Pete Crenshaw'' and ''Bob Andrews'', respectively). Since 2003, they toured the country multiple times to performs plays in front of a live audience, since the series is still very popular in Germany. In 2014, they broke a

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when performing the play ''Phonophobia'' in front of 20,000 people at the Waldbühne in Berlin. In 1999, he provided some spoken passages on the first

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album

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which also featured his colleagues

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and Benjamin Völz. Rohrbeck provides his voice for actors like Ben Stiller,

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, Michael Rapaport, Malcolm-Jamal Warner as ''Theodore Huxtable'' on '' The Cosby Show'',

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in '' Ally McBeal'' and many animated characters like Gru in ''

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''. In addition, Rohrbeck works as an audio book and dubbing director, e.g. for the German localizations of '' The Green Mile'', ''

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'', '' 8 Mile''.

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Agency Marina Schramm

Rohrbeck's appearances as a voice artist
1965 births Living people German male television actors German male voice actors German voice directors Male actors from Berlin {{Germany-tv-actor-stub