Werner Abrolat (15 August 1924 – 24 August 1997) was a German

actor An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), li ...

best known for his role as various characters in the West German crime-drama television series ''

Tatort ''Tatort'' ("Crime scene") is a German language police procedural television series that has been running continuously since 1970 with some 30 feature-length episodes per year, which makes it the longest-running German TV drama. Developed by ...

''. After a long career at provincial theatres in West-Germany Abrolat appeared in a number of

Spaghetti Western The Spaghetti Western is a broad subgenre of Western films produced in Europe. It emerged in the mid-1960s in the wake of Sergio Leone's film-making style and international box-office success. The term was used by foreign critics because most o ...

s in the mid-1960s, such as a member of Indio's gang in the 1965

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film ''

For a Few Dollars More ''For a Few Dollars More'' ( it, Per qualche dollaro in più) is a 1965 Spaghetti Western film directed by Sergio Leone. It stars Clint Eastwood and Lee Van Cleef as bounty hunters and Gian Maria Volonté as the primary villain. German actor K ...

''. In the early 1970s he made a number of films as a

voice actor Voice acting is the art of performing voice-overs to present a character or provide information to an audience. Performers are called voice actors/actresses, voice artists, dubbing artists, voice talent, voice-over artists, or voice-over talent ...

providing the voice for the character of Tjure in

Vicky the Viking ''Vicky the Viking'', known as ''Wickie und die starken Männer'' () in Germany and Austria and in Japan, is an animated television series which tells the adventures of Vicky, a young Viking boy who uses his wits to help his Viking fellows. It ...

. He played Polizeipräsident in '' 00 Schneider – Jagd auf Nihil Baxter'' (1994). From the mid-1970s he mostly appeared in German films and German

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until his death in 1997.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Abrolat, Werner 1924 births 1997 deaths 20th-century German male actors German male film actors German male television actors German male voice actors Male Spaghetti Western actors People from East Prussia People from Tilsit