Arthur Brauss

Born in Augsburg, Arthur Brauss was a German actor who also worked as a voice actor. He studied mathematics and economics at the University of Wyoming before returning to Germany in 1960 to work at Radio Free Europe. His cinema debut came in 1963 in Rolf Hädrich's Verspätung in Marienborn, playing a military policeman. He gained recognition for playing Richard Block, a police officer, in Jürgen Roland's series Großstadtrevier. He appeared in more than 190 film and television productions, including Tatort, Der Alte, and the ZDF children's series Timm Thaler. As a voice actor, he dubbed Dennis Hopper, Brian Dennehy, Max von Sydow, and others. In 2009 he played Götz von Berlichingen at the Burgfestspiele Jagsthausen, and by 2014 he had mostly retired from German television and concentrated on theater. He died in 2025.