George Roubicek
Biography
George Roubicek is an Austrian actor who spent much of his career dubbing and adapting foreign films and television shows into English. Born in Vienna, he made his West End debut in Tea and Sympathy in 1957 and was in the original cast of Agatha Christie's Verdict the following year. His first screen roles were small ones, among them a German prisoner in The One That Got Away (1957) and a police constable in Blind Date (1959), and he went on to appear in Night of the Eagle (1962), The Bedford Incident, The Dirty Dozen and two James Bond films, You Only Live Twice and The Spy Who Loved Me. On television he played Captain Hopper in the Doctor Who serial The Tomb of the Cybermen and Commander Praji in Star Wars. His later work centered on dubbing, including directing English versions of the Japanese series Monkey and adapting the animated film Azur & Asmar.
91years old
Turns 92 on May 25in 225 days
- Born Vienna
- Star sign: GeminiThe sign runs May 21 to June 20
Movie Career
- Films
- 5
- Career span
- 23 years1957 to 1980
Every film, newest first
- 1980Bad TimingIMDb rating 6.9
- 1971Murphy's WarIMDb rating 6.7
- 1962Night of the EagleIMDb rating 6.9
- 1959Blind DateIMDb rating 6.7
- 1957The One That Got AwayIMDb rating 7.1
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First role
George Roubicek made his West End debut in Tea and Sympathy at the Comedy Theatre in London in 1957, playing Al opposite Elizabeth Sellars and Hy Hazell.
Behind the camera
In 2004, Roubicek was hired to direct the English dubbing of 13 episodes of Monkey that had been televised before. They had only been subtitled, never dubbed into English, so he adapted the Japanese scripts and directed the original cast.
Behind the camera
Roubicek adapted the English-language version of Michel Ocelot's 2006 animated film Azur & Asmar: The Princes' Quest in 2008, keeping the Arabic dialogue undubbed and unsubtitled.
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