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German
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♏ Scorpio
Chinese Zodiac
龙 Dragon
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English < German < Middle High German < Old High German
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Wolfgang Ziffer: German actor (1941–2022).
Born (died at age 82).
Wolfgang Ziffer has 1 credits in our database.
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Biography
Wolfgang Ziffer (26 October 1941 – 12 December 2022) was a German actor from Wuppertal. Like a number of people in the voice acting industry, Ziffer was rarely seen live on film or television. Examples of his roles include Roger Rabbit in Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Calimero in Calimero, Digit in An American Tail (appropriately, Ziffer's surname means "digit"), Gulliver the Raven in Benjamin the Elephant, and Iago the Parrot in Aladdin. He frequently voices robot characters such as Number 5 in Short Circuit, V.I.N.CENT in The Black Hole, and C-3PO in the Star Wars prequel trilogy, Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008 TV series), Star Wars Rebels and in the German radio plays Labyrinth des Bösen (based on James Lucenos novel Labyrinth of Evil) - 2007, ISBN 978-3-8291-2087-6 - and Dark Lord (based on James Lucenos novel Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader). He is also the voice of Jonathan Livingston Seagull in the film bearing the same name.
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Wolfgang Ziffer has 1 credits in our database. Notable titles include The Black Hole (1979).
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