Michael Rüth

Michael Rüth is a German voice actor who dubbed Rowlf in Die Muppet Show and the German versions of The Muppet Movie, Great Muppet Caper, The Muppets Take Manhattan, and Muppet Family Christmas. He also dubbed Howard Tubman (renamed Howard Schinkenschmitz) in Muppets Tonight.

Rüth's other dub credits, largely in animation, include the German voice of Winnie the Pooh in the recent films, Grandpa and Barney Gumble on The Simpsons, Mr. Garrison in South Park, various parts in the Asterix features, and two of John Ratzenberg's Pixar roles, as Hamm in the Toy Story movies and P. T. Flea in A Bug's Life.