Bruno W. Pantel

Bruno W. Pantel (1921-1995) was a German actor who dubbed Fozzie Bear in Die Muppet Show and in the Muppet movies and specials up until The Muppet Christmas Carol.

Originally trained as a driving instructor and medical assistant, Pantel shifted to acting in 1945, performing on the German stage. Moving to films in the 1950s, he played supporting roles in Fritz Lang's The 1000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse (1960) and in the 1962 German Sherlock Holmes film Sherlock Holmes and the Necklace of Death, starring Christopher Lee, as the auctioneer in the film's climax.

As an active dub actor, Pantel supplied the German voices of Oliver Hardy (in the 1970s TV dubs), Major Clive (Stuart Saunders) in the James Bond film Octopussy, Peter Falk (in It's a Mad, Mad, Mad World), and Gordon Jackson (in The Long Ships). Despite the amputation of one leg in 1973 and the other in 1989, Pantel remained active, on and off camera, through 1992.