Norbert Gastell



Norbert Gastell (b. 1929) is a German voice actor who voiced Sam the Eagle in most recent German dubs. He also dubbed Waylon Jennings and John Candy in Bibos abenteurliche flicht (Follow That Bird).

Gastell is one of Germany's more prolific voice actors, usually heard as older character actors: Gerry Parkes in The Boondock Saints and its sequel, Robert Hardy in the Harry Potter movies, Philip Baker Hall in Boogie Nights and others, Jon Polito (in Hudsucker Proxy and two others), Charles Durning on Rescue Me, Edward Asner in The Bachelor, David Warner in The French Lieutenant's Woman, Ned Beatty in Cookie's Fortune, Jim Carter in Black Beauty, Paco Hernández in Tesis, and Harold Gould in Freaky Friday.

In animation, Gastell is well-known as the German voice of Homer on The Simpsons. In animated features, he dubbed various characters in the Asterix movies (including Vitalstatistix in The Twelve Tasks of Asterix and the pirate captain in Asterix in Britain), Rick Dicker in The Incredibles, Tex in Cars, an orc in Bakshi's The Lord of the Rings, the B-17 pilot in Heavy Metal. Cartoon series credits include J. Jonah Jameson on Spider-Man, Ben Grimm/The Thing on The Fantastic Four, King Gregor on The Gummi Bears, and Grandpa Marsh and others on South Park.