Ted Rusoff
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Born | voice over artist , director, screenwriter | May 20, 1939
Ted Rusoff (May 20, 1939 – September 28, 2013)
As an actor, he had appeared in more than 70 films. Fluent in many languages, he is often called upon for work as language/accent/dialogue consultant for dubbings, theater, and cinema. He has worked many times as a stage-director for regular plays and as stage-director and music-coach for opera in houses in Marseilles, Copenhagen, Munich, Prague, Riga, Montivideo, Tokyo, Auckland, and elsewhere. He has been active as a choral director, known for his "Liebslieder Waltzes" and other choral masterpieces by Brahms, as well as the music of composers of the Baroque period.
Life and career
Born in
In 1963, he relocated to Europe, where using his knowledge of languages, began overseeing the dubbing of English-language
Since the early 1980s, Rusoff has also done much work as an actor in film and television. He started out with supporting roles – often playing authority figures or religious characters such as priests, rabbis or monks. His earliest film roles were in
Throughout the rest of the 1980s and 1990s, Rusoff acted in
Personal life
Rusoff was married to his long-time colleague, voice actress Carolyn De Fonseca, until her death in 2009.[4] He died in Rome, Italy, on September 28, 2013, more than a month after being hit by car.[2]
List of dubbing roles (incomplete)
Year | Title | Role | Actor |
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1963 | The Whip and the Body | Christian Menliff | Tony Kendall |
1965 | Bloody Pit of Horror | Raul | Alberto Giordini |
1967 | Gamera vs. Gyaos | Shiro Tsutsumi | Kojiro Hongo |
1967 | Yongary, Monster from the Deep | Ilo | Oh Yeong-il |
1967–1968 | Johnny Sokko and His Flying Robot
|
Jerry Mano | Akio Ito |
1968 | The Battle of El Alamein | Lt. Giorgio Borri | Frederick Stafford |
1968 | Destroy All Monsters | Dr. Otani | Yoshio Tsuchiya |
1968 | The Great Silence | Outlaw | Guido Simoni |
1969 | The Red Tent | Snowblind Di Nobile Crewmember | Donatas Banionis |
1969 | Machine Gun McCain | Rocco | Mino Cuspisi |
1969 | Battle of the Last Panzer | Lt. Hunter | Stelvio Rosi |
1969 | Naked Violence | Marco | Gianfranco Pellegrini |
1970 | Shadow of Illusion | Seth | Antonio Cantafora |
1970 | When the Bell Tolls | Tego | Gino Turini |
1970 | And God Said to Cain | Gary Hamilton | Klaus Kinski |
1971 | The Bloodstained Butterfly | Police Inspector | Silvano Tranquilli |
1971 | The Cannibal Man | Marcos | Vicente Parra |
1971 | Four Pistols for Trinity |
Quinn Paradine | Umberto Raho |
1971 | Slaughter Hotel | Dr. Francis Clay | Klaus Kinski |
1971 | The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh | George Corro | George Hilton |
1972 | The Case of the Bloody Iris | Andrea Barto | George Hilton |
1972 | Death Walks at Midnight |
Gio Baldi | Simón Andreu |
1972 | Milano Calibro 9 |
Chino | Philippe Leroy |
1972 | The Red Queen Kills Seven Times | Police Inspector | Marino Masé
|
1972 | Shadows Unseen | The Priest | Renato Romano |
1972 | Shadows Unseen | Sgt. Mortesi | Elio Zamuto |
1973 | Seven Deaths in the Cat's Eye | Dr. Franz | Anton Diffring |
1973 | The Violent Professionals |
Vice-Commissioner Del Buono | Chris Avram |
1974 | Almost Human | Grandi's Assistant | Mario Piave |
1974 | Beyond the Door | Robert Barrett | Gabriele Lavia |
1974 | The Eerie Midnight Horror Show | Carlo | Gianrico Tondinelli |
1974 | Identikit |
Police Inspector | Maurizio Bonuglia |
1974 | The Last Desperate Hours | Paolo Mancuso | Antonio Sabàto
|
1975 | Deep Red | Superintendent Calcabrini | Eros Pagni |
1975 | Eyeball | Martinez | Raf Baldassarre |
1975 | Syndicate Sadists | Pino Scalia | Mario Piave |
1976 | Apache Woman | Tommy | Al Cliver |
1976 | The Big Racket | Sgt. Salvatore Velasci | Sal Borgese |
1976 | Black Emanuelle 2 | Paul | Angelo Infanti |
1976 | Colt 38 Special Squad | Inspector Vanni | Marcel Bozzuffi |
1976 | Last Orgy of the Third Reich |
Camp Doctor | Fulvio Ricciardi |
1976 | The Last Round | Rico Manzetti | Luc Merenda |
1976 | Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man | Fred | Marc Porel |
1976 | My Father's Wife |
Claudio | Cesare Barro |
1976 | Plot of Fear | Chief Inspector | Tom Skerritt |
1976 | SS Camp 5 – Women's Hell | Dr. Karl | ? |
1977 | Death Hunt | Inspector Ettore Moretti | Al Cliver |
1977 | Fearless | Walter 'Wally' Spada | Maurizio Merli |
1977 | Suspiria | Police Inspector | ? |
1977 | The Desert Tigers | Major Lexman | Richard Harrison |
1977 | The Cynic, the Rat and the Fist | Munition Expert | ? |
1977 | Return of the 38 Gang | Commissioner Gino Varelli | Antonio Sabàto
|
1978 | Blazing Flowers | Commissioner Morani | George Hilton |
1978 | Killer Nun | Dr. Patrick Roland | Joe Dallesandro |
1978 | Being Twenty | Inspector Zambo | Giorgio Bracardi |
1978 | The Uranium conspiracy | Renzo | Fabio Testi |
1979 | Beyond the Darkness |
Frank Wyler | Kieran Canter |
1979 | Escape from Hell | Dr. Farrell | Anthony Steffen |
1979 | From Corleone to Brooklyn | Lt. Danova | Venantino Venantini |
1979 | Hotel Paradise | Juan Laredo | Anthony Steffen |
1979 | Terror Express | Mike | Venantino Venantini |
1980 | Anthropophagus |
Andy | Saverio Vallone |
1980 | Cannibal Apocalypse | Dr. Phil Mendez | Ramiro Olivares |
1980 | Contamination | Dr. Hilton | Mike Morris |
1980 | Erotic Nights of the Living Dead | Larry O'Hara | George Eastman |
1980 | Hell of the Living Dead | Vincent | Selan Karay |
1980 | Inferno | John the butler | Leopoldo Mastelloni |
1980 | The Rebel | Nick Rossi | Maurizio Merli |
1981 | Burial Ground: The Nights of Terror |
Mark | Gianluigi Chirizzi |
1981 | Piranha 2: The Spawning |
Initial Victim | ? |
1981 | The House by the Cemetery | Mr. Wheatley | Carlo De Mejo |
1982 | Nathalie | Stanley Warren | Roger Beach |
1982 | Panic | Captain Kirk | David Warbeck |
1982 | Pieces | Professor Arthur Brown | Jack Taylor
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1982 | The Sword of the Barbarians | Sangraal | Pietro Torrisi |
1982 | Violence in a Women's Prison | Chief Inspector | Jacques Stany |
1983 | The Ark of the Sun God | Prince Abdullah | Aytekin Akkaya |
1983 | Escape from the Bronx | Governor Biddle | ? |
1983 | The Final Executioner | Alan Tanner | William Mang |
1983 | Hercules | Valcheus | Gianni Garko |
1983 | Rats: Night of Terror | Kurt | Ottaviano Dell'Acqua |
1983 | Rush | Rush | Conrad Nichols |
1983 | Throne of Fire | Siegfried | Pietro Torrisi |
1983 | Emanuelle Escapes from Hell |
Crazy Boy Henderson | Gabriele Tinti |
1984 | Monster Dog | Vincent Raven | Alice Cooper |
1984 | Rage – Fuoco incrociato | Rage | Conrad Nicols |
1984 | Monster Shark | Dr. Davis Barker | Lawrence Morgant |
1985 | Jungle Raiders | Tiger | Protacio Dee |
1985 | Miami Golem | Craig Milford | David Warbeck |
1986 | Bridge to Hell | Pazilbo | Carlo Mucari |
1986 | Days of Hell | Captain Williamson | Conrad Nichols |
1987 | The Cross of Seven Jewels | Marco Sartori | Marco Antonio Andolfi |
1987 | Wartime | Captain Rosen | Peter Hooten |
1988 | After Death | David | Massimo Vanni |
1988 | Ratman | Fred | David Warbeck |
1988 | Touch of Death |
Lester Parson | Brett Halsey |
1988 | Zombi 3 | General Morton | Mike Monty |
1989 | Alien From the Deep | Bob | Daniel Bosch |
1989 | The House of Lost Souls | Massimo | Matteo Gazzolo |
1989 | The House of Witchcraft | Luke Palmer | Andy J. Forest |
1995 | The Strange Story of Olga O. | Paolo Roli | David Brandon |
1996 | Fatal Frames | Calzetta | Massimo Pittarello |
2003 | Cannibal World | Bob Manson | Claudio Morales |
2003 | Land of Death | Romero | Claudio Morales |
2003 | Snuff Trap | Peter | Carlo Mucari |
2011 | The Scarlet Worm | Print's Attorney | Offscreen |
Filmography
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1956 | Runaway Daughters | Teenager in Crowd | |
1981 | Tales of Ordinary Madness | Priest | Uncredited |
1981 | Absurd | Dr. Kramer | |
1983 | The Lonely Lady | Preacher | |
1988 | Catacombs | Brother Brandt | |
1988 | The Last Temptation of Christ | Crowd Member | Voice |
1988 | Stradivari |
2nd Dignitary | |
1989 | Sinbad of the Seven Seas | Torture Chamber Keeper | Uncredited |
1989 | La morte è di moda | Rizzo's Friend | Uncredited |
1990 | Una vita scellerata | Alessandro Farnese / Pope Alexander III | |
1994 | The Voyeur | The Parking Attendant | |
1997 | Double Team | Brother Ramulu | |
1997 | The Eighteenth Angel | Benedetti | |
2004 | The Passion of the Christ | Elder No. 7 | |
2004 | Eternal | Italian Bookshop Owner | |
2006 | The Nativity Story | Old Shepherd | |
2009 | Christine Cristina | Frate Severino | |
2011 | The Scarlet Worm | Print's Attorney | Voice |
References
- ^ "Ted Rusoff". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on April 24, 2019. Retrieved May 1, 2020.
- ^ ISBN 978-1-4721-1871-4.
...died in a Rome hospital on September 28, [2013], after being hit by a care more than a month earlier. He was seventy-four.
- ^ a b "R.I.P. Ted Rusoff (1939–2013)". Fangoria. November 7, 2013. Archived from the original on September 5, 2015. Retrieved August 17, 2015.
Born in 1939 in Winnipeg City of Manitoba, Canada, Ted Rusoff wasthe son of screenwriter Lou Rusoff and nephew of AIP producer Samuel Z. Arkoff, who got him his teenaged start working as an onset production assistant for AIP and uncredited film extra where needed in the late 50s to early 60s.
- ^ ISBN 978-1-84901-672-8.
De Fonseca ... was married to actor/director Ted Rusoff (the nephew of AIP producer Samuel Z. Arkoff).
External links
- Ted Rusoff at IMDb