| Who is it? | Actor, Assistant Director, Soundtrack |
| Birth Day | March 16, 1924 |
| Birth Place | Berlin, Germany, Germany |
| Age | 96 YEARS OLD |
| Died On | October 7, 1985(1985-10-07) (aged 61)\nHamburg, Germany |
| Birth Sign | Aries |
| Occupation | Actor |
Wolfgang Kieling, a multi-talented individual prominent in the entertainment industry, has an estimated net worth ranging from $100K to $1M as of 2024. Hailing from Germany, Kieling has made his mark in various fields, including acting, assistant directing, and soundtrack creation. With a versatile skill set and a solid reputation in the German entertainment scene, Kieling has undoubtedly built a successful career and amassed a significant fortune over the years. As he continues to contribute his talents to the industry, his net worth is bound to grow even more in the coming years.
Early on, Kieling also became a dubbing actor for German dubs of foreign films, being the standard dubbing voice of Glenn Ford, Frank Sinatra (in his 1950s films), and he also dubbed Charlton Heston in the first part of the Planet of the Apes franchise. Thanks to his voice's similarity to that of Gert Günther Hoffmann, he would also replace Hoffmann as the dubbing voice of Paul Newman when Hoffmann was not available. On TV, he was especially known as the German voice of Bert (see Bert and Ernie) from Sesame Street up until his death in 1985.
In October 1952 his wife Jola Jobst (ex-wife of German Luftwaffe ace Hermann Graf), whom he had married in 1950, committed suicide.
In films since childhood in his native Germany, Kieling appeared in a few American films such as Alfred Hitchcock's Torn Curtain (1966), where he played an East German agent brutally slain by Paul Newman's character, and had a small role in $ (aka, The Heist, 1971), starring Warren Beatty. In a British film, Amsterdam Affair (1968), he portrayed the fictional Dutch detective Van der Valk several years before Barry Foster (another Hitchcock alumnus) was cast in the same role for the British TV series. He did much work on German TV, including the first episode of Derrick ("Waldweg", 1974).
The best of his later roles was in the film Out of Order (1984), originally titled Abwärts. In the German-language version of Disneys Alice in Wonderland he dubbed the Mad Hatter.
