Rainer Basedow

Rainer Basedow (born 20 May 1938) is a German film, television, and voice actor.^[1] He is known for providing the voice of Pumbaa in the Lion King franchise, up until his replacement with Jürgen Kluckert in The Lion Guard. He also dubbed John Belushi as Jake Blues in The Blues Brothers and Ron Donachie as Sergeant Harley in The Jungle Book (1994 film)

Biography[]

Basedow graduated from high school in 1956. Because of “political unreliability” he was not allowed to study in the GDR. With that, Basedow escaped. He began teaching German and sport at the Braunschweig University of Education. He has been married to his wife Mathilde, whom he met on the set, since 1971. The couple have four children.

Selected filmography[]

•  [de] (1967)
• Trace of a Girl (1967)
• Hot Pavements of Cologne (1967)
•  [de] (1968)
•  [de] (1968)
• Go for It, Baby (1968)
• Death and Diamonds (1968)
•  [de] (1968)
• Angels of the Street (1969)
• Why Did I Ever Say Yes Twice? (1969)
•  [de] (1969)
• Love, Vampire Style (1970)
• When the Mad Aunts Arrive (1970)
• When You're With Me (1970)
• Aunt Trude from Buxtehude (1971)
• Tiger Gang (1971)
• Ore di terrore / Kreuzfahrt des Grauens (1971)
• Four Times That Night (1971)
• My Daughter, Your Daughter (1972)
• The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of (1972)
• Three Men in the Snow (1974)
•  [de] (1974)
• Lina Braake (1975)
• The Clown (1976)

References[]

Bibliography[]

• Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.

External links[]

• Rainer Basedow at IMDb

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